Sentence examples similar to tender laughter from inspiring English sources
Then, one by one, each piped on stage by our own blackbird, our fellow artist, musician John Sampson, the poets step to the lectern: Jackie Kay warms the hour with laughter and tender silences; as the church clock chimes and Imtiaz Dharker pauses mid-poem, raising her hand; we hold our breath.
Joined on stage by a sign language interpreter, the pair careen through the 90-minute show with increasing surrealism, celebrating a syndrome that for all its difficulties – communicated through tender monologues that make the laughter even louder – can also be filled with light.
Allison Janney, who last season won acclaim as Frank Langella's cosmopolitan wife in "Present Laughter" on Broadway, gives her hard-bitten Beatrice, Eddie's wife, a tender core.
After all, he is happy to turn away from our laughter to play a wholly uncomical waltz on the piano, or recite a tender love poem to a woman in the front row.
This is also a writer who can go from laughter to darkness in an instant, as when, after what has seemed to be a tender sex scene, a woman reflects: "This was the best, the most bearable loneliness".
