The music of Gabriel Faure tells us that the French are private, lonely, tender, furtive, wistful.
Words like "tender", "baby" and "lonely" lead inevitably to "the Cosmos".
Although thin on plot, the novel has nice atmosphere and takes a tender view of lonely children trying to make sense of a grown-up world.
Formerly known as 25percentt of the British comedy group Beyond the Fringe, Bennett serves up a volume of just three stories, all tender, caustic gems about lonely people, most in professions at once earnest and comic (podiatrists, masseurs, vicars).
Formerly known as one-quarter of the British comedy group Beyond the Fringe, Bennett serves up a volume of just three stories, all tender, caustic gems about lonely people, most in professions at once earnest and comic (podiatrists, masseurs, vicars).
The dreamy "Arielle" nearly dissolves under Tucker's wispy vocals, which is surprising since the other tender songs — "Old Fashioned" and "Lonely People" — are among the most memorable, showing that Tucker has more tricks up her sleeve beyond her raucous boot-stompers.
He is, as always, a bundle of contradictions: gruff and tender, mean-spirited and magnanimous, lonely and independent, reactionary and progressive, petty and grand.
They still love its verdant valleys, its murmuring rivers, its magnificent mountains, sequestered vales and verdant lined lakes and bays, and ever yearn in tender fond affection over the lonely hearted living, and often return from the happy hunting ground to visit, guide, console, and comfort them.
She has to show us both what Phillip sees and what he refuses to acknowledge: the tender, funny resourceful mother, and the damaged, lonely woman casting about for stability.
