Sentence examples for tender manner from inspiring English sources

Believing himself an orphan, he lives in a boarding school run by the kind, bluntly spoken Father Dinis (Adriano Luz), whose cassock and tender manner obscure an adventurous, thorny past.

In the Benois Madonna (1475 78) Leonardo succeeded in giving a traditional type of picture a new, unusually charming, and expressive mood by showing the child Jesus reaching, in a sweet and tender manner, for the flower in Mary's hand.

After we had visited the jail's multi-faith prayer hall ("It hasn't been defaced since its inauguration in 2003," Seveyras said proudly), we trooped upstairs to the governor's office, where we were joined by Geraldine Blin, a woman whose soft, even tender manner seemed to belie her position as commissar of anti-radicalisation inside French jails.

The Americans kept making the point that etiquette could be acquired by all; Della Casa, being of his time and station, declared that gentle ways are not for the lower classes and that "silly and tender manners are best left to the ­women".

The title track is tender in the manner of 1980s power ballads: "I don't mind telling all the guys I can't meet 'em/Hell, we can all go raise some hell on any other night".

Our founding mother of punk got her point across in such a tender and loving manner that even the biggest carnivores would second guess their animal style after watching the video.

Stakeholders cited problems at all levels of the logistics management system for commodities, including quantification, ordering of drugs in a timely manner, tendering, receipt, storage, and distribution.

He has also recently been accused in the Australian Financial Review of handing out lucrative contracts to favoured suppliers, without tendering in the proper manner.

Mr. Viola, whose gruff manner belied the tender care he lavished on his brood — he plied them with vitamins, electrolytes and specially prepared food — was considered an especially fine judge of birdflesh.

I hear his voice in my head and recall his manner — grand and tender, gruff and warm-hearted, worldly-wise and intensely curious, profane and reverent — with great affection and his generous sharing of his experience and wisdom with profound gratitude.

Any meat, fish, vegetable or fruit cooked in this manner is extremely tender and flavorful.