Sentence examples for tender passage from inspiring English sources

In the second, the winsome solo lines flutter over elegiac oboe, guttural brass and dreamy, tuned percussion; a tender passage for piccolo and piano conjures an Irish folk song.

Smith glibly traces Malamud's lifelong distrust of women to this troubled relationship, but in mitigation locates a tender passage in the novel "Dubin's Lives": "Years later he forgave his mother for having lived her insane life in his presence.

By Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, August 15 , 1936P. 25 (Mr. Aldoux Huxley imagines a tender passage between Helen and Paris in the manner of "Antic Hay", "Point Counter Point" and "Eyeless in Gaza") View Article By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Jia Tolentino By Masha Gessen.

By Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, August 15 , 1936P. 25 (Mr. Aldoux Huxley imagines a tender passage between Helen and Paris in the manner of "Antic Hay", "Point Counter Point" and "Eyeless in Gaza") View Article By Jia Tolentino By Alan Burdick By John Cassidy By Atul Gawande.

Best of all, a tender passage in the metro, featuring a luminous closeup of Karina, mournful glances at passers-by, and a poem by Aragon, which makes clear both the glory and the artifice of the intellectualized populism dear to the culture that gave film noir its name.

But her tender passages, even when they offer sensible counsel, are too frequently marked by this hectoring tone.

Some of the most tender passages come when she is in the convent with other girls who had got themselves into trouble.

Mixed with the politics, there are also some wonderfully tender passages, notably the tender dedication to his aunt Mary: Now she dusts the board with a goose's wing, now sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins: here is a space again, the scone rising to the tick of two clocks.

"I don't know / what might bring peace on earth," he writes, in one of several tense and tender passages describing his father asleep: But a man fallen asleep at his desk while revising a letter to his father is apple blossoms left lying where they fell.

The tenderest passages in the concerto have a touching reticence, and there are times in the Ballades when he almost seems to be enjoying hanging back and confounding our expectations of exactly where this music's passionate eruptions happen.

Neon-lit textures have given way to dense, dusky landscapes, with tender lyrical passages at the heart of each piece.