The phrase "tender sight" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It usually refers to something that is pleasing or touching to the senses, specifically to the eyes. Example: As the sun set over the horizon, the sky transformed into a tender sight of purple and pink hues.
There was one more tender sighting after the four honorees stood together for final recognition: Harry Belafonte, Hayao Miyaski, Maureen O'Hara, and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, who kissed her head.
The granite walls were a frame for this tender family sight.
This is love at first sight, tender and unironic, physically expressed in a direct way, though without pornographic explicitness or coy fades to postcoital bliss.
("Attuned to the moral complexity of the situation, and also surprisingly tender," Pamela Jahn wrote in Sight & Sound; in the same magazine, Catherine Wheatley said the film "begs questions about exploitation").
But this would be an even crueler, more absurd waste of law-enforcement resources, and would defeat the aim of protecting tender sensibilities from disturbing sights and sounds.
After a while, a cave becomes a long black tunnel of sensory deprivation; the sight of this tender image jolted my breath back to life.
Of course, I assumed that he was getting himself off at the sight of my tender, young member, so I murmured an unconvincing "fuck off" in my pre-puberty baby-voice, kicked the man in the head and scurried out of there to the safety of the bus stop.
Tellingly, both stories are set at the dawn of the American space age; "Basement Magic," with its tender evocations of the hazy sights, sounds and smells of childhood already fading from the memory of its preadolescent heroine, is the more carefully observed of the pair.
They were a strange sight, both toylike and grave, tender and lurid.
(He was memorably tender as Jennifer Lopez's father in "Out of Sight," never more so than when his character, an investigator, handed his baby girl a new Sig Sauer).
