Ms. McKenzie said she could not imagine losing in "these tender situations" a teacher whom she has supported.
It's just too tender a situation down there".
A lot goes on at a psychiatric hospital with patients, and I got to see how John would respond in every situation, tender moments, scary, anger.
Focussing on one of the drivers, Asad, who was raised in Edhi's group home, and on two boys still living there, Omar and Rafiullah, the filmmakers capture some tender, terrifying, and thrilling situations.
Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis's popular Hvidsten gruppen (This Life) explored Danish resistance activities during World War II, and Sweden's Simon och ekarna (Simon & the Oaks; Lisa Ohlin) was a tender drama about the precarious situation of the country's Jews in the 1940s.
This is Tim Hetherington, on his shot of a woman saying goodbye to her lover, taken during the civil war in Liberia: "It's something so tender and human from a situation that we always seek to dehumanise... the war has been stereotyped as an orgy of madness where drugged-up kids committed indescribable atrocities".
Mr. Heron calls his program "Tender: An Evening of Songs, Situations and Stories About Shoes".
(The latter occurred because there was not always enough legal tender available for circulation. This situation occurred particularly often in the Roman provinces of Spain, Gaul, and Britain).
("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").
