Sentence examples for tender sort from inspiring English sources

Our informant about this, a tender sort, said that last week he found both engines of his Cessna preempted by birds' nests.

It creates a poignant romantic tension and there is even a tender sort of Jules et Jim frisson between the three of them.

8 and 10 30 p.m., Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, West Village, (212) 475-8592; cover, $35 at tables, with a $5 minimum or $20 at the bar and a one-drink $5 minimum.(Chinen) WYNTON WITH STRINGS: 25TH YEAR CELEBRATION (Tonight and tomorrow night) Backed by his quartet and a string orchestra, the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis plays romantic jazz standards with a tender sort of effulgence.

"Romantically," Alcott revealed that she "felt a tender sort of pride in my lost patient; for he looked a most heroic figure, lying there stately and still as the statue of some young knight asleep upon his tomb... serenely waiting for the dawn of that long day which knows no night".

She and an old-timer with a truck and a taste for moonshine (of both the verbal and liquid varieties) are the only people around other than Alvin and Lance, and the movie is, above all, the story of the awkward, hostile and occasionally tender sort-of-friendship that develops between these mismatched colleagues.

But they said they were certain the governor had not tendered any sort of formal resignation, and they insisted that Mr. Hayami was not contemplating stepping down as a way of acknowledging that he and the bank had bungled by raising interest rates marginally last summer just as the economy was losing steam yet again.

From a dilettantish obsession with hockey, to the assertion that Pabst Blue Ribbon is "good" beer, this TV viewer is mostly incapable of tendering any sort of genuine position on television programming.

The octopus was very tender in a sort of spicy tomato sauce - superb glop.

This was followed by beer-braised beef cheek so tender as to form a sort of solid soup on a bed of wild-garlic risotto.

Mr. Edwards asked, "Do you remember the first time you met a stranger who was not really a stranger because he knew you, had heard you on the radio?" For many listeners, especially those who disagreed with the removal of Mr. Edwards, the interview with Mr. Osgood provided a tender closure of sorts.

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of tender contempt.