Sentence examples for tender studies from inspiring English sources

Tender studies of Jackie O. defending herself against Ron Galella are from Block's brief stint as a courtroom artist.

These led in the 1730s to a series of charming, tender studies of children, represented here by three of the most outstanding — "Girl with Shuttlecock," "Child with a Top" and "The Young Draughtsman" — which revealed Chardin's ability to depict innocence and freshness without sentimentalizing his juvenile subjects.

He came to prominence in 1993 as the author of Beautiful Thing, a tender study of gay teenagers on a Thamesmead estate, which became an unexpected mainstream hit.

It all adds up to a tender study of family, friendship, community and how these things become increasingly vital as you grow older.

A shockingly tender study of a stalker, the narrative gently probes the claustrophobic world of a newsstand clerk pining for a trashy girl who dumped him.

That film, Aniki-Bobo - a tough but tender study of children in the slums of his hometown, Oporto - betrayed a debt to Jean Vigo, and prefigured Luis Buñuel's Los Olividados.

A tender study of the "Dead Christ" — soft as a cloud of dust — relates to an existing fresco he did of a Pietà.

"Learning Curve" is both a scathing indictment of a defective system and a tender study of the awesome awakening that makes being a teen-ager so frightening and fun.

A burly, jolly comic actor with a touch of Dickensian London about him, John Bardon was equally adept at villainy as buffoonery, but trumped both at the end of his career with a moving, tender study in pathos.

An exquisitely wrought, ineffably tender study of a pension-age marriage in silently dignified crisis, it even has Fifty Shades trumped for the fest's most memorable sex scene: Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay enact the pained pauses and pressures of older intercourse with a specificity few actors, and fewer films, dare.

Although she can be unforgivingly funny about the loose morals and smug attitudes of academe, Law draws a sympathetic, even tender study of a self-centered but essentially decent soul in the kind of torment that isn't the least poetic.