Sentence examples for tender study from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

"Pierpont … triumphs in a lucid, tender, illuminating study, beautifully poised between intimacy and detachment.

After the early promise of Mike Leigh's tender character study Another Year, the Cannes line-up revealed very little new or inventive in world cinema.

Here too are comparatively tender animal studies: dead birds and monkeys, living horses.