"tender touch" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe a gentle and caring way of touching someone or something. For example, "My baby loves it when I give him a tender touch and sing him sweet lullabies."
My son, avoid the tender touch.
Close looking shows many details rendered with a tender touch.
In his excavations of working class life, Stephens has often displayed a tender touch.
In a telltale gesture that pre-empts the moment of parting we see later, she slowly withdraws her hand from Jerry's tender touch.
A heretic of cinema and the bedroom, Ms. Breillat runs her fingers along the fault lines of heterosexual desire with a pitiless yet tender touch.
A tender touch also preserves the carotene, the element that accounts for the wheat flavor, which overly enthusiastic kneading will destroy.
And set against that ominous backdrop is a tender, touching, personal story of self- discovery.
The best of Mr. Reich's music has always involved a tender touching of natural and electronic, human and mechanical, spontaneous and repetitive.
A recurrent image in "The Zen of Bennett," Unjoo Moon's tender, touching documentary portrait of the singer Tony Bennett, now 86, is of an unblinking eye in the sky gazing through turbulent clouds.
Similarly, the dog sculptures low-ball the flawless artifice of both American Minimalist sculpture and Edo lacquer boxes while preserving a loopy elegance leavened with tender touches of reality: note the green canvas collars worn by the three large, friendly white animals converging in the sculpture "Dogs From Your Childhood".
The legacy of their marriage may not have been a child, but they did leave a correspondence: a literary treasure, and a tender, touching portrait of a loving marriage in the theatre, with all the joys and imperfections and unfathomable truths inherent in both.
