Sentence examples for tender uncle from inspiring English sources

The images are disturbing, brutal, baffling and tender: Uncle Charlie sitting in the chair he spent years sitting in, at his window, smoking, isolated [pictured left]; Uncle Charlie's son, Joe, dying from Aids; Uncle Charlie, tattoos out, in bed with his gun; three-times-married Uncle Charlie, receiving oral sex from his crack-addicted lover.

My grandmother raised four kids, and became a single parent when my grandfather passed on and my younger uncle was a tender 14.

Nephew and uncle share a tender embrace in an Act I pas de deux normally reserved for the Nutcracker Prince and Marie; though the intent is to establish the familial connection rather than anything erotic, the male-on-male visual is nonetheless striking.

Shooting the final scene in "The Hangover," he proposed having the character carry his sleeping son, an image inspired by the tender way Mr. Cooper's Italian-American uncles had held their children.

"Look What You've Done," from "Take Care," is Drake's tender celebration of his mother and his uncle, a moving declaration of the importance of family.

Ralph Nickleby, played by Christopher Plummer, is Nicholas's rich but emotionally distant uncle, out of touch with every tender feeling and interested only in enlarging his fortune -- until events force him to feel otherwise.

The concept of near-superhuman endurance had been drilled into Nadal from a tender age, in part by his relentless coach and uncle, Toni Nadal.

Both those grandparents and two of my three uncles were dead by the time they were the (tender) age I am now.

So I'm extra grateful that The Redhead returned safely and had this amazing international experience at the tender age of 15 thanks to two wonderfully generous and caring individuals who also happen to be his uncles.

Dear uncle.

Cry uncle!