It is the tender watching and waiting.
The squid should be tender, so watch carefully to make sure the squid doesn't overcook.
The ambiguities of the story, its comic potential and lingering tragedies, are not shirked, and Tiffany's production – textured with Ólafur Arnalds' score and Steven Hoggett's movement – is so painfully tender that, as you watch the show, it feels as if layers of your skin are gradually being flayed from your body.
Much later, when she is "skidding" through the memories of her life while waiting to die in hospital in the 80s, she remembers how her variety of fierce maternal anxiety led her to think, watching her tender child tottering into the world, that she should really get "a spare".
In his series of "television portraits" and his 1999 book End of an Age, he produced a sequence of close-up portraits, in the first, some of his most tender pictures, of friends watching television, that offered the rare, intense experience of looking at people looking.
Can you imagine living in the Krakow ghetto during the Nazi Occupation, and at the tender age of ten watching both your parents shuttled off to concentration camps, only to have your mother die in one?
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Smith's lyric is heartfelt, tender – "I'd love to watch him dream/ Love to see him sleep/ To have his arms around me," he sings – and fans have speculated it is a song about fatherhood, or the lack of (Smith and his wife, Mary, have chosen to remain childless).
I also noted that the menu screen of The Tender Cut uses the verb "Watch" rather than "Play" to initiate the experience, a move which speaks to the stark sense of powerlessness throughout.
