Sentence examples for trace of tenderness from inspiring English sources

(Note what the script does with mothers: Dave's expires at the breakfast table, causing no blip in the rhythm of his life, and Hit Girl's was dead before she was born. Thus is any trace of tenderness expunged before our tale begins).

The rapport between these actors allows the tiny traces of tenderness, especially in the second act, to register as richly as the delicious explosions of temper.

The hint of tenderness cloaking Charlotte's dismissal disgusted Stevick.

Ernest had a tendency to drink moonshine and play Indian stud poker with men of ill repute, but beneath his roughness there seemed to be tenderness and a trace of insecurity, and Mollie fell in love with him.

What follows flashes back from that moment, tracing a path of brutality, oppression and stifled individuality leavened by a few glimmers of tenderness and grace.

The soulful melody and wistful harmonic colorings of "Oiseaux Tristes" ("Sad Birds") were rendered with supple rhythm and lyrical tenderness, and not a trace of sentimentality.

His uxorious tenderness betrays a subtle trace of wary cosseting and he switches startlingly into an angry bark – directed at his decadent, whisky-swigging sons.

Cruelty erupts out of tenderness.

This kind of tenderness was new.

There is the beginning of tenderness.

It's not a question of tenderness.