Sentence examples for wise tender from inspiring English sources

Pretty, charming and conservatively glamorous, Reed was also wise, tender and occasionally enterprising.

Tender Morsels, by the Australian author Margo Lanagan, is funny, tragic, wise, tender and beautifully written.

It presented liberal Protestantism as America's classical heritage; it set Ames's wise, tender reverence against the bellicose cymbal-clanging of George W. Bush's White House.

Among its current attractions are a traveling exhibition of contemporary Japanese ceramics, some sparkling additions to its fabled Tibetan collection and a wise, tender remembrance of Sept. 11.

This is a shame, because his stories of a lifelong love affair through cooking (starting with Mrs H's scrambled eggs and culminating in a two-day Heston Blumenthal marathon, and containing not only recipes but the truth about what it's really like to cook them) is wise, tender and brilliantly funny, and everyone should buy it.

Linklater's film couldn't be more different in tone from the reserved humanism of Mike Mills' autobiographical 20th Century Women, a wise, tender story of a single mother gradually accepting her teenage son's independence, or Paterson, Jim Jarmusch's typically deadpan, atypically elemental study of several days in the life of a taciturn bus driver-cum-poet and his devoted, eccentric wife.

By the end of this intermissionless evening, these quiet, loosely overlapping scenes gradually cohere to compose a collective portrait of contemporary urban isolation that feels uncommonly wise and tender and true.

We mourn his passing and rejoice in his life; we will always cherish our memories of him as a loving husband and father, a wise and tender counsel, a cheerful and doting "Popop", a fine and loyal friend, and as a man who valued service to his fellow man as the true measure of success.

Chris Wise is a teacher of English, whose debut book, Colliding with Orion Writing from Life, consisting of poetry, stories, and essays, comes out next year; he serves on the Houston Public Poetry committee, and is a wise and tender poet, dealing with working-class concerns with a touch of poignancy and melancholy that avoids the sentimental.

There she was again, back in the Leia role, beautiful, older, wiser, and tender.

Uninhibited about sex, generous in her affections, worldly-wise, blending tender recollections with self-deprecating antics, Varda, free from fear and shame, turns her tale of a life lived in art into a work of art in its own right, and one of her best — a rapturous tribute to life itself.