show tenderness
Example Sentences
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As well as the prickliness, you have a great ability to show tenderness in your work, I say.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2021
I longed for it because, aside from his fine speech, he was really quite important and had to show tenderness, anxiety, and determination during the time Romeo addressed him.
From Life on the Stage by Clara Morris
Only towards children does he show tenderness, and then he paints with a wonderful and varied charm.
From American Men of Mind by Burton Egbert Stevenson
But she was not the sort of woman to show tenderness or affection.
From The Land of Promise by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
Only, in Diana's present helpless condition, he had opportunity to show tenderness and care in a thousand services which in her well days she would have dispensed with.
From Diana by Susan Warner
