tenderness
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"It's like when the first snows come. It's a tenderness, but there's a rawness to it as well."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
A sequel to the hit “Home Alone,” Fricker’s Pigeon Lady was a source of unexpected tenderness for Culkin’s Kevin, now stranded during the holidays in New York.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Beatty says James Taylor in “Sweet Baby James” was the first voice he tried to emulate when he was young, and that folky tenderness is definitely still in there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Ms. Arno’s achievement is to return Celan to mortal scale: ardent in friendship, hungry for recognition, capable of wounded tenderness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
His short stubby fingers were touching the instrument with what looked to Coram like the tenderness of a lover, as if he thought it was alive.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing tenderness
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