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 Morris, Clara

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 Warner, Susan

Only towards children does he show tenderness, and then he paints with a wonderful and varied charm.

From American Men of Mind by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Need we feel surprised that barbarity should produce alienation, and that she who refuses to show tenderness, should fail of receiving attachment?

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Cox, Francis Augustus