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
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
But she was not the sort of woman to show tenderness or affection.
From The Land of Promise by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
His words on the social question in the same letter show tenderness of feeling.
From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin
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
