tender feeling

Example Sentences

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What you hear from Turks abroad is their loneliness and loss, that strange, tender feeling of being exposed and unprotected, of having no legal or human rights, and of having perhaps forever lost their country.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2017

But she said those fears were assuaged, in part, by the tender feeling of “looking at the two of them, with their similar eyebrows and their sweet faces.”

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2015

But for all his constitutive misanthropy, Turner harbors a strain of tender feeling that reveals itself at odd times.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2014

"Dysfunctional" would fairly well sum it up, but dysfunctional in a way that is creatively fruitful and suffused with tender feeling.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2014

When she worked on the quilt, head bent, awkward fingers guiding the needle carefully through the material, she experienced a strange, tender feeling that was new to her.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry