tender feeling

Example Sentences

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Stead’s use of charcoal, pastel and crayon adds to the quiet, tender feeling that suffuses the collection.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2018

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

But she also reveals the reserves of tender feeling beneath the ample defenses.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2010

Too soon it was over, leaving me with a tender feeling in my chest and a vague prickling in my eyes.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss