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
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
