tender mercies

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And, of course, the Texas native couldn’t resist devoting an entire shelf above the kitchen door to classics like “Friday Night Lights,” “Clerks,” “Dazed and Confused,” “Paris, Texas” and “Tender Mercies.”

From Los Angeles Times

His favored candidate is poised to win the Republican presidential nomination while Congress weighs abandoning Ukraine to the tender mercies of Russian invaders.

From New York Times

“The Trip to Bountiful” isn’t the only Foote project on Wilson’s plate: He’s working on a stage musical based on Foote’s Oscar-winning screenplay for the 1983 film “Tender Mercies,” with a book by Daisy Foote, the playwright’s daughter, and music by Steve Earle.

From Washington Post

Earle, who moved to New York hoping to break into the theater business, and who is working on a musical adaptation of the film “Tender Mercies,” said he was relieved to have Audible’s support.

From New York Times

The bus to the Polish border was a capsule of exhaustion, grief and tender mercies.

From BBC