tenderhearted
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Each evokes the tenderhearted nostalgia held by millions who have never known a version of modern life without Jackson’s presence.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026
But to hear the story from his mother, who also called in, Lang was a tenderhearted and selfless man who got swept up in an unjust crackdown.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2025
“The show wouldn’t work if Jeff wasn’t playing Joel because he really is so funny and sly and so tenderhearted and heartbreaking and just everything you want to be,” she says in a Zoom interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024
In Reboot Theatre Company’s “Peter and the Starcatcher,” now running at Theatre Off Jackson, the tenderhearted origin story of the boy who would become Peter Pan founders in an inconsistent production helmed by Riley Gene.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
Max was the tenderhearted one who got upset at so much as a caterpillar accidentally crushed underfoot, or a dead lightning bug caught in the grille of his family’s limousine.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
