tenderhearted

Example Sentences

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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

Here, the medium is the message; the rest is as nasty — and ultimately chaotic, tenderhearted, and yes, joyful — as it wants to be.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2023

His Santa is a thoughtful guy, made wearily cynical by the commercialization of Christmas, tenderhearted in his treatment of kids on his Nice list and devoted to Mrs. Claus after all their centuries together.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2022

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