tenderness
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“I knew kids like Jack on the playground. But the more I read it, the more I felt there was a tenderness that Golding was looking for in Jack.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
It adds moisture, tenderness, and just enough tang to make things interesting.
From Salon • Apr. 28, 2026
Without resorting to jingoism or over-sentimentality, he began to write with increasing tenderness about his native country—its climate, its countryside, its particular temperament.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Society is depicted as "worshiping only power and money, despising art, sensitivity, tenderness, where people ...don't talk anymore."
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
With a tenderness that Briony remembered from years ago, waking in the night, Cecilia said, “Come back...Robbie, come back.”
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing tenderness
Novel Study: The Crucible, Acts 3–4
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The Suffix -ness, Part 1
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