tender feeling
Example Sentences
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Stead’s use of charcoal, pastel and crayon adds to the quiet, tender feeling that suffuses the collection.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2018
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
When she worked on the quilt, head bent, awkward fingers guiding the needle carefully through the material, she experienced a strange, tender feeling that was new to her.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
