show tenderness
Example Sentences
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As well as the prickliness, you have a great ability to show tenderness in your work, I say.
From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2021
Only, in Diana's present helpless condition, he had opportunity to show tenderness and care in a thousand services which in her well days she would have dispensed with.
From Diana by Warner, Susan
This woman so wholesome, so fair and strong; so un-American as to be not ashamed to show tenderness and sympathy with eye and lip, moved Fanny like a new and pleasing experience.
From At Fault by Chopin, Kate
I longed for it because, aside from his fine speech, he was really quite important and had to show tenderness, anxiety, and determination during the time Romeo addressed him.
From Life on the Stage by Morris, Clara
His words on the social question in the same letter show tenderness of feeling.
From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin