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

But she was not the sort of woman to show tenderness or affection.

From The Land of Promise by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

Need we feel surprised that barbarity should produce alienation, and that she who refuses to show tenderness, should fail of receiving attachment?

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Cox, Francis Augustus

Only towards children does he show tenderness, and then he paints with a wonderful and varied charm.

From American Men of Mind by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

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