tenderhearted

Example Sentences

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Close behind with eight each were director Thomas Kail’s “Sweeney Todd” and “Kimberly Akimbo,” the tenderhearted tale of a New Jersey teenager afflicted with a disease that ages her four times as fast as normal.

From Washington Post

“Our town’s not the most tenderhearted, but discarding high-end senior talent? I don’t think it promotes stability,” said one prominent agent who declined to be identified to protect business relationships.

From Los Angeles Times

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

If the word “nostalgia” only conjures up the idea of wistful looks back, think again, because the tenderhearted emotion doesn’t have to function as a backward-looking mood, researchers say.

From Washington Post

Although Rogers finds some tenderhearted balance between the weirdness and wonder of my home state, the promise of this backwoods mystery falls flat in the hands of a flimsy protagonist.

From Washington Post