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View definitions for tenderly

tenderly

adverb as in softly

adverb as in lovingly

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We’re introduced to him not as a thief, but as a doting father who wakes at the crack of dawn, tenderly lays his son in bed next to his sister, and heads off to work.

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But it’s what the film does with the handsome Kryptonian in the red boots that captures the viewer’s heart and holds it, tenderly, until the credits roll.

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They tenderly hold Gazala’s hands in a room that “smells like roses and orange peel.”

The process requires patience and care, and you want to treat the dough as tenderly as possible.

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But the show, subtitled “a story ballet of enlightenment in two immoral acts,” is choreographed — humorously, violently, roughly, tenderly — within an inch of its life.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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