tenderness
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A guidepost of Chilean hyper-pop, it is also a heart-wrenching mash of tenderness and distortion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
While stereotypes focus on tragedy and horror, Rosales reorients our gaze, revealing moments of tenderness and boredom, rest and joy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
His co-star, singer Charlotte Church, praised the show's final, which attracted 15 million viewers within seven days, describing it as a "beautiful vignette of male tenderness and emotional expression".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Underneath an artist’s preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc.,” the narrator insists, “there is a soul tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Generosity, courage, honesty, pity, the faculty to look short life in the face—certainly comradeship and tenderness —these qualities may explain why Guenever took Lancelot as well as Arthur.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing tenderness
Novel Study: The Crucible, Acts 3–4
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The Suffix -ness, Part 1
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