tender
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In a statement issued through Alfred A Knopf, Gandhi says she wants this memoir "to be a testament of my heart's journey through the tender joys and dark despair that have marked my life".
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
She released it again as a duet with the tender country singer Vince Gill in 1995.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
She joined Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan — a specific inspiration for this festival — for “Building a Mystery” and a deeply tender “Angel.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Garfunkel’s tender folk couldn’t be farther from the chrome-coated zeitgeist of the turn of the last century.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Nor did Meg miss any of the romance from the daily parting, when her husband followed up his kiss with the tender inquiry, “Shall I send some veal or mutton for dinner, darling?”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Because they are made with un-hydrogenated fats that are liquid at room temperature, they have a moister, tenderer texture than butter cakes.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2021
Oftentimes, if you scratch a gearhead’s chrome-plated obsession, what you uncover is something tenderer than a Proustian remembrance.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
Out of the darkness of these ugly times, and the tenderer moments conjured in a family of seven children, Butterworth weaves an enthralling tapestry of melodrama, wryness and suspense.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2018
Make your chicken work for you Two big benefits of meat-pounding: tenderer, speedier meat.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2018
That a special exhortation should be given to those of tenderer years had been deliberately resolved upon.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
Koe Wetzel and Jessie Murph, “High Road” The year’s tenderest butt-rock ballad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
Anthony's unexpected fling with Giuseppe is among the season's tenderest developments.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2023
For the tenderest texture, slice the steak thinly and against the grain.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
In one of the novel’s tenderest details, “stray dogs lounged in the shade, and as we walked by, Jacobo spoke to them in baby talk.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
The choicest potatoes, the tastiest morsel, the tenderest bit of whatever there is, that’s Madame’s motto.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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