tender spot

Speaking about the genesis of the novel, which tells the story of a “semi-famous” artist who decides to take a road trip from L.A. to New York, leaving her husband and child at home, but instead pulls into a hotel less than an hour from L.A. and falls in love with a car rental employee, July found a tender spot in her life when it came to getting older.

Family is a tender spot for Page.

"I just know he just has a real tender spot for caring for women," Statler claimed to the New York Times.

“I just know he just has a real tender spot for caring for women,” she told The Times, “and particularly women who are pregnant.”

Akinmusire’s new album on Blue Note, “on the tender spot of every calloused moment,” waxes tense and deep.