tenderly

The dynamic between them, on stage and off, is tenderly supportive.

This can be a lonely desire because so many people in my life have economically and emotionally stable families, so I hold this space tenderly.

She moves on, tenderly tracing her fingers across the textures of her paintings as if they were still-healing scars.

So much of this psychologically complex movie’s artistry is wonderfully assured, from cinematographer Wilson Cameron’s textured intimacy with nature and faces, to the tenderly applied, deceptively varied music.

In one poignant episode, he briefly but tenderly acknowledges a period in which he was “fooling around” with a middle-school male friend, which left them feeling confused and ashamed about their sexuality.