Example Sentences

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“I don’t really want to talk about gender, because it’s lose-lose,” they say, and yet they manage it lightly and with tender-heartedness, even toward some famous comedians who don’t return the favor.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2023

To Walinsky, it was clear why, barely four years after Dallas, the fatalistic Kennedy bristled at Ginsberg’s lecture on tender-heartedness.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2018

I had great reliance in her maternal instincts: I had that still greater reliance common to our sex in the general tender-heartedness of pretty women.

From Tales of the Argonauts by Harte, Bret

And no doubt Major Harper was; for a true kind-heartedness, softened even to tender-heartedness, was visible in his handsome face.

From Agatha's Husband A Novel by Crane, Walter

The old tender-heartedness of the man always returned when he saw anything young and helpless.

From French and English A Story of the Struggle in America by Everett-Green, Evelyn