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

There are some things that will prevent this tender-heartedness.

From How to Live a Holy Life by Orr, Charles Ebert

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

I haven't told him, your reverence; it's my silly tender-heartedness that won't let me.

From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith