tender mercies

Always spare, often forceful, Ryan Adams alternates tough pop songs with tender, unsparing ballads.

I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.

The Café tender was asleep in his chair; the porter had gone off; the sentinel alone kept awake on his post.

But she kept the same tone, and its tender archness only gave a greater sweetness to his sense of relief.

She spoke with such a serious, tender grace, that Gordon seemed stirred to his depths again.

For Lettice—the tender woman of his first acquaintance—had obviously experienced a moment of reaction.