tender mercies

Idioms  

1. see leave to someone's tender mercies.

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Example Sentences

Written by Horton Foote — an ongoing collaborator of Duvall’s going back to the actor’s film debut in “To Kill a Mockingbird” — “Tender Mercies” has a stripped-bare quality, a simplicity and directness that only places its complex emotions in stronger relief.

From Los Angeles Times

Yet as he proved in his heartbreakingly sensitive, Oscar-winning turn as a slowly self-healing alcoholic in “Tender Mercies” in 1983, Mr. Duvall could command the screen even when he wasn’t doing much of anything except trying to be a good man.

From The Wall Street Journal

Referring to the author of “Tender Mercies,” he said: “You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, a lot of people from New York don’t know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Duvall won his Academy Award in 1983 for playing a washed-up country singer in "Tender Mercies."

From Barron's

Horton Foote, who adapted “Mockingbird” for the movies and wrote “Tender Mercies,” became one of Duvall’s few lifelong friends in the industry.

From Los Angeles Times