tenderness
- a word derived from tender.
Example Sentences
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Beatty says James Taylor in “Sweet Baby James” was the first voice he tried to emulate when he was young, and that folky tenderness is definitely still in there.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026
The palace added: "With her childlike perspective, her irony, her tenderness, and her inner demons, the author created a deeply moving world with which readers identified."
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
The 99-year-old artist—long excluded from the mainstream, male-dominated art scene in Mexico, and who only had her first major retrospective last year—is a quiet yet forceful fount of tenderness.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
It adds moisture, tenderness, and just enough tang to make things interesting.
From Salon • Apr. 28, 2026
Her face was in shadow, so I couldn't make out her expression, but I felt a sort of expert tenderness flowing from the ends of her fingers.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
