Word: tender
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...service and that people should not suppose that we are just around to give out information for free,” Jones said.“When I say I’ll do it for $100, they normally look somewhere else and find someone more tender-hearted,” he added.But John M. Duffy, chair of the Classics department, said he does not find these calls very bothersome.“We’re happy to provide the service,” he said, “as long as it doesn’t become something...
...hard face and a contemptuous manner, never suggests, at any point in the movie, that Salomon converts to a more humane way of thinking. But he takes under his wing a young printer whose wife has died in another camp and who is himself grievously ill. He is strangely tender with this character, even finding a way to provide him with the drugs he requires to make a fight for survival...
...need to act like fools or limit themselves to frivolity in order to create lower and therefore achievable expectations.Still, I’m reluctant to make any type of messianic claims about the band. I admit—bashfully—that I learned that lesson at a tender age with the Arctic Monkeys. That said, any step towards separating out the smarminess of modern music should be lauded. Bands with talent don’t need to hide behind a slouch to save face. The Strokes aside, some people still have things to say. —Columnist Ruben...
...sings as his colleagues look on incredulously. This awkward moment—the kind in which only one party realizes that the interaction is bizarre and the other believes they are behaving in a completely normal fashion—is characteristic of the tender Israeli comedy “The Band’s Visit.” In this much-lauded film, the eight members of the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra find themselves stranded in Israel when they take the wrong bus on their way to a performance. They are forced to spend the night with...
...guidelines for coming out of the closet as a public figure (“Are you British? Are you knighted?”), and a monologue comparing the transience of Buddhist sand mandalas to Hollywood executives ordering salads and later excreting the contents.Orsini and Serrell oscillate between the tender and the wooden. Moments in which the two examine their hang-ups over their sexual orientation, which extend far beyond simple denial, find the two at their best, filled with passion tempered by history, doubt, and the public eye. Other scenes can be downright awkward: when Alex and Ellen first interact...