Word: tender
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...faith fluctuates from dissonant cluster chords, to intricate meters based on Hindu and Greek rhythms, to sleepy chant-like melodies, to exuberant bird calls. Taylor played the complete 176-page score from memory at Columbia University’s Miller Theater to glowing praise for his precise and tender interpretation...
...Belgium before the European Court of Justice over rules that limit the use of customer loyalty cards, which enable consumers to accumulate points when making purchases and then exchange them for free products. (Such cards are legal elsewhere.) Some retailers are also fighting back. When the euro became legal tender at the beginning of last year, the clothing-store chain C&A, fearing chaos at its tills, gave a 20% discount to German shoppers who paid with credit or debit cards instead of cash for the first four days. German authorities said the discount breached unfair trading laws...
Turnbull is known around the school as “Dr. T,” a portly disciplinarian with a tender heart, who speaks deliberately in a resounding deep voice...
...Moon," by his trick of shifting, in a heartbeat, from saloon baritone to pants-too-tight wailing. We are reminded of his daring enunciation: all those words that suddenly began with h ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi-hi-hi love you"), the occasional glottal addition ("Glove me tender...") and his near Hawaiian avoiding of consonants ("Ya-hoo A-know Ah can be fou'/ Sittin' home all alo'"). That's from "Don't Be Cruel," a song that comes close to redefining the art of the pop vocal. It's gentle and amused, with a cute quaver...
...months since, with new allegations of clerical abuse emerging almost daily, the passions have only increased. So a heavy shouldered Law, 71, facing a grand jury subpoena and the potential bankruptcy of his archdiocese, went to Rome again last week to tender his resignation. This time it was accepted. And although ecclesiastical changes are sometimes hushed for a while, this one was made public almost at once. Says Scott Appleby, a professor of Catholic history at the University of Notre Dame: "The crisis finally has been acknowledged by Rome to be as serious as most American Catholics have understood...