Word: tender
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...characters this way has the same empty appeal as watching a sandcastle get kicked over. The Batman of the first series personified a man on edge: cruel yet tempered by a personal sense of justice, a master of his body yet feeling the limitations of getting older, angry yet tender enough to be touched by a young girl seeking to be the new Robin. Such nuance has vanished in "DK2," undoing all the vulnerability Miller invested in the character. Batman has gone back to his old one-dimensional self, except now he has a Machiavellian streak...
...Rosen method: Tender touch coupled with verbal communication to help release suppressed emotions as well as muscle tension...
...also make a stew out of venison chunks rolled in flour and cooked in pork fat, to which we add water and pearl onions. This is really good--thick and hearty and richly gravied, the onions adding a sweetness to the tender chunks of venison. I fry up some trout rolled in cornmeal and flour in a mess of pig fat: awesome--crisp on the outside and soft and buttery inside. We put some grouse coated in cornmeal in a pan of pork fat: a winner. We find some morels on the property, which we combine with onions and cook...
...famous work, Cloudstreet, begins on the Abrolhos Islands; his latest novel, Dirt Music, is set in a fictional lobster-fishing town along this coast. Tuck your guidebook into the glove compartment and go traveling with Winton. He expertly steers the reader through a landscape of contradictions as harsh and tender as the people who populate...
...This is extraordinary writing?tender and wise, stripped of the inessential. Its power rivals those apocalyptic scenes in A Fine Balance and is all the more impressive, given the intimate scale. Family Matters needs to stray no further than the Vakeel clan and their apartments to find actors and stage for an affecting drama...