Word: tendered
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...that end, Coats has taken Dole aside and offered him some tender-hearted advice: Reminisce about the old days in Russell, Kansas. Talk about compassionate community as an alternative to centralized bureaucracy. Show a little Dole soul. The Senator seems to be listening. At the last Republican debate in Des Moines, Iowa, Dole did his version of "I feel your pain," saying he understood people on welfare because his own grandparents had been among them...
Natchez himself began at the tender age of nine, taking advantage of the free musical lessons the school district offered to his fourth-grade class. But he didn't get serious about it for another four years, when a new teacher revealed a side of music Natchez hadn't seen before...
...blackened viridians and fiercely luminous blues, its swoony Whistlerian grays are like no other color in modern painting. They give his work a perverse to-and-fro between the intimate and the operatic--Aida done in a marionette theater. Such color isn't just showy. It can be extremely tender, intelligently seductive, in the way that art has every right to be. It also insists on distinction--the need to feel one thing at a time, and to remember not what it looked like but what it felt like. Hodgkin's shapes may be nebulous, but his feelings...
...dead at 12:28 p.m. When Schwartzberg gave Gordeeva the news, she sobbed on the floor, with Zueva at her side. She then asked if she could see her husband. "We went into the room," said Schwartzberg. "She spoke a few words to him in Russian. It seemed very tender. She caressed his face. She kissed him. I left her alone with...
WHEN EARL WILD PERFORMS, the Golden Age of the keyboard suddenly reappears. Like the great romantic showmen who flourished before World War II, Wild revels in the sensuality and sheer kineticism of the piano, reminding his listeners that it is the only instrument capable of emulating both the tender nuances of vocal music and the thunderous range of the orchestra. When Wild plays, the pallid noodling that often passes for pianism these days vanishes: one hears the grand echoes of Paderewski, Rachmaninoff and Josef Hofmann...