Word: tenderize
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...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...
...Roman citizens. The production is highlighted by some solid acting. Thomas Derrah, a dramatic arts lecturer at Harvard, nails the confident and fearless Caesar, who is devastated when betrayed by his close friend Brutus. Sara Kathryn Bakker shines brightly with a convincing Portia, blending the character’s tender devotion with her strong will as she attempts to get Brutus to let her into his thoughts. But the difficult-to-master complexity of Brutus is not quite reached in Jim True-Frost’s performance. Though the performances are solid, however, the acting takes a back seat...
...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...
...talk, or not talk, for hours,” says Walsh jokingly with a tender touch to O’Keefe’s arm. After being pried off one another, the Romeos assessed just how close all those hours of chitchat and bodily communication had brought them...