Word: tenderized
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...Bother Me, I Can't Cope worried that the show might inflame racial tensions. The gamble, however, pays off successfully, and the all-Black cast with their rhythm and bluesy score cut across racial boundaries by presenting life's frustrations, pains, rewards and hopes in a tender and human way. The production's air of naive amateurism, though unintentional, ends up bringing the actors' feelings closer to the audience, creating an atmosphere of cooperative hope...
This show is a box of delectable bonbons, most of them early 20th century musical Americana. Tintypes is tender rather than torrid, its nostalgia is toothsomely sweet, not gooey...
...saturnine mill. Observed the humorist in his New York Times column: "Thus is the produce of the most fertile brain placed at the disposal of the masses. The most advanced mind is able to serve the humblest illiterate by being applied to contain a sneeze, to comfort some tender portion of the flesh, to absorb perhaps a dollop of fish grease which has landed on the kitchen floor...
...those two pillars of English vision, John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. He did not have Constable's deep, poetic curiosity about the facts of landscape; still less did he rise to Turner's heights of sublimity or audacity of color. But both painters admired him. "Soothing, tender and affecting," Constable called Gainsborough's landscapes. "His object was to deliver a fine sentiment, and he has fully accomplished it ... The stillness of noon, the depths of twilight, and the dews and pearls of the morning, are all to be found on the | canvases of this most benevolent...
...musical out of the nostalgic past has its ardent fans, and Brigadoon addicts will doubtless be entranced by the show's reappearance at Broadway's Majestic Theater. This revival is handled with tender loving care-and professional spit and polish. Brigadoon's spindly, implausible book was a glaring weakness, even in 1947, but that scarcely matters to the true believers who embrace the show as a dewy fantasy...