Word: tenderizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their closing work, the Quartet performed Schumann's Quartet in A Major, Op. 41, No. 3. Unlike other quartets less given to subtlety, the Borromeo was clearly comfortable with the tender, non-symphonic nature of the music...
...Jamila A. Roos's Lauretta is winsome. She draws the first spontaneous applause of the evening as her voice rises to the challenge of the opera's most famous set-piece, the aria "O mio babbino caro." Unfortunately, as she sings in Italian, most of the audience misses her tender appeal to her dear father, and her vow to drown herself in the Arno if her love for Rinuccio is thwarted...
...1970s, we see Lavin and his colleagues misuse their authority as teachers, surrogate parents, men of God. They instruct these utterly dependent children in their catechism. They impose discipline with a belt buckle, their faces hinting at the pleasure they take in their power. At night they show their tender side, with sweet murmurs and a hand under a boy's bed sheets...
...never a truer Christian than when forgiving even his un-Christian enemies. This is not to whitewash a self-styled scapegrace who had so many treacheries and transgressions to confess (though it is to give him credit for confessing so openly to them). If he could be unusually tender toward his enemies, he could be unnaturally negligent of his loves. In his championing of the voiceless, the forgotten, the oppressed, he could conceive irrational and implacable prejudices against those he regarded as Established (No?l Coward, say). And sometimes, by his own admission, he could do the right thing...
...professors being pretty sketchy, The Hat caught on quickly as a sign of the oldest guard of the Intellectual Elite (It's rumored that all eight University professors received new Hats upon their appointment, and precocious Professor of Mathematics Noam Elkies owned several at the tender age of eight). This theory is feasible only at Harvard, where fashion trends sparked by old intellectual men could actually catch...