The best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I very well understand what you call tenderness, madam; but in some situations, pity -- pity -- is the greatest insult. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays] Reference
I never, my dear girl, knew happiness till now; my tenderness is absolutely a species of idolatry; you cannot think what a slave this lovely girl has made me. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Emily Montague] Reference
Tess and her mother, the Ungers, and other friends heard him speak to the college graduates about the word tenderness as it is enacted in Chekhov’s novella Ward No. 6. From Wordnik.com. [Raymond Carver] Reference
Our skies look down in tenderness from out their realms of blue. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference
His natural tenderness is shown by that graphic touch, "the desire of thine eyes.". From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
What we call tenderness is the desire love has to cherish its object with endearment. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons. Volume The Fourth.] Reference
He proposed this, in tenderness to the mariners, that they might not suffer for his sake. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
What such cuts lack in tenderness they tend to make up for with a stronger, beefier flavour. From Wordnik.com. [Independence and chicken-fried steak | Homesick Texan] Reference
What we call tenderness will some day surely manifest its influence on the genital zones also. From Wordnik.com. [Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex] Reference
But I feel a certain tenderness towards all of the characters, perhaps especially the most flawed ones. From Wordnik.com. [A Conversation with Geraldine Brooks about People of the Book] Reference
They have the understanding of a man, and such as far exceeds it; they also resemble man in tenderness and humanity. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
I am obliged to bear it, since no choice is left me, – I might have answered; but in tenderness for their feelings I only replied –. From Wordnik.com. [Agnes Grey] Reference
The first time the voice we love, speaks to us in the low tone of tenderness, is an epoch in our lives; so is the first time we hear it in accents of anger. From Wordnik.com. [Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times] Reference
The men who have most intimately touched my life have not known the meaning of the word tenderness, and have never had a thought for any one beyond themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
Achilles, with a passionate tenderness, which is the real root of his passionate anger. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
It was one of the mysteries that her tenderness was the face of one woman, her sorrow another. From Wordnik.com. [Red Fleece] Reference
Both possessed that quality of tenderness, which is one of the true elements of the heroic character. From Wordnik.com. [Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance] Reference
She recalled the tenderness of him to whom it belonged; but to it she never had attached that of father. From Wordnik.com. [The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale] Reference
His tenderness was the most exquisite of blessings, sure and helpful, full of gentleness and solicitude. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre Curie] Reference
Married women's eyes fill with tears as they recall her tenderness in sorrow and her wisdom in difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"] Reference
There is no greater cruelty, in fact, than this same false tenderness, which is the bane of so many families. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Nurture.] Reference
My heart overflows whenever I recall her tenderness: she was the most excellent, the most indulgent of mothers. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of a Traveller] Reference
He came forward and expressed in somewhat hesitating terms the tenderness proper to the occasion of a reconciliation. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Marriage, Part 3] Reference
Quite a woman's letter, full of what people call tenderness, and disinterestedness, and heart, and all that sort of thing! '. From Wordnik.com. [Barnaby Rudge]
God's known pity and tenderness, which is acknowledged in assuring himself (his "soul," Ps 11: 1; 16: 10) of rest and peace. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
I recalled her tenderness and purity, which I had felt so strongly that I had expected to see it about her like an effulgence. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle] Reference
A rocker finding the kind of tenderness he used to sneer at?. From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Kornbluth: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's Raising Sand Was the 2007 Album of the Year. Has He Done It Again?] Reference
A rocker who looks 200 finding the kind of tenderness he used to sneer at?. From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Kornbluth: Odd Couple: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Make the CD of the Year] Reference
The lack of her character is the tenderness which is woman's crowning grace. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
Cara's eyes rested with a wistful kind of tenderness on the flushed face against the pillows. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
But all this time, the inflammable Victor was indulging a kind of tenderness for Joachime, maid-of-honor and attractive female. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
I think that's a beautiful way to look at it - I wish we could all treat ourselves with the kind of tenderness we'd show a little baby. From Wordnik.com. [What have you learned; what is worth knowing? And a few tunes.] Reference
There was a good warm feeling inside me, and a kind of tenderness, and a kind of wonder, too, that my bed should be full of so much woman. From Wordnik.com. [Hoodwink]
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