tenderheartedness

To his friends, his tenderheartedness and complexities have been too little understood.

No, my dear Eve, your tenderheartedness sounds well but it doesn't make sense.

The Supreme Court's Rehnquist majority is not known for tenderheartedness.

He suddenly regretted the tenderheartedness that had caused him to refuse a companion on this voyage.

The nobleman's tenderheartedness disturbed the mage.

"Maggie--" "Don't start with that tenderheartedness," she growled.

I had begged my companion to intervene, but he had not only laughed at my tenderheartedness, he had drawn me along to gloat at the death.

Yet what time and again emerges (as in "The Gladiators," where Kirchwey studies the bloodthirsty Villa Borghese mosaics) is the poet's own tenderheartedness.

Garth T. Mark lets tenderheartedness shine through Petruchio's maneuvers, so you don't feel that Kate, richly played by Nikki E. Walker, has gotten a raw deal.

In one family I know, father and son are passionate Man United fans driven to distraction by Mum's tenderheartedness, which demands that the moment their team score, she prays for the other side.

In January 2000, Gen. Viktor Kazantsev, then the commander of Russian forces in Chechnya, blamed the "tenderheartedness" of his troops and their "groundless trust" of Chechen civilians.

Her heroines tend to be a mix of fire and warmth, strength, savvy and tenderheartedness who must overcome some sort of adversity, such as pregnancy, divorce, a lengthy separation, the loss of a loved one, and then undergo a catharsis.

Perhaps this was tenderheartedness, and yet it was Edward Merrill's considered opinion that his wife was better looking now than she had been when they had first committed adultery together on the cement floor of a church basement after an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting nearly 15 years before.