Sentences with phrase «tenderness of»

Butts looks out his window into the rain and touches his thumb to his index finger, teasing the tenderness of his broken wrist and trying to remember the title of that movie.

Common symptoms of this personal injury include back stiffness and tenderness of overlying muscles in the back, as well as pain that travels...

I thought of the tenderness of the greens this device produces — a natural simplicity elicited mainly from water and air by high - tech artifice of the most complicated and concentrated kind.

Taken together, the works engage a palpable vulnerability: the tenderness of bodies, the fragility of form, and the susceptibility of matter to the intangible.

The tenderness of the kiss is marred once you notice that one of the men have a gun up to the other's chest.

Jarman's luminary spirit is viscerally present, as is the tenderness of those looking back on his life.

Ernesto NETO Womboa, manaibupustu The tenderness of the boa lights our path (2016) cotton voile crochet, bamboostructure, cotton voile knot carpet.

The lively geometric rigor of Al Held exerts its influence, as does the clunky tenderness of Arthur Dove.

On the gallery's second and third floors, Colen's new Mother and Purgatory paintings further extend the artist's longstanding interest in the sentimental tenderness of mid-20th century hand - drawn animation.

Painted freehand, there is always a tenderness of human engagement.

What we learn through this encounter is not only the tenderness of the relationship of the older couple, or — in reflective passages — Tanaka's ground - breaking work, but also a rumination on ageing and the artist, the capacity of performance art to incorporate the body in its expression, and for that expression to be truly novel.

The slick surface of the substrate is more than appropriate for Taylor's consistent blurring of edge, a technique that one can not mention without also mentioning Gerhard Richter; however, the overt tenderness of Taylor's handling, as well as her considerable ability to conjure empathy from the sparest of means, mark a distinction between her conceptual goals and those of the venerated (but decidedly chilly) German painter.

Her intimacy with her subject brings out a tenderness of touch that describes these complex landscapes.

Tom Betthauser's tightly rendered paintings show a tenderness of rendering which coats his observation with a layer of sentimentality.

In these earlyworks there is a lyricism, a tenderness of touch, of surface, and content, while the more recent work of the same subject matter is tougher, sharper, bolder and more imposing materially, thus proposing another kind of youthfulness in older age though the return to landscape or nature as a thematic seems to bracket the period of cooler irony of Artschwager's most noted works, emerging in the era of Pop Art and continuing through the era of appropriation art.

The vegetation at the bottom left of the panel is a marvel of meticulous execution; the triangular snippet of orange drapery revealed amongst Mary's blue and red garments reveals an astute and not unwitty pictorial technician; the hands of the Virgin, scaled larger than the rest of the figure and floating all - but - imperceptibly above the surface of the canvas, have the durability of carved marble and the tenderness of living flesh.

And yet in filming and photographing them in varying light and weather conditions, watching, tracking, almost caressing them — with the tenacity of a private detective and the tenderness of a lover — Shirreff turns them into emblems of time, mortality, and maybe even folly, as they reveal the possibilities and limits of one man's (built) vision.

& faintly heard (as it sinks, slowly): with The Tenderness of Maggots is an exhibition by Studio for Propositional Cinema (founded 2013).

It's just one masterpiece after another, from the potently probing self - portraits to the conjugal tenderness of The Jewish Bride or his frank, raw nudes.

The installation concludes with The Tenderness of Maggots, a theatrical adaptation of Comte de Lautréamont's (1846 - 1870) brutal, proto - Surrealist novel Les Chants de Maldoror, re-edited and re-configured for the stage by Studio for Propositional Cinema.

Image: Photo of The Tenderness of Maggots performance at Swiss Institute, January 7, 2017, taken by Aura Rosenberg.

Perhaps as much autobiographical as observational, Casteel's paintings are imbued with the tenderness of her gaze.

Hanging loosely in beguilingly slick, multi-colored Plexiglas boxes they reference both the tenderness of textiles and domestic towel racks with the authoritative formality of historical vitrines

There's a softness to watercolor that gives it the immediate tenderness of nostalgia or fantasy.

I love both characters in this moment equally — the tenderness of Snake as he holds the sunglasses shows how lovely men can be to each other and the beauty of the bonds of friendship transcending really terrible events in your life.

«There is no difference between the pain of man & the pain of other living beings, since the love & the tenderness of the mother for her young ones is not produced by reasoning but by feeling, & this faculty exists not only in man but in most living things.»

Physical exams and X-rays are most commonly used to make a tentative diagnosis of bone cancer, as most pets will present at an advanced stage with swelling and tenderness of the underlying bone, as well as having characteristic destructive bone changes apparent on X-rays.

Among Russian guard dogs there is a unique Moscow dog, which combines great watching and guarding abilities with tenderness of a companion pet.

Johnson juxtaposes the vicious atrocities of the regime with the tenderness of beauty, love, and hope.»

He holds her with the strength of a million - man army, but with all the tenderness of her heart lying naked in the palms of his hands.

First time novelist Stef Penney shook the British literary world last year when she won the Costa Award (formerly Whitbread Award) with The Tenderness of Wolves, not least because she has never been to Canada and carried out all her research in the British Library.

Her first novel, The Tenderness of Wolves was named Costa Book of the Year 2006, and Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year 2008.

Fast - paced, with characters who will live in full color inside the reader's head, Penney delivers an impressive follow - up to her debut bestseller, The Tenderness of Wolves.»

Although there are a multitude of characters and plot threads in The Tenderness of Wolves (perhaps, a few too many of both), the central role is taken by Mrs Ross, who stands out from the rest of the cast because she narrates her part of the story, while the rest of the story is told in the third person.

In the great crime novels — Dennis Lehane's Mystic River, say, or Stef Penney's The Tenderness of Wolves — the murder becomes a window into the dark heart of the society where it happens.

One plot thread of The Tenderness of Wolves involves an artifact that may or may not have belonged to the Five Nations.

Like The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Tenderness of Wolves is a classic «western» in which the raw and rugged people are dwarfed by their surroundings as they find their way towards, or away from, hard - won redemption.

A brilliant and breathtaking debut that captivated readers and garnered critical acclaim in the United Kingdom, The Tenderness of Wolves was long - listed for the Orange Prize in fiction and won the Costa Award (formerly Whitbread) Book of the Year.

Shel Silverstein's book reminds us of the tenderness of the relationship between the giver and someone too young, too naive to realize just how much has been sacrificed.

Eighteenth - century British author Henry Fielding perceptively wrote, «The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.»

The place puts a kind of spell on them at first, as they revert to the spontaneity and tenderness of their early dating days.

Of course due to bureaucracy and the tenderness of the situation, the State Department deems the situation off limits.

They are in love, as evidenced by the tenderness of the scenes Vega shares with Francisco Reyes» Orlando.

Justin is also developing several projects including the screen version of the Daphne du Maurier novel, Jamaica Inn, for Focus Films, he is writing the adaptation for the multi-award winning novel, The Tenderness of Wolves, for Pink Sands Films / Film 4, which he will also direct, and he is attached to the Ron Bass script, The Godmother, with Unanimous Pictures producing, based on the novel by Carrie Adams.

The twists are telegraphed far in advance, but the tenderness of emotion is fairly irresistible.

With the tenderness of a young girl and the charisma of a seductive flirt, Williams shows the many different sides of the well - known actress.

The sweetly spooky Paranorman may just be the best animated feature in recent years, Teddy Bear mimics the tenderness of its name despite appearances to the contrary, and The Sessions mixes stellar performances from John Hawkes and Helen Hunt with a stirring true story.

It's a contention Stuntman Mike tests on a dark Texas highway, and Tarantino shows it three times in as many different angles with the fate of one passenger, her eyes closing as though anticipating a new lover's first kiss, rendered almost unbearable for the tenderness of its expectation.

He admired the beauty and tenderness of women from Ukraine and Russia, but he told me directly that he could...

He admired the beauty and tenderness of women from Ukraine and Russia, but he told me directly that he could never date Russian and Ukrainian ladies.