You don't know me, but surely his grace, who does know me, should have considered my tenderest feelings in this.

You give me the profoundest joy, the sharpest and the tenderest feelings and there are times . . . when I think we're merged with each other.

It is the latter, she confesses, which arouse her most tender feelings of affection and compassion.

He felt as if a friend had wounded him in his tenderest feelings.

Jack Dikuss nursed the deepest and tenderest feelings for his Milly, feelings so strong that tears came into his eyes if he even allowed himself to think of her.

However, my tenderest feelings are about to receive a shock: such is my presentiment; stay now, to see whether it will be realised.

They take advantage of your tenderest feelings by dressing themselves up as dear old Dad.

It produced art that spoke to the tenderest feelings and most exalted aspirations but also functioned as propaganda for imperialist ideology.

When one starts looking at it with respect, its fragility stirs surprisingly tender feelings.

An oversize boy's head with a rumpled, unglazed surface and black eye holes, by Elise Siegel, elicits oddly tender feelings despite its physical ruggedness.