Meanings of mingled tenderness in English

The unobtrusive aid that was mingled tenderness and respect, should always be hers.

From the mingled tenderness and loftiness of Kemble's playing, a new idea of Coriolanus struck me.

Then she sat for a long time, and her look was one of mingled tenderness and sadness.

There was a mingled tenderness and gravity in his manner that appeared to have a powerful effect upon the young lady.

The metaphor has become so familiar that we need a moment's reflection to grasp the mingled tenderness, sadness, and majesty of it.

She smiled at the offering in mingled tenderness and pain and turned her head before MacGuiness could vanish back into his pantry.

He regarded her with a smile of mingled tenderness and amusement, while softly patting and stroking the small white hand laid lovingly upon his.

Oblivious to the turmoil all about, he wrote rapidly, almost incoherently, to Mildred, transcribing the mood of mingled tenderness and exultation which possessed him.

He must so train his heart as to feel for the fox a mingled tenderness and cruelty which is inexplicable to ordinary men and women.