Patrick Sumner is handled more tenderly, but his back story comes mainly in his dreams.
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She, like her conductor, approached the piece thoughtfully and unsensationally: Now over 50, she was more womanly than girlish, more tenderly longing than petulant.
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As the course drew to a close she would often have started to care for herself differently, more tenderly, as if she were a child; she would begin to feel the first stirrings of self-love.
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Although the young Mr. El-Dabh never anticipated a career as a composer, he had carried out his first acoustic experiments as a youth, in the service of insect extermination — or, as he more tenderly put it, insect discouragement.
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The time will come, the time will not be long in coming, when new ties will be formed about you — ties that will bind you yet more tenderly and strongly to the home you so adorn — the dearest ties that will ever grace and gladden you.
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The Guardian review found "only a few missteps in Danny Brocklehurst's otherwise impeccable script", and part of the series "too pat", with "by-numbers triumphalism", but praised "the ingenious conceit of a mystery story in which the quest for the truth is foiled by an Alzheimer's sufferer catalysed a well- plotted drama, executed without exploitativeness and, in Simm's case, played more tenderly than I'd have thought him capable."Jeffries, Stuart (4 May 2011). "TV review: Exile". The Guardian.
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Dorothea was named after her maternal aunt and she was born crippled or lame, which was attributed to the stress of her mother during the pregnancy (her father died one month after her birth, on 12 June 1545). During the visit of her maternal aunt and uncle in 1551, she and her sister were described: ::"both lovely little maidens, only that the youngest is lame and cannot walk, for which cause her uncle and aunt embraced her the more tenderly." Julia Cartwright: Christina of Denmark. Duchess of Milan and Lorraine.
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Radio Times' Alison Graham wrote, "A tremendous piece of drama; subtle, intelligent, powerful and adult. Writer Danny Brocklehurst and creator Paul Abbott have achieved something wonderful by blending a touching human story with a riveting thriller. This is as good as TV drama can be.. On every level Exile delivers." The ingeniously plotted Exile is over - steel yourself for a Hollywood remake, The Guardian,4-May-2011, page 25; "The ingenious conceit of a mystery story in which the quest for the truth is foiled by an Alzheimer's sufferer catalysed a well-plotted drama, executed without exploitativeness and, in Simm's case, played more tenderly that I'd have thought him capable".
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"The first twelve years of his service were passed on topographical duty with this party under Major G. Strahan, R.E., and in the Mysore Party under Majors G. Strahan and H.R. Thuillier, R.E.." J.E. Howard, who compiled a memoir of McNair, mentioned his "ardent, buoyant, somewhat impulsive early manhood" and fondness for cricket. Howard made no comment about McNair's father, but did note that he had a sister and two younger brothers, John (who worked for the Indian Government's Finance Department before dying in his early twenties of small-pox contracted at Lahore), and George (who became a solicitor in Calcutta). In later years William lived with his mother and sister in Mussoorie. "A more united or more tenderly-knit family, of strong religious feeling, I have never known," Howard wrote.
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