tender-minded

He differentiated them as the "tough-minded," and the "tender-minded."

The tender-minded notion of an absolute reality is, according to the radically tough-minded, framed on just this pattern.

For some "tender-minded" and, to my thought, obscure, reason the subject is tabooed.

Its lines are too refined, too pussy-foot, too pathetic, too tender-minded for that.

These two systems are what you have to choose between if you turn to the tender-minded school.