gentle
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I began eyeing $3,000 the way someone playing a very gentle video game might eye the next level.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
For all the efforts needed to create this vast work, its presence was gentle and almost pastoral.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
They ask “that you honor his remarkable legacy by serving your communities and leading others with compassion, integrity, and loyalty and always remember ‘be strong enough to be gentle.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Physiotherapy can be useful, while others may benefit from gentle exercise like swimming.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
He sat on the edge of her bed and placed a gentle, weathered hand on her blanketed leg.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
"Earlier studies often examined gentler bends or relied on external pressure, making this subtle effect difficult to separate," Iyengar said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
But she acknowledges that her distinct approach — kinder, gentler, more tearful — is rooted in her particular skill set: “It’s similar to how I responded to being led in kitchens,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
"I think we should be gentler and less comfortable commenting on people's bodies, no matter what."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Colbert’s version is gentler but also the most successful.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
They were in a deep dark passage that seemed still to go up before them, though at a gentler slope and without steps.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Leave it to Kelly Reichardt, who turned Michelle Williams into a seething sculptor with frenemy issues in “Showing Up,” to make the gentlest, most self-deprecating heist movie imaginable.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025
Ms Darwiche's friends described her as "the gentlest and kindest soul we knew."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2024
Folky fingerpicking and new-agey thoughts about self-help make “Deeper Well” one of the gentlest but firmest rebuffs imaginable.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
His brand, created with veterinary dermatologists, aims to use the gentlest chemicals it can, and avoids artificial fragrances.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2023
Bran could feel the flakes on his face, melting as they touched his skin like the gentlest of rains.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
Coconut milk gentles the green-chile heat in the thick, creamy sauce.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2017
Mallory Ortberg: That’s all for this week, gentles.
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2016
Saturday's conditions at Whistling Straits led to outstanding scores, as gentles breezes off Lake Michigan, combined with greens that Phil Mickelson described as "pristine, beautiful, large and receptive," produced a festival of birdies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2015
And he gentles the excitable Tushingham into a performance of wonderful precision and variety.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cæsar replies: Lord, man, were ye but whyles where I am, The gentles ye wad ne’er envy them.
From The Real Robert Burns by J. L. Hughes
It seems somehow like he’s gentled us into it with benevolent trickery — as if he’d said, “Look! Over there,” and while we were distracted ripped a Band-Aid off our skin.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
On the phone from Britain, Wainwright speaks in quick, declarative sentences, gentled a bit by her Yorkshire accent with its long A’s, round O’s and forgiving consonants, but still quite direct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2019
The subjects of her essays have gentled somewhat, without any loss of acuity or elegance: the joys of being a grandmother, discovering the ukulele, the burly screen presence of Russell Crowe.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2017
After nearly 20 years as a gallery destination, and despite a spate of sleek new apartment buildings, it is still nothing but art, and it still feels surprisingly raw — gentrified but not especially gentled.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2011
“Hush, hush,” he gentled her, and held her in his arms.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
The material doesn’t want sophisticated adults mucking about in it or, worse, gentling its hard edges for commercial consumption.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Like a grade-school teacher, the matrix provides a physical framework that supports and organizes the cells, gentling and channeling them to harmoniously create a functional tissue.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024
These handling and gentling exercises will essentially be like playing doctor with your puppy.
From Fox News ● Mar. 23, 2022
This gentling spares many vulnerable kids years of suffering.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2013
Gradually we drifted off, the whispers of breeze-blown branches and the breathing of horses gentling us to sleep.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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