gentle
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He also captures the gentle, verdant beauty of this countryside, in contrast to the poverty and suffering it’s home to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Some have said it was an example of what happens when parents are too "gentle" on their children.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
My husband stepped into the glow of the television, a gentle, almost apologetic look on his face.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
Modern research is giving vitamin C a second look in cancer, and it turns out that under certain conditions it can behave less like a gentle vitamin and more like a drug.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
It’s got this amazing gentle rhythm, and I find myself nodding to the beat as it plays.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
Scientists have been exploring enzymatic DNA synthesis as a gentler alternative because it uses water and more closely resembles the way living cells naturally build DNA.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Colbert’s version is gentler but also the most successful.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
The pain Powell had warned about had been gentler than almost anyone had thought possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
That we will glimpse a gentler, healthier Creasy?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
Their tiny hands were ticklish at first, but the movements were soothing, and gentler than I could ever have imagined.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
"People have come back to tell me that he had the gentlest soul, he's hard-working - and he was very hard-working right until his last breath."
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
The assortment of fried, smothered, pickled or barbecued options guide your steps into the gentlest of food comas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 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
Brave Orchid chose the gentlest plants and made medicines and foods like those they had eaten in their village.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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
His wife gentles the vice president into letting her take over her husband's job, then draws him into helping her replace $9,000 her husband has stolen.
From Time Magazine Archive
And in the kingdom I have truly scanned, There's many worser parts, are better manned, For in the time that thieving was in ure, The gentles fled to places more secure.
From The Pennyles Pilgrimage Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor by John Taylor
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
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
Luckily, when I arrived here 20 years ago I was already so bitter and twisted from supporting the Boro for three decades that if anything the added sourness and torque have gentled my disposition.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2010
I was ashamed to be caught staring, but I put my hands on the palfrey, and he gentled, as they always do.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
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
“Lie still,” Miss Maggie scolded, hurrying to the bed and gentling him back against the pillow.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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