gentle
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Physiotherapy can be useful, while others may benefit from gentle exercise like swimming.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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
Children’s books, and the adults who write them, receive their fair share of gentle condescension and polite dismissal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
It’s especially gentle and accessible to people with disabilities, those healing injuries and older adults.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Wasn’t she telling me in her gentle way that I was as guilty as Jan Vogel?
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
"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
"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
The pain Powell had warned about had been gentler than almost anyone had thought possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
When it booms thunder and beats down the grass, that is nuni ndolo, and the gentler kind is nkazi ndolo.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
His “Peaky Blinders” co-star Cillian Murphy remembered Neill as “one of the kindest, funniest and gentlest people, and one of the finest actors,” while Nicole Kidman celebrated Neill as “one of the greats.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
"He was the gentlest soul who was the first to be there for all of his friends and family."
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
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
Wickham’s alarm now appeared in a heightened complexion and agitated look; for a few minutes he was silent, till, shaking off his embarrassment, he turned to her again, and said in the gentlest of accents:
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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
Full-measure, the gentles enjoyed their fun, As a twenty-five were tried, rank puritans caught at prayer In a cow-house and laid by the heels,—have at 'em, devil may care!—
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke
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
Near the bottom of the hill, the slope gentled and the street began to widen.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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