Sentence examples for a gentle answer from inspiring English sources

Can you come up with a gentle answer that's bland and polite and that closes the discussion?

When the author of Proverbs wrote 15:1 ("a gentle answer turneth away wrath") he clearly didn't foresee the passions that would beset his neighborhood a couple of millenia later.

The essay — a gentle answer from a conscientious journalist — explains how "the war of language can confound a reporter's attempts to narrate — or a new president's attempts to mediate — this conflict in a way both sides can accept as fair". I urge you to read it.

I could have offered a warm, gentle answer but these are not warm, gentle times.

A year ago, it seemed Moroccans were giddy with the sense that they had found a gentle, negotiated answer to the popular uprisings in the streets.

One piece of evidence identified five "Shakespeare-plus words": gentle, answer, beseech, spoke, tonight.

Create a gentle cleaning solution.

However, there is a deliberate clue in the question, namely the rivers, which are a gentle nudge that the answer is Waterford.

Ms. Webster's answer was a gentle but convincing no.

His answer displayed a gentle defiance emblematic of his nation.

His declaration that "I do not believe that government is the enemy, but I do not believe it is always the answer" was a gentle half-turn away from Ronald Reagan's blunt assertion that "government is the problem".