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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a gentler side" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a softer, more compassionate, or less aggressive aspect of someone or something.
Example: "Despite his tough exterior, he has a gentler side that few people get to see."
Alternatives: "a softer side" or "a kinder aspect."
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His 2001 novel Yonder Stands Your Orphan presented a gentler side to his hellraising characters.
The feisty qualities — divaesque, Banke called them — that made Rachel a fierce competitor gave way to a gentler side.
It shows a gentler side of Natalie and also reflects her tighter bonds with her mother and father.
Danish controversialist Lars von Trier showed a gentler side in Melancholia, a visionary fable promoting calm acceptance of the Earth's impending destruction.
Mr. O'Brien also showed off a gentler side, ending one week with an appealingly sentimental campfire song with all his guests.
But tonight the existence of a so-called forbidden room in her home will suggest that she has a gentler side.
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She also has a gentle side, especially in her relations with Tian Tian.
But Heathcliff also had a gentle side, which he showed most willingly to a Persian cat named Sonja.
"That was the first time I saw that he wasn't everything he was painted to be; there was a gentle side to this man," Girardi said.
Joby has a gentle side, but he clearly has no idea how to talk to a child, and Shaylena, a nonprofessional with wide eyes and a charmingly serious manner, credibly conveys the diffidence of a young person unsure of what to make of her adult companion.
Leo Oosterweghel, director of Dublin Zoo, said it showed the animals had a gentle side to their nature.
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