If there's a mission statement for the groove-heavy side-project/supergroup Atoms for Peace, it was delivered rather gently in a near singalong at the end of the band's at times frantic show at the Hollywood Bowl on Wednesday night.
Florida governor Rick Scott waded in on the migrant crisis rather gently on Friday, with a letter from his attorney general about children that might be transferred to Florida: "What medical services, if any, were provided," it asked, inquiring about infectious diseases and "those who may have come through the flawed federal system".
Following her election, Ziegler's new high court colleagues rather gently reprimanded her for not recusing herself in cases involving a bank where her husband was a paid director.
On April 7th President Clinton met Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, in the White House, and urged him rather gently to get the peace process back on track.
Then there are those who don't reject, but rather gently distance themselves from their "Africanness" or "Arabness" – consciously or subconsciously.
In fairness, family films released in the run-up to Christmas tend to start rather gently, picking up steam when schools break up.
Orwell's file seems to have been rather gently vetted by Britain's spy agency, MI5, which perhaps understood that a casual dresser is not inevitably an enemy of the state.
The pretty bosom of the title character played by Mélanie Thierry tends to swell rather gently, but it also rides so high in her dresses that it evokes the temptations displayed in the windows of Parisian patisseries.
"I want to be the first comic ever to shit on Martin Luther King," she says in this performance from her Jesus is Magic tour, before doing so actually rather gently.
The Alpine earth movements produced a great upswelling along the line of the present upper Rhine, leaving the Vosges with steep eastern slopes that descend to a rift valley containing the plains of Alsace and Baden; on the west the upland descends rather gently into the scarplands of Lorraine.
Danny Meyer and company were the pioneers of this style of burger in New York with the now legendary Shake Shack, though the Shackers don't really smash their meat so much as press it down rather gently.
