The decencies of mourning mean that media and political opponents are behaving gently.
It's just that the "military" role has so far been an unfamiliar one; the passive use of active firepower - infantry protected by their bright white lack of camouflage - tanks behaving gently.
That is quite different, officials stress, from the emergency rescues of Belarus, Latvia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine.The IMF is also behaving more gently.
This letter gave the teacher all sorts of things to consider and reflect upon, and he behaved more gently again with respect to the student from then on.
Some years ago - before my child came along and I had to learn how to behave - I got so gently and sweetly merry that I ended up sleeping in my mother's dog basket downstairs in my father's kitchen (they no longer lived together and yes, it was complicated).
Some doctors, they say and behave to us very softly and gently so that even when I don't want to be checked, I let them examine me.
However, the New York Times and the Washington Post will publish letters and even editorials expressing surprise that Communists could behave repressively, and reproaching the parents, both gently and violently, for having coöperated with the bourgeois police.
So in 1888, when Lulu was about 8, gently to encourage her niece to behave like a proper little Alcott girl, Louisa wrote a story called "Lu Sing," which is set in China.
When a parent was acting badly at an event, my neighbor gently, but firmly, got the parent to behave.
