Sentence examples for gentle answer from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

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.

Although the comparison is a bit of a stretch, Amanda McBroom could be described as a softer, gentler American answer to Jacques Brel, the Belgian-French singer-songwriter she has idolized since she appeared many years ago in a production of "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris".

He and his fellow Targaryen loyalists are betting on Dany being the "stronger than Tommen but gentler than Stannis" answer to all their prayers.

Why, you're going to take my water!" Singh, a man of gentle humor, gave no answer on that warm day last winter.

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

John Robinson This gentle series is ITV's answer to Countryfile – and a decent answer it is, too, featuring bucolic scenes held together by Ben Fogle's inimitable, plummy charm.