The almost lullabylike quality of her vocal on "By Your Side," the new record's first single, perfectly suits the song's lyrics, which offer gentle assurances to a worried lover.
For some white supremacists who found links to Jewish or other non-European people groups, feedback from the forum ranged from "never breed," to more gentle assurances that as long as they didn't "see Jew" when they looked in the mirror, they could claim whiteness.
Most eyes now turned toward her, drawn by the silence of the practice, which was interrupted only when Rodriguez, to whom Henin kept turning for assurance, issued a gentle "marche" every once in a while.
Often thought of as the "Balanchine ballerina par excellence," she combined a light, gentle presence and a certain cool assurance with flawless technique to create her stage persona.
Peter Auty takes the title role with eloquence and assurance, and Juanita Lascarro is a suitably gentle and touching Marguerite.
In recovery, there was juice, gentle hugs and kisses on the forehead from family, and assurances from the staff that they had fixed the problem.
The pianist Jon Nakamatsu plays with the calm assurance that comes of having both a solid technique and a gentle, introspective, interpretive spirit.
The prëeminent Baroque conductor William Christie and his ensemble Les Arts Florissants, known for its stylistic assurance and lively dramatic inflection, perform Handel's operalike oratorio, a gentle, touching telling of the title character's Christian martyrdom.
Faced with suspicious or recalcitrant parents, their only weapon is reassurance: a gentle pat on the hand, a shared cup of tea, an offer to seek religious assurances from a pro-vaccine cleric.
Steeped in the hard facts of Mormon frontier history, Ms. Jensen's script has a gentle, poetic allure that is wonderfully realized in its New York premiere, directed with relaxed assurance by Joan Vail Thorne.
The federal government's assurances that the pesticide, and not a disease, had killed the starlings did not hold back a gentle scolding from the township.
