There is a very gentle call to arms in a "take action" link on the documentary's website, which refers viewers to the charities working on this area, among them Oxfam, the Living Wage Foundation and the Equality Trust (set up by The Spirit Level's authors).
HIKING through the silent, wooded pathways of Batsto Village, where ancient carpets of moss wind their way to the old mill BREEP where the lake empties beneath the bridge in a thundering waterfall BREEPBREEP.... Ah, the gentle call of the cell phone.
She sang a gentle song called "I Like to Be Told" with an image of Fred Rogers -- the late children's television star Mister Rogers -- projected behind her.
More often than not, the vendor came out on the short end of the deal, as the section would erupt with not-so-gentle calls for the vendor to get out of the way and stop blocking the game.
But snowshoers can stop and hear that silence, taking in the gentlest call of a far-off black-capped chickadee.
When we encountered a gust of wind that actually blew us back uphill on a gentle incline called Easy Money, all the while scouring our faces with snow and ice pellets, we decided to call it a day.
This gentle ridge, called by geologists a terminal moraine, lifts Scuttlehole Road above the rich farmland that slopes southward to the sea.
"There is a chapter in Gentle Regrets called 'Coming Home'," he says, "which is really me expressing my later admiration for my father's public spirit.
Instead of having the children ski down the trail between our legs, Ms. Carpenter wanted the parents to give them a gentle nudge, called a "bounce, " in an attempt to get them to support their own body weight.
One is the bittersweet romance, from 1888, "On Tangled Paths" (translated by Peter James Bowman Angel Bookss; $21.95); the other is a curiously gentle tragedy called "Irretrievable," first published in 1891 (translated by Douglas Parmée; New York Review Books; $15.95).
"The Kinder, Gentler Military" calls for an end to "a huge social experiment" in gender neutrality that has sought to mix an ethic of valor with "a new value system" that worships "sensitivity".
