An arrangement of John Dowland's gentle "Come Again" for voice and lute, featuring Sting (who has recorded Dowland's music), sounded odd in this version for piano, violin, voice and ensemble backing.
The first song was a sound check disguised as a gentle come-on: "Push up the fader, bust the meter, shake the tweeter," she sang, as if coaxing the music from its shell.
Now there is a gentle swell coming in off the ocean.
Though it seems at times that a story is about to spin out of control, it's always reassuringly gentle and, coming back to earth, makes perfect sense.
With a gentle light coming from below, her cropped white hair smoothed back, Sontag is lying on a table in an elegant pleated dress from Milan, wrists bruised, hands folded over her stomach, as if she had died serenely.
There is a sudden silence, the only sound a gentle song coming from the radio-repair shop: You may remember our meeting in the mist under the broken bridge.
They'll wrap you in a Mexican serape to shield you from the gentle breeze coming off the ocean.
The gentle light coming from above highlighted my forehead and cheekbones.
You can depict this with gentle curves coming over the top of his pants, with distended buttons on his shirt.
In other words, the kinder, gentler SAT coming in 2016 resembles more the ACT, the SAT's closest testing competitor that has sold more tests in recent years.
