'gentle criticism' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to express criticism that is mild and respectful. For example: "I appreciated her gentle criticism of my work - it was clear that she only wanted to help me improve."
That was intended as gentle criticism, but Mr. Hoiby took such statements as badges of honor.
But that kind of perfectionism isn't easy, and isn't done with gentle criticism.
Even Berry offered a gentle criticism: "His political skills can be overshadowed by his pursuit of what he feels is legally correct".
This is the Farmingdale Writers Group, an informal gathering of would-be authors and poets who every other week share their writing and (gentle) criticism.
When Oudin frowned at some gentle criticism, Stafford told her: "Remember, when I say something needs work, that doesn't mean it is bad.
Ms. Cook told Ms. Simmons, "You guys are going to put me out of the master class business," before offering a gentle criticism she could attribute to the song's author, Richard Rodgers, from firsthand experience.
"When the water you drink, the food you eat, everything comes from the 'state,' when even your shit needs to be handled by the government's hygiene department, how can you really boast about your distance?" With his warmth and wit, his optimism, his professed faith in (and gentle criticisms of) the Party, Wang humanizes the state.
My difficulty with the movement in the 1980s in East Germany, or my gentle criticisms of many people involved with it, was really that they were not sufficiently self-reflective and critical of the way in which their own milieu had become ghettoized.
Similar but gentler criticism has come from his two prime ministers, Mahmoud Abbas, known as Abu Mazen, who quit after only a few months last year, and the current officeholder, Ahmed Qurei.
Both are dumb suggestions, but gentler criticism than Joyce received in his lifetime.
Now, he is the subject either of ridicule, or a gentle, considered criticism that earnestly and tacitly acknowledges his decency, sympathising with the speed and intensity of his fall – which in some ways, is even worse.
