There was a general pattern to fetal movement descriptions with increasing gestation, beginning with words such as "gentle", to descriptions of "strong" and "limb" movements, and finally to "whole body" movements.
"His observations on the mechanics of fishing are entertaining as well as technical, but it is the gentle, elegiac descriptions laced with crisp opinion that draw the reader in," Mary Grace Butler wrote here in 2000.
The channel's description was gentle, unassuming: "We hope you enjoy these chill lofi hip hop tunes while studying / chilling / working," it read.
And let us ask and answer in turn, first going back to the description of the gentle and noble nature.
Roger Alton, the editor, wrote to Lord Winston pointing out, in the most gentle of ways, that his description of the newspaper did not fit with the facts.
I recently joined two friends at a wine bar where, when presented with a wine list, I chose a bottle with a description that read "gentle notes of tar and rose petal", much to my company's discomfort.
Activist feminists, political rabble-rousers and media busybodies read that description as a gentle letdown -- that this Harvard-trained lawyer, former city government bureaucrat and hospital executive would not be transforming her East Wing office into an adjunct of the West.
Romola Garai is rather wild as Cordelia, with a voice too high-pitched to match her father's description of it as ever soft, gentle and low.
Nietzsche, analyzing Buddhism's appeal to its early audience, spoke of "races grown kindly, gentle, overintellectual who feel pain too easily". The description fits Mr. Mishra, and his own self-description rounds out the portrait.
