Awareness not only for research but also for the caretakers, like my wife and I, who spend every day learning more about the disease and its implications with every bath, feeding, and gentle reminder that we are family.
I hope I didn't actually say, "So be gentle with me" but I suppose that was the implication - anyway, as soon as I broke the news she got dressed again.
If they're very young, it's likely they don't even realize what they're doing or what sexual implications it has, so being understanding and gentle is key to how they'll view their sexuality in the future.
How dare they make gentle, melodic music and seem to have fun doing it, is the implication.
In a gentle but expensive way, they would have woken up to the implications of the 21st Century.
Like Bley or the late Kenny Wheeler, the American trumpeter and composer Tom Harrell who can shift the implications of a piece of music with the most subversively gentle harmonic tweaks – and he writes music that sounds familiar while eschewing cliche.
But while there was great relief that this "gentle giant" hadn't fallen prey to poachers, news of his death on Friday has catastrophic implications: there are now only six of this particular subspecies of rhino in existence.
In the varied responses to Seventies Man - horror, irony-tinged admiration, even envy - there's an implication that he's probably gone for ever, decisively replaced as a role model by gentler male stereotypes.
Jeremy Heimans, the co-author of "New Power," a forthcoming book about the implications of growing online participation, described to me the process of getting a "Glassdoor face-lift" as "gentle extortion".
