Not Nolan, though, who creates enough peripheral roles for Gary Oldman, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman all to elbow their way into, the latter two playing the same essential character of Bruce Wayne's gentle-voiced mentor-cum-moral-compass.
His relationship with Mirabelle as mentor, gentle lover and generous provider (he pays off her student debts) closely resembles that between tycoon Richard Gere and hooker Julia Roberts in that other fairytale of LA, Pretty Woman.
We will not attempt to detail his enormous contributions to linguistics, but just say that everyone who was privileged to study or work with him will feel the loss of a gentle friend and wise mentor.
Few of us become leaders without the help, shaping, and shielding of mentors, though we might not even recognize at times that we are being mentored--the gentle nudge or bit of advice from someone who has trodden the path before you that suddenly clears the way.
He is a gentle man and my first mentor.
DENEROFF--Robert S. A gentle man, scholar, friend, and mentor, he lived life well.
He was a mentor to many, gentle, kind, generous, unassuming, asking little of others, but giving much.
"During the first weeks, I would show off and say 'Look, I learned this first.'" After a gentle pep-talk from a mentor, Baltazar came to realise "that's not what this place is about.
Jake also acts as mentor to a gentle and loyal Chinese labourer, Po-han (Mako), and he forms a mildly romantic relationship with Shirley Eckert (Candice Bergen), a young American woman who is en route with her father to run a remote missionary school.
The great British pianist and composer John Taylor died of a heart attack after an onstage collapse in France on 17 July, and admirers and fellow-musicians have since been extolling his virtues as an original artist, an inspiring teacher and mentor, and a gentle and generous human being.
But he admits that he is neither as gentle nor as indirect as his mentor.
