They were the fabled "New Man" with the volume turned up to 10, gentle-natured but discordant and angry.
One morning we do a three-hour bush walk with the lodge's manager Jannie Swart, a hefty, gentle-natured Namibian who has a thick Boer accent.
"But it's much harder to develop a dog that is gentle-natured and is not going to pull somebody over or pull a back muscle - but that will still be courageous.
That aside, it's gentle-natured business as before, mixing home-is-where-the-heart-is sentiment with elaborate pratfalls in the great blue unknown — all of it missing the essential warmth of creative investment and invention.
According to Reit, the little chap was born in 1940, in a short story about a gentle-natured ghost which Oriolo illustrated; another version has it that the two men collaborated on an illustrated children's book that did not sell - and, on impulse, submitted it to the animation studio where they were working.
Why it matters: At the beginning of the 20th century, Brother Adam at Buckfast Abbey in Devon crossed various races of honeybee in the UK with the intention of creating a gentle-natured, productive bee with low swarming tendencies and able to survive long, cold winters.
And occasionally there is one who accurately reflects our ambivalence about reason and science, like the gentle-natured intellectual played by George Sanders in Wolf Rilla's superb "Village of the Damned" (1960), who finds himself the guardian of an extraterrestrial son and tries — foolishly, tragically — first to learn from him and then to teach him.
My father, who has advanced stage Alzheimer's, has always been a quiet, gentle-natured man.
Eastern Congo's decade-long war is purportedly over, and Virunga has ramped up its tourism efforts in order to help save the gentle-natured apes.
"Christopher approached us selling these beautiful, handpainted postcards," says Chris. "A gentle, sweet-natured boy, he sat down and we got talking.
