As the philosopher Alain de Botton has said, a vulnerable face, whether in sleep or in the intimacy of the encounter, "invites a gentle regard that in itself is almost love".
In his debut collection of essays, Regret (Lettered Streets Press, 2014), author Ryan Spooner explores these assumptions with gentle regard, subtle self-consciousness, and a wholly new type of investigation into masculinity.
Alamethicin is gentle regarding side effects on membrane enzyme systems (e.g. since the mitochondrial electron transport chain can be assayed, protein complexes are not separated or delipidized and lipophilic ubiquinone is not extracted [ 44]), whereas a detergent like digitonin will bind hydrophobic surfaces and molecules in membranes that it can permeabilize.
She was a quiet, gentle woman, regarded locally as "a lady" and always referred to formally as "Mrs Boyle" rather than Bridget.
The Pallekele ground outside Kandy surrounded by wave-form hills, mist and showers winding between, a gentle environment to regard whenever the environment itself has stopped play.
The representation of the woman scientist through Greer Garson is a well-seasoned sop to those gentle souls who regard her as the epitome of feminine quality on the screen.
Pankaj Mishra prefaces "The Ramayana" (Penguin; $13), a prose retelling of the epic poem, with the observation that Narayan, far from lacking political clear-sightedness, responded with a "pragmatic realism, a gentle refusal to regard good and evil as unmixed".
Mr Harman's management ideas seem mainly motivated by nothing more complicated than a gentle, deeply felt regard for his fellow humans.Yet maybe American business leaders would be wise, in their current mess, to devote more attention to their workers, and less to the investment bankers, analysts and armies of public-relations people who dress them up and put on the show for shareholders.
Pasquale is a gentle tailor, highly regarded by a branch of the Mob that makes cut-price haute-couture costumes for famous labels.
Over the course of The Anthologist and this, its sequel, I've kind of come to regard the gentle, hapless poet-narrator of these novels as a personal friend due to the sheer warmth and confessional intimacy with which he addresses me.
By holding my aversion to pain in gentle, compassionate, and attentive regard -- another way to understand mindfulness -- I gain a measure of liberation (the standard translation of "nirvana") from the conditioned, even addictive patterns that drive my behavior.
