The mayor's gentle remarks were in contrast to his initial harsh opposition to Mr. Levy, and seemed to signal, for now, that Mr. Giuliani was backing off from another fight over the management of the city's schools.
It may be that he is conscious that some gentle remarks during the Test series about the preference for a positive influence in the first three were said to have confused Nick Compton in his approach to batting – even though this is a barely credible argument.
But she didn't; her gentle remarks barely scratched the surface of the problems with this industry.
"A majority have made some sort of gentle indication, a remark like, 'Why don't we talk about extending Jürgen's contract.
Gentle, soft-spoken remarks will probably be shouted down.
In one of his deadly asides, the mild-seeming Emmott, with his gentle Northern accent, remarks that they don't seem to wait for public opinion where going to war or messing with the NHS is concerned.
I should have known, from your affection for him, that he was not a fire-spitting ogre.... Instead, a most lovable, nervous and sensitive person took my hand in a big gentle paw and remarked that he was a great admirer of my work...
Her loving tenderness to the children committed to her care and her pure gentle life were remarked by those around her before there was any thought of her dying a heroic death.
("Marlon," to quote his friend Elia Kazan, "is one of the gentlest people I've ever known. Possibly the gentlest". Kazan's remark had meaning when one observed Brando in the company of children.
However gentle, Mr. Hoon's remarks in private and in public amounted to a call to shift to a new phase of the war.
Before everyone writes in to complain about the tasteless tone of these remarks, let me direct the gentle reader towards a remarkable second world war memoir I was recently sent by a friend.
