We've been calling this "post-truth politics" but I now worry that the phrase is far too gentle, suggesting society has simply reached some new phase in its development.
"I don't feel that I really belong here," Carson said, when he took the lectern, but his casual posture and gentle smile suggested that he knew he did.
But her knack for stretching time and sinking into music with a gentle lushness suggests a ballerina in the making.
You can read the ocean like that?' It's really hot," she adds, the excitement in her gentle voice suggesting that she is quietly, but madly, in love.
She takes out her lyric sheet, and in a gentle voice suggests some alternative words for the beginning of the chorus.
Little about Kevin Shields' gentle demeanour suggests he creates magical, mind-melting music that drives people to have uninhibited sex, guzzle weapons-grade drugs and soil themselves.
Further experiments, in which the channel is set at different but still gentle slopes, suggest that the general rule takes the form x = at2, with a proportional to the slope.
I have to feel the heart in the clothes," said Ms. Chapelle, 52, whose gentle face suggests the nurse she was at the start of her career, later becoming a pharmaceutical executive.
Bellamy is a devoted husband and a tormented brother as well as a dogged cop, but above all he is Gérard Depardieu, whose imposing bodily presence and disarmingly gentle demeanor suggest an oversize teddy bear cast in bronze by Rodin and outfitted with a gag nose from a novelty shop.
Despite his national fame, Presley, at the time the show is set, had been chastened by a disastrous stand in Las Vegas, where he opened for Shecky Greene, and Mr. Clendening's performance is inflected with a gentle diffidence suggesting the insecure kid inside the teen idol.
