Steve exemplified the rare combination of high intelligence tempered by gentle humor.
López tempers the harsh urban circumstances with gentle humor and by portraying the world through Enrique's innocent and untainted perspective (in fact, Enrique sometimes seems younger than a typical middle-schooler).
"The Lost Island of Tamarind" has a gentle spirit, tempering its dangers with warmth.
Hopkinson is the only one to bake his chocolate pots, in a low oven, its gentle heat tempered by a protective bain marie.
But the play is a comedy, a gentle one tempered by Mr. Belovitch's respect for the people of his past, including Tish and the man who struggled to emerge from her almost against his will.
And if errors he did commit, his enemies certainly had less reason to blame him than had his friends for that gentle and compassionate temper which made him save the life of Leonidas and believe in other men's professions.
Anna Seward found him "a man of most comprehensive genius", observing how a "gentle and amiable temper has removed from his voice, and from his manners, any vestige of that rusticity which his obscure birth and unlettered education might teach us to expect".
I knew him to be soft and gentle, with a temper and a dark side, but a golden heart.
As Biggie, the heavyset rapper Jamal Woolard comes off, to my eyes, as a man with a gentler face and temper than the original, but when Woolard sings, changing his flow to match Biggie's, he's both powerful and persuasive.
For among barbarians and among animals courage is found associated, not with the greatest ferocity, but with a gentle and lion like temper.
