Sentence examples for gentle terms from inspiring English sources

Hodson worries about the effect of being repeatedly written about, even if in relatively gentle terms.

He and the American delegation can, in gentle terms, ask the Europeans to live up to their own standard — and remind them of their self-interest.

I had been taking our dog Curly for a spin around the blocks in my section of Brooklyn Heights, where I often pass books that are being given away or, in less gentle terms, thrown out.

Seward was likely in accord with Johnson's relatively gentle terms for the South's re-entry to the Union, and with his pardon of all Confederates but those of high rank.

Falling short of formal regulation, the methods contained in the report are classified as "nonbinding recommendations," a gentle term indicating that hey, these are just friendly suggestions, do whatever you want with them.

They will be "savings" that make the government more "efficient" -- kinder, gentler terms.

When Americans, in gentler terms, argued in this sense, friends of the chancellor fired back in touchy overkill mode.

In many cases, colleagues say they were forced out, but the moves were couched in gentler terms for public consumption.

Which, in turn, sets off Jennifer Rubin at Commentary: One wonders, then, why Hillary Clinton was excoriated for making the same point in far gentler terms and without the psycho-babble.

Today, over a decade since the tragic attacks of 9/11 where, yes, Muslims died too, the previous phrases have not only become commonplace, but apparently they are now the more gentler terms used in our discourse in reference to Muslims and Islam.

"Recession," a kinder, gentler term, began to be used around the time of the 1937-38 contoaction to refer to a normal downturn in the business cycle.