Sentence examples for gentle toward from inspiring English sources

Schmitz went on, "He was very gentle toward BB-8, and he wanted to know how I made BB-8 go around my legs.

Subtitled The True Portraiture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings, Eikon Basilike portrays the late king as pious, contemplative, caring toward his subjects, and gentle toward his family.

This group of Swift boat veterans is still so angry at Mr. Kerry that it seems almost gentle toward "Hanoi Jane," once a favorite punching bag for some veterans.

He is a very people-focused horse who is friendly and gentle toward children who meet him up close prior to each game, and actively observes the antics of people in the stands during games when he is between performances on the field.

This is cinema, more rhetorical, spectacular, and stirring than cable-TV drama: again and again, DuVernay's camera (Bradford Young did the cinematography) tracks behind characters as they march, or gentles toward them as they approach, receiving them with a friendly hand.

For Ellena, A* marked a gentle turn toward the woods.

It's the historian Nathaniel Philbrick's intent to give those uncertain consumers a gentle shove toward the "one book that deserves to be called our American Bible".

Diners are given the option to substitute pasta for the main course, but the menu structure is a gentle nudge toward eating in sequential courses.

Last week, the epically delayed Guns N Roses album "Chinese Democracy" received another gentle nudge toward the light with a nine-song leak courtesy of the music blog Antiquiet.

Cry all you want about a nanny state, but as a city and a nation we've gorged and guzzled past the point where a gentle nudge toward roughage suffices.

Because the sculpture has not gotten much notice, most people who come to the small park are not expecting, when they come down a gentle slope toward the river, to see it there.