It forsakes gentleness for machismo, balance for bluster.
"My fashion is not unisex," Mr. Armani has said, "but it does insist upon more gentleness for men, and more strength for women".
Hopefully it's not overly saccharine, but it has a gentleness for the most part.
For his behaviour and accomplishments, The Times wrote a tribute to Frederick in July 1871, stating that "the Prince has won as much honour for his gentleness as for his prowess in the war".
A "blues man" is about being "a militant for gentleness, a subversive for sweetness, and a radical for tenderness".
Whatever your view of elephant riding, the time together was life-changing -- not just for their sublime balance of majesty and gentleness, but for the gaze, which penetrates the ecological conscience.
While there are certainly many people throughout time who've changed the world and have not been kind or compassionate (or even great leaders for that matter), it's the ones who operate with gentleness, concern for others, integrity, empathy, truthfulness, and service who make a different kind of mark – a more evolved, expansive and memorable one -- that heals while it innovates.
But gentleness is for the future.
Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland (written 1595 96, published 1633), a later tract, argues lucidly for a typically 16th-century theory of rule: firm measures, ruthlessly applied, with gentleness only for completely submissive subject populations.
He will be remembered by his many friends for his gentleness, his passion for music and books, and his brilliant, quirky wit.
The Prophet Muhammad said, "Allah is kind and loves kindness and gives for gentleness what He does not give for harshness nor for anything else".
