Sentence examples for gently alter from inspiring English sources

Ingels has ambitions to set precedents and, as he put it, "gently alter the course of history".

There are many ways to gently alter your family's eating habits.

Without the seconds or minutes present, with nothing to count, and with time moving slower, Thrift's intention is for Today to gently alter your sense of time and to remind you to stop counting and consider what really matters in life in this moment.

José Feliciano was booed at the 1968 World Series when he offered his soft-rock version of the anthem, the melody gently altered over his rhythm guitar.

Although he retains most of the details of the original, Williams gently alters the tenor of the relationships among the characters in ways that tend to scrape away the play's subtlety.

Blow gently, slightly altering the shape of your lips and the curve of your tongue until you're able to produce a clear note.

Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. has decided to err on the side of caution, gently nudging banks to alter the terms of a small fraction of mortgages headed toward default.

Touch him gently on the shoulder, alter your gaze between his lips and eyes, brush your hand against his lightly; he will read your body language!

He gently mocked her family through the alarmed Jewish eyes of his alter ego, Alvy Singer, in Annie Hall, and they thought him odd.

So far, the ORS office has favored the Minotaur launch vehicle, a converted Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile whose flight profile is altered to gently put a satellite into low earth orbit.

In Kohler's muted and gently probing novel, Charlotte Bront?inds liberation through her dauntless, self-reliant heroine and fictional alter ego.