Ingels has ambitions to set precedents and, as he put it, "gently alter the course of history".
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.
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.
Blow gently, slightly altering the shape of your lips and the curve of your tongue until you're able to produce a clear note.
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.
Her interest is in the desensitisation to unpleasantness that being "greezy" requires, but her piece seems more to be a study of swaying in pitch, harmony and timbre, and of perception being gently unsettled rather than radically altered.
(Later, Mr. Navasky sent a note up to the stage to be read aloud by Mr. Hightower, the panel's moderator, which advised the audience not to worry, that the fuel powering the ship was a vegetable oil derived from "genetically altered mung beans gently harvested by unionized workers").
Tell your spouse gently that their behavior must be altered in a positive manner.
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.
