Sentence examples for gently conservative from inspiring English sources

Welby himself comes from a gently conservative but charismatic evangelical background and is known to favour the church's official teaching that marriage can only be between a man and a woman.

Well someone should not so gently tell extreme conservative Limbaugh those ARE the defining issues of his fundamentalist conservatives.

"It was pretty gutsy," said Mr. Springer, an avowed liberal, who spoke admiringly of Mr. Turner's character even as he gently mocked his conservative politics.

One of the few discordant notes at the convention came from Robert Schuller, a televangelist and senior pastor of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif., who delivered an address gently criticizing some conservative evangelical Christians for acting as if they know the only possible route to salvation.

William Kristol, the conservative writer, gently chided Mr. Romney this week in the pages of his magazine, The Weekly Standard, for engaging in small-bore squabbles with the president, including a withering speech in Charlotte, N.C., that the Romney campaign billed as a "prebuttal" to Mr. Obama's address at the Democratic National Convention.

On the same Webcast, Forest Montgomery of the National Association of Evangelicals said the media applied a double standard, treating Mr. Lieberman more gently than they would a conservative Christian saying the same things.

On Terkel's behalf, Judge gently turns down awards from conservative groups whose leaders seem wholly unaware that their honoree, were he not philosophically and physically incapable of violence, would as soon burn their headquarters building to the ground and spit on their smoldering cause as accept their Good Citizenship award.

To the outside world he is a progressive, gently tugging a backward and ultra-conservative population into the 21st century.

Contrary to popular legal expert opinion, the conservative supreme court justices didn't gently stroke Solicitor General Donald Verrilli's hair as he presented his defense of health care reform's individual mandate in oral arguments today.

Farage is one of Britain's great everyman conservatives, with an innocent, unblinking expression that suggests a pug being gently squeezed from its middle.

"I figure I'm a moderate conservative, and I don't know that anybody's moderate anymore," he says, gently mocking his position: "If you're not one way or the other, there's something wrong with you".