Sentence examples for gently distance from inspiring English sources

Then there are those who don't reject, but rather gently distance themselves from their "Africanness" or "Arabness" – consciously or subconsciously.

They also served to gently distance him from his teenage self, less oversexed than, say, the members of Jodeci, but perhaps similarly mockable.

A second option would be for Trump to gently distance himself from the Ryans and the Jordans of the world, and ally himself with Republican senators such as Louisiana's Bill Cassidy and Maine's Susan Collins, who have accepted the C.B.O.'s figures and are calling for big changes to the House proposal.

But that early campaign slogan, an effort to gently distance her from Mr. Kirchner, failed to resonate with the president's supporters, who favored more of the same policies that pulled Argentina from the depths of its crushing financial crisis in 2001 and have helped the economy grow by some 50percentt.

– while church steeples peal gently in the distance.

The other side faced the opening of a long tunnel, which rose gently into the distance.

Paddling back up the dark, tree-shrouded stream, I could hear, unseen overhead, the winnowing wings of waterfowl looking for patches of open water on which to spend the night in safety and comfort, and could also hear the tumult of the surf -- made gently rhythmic by distance -- on the barrier beach a mile and a half to the south.

On a good day, artists can tap into something vital humming ever so gently in the distance, before it becomes audible to the rest of us.

Show the child how to to do this gently, leaving a distance of 1 cm between each of the cuts.

Start off slowly by doing some gentle walking or jogging, and increase the intensity or distance gently day by day or week by week.

At the same time, Mr. Romney tries to use his business experience to distance himself, gently, from Mr. Bush.