This technique was better suited to her novels, with their gently paced early chapters and their suddenly speeding climaxes, than to the concise format of short stories.
With its initial unhurried rhythms and emphasis on quotidian details — one gently sexy early scene shows Adam and his wife feeding each other watermelon — the film creates a misleading sense of calm, which makes the coming tragedy all the more devastating.
After two hours or so, at 7 30, we asked for the check and went gently into the early night.
The voice is as gently warming as early sunlight, and for just an instant you feel that Alberta is truly happy.
This is why I was so surprised to be gently stirred awake early one morning during my recent vacation in Rome by the distant sounds of a soprano singing Italian arias and songs.
Rich's dialectical use of the tigers to contrast with the paralysis intrinsic to Aunt Jennifer's domestic life speaks gently to her early "absolutist approach to the universe," as she herself observed in a 1964 essay.
Lapping gently in the early morning air, shaded by newly greening frangipani trees and red hibiscus blossom, the blue-green, over-spilling waters of the Lalu's long outdoor pool seem to merge seamlessly with lake and sky.
The pomposity and pretension, the anxiety about class, the seemingly random free-association and accidental surrealism … it was all gently skewered, as early as 1937, when the New Yorker published James Thurber's cartoon, where a dinner party host discusses "a naïve domestic Burgundy, without any breeding, but I'm sure you'll be amused by its presumption".
Mr. Putin, appearing at his campaign headquarters in the wee hours after the polls closed on Sunday night, gently brushed aside earlier American criticism from Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and the national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice.
Using the jug or plastic bowl you fetched earlier, gently pour warm water over the puppy's head - from behind the skull and avoiding the face.
