Her mother, Maude (nee Schiska), had been a professional singer; her father, Newson Brookner, was a gently failing businessman who at one point owned a lending library.
There I was, a bright-eyed, sixth-form student, gently failing my chemistry A-level while treading water in my biology A-level, and preparing for a life of failure.
Dr. Wilson said that when he and his children, nonbowlers all, recently went bowling, they were mortified when others gently scolded them for failing to observe common bowling etiquette, like taking turns with bowlers in neighboring lanes.
(Robinson had gently criticized the encyclical for failing to adequately emphasize the role of women and girls in human development).
Prime Minister Tony Blair laid out ambitious plans today to fight global warming by cutting carbon dioxide emissions in Britain by 60percentt in the next five decades and gently criticized President Bush for failing to do more to combat the damaging effects of greenhouse gases.
Ezra Klein has a post up today that responds to James Fallows, who had "gently chided" the Washington Post for failing to publish a single story about Peter Orszag's move from the Obama administration to zombie bank Citigroup.
I explained to this very sweet 25-year-old education major, as kindly and gently as I could, that failing was an essential part of learning, and only by actually feeling the failure, preferably in this case via a glaring red, circled "F," would my daughter get stronger, take her studies more seriously, and go on to succeed the next time.
This time she got a more kindly checker, who gently told her that there were still three mistakes, including failing to say that Maya Hattenstone was Ms Maya Hattenstone.
He refused to have anything to do with the album, failing to appear in the video for the first single, My Guitar Gently Weeps, on which he was prominently featured.
It ticks along gently as Mr. Temple sings about a "trip to heaven" in a ship with its engine failing and no rescue in sight.
Mice failing to find the platform within a fixed period of 60 seconds were gently guided by hand to the platform and a maximum escape latency of 60 seconds was recorded.
