"It's behind me," he said, although he did gently take issue with the idea that he put himself in jeopardy.
You — gently — took issue with me, pointing out that even events with 90 percent probability do not happen all of the time.
They taught me how to be a teenage girl: first Sugar and Bliss, as sweet as their names suggested, gently broaching "issues" without seeming threatening or offputtingly sophisticated.
The Unicorn and Filskit theatre company's Breaking the Ice, for two-to-five-year-olds, gently presents the issue through the tale of a friendship between a husky and a polar bear – though only the oldest children would pick up its environmental message.
Explaining the issue gently, as if to a slow learner, the council leader, Ian Hudspeth, points out that the council has already culled its back-office functions, slashing 40% of its most senior staff and 2,800 jobs in total, with the result that it now spends less on these roles than most other counties.
One popular tactic has been to try and ease people into the issue gently.
He gently raised the issue of immigration right from the start, introducing himself as "the son of an immigrant family" and as a "guest of this country, which was largely built by such families".
The proposed investigation may also gently confront the issue of treatment overuse, as the HD literature has begun to question the circumstances in which potential for harm may exceed possible benefit [ 17, 43].
Predictable enough — "The Full Monty" meets "Blades of Glory" — the film, directed by Mans Herngren, is low-key and gently touches on issues not usually found in sports comedies: hard times, fragmented families, reverse discrimination.
"The Glass Blowers," which appeared in 1913, gently mocks the issues of the day and finds in social revolution and labor reform an absurdity equal to capitalism and conspicuous consumption.
