He was a quietly spoken, immensely articulate, gently humorous man, supportive of his contemporaries, generous to younger filmmakers.
And this slight, gently spoken man is clearly more comfortable discussing his adopted city's unfashionable reputation or his former career as a "middling" journalist than he is the string of novels that have brought him acclaim around the world.
There is so much clatter around us while we sit in his team's bustling motorhome that I'm compelled to hold a tiny recorder right under the mouth of an amusing and gently acerbic man.
The Slur Heard 'Round the World To say that Donald Trump is not a gifted orator is to put it gently; the man navigates his sentences like a guy stumbling around in a dark shoe closet.
After last week's loss, Jerry Reese, the Giants' first-year general manager, ever so gently called Manning out.
And because they knew that women are treated more gently than men, they began to use them.
Why, at two o'clock, has a busload of beautiful Asian women, well-behaved children and gently patriarchal men in blue shalwar kameez, all oscillating between Urdu and English, appeared at the coffee counter like a technicolour hallucination?
So, if you decide to stop by, make sure to bring new or gently used men's coats to donate to the initiative.
As Jaloe lifted him into the boat, he gently asked the man, "Where do you live?" But the man didn't answer -- or even look into his rescuer's face.
The man gently touches the woman's chest.
