Sentence examples for gently played from inspiring English sources

As you walk around his Hayward show, you have the sense of being gently played with.

There was tension and restraint in their shadowy rapport, and in the pentatonic rumbles gently played by Mr. Hill.

In the "grounation" half, a guitarist gently played standard major chords, and the group members sang biblical language in two-part harmony.

It raises the clever conceit to a high art, gently playing with its visitors.

The three cartoonists, S. Francis, H. Dugmore and R. Schacherl, take South African stereotypes and gently play with them.

The idea of Theresa May as some steadfast, solid presence at the top seems to be slipping away with every passing day, but one part of the mood music around her premiership continues to gently play on.

And the Man of the Space-Between came out... Here, Fox gently plays with the line breaks, punctuation, and diction, gesturing toward the Hebrew with "this-side" and "that-side," which in the original are the same single word (mi-zeh).

During a ruminative segment, when the strings gently play a poignant melodic line, trading phrases with the organ in its soft-spoken mode, there was an affecting contrast between the throbbing richness of the strings and the austere, reedy steadiness of the organ, played sensitively by the impressive young soloist, James Feddeck.

So they would come on gently, playing dumb.

I ask that you give yourself to me to be mine forever," he murmurs in his sexy accent as ambient guitars gently play.

Emmylou Harris drifted through "My Hometown," Springsteen's lyrical glimpse at the power of roots and birthright, gently playing an acoustic guitar while offering the song's bittersweet lines.