To the outside world he is a progressive, gently tugging a backward and ultra-conservative population into the 21st century.
Sleep Genius, founded by neuroscientist and NASA researcher Seth Horowitz, helps users find and stick to their ideal bedtime, wakes them gently with a progressive alarm function, and includes a relaxation program to calm them before bed.
Is progress necessarily progressive?
Defanged and pushed into the background, the satire vanishes, and you are left with an agreeable romantic comedy in which a progressive Islamic sheik gently promotes international cooperation and togetherness.
To his graduate students, he was consistently encouraging and optimistic, always ready to share a joke or story, and gently encouraging of their creativity and progressive independence as researchers.
Nevertheless, the issue shows the continued pressure from progressives in the party to gently nudge Clinton to the left in the absence of any serious opposition from other candidates for the Democratic nomination.
After setting up acclaimed night The Book Club at the Albany in 2005, comedian Robin Ince has been at the vanguard of a new, more progressive comedy movement, centring on innovative, gently cerebral comics such as Josie Long and Chris Addison.
But now writer-director Richard Tanne has addressed this with a gently likable, Linklaterish movie that ideologically conflates romantic excitement with progressive idealism, bringing in some unexpected subtleties.
But progressives have to be willing to persuade - as gently or as strongly as the moment demands.
J. Fernandez, a band from Chicago, drew on the motoric patterns of bands like Stereolab and the shifty meters of progressive rock in songs that were modest on the surface but gently insistent.
