Sentence examples for gently showing from inspiring English sources

They watched the film twice slowly, gently showing Martinez where he was forcing plays and being too impatient.

He gently showed her how to feed sugar to a horse.

When I would trot out my own position, Dummett would gently show me its limitations.

Now, he tells me, he knows how to raise the subject gently: show her my article.

To be absolutely candid, I probably never would have had the courage to take this step had I not sort of been gently shown the door.

A cutout on each spread adds emphasis to the shift in mood or perception when the page is turned, and the ending gently shows that fear can often be laughed away.

Mollie Donovan, director of exhibits at the Westport Historical Society — and somewhat of a Kewpie connoisseur — gently showed me how wrong I was with materials she gathered for an exhibit on the artist's tenure here.

His guru status meant that investors tolerated his antics and continued to give him the benefit of the doubt long after a mere mortal would have been gently shown the door.

Borat's Southern hostess didn't shriek when he appeared with a bag of feces; she sympathized, and gently showed him what to do, and the same thing happens in "Brüno," when a martial-arts instructor, confronted by a foreigner with two dildos, doesn't flinch.

While many people associate doctrine with dry rationalism divorced from the life of prayer, this book gently shows how the historic teachings of the church are foundational to the confession of faith expressed in the Lord's Prayer.

I love this day and what it represents -- the first full gathering of the Class of 2016, your formal entry into the Duke community, and the beginning of parents being ever so gently shown the door.