"Where do you find faults in him, personally?" Mr. Guggenheim gently tried to explain that he is a committed Obama supporter and took a pay cut to make the film tribute.
Representative Sean Duffy, Republican of Wisconsin, who devoted part of his 2010 campaign to criticizing the penchant of his predecessor, David R. Obey — a Democrat who retired after four decades in Congress — for securing earmarks, said he traveled to his district last week to gently explain to local governments that times had changed.
I had to gently explain to the poor critically-ignored London entrepreneurs that the attention given to Path was probably less down to the fact that Morin has friends in the tech media (which he certainly does), and more because he was previously senior Platform Manager at Facebook.
Then, they had to gently explain to their family how they felt.
Clift has to gently explain to her that when Norway has one horrific shooting, that is actually a lot better than a country that has multiple horrific shootings.
Try to gently explain to them that in your and (If your friends think it is a problem), your friends eyes, they are behaving too mature for their age.
I would take Paul Dano's widow out to a fancy restaurant to gently explain this to her, and I think she would ultimately understand.
I feel nothing there, something I have had to explain gently to various lovers over the years, who can't understand the disconnect, especially as the rest of my skin is hypersensitive.
It was Mr. Walcott, not the blunter Mr. Klein, who was called upon to explain — gently but unapologetically — to parents and community leaders why their schools were being closed for poor performance.
I had to explain gently that many 18-year-olds might not know who she was – even if she's always been a bit of a pin-up for me – and that becoming 28 was somewhat beyond their comprehension anyway.
