Although she's as radical as Ben, and bristles angrily at Emma's talk of Joe as a spy, she's culturally reactionary, gently wondering why Emma seems so intent on dating Latino men.
How on earth, gently wonders this kind-looking woman staring momentarily out of the window, a little smile just appearing around the edges of her mouth, do you get a cold finger of fear creeping down the necks of today's adolescents?
It is in Carson emerging from the fog on a train platform to settle a conflict with an old friend before he is lost to time; Mrs. Patmore earnestly meddling in Daisy's sad love life and Daisy thanking her for her true friendship; Bates's charming plan to lend the hapless Mr. Molesley money to get back on his feet; Molesley's staring up at the starry night and gently wondering about the future.
Her father gently remonstrates, wondering if a breakdown threatens, or even suicide.
In the novel Going Gently, Kate Copson wonders which of her sons has killed her husband and starts to suspect Nigel..
Love Songs was starry and watery: Anohni, Jim White, Laurie Anderson, John Cameron Mitchell, Lucinda Williams, and other geniuses performing gently complex wonders from the Reed songbook to an audience of umbrellas and devotees.
Turner wonders, gently, how other people on the same trip were able to Instagram so much of it.
Indeed, one can't help wondering, gently, why we should be taking the author's advice on office life at all, since she has apparently abandoned it for the solitary slog of freelance writing.
And Mr. Kander's music progresses in each of the show's three chapters from wide-eyed wonder to gently startled fear to something like sleepy-eyed acceptance.
As the stair-climbing machine whirred, Cuban gently scolded reporters for wondering, too soon, what the off-season might bring.
