Sentence examples for is gently lowered from inspiring English sources

In Angelico's painting, the dead Christ is gently lowered from the cross and is mourned in silent grief by the Virgin Mary and a group of women on the left of the composition.

Then the roadway is gently lowered back in place, gradually reducing speed until it locks in place.

The rover will then be gently lowered to the ground by nothing more elaborate than a few cables.

My favourite bit was Margaret's earnest, quavering, suffragette singsong that attempted to be rousing but ending up sounding as if somebody from Songs of Praise was being gently lowered into a well.

The trial began when the mouse was gently lowered by the tail into the water at the starting position.

They were gently lowered onto the grid and allowed to place either all four paws, or their forelimb paws only, on the mesh.

At the start of the trial, the mouse was gently lowered by the tail into the centre of the 'pool' (a 1 litre beaker filled to 600 ml with 31°C tap water).

The multiwell inserts, containing the calcein labelled cells, were gently lowered into the reagent containing plate.

The workers were allowed to habituate for 30 minutes before the focal queen was gently lowered into the arena using clean forceps.

So one of our tasks is, gently, to lower expectations in the Western world and bring our ambitions back into the range of the achievable.

The possum is actually gently lowered in a glass case as not to hurt to the animal any, but that hasn't stopped PETA from going apeshit about it every year.