By contrast, Mr. Gore joked gently, "The broker made quite a few sales this week, though".
They smiled, laughed, played off each other's jokes and gently patted each other on the back.
The group cracked jokes and gently mocked one another for mispronouncing the word "blithe" or not reading aloud passionately enough.
Never without a smile, he strokes his hair, lifts his spirits with jokes and gently cuts fruit, which he feeds him.
The man who so often tells jokes is gently comical, sweetly curious, and hearing-impaired.
Julia Gray from anti-harassment campaign group, Hollaback London, shares advice on steps you can take if you witness an attack: If you're out with friends and someone makes a misogynist comment or joke about rape: "Gently question the speaker as a way of getting them to think about it in a different way.
Praise how adorable she looks, and gently joke about fending off boys at the swimming pool.
Have fun and joke with him: gently tease him a little – nicely, not sexually.
Still dimpled and blond, for some time she has been as stout as a Wagnerian soprano, which she gently jokes about in concert.
Young players, on the later tours when Bedser was in charge, may have gently joked about him and called him a bit of an old fogey, out of earshot, but they all had a respect for him and his principles.
