Sentence examples for less gently from inspiring English sources

It was her last book, but seldom has a writer gone less gently.

If so, Mr. Greenspan may have to move more quickly and less gently than he has apparently been hoping.

They chug out to the seal grounds, with Julian gently teasing Ben and William and – slightly less gently – his own film crew.

Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist at the University of Toronto, speaks less gently about the role that learning machines will play in clinical medicine.

Over the two hours that we've been chatting, I've had to say several times, gently and then less gently, that I'd really like to speak to Paula alone.

Mr Frederick, who was arrested for selling marijuana while at college, now teaches English in China, where free-speech-loving students are treated less gently.

Less than gently, the woman for whom he had crossed the ocean translates.

Sensitive men — the lead singer in a band (Wolfbird, no less), a gently awkward marine biologist — love her.

The anything-for-profit ethic of most editorial houses seemed to have proliferated in 1996, adding to the amount of swill that came out between hard covers and less than gently nudging more good work in the direction of smaller, independent houses outside New York City, toward hibernation, or, alas, toward oblivion altogether.

Things like that made her sob and not because of the way they flowed together, but because she wanted so badly to go up up up and just fall for a bit and then taste sour wild sweetness as she hit the ground a little less than gently.

Well, the eventual pain could be much worse if you decide not to turn back for it and go out less-than-gently into that good night.