Sentence examples for merely gently from inspiring English sources
At the Lushan Conference, he tried to protect Peng Dehuai, by giving some mild criticisms of Peng; rather than denouncing him, he merely gently reproofed his targeted comrade, who was a target of Mao Zedong.
But she merely threatened gently that there was always the option of formula.
Nadal plays a forehand winner down the line in a point he controlled so completely he might as well have been shifting Lajovic around like a Subbuteo figure, and the crowd merely applauds gently.
Whether the centre-back is merely letting down Dortmund gently or preparing the ground for a heroic contract extension beyond 2017 remains to be seen.
No longer is it merely embedded within cinema, gently filtering into our brains and only whispering at us to buy; now it shouts to us from inside Coca Cola cans and slaps us in the face with Omega watch-wearing wrists.
While a straight extension merely needs to be gently pressed aside, a flick requires an exaggerated parry that, once deceived, gives you an opening for many different attacks.
But McCain-Lieberman aims merely to accustom the nation gently to doing business in a different way.
It had been holding in some quiet water behind a rock, and, when the bullet entered its brain, it merely let go and was borne gently downstream.
The idea that my obligation to not kill my mother gently (say for an inheritance) merely expresses an "ideal" obligation, but not an actual obligation, given that I will kill her, seems hard to swallow.
Held weightlessly in her quiet, gently ironic words, we gain privileged access not merely to actions and aspirations but to recipes, coiffures, the consolations of cleaning.
