Sentence examples for play gently from inspiring English sources

The strings play gently lapping, thickly lush chords.

As the play gently unfolds, that sharp metaphor gains in resonance.

One of the satisfactions of "Pusher" is how Mr. Prieto deploys Frank to play gently with our love of on-screen criminality.

Any of them you don't know already you'll feel intimate with by evening's end, even if the play gently insists that people can never truly understand one another.

The mournful corollary Mr. Friel's play gently illuminates: People are far more mortal than the words they use, and a changing civilization may leave them adrift and alone.

It's a key moment when he actually sees her only moderately scarred face; flickers of confusion, disappointment and relief play gently on Eastwood's normally rigid features.

A piano plays gently in the background.

Bright autumn light bathed the room; the tropical-house artist Kygo played gently over speakers.

"I'm a mom," she says in one campaign video as a piano plays gently in the background.

His shrimp cocktail played gently poached shrimp against a horseradish-chile gastrique that had the lively hot-sweet-sour-salty tension of a Southeast Asian sauce.

But for months after returning to New York, he spoke with wonder about seeing one of the Ferguson family puppies playing gently with a wild armadillo.