Reviewing the plots of books that were designated as "ideal," she notices a striking similarity in their narrative structures: These romances tend to be "very tightly organized around the evolving relationship" between the female protagonist and a "brooding, handsome man who is also curiously capable of soft, gentle gestures".
With Chancellor Angela Merkel's government of conservatives and Free Democrats apparently determined to reduce Germany's budget deficit, Mr. Westerwelle made clear that Berlin was in no mood for conciliatory or soft gestures to profligate spenders.
The voices of their fathers, the men's soft gestures and games, were keeping them entertained and smiling.
He's a statue of a man, so there's comedy in his softer gestures, like the flowing movements during the luxurious "Aston Martin Music," or the moments at the beginning of "Devil in a New Dress," one of the Kanye West songs he appeared on last year, when Mr. Ross shut his eyes and swayed gently to the music.
She leaned forward and held me, so soft a gesture that I felt barely touched, an envelope of loose air between us.
Surrounded by painted Biblical verses, Virginia Coleman and Kayser sculpted their bodies in soft, rounded gestures, their arms and hands cradling each other as they kissed.
The tension below the melancholic and undulant surfaces of Rameau's "Gavotte et Six Doubles" is reflected when the music segues into the Feldman piece, in which eerily slow and soft harmonies and gestures also mask an inner intensity.
However, more impressive than the fact that she dances at all is how she dances, with soft and sinuous gestures that move like billowing folds of fabric.
The strongest left hand and wrist in the history of tennis was put to use the other day, sipping a soft drink and gesturing about Serena Williams, while looking out from a veranda above La Costa's plush golf course.
And greed can sometimes lead you to tear off the end of the softer breads, in a gesture satisfying in itself, even before you bite.
