Sentence examples for some gentleness from inspiring English sources

Part of what makes The White Ribbon so involving is that in it, for the first time, Haneke shows some gentleness and even humour.

But, she added, the novelist retained "some gentleness deep in there".

The tenderness and the soft, sweeping rhythms of these late pieces show some of the gentleness and compassion that Beckett is said to have displayed as a person.

After Mrs Miniver has actually shown this Nazi some kindness and gentleness, he sneers and snarls that England will be destroyed like Barcelona, like Warsaw, like Rotterdam.

Messiaen is remembered as a gentle Christian composer with a fascination for birdsong, but that gentleness fueled some flashy music on a grand scale.

There's a kind of gentleness in some of the speeches, salutations which we no longer hear up here".

I am particularly grateful to him for capturing some characteristics of sincerity and gentleness my family suggests I have".

In each case the satire is wrapped in an overall gentleness, perhaps out of some lingering timidity regarding the subject matter.

In his big scene, however, he spins out the vocal line from gentleness to strength in some of the best singing I've heard in a very long time, a sound that I simply didn't want to stop.

I miss some of these forgotten gestures, the gentleness of the time, the innocent age, the time between the two world wars.

From the moment she moved full time to the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan in the early 1950s, Greta Garbo was stalked, with unusual care and gentleness, by all sorts of people (some of them famous themselves) as a genuine rara avis, the choicest of all specimens of a soon-to-be extinct species.