"And he lifted me up in his strong, gentle arms and said something I will never forget," Ted Jr. said.
"Well, tell you the truth, none of 'em could spell," he said, in his strong, gentle Southern accent.
Neal Huff is a portrait of quiet anguish as her son, Ben, arriving from Provincetown, Mass., with Sam (a strong, gentle Christian Campbell), his husband, to find things in a mess.
He told his father that he couldn't do it, could never get up the hill, and his father, he said, "took me in his strong gentle arms and said: 'I know that you can do it.
With 14 songs, "Spirit Touches Ground" serves as a strong, gentle, thoughtful meditation on spirituality, faith, self-realization, universality and the constant conflict between human vanity and the human spirit, some of it touched with Mr. Clayton-Felt's interest in American Indian culture.
The mystery, she reveals, was that there was no mystery at all: Her father was as strong, gentle, honest, simple and devoted to ideals of home and family as the public had always suspected.
Describing Dale Farm as "a strong, wise, warm, gentle community", Redgrave broke off from her filming schedule to meet the 86 Irish Traveller families who face eviction from the Essex site at midnight on Thursday.
For all of this, I can offer a mysterious truth that life has given me: that we are stronger, gentler, more resilient and more beautiful than we imagine, and that the resource we call life is never far away.
Strong inside, gentle outside.
She was strong, but gentle.
