Yet, insisting on laughter in the midst of desperation, he sugars the pill of criticism with humour that veers from the gently ironic to the bawdy or macabre.
Answers veered between the delusional — apparently, United had not played at all badly — and the obstructively monosyllabic when the manager was very gently probed on what undeniably seemed a horribly cautious approach to begin with and, ultimately, a dismal failure of strategy.
It veered away to zig-zag gently up the shoulder of the hill.
Blessed with a wit that veered from the whimsical to the gently sardonic, Henry was amused but never seduced by the celebrity side of motor racing.
Practice noticing when your mind is veering off in its own direction, and gently guide your focus back to where you want it.
Megafaun's C.S.N.Y.-style harmonies gently tumble across lilting country-rock tunes that sometimes veer into experimental jam-session territory.
Lassana proved that the balafon can be subtle and melodic rather than purely percussive, as he switched from gently rippling passages to rapid-fire solos that veered towards jazz improvisation, as on his extraordinary solo workout Samuel.
San-ta!" and Rip would gently turn the hermit crab so that it veered off in another direction.
He maneuvered to the boy's side, coming toward them out of a raucous knot of beery singing, and bumped against him gently, laughing, getting the timing just about right, and veered behind his mark, whose attention was down at the bumped boy reaching for the reassuring belt.
It begins with a dash of light-textured sparkle and a gently chromatic line, and as it grows more emotionally charged, its language veers toward neo-Romanticism rather than the harmonic density of Mr. Knussen's earlier music.
