What is expressed gently and obliquely in Chekhov's original tends to be presented more laboriously throughout "The Notebook of Trigorin" (even Williams's genius for poetic titles seems to have abandoned him).
He looked at my arm and then smiled at me, "Isn't it remarkable what the mind will do to keep you from focusing on what is important?" He gently adjusted the needles in my arm and said with a nod, "Focus on allowing yourself to feel better.
"What we do is gently and sweetly bring them back to their center, here," she said, touching her chest.
Gently ask, "What is making school feel hard?" Is your child struggling socially or being bullied?
Ask yourself gently: "What is this?
"The new Administration has striven to be businesslike without being bureaucratic...and yet there's something here that chills the heart....we wish that the nation's chosen leader could have forsaken principle this time and taken from an old man what was so gently meant".
"What is your country?" he asked gently.
It is slight at first, a blown sign here, a damaged roof there, laid out as if to prepare the visitor, however gently, for what is ahead.
Out of the station, over the track and the A413, and I was soon rising gently along what is more the foot-worn centre of a field than an entrenched path.
If your child has a generally worried disposition and her anxiety seems to be rising because of an event that increased her fears, watch for a few days to see if she calms down after talking to her gently about what is upsetting her.
Yet each organizer I spoke with said that she had the same fundamental plan that Kondo did, that the client should purge (they cry "purge" for what Kondo gently calls "discarding") what is no longer needed or wanted; somehow the extra step of thanking the object or folding it a little differently enrages them.
