With a gentle touch and a lilting piano score, Kawase effortlessly avoids the sentimentality that often taints Japanese movies.
The West hopes that wealth, globalisation and political integration will turn China into a gentle giant, a panda rather than a dragon.
His neighbors in the small town of Newton and relatives remembered Poland as a gentle man, a humble man, a man of faith.
The bustle of traffic which would normally file down past her house towards the factory had been replaced by a gentle hum from a few cars heading the other way.
To gauge readiness, consumers often rely on a gentle squeeze: A ripe avocado has to have the right amount of "give, " according to the California Avocado Commission neither too hard nor too soft.
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Despite the toylike feel of his figures, he is too knowing to be a primitive, and for all his seemingly topical references mocking scenes, for example, of military juntas he is too dreamy to be a chronicler and too gentle for a parodist.
From a man who is one of the most peaceable presences I've lately encountered, a gentle giant of a mind, this car is nothing but a weapon: a very large, very Norse, not-all-that-pretty ax meant to be thrown with staggering force at a great distance.
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But at first it will flow to the new members as a gentle stream rather than a mighty flood.
My last day, I take a gentle yoga class from a seasoned instructor who taught at Rancho La Puerta and the Golden Door.
The instructor, a gentle young lady with a musical voice, did a nice job demonstrating basic poses along with variations for advanced students.
Using a gentle cowboy lope and a saxophone that sounds more like captured breath than anything specifically musical, the singer crafts a lullaby for the whole world.
If I'm being honest, I've never found persimmons, or lemongrass, or a gentle spring rain, in a glass of liquor.
The opposite of Frankenstein, the myth I wish we saw more of, is the Pinocchio myth, which is about a puppet that wants to become human, an improbable technology that wants to make life better, if only with a sweet, gentle wish upon a star.
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As a feature-film director, he has always had a gentle touch tactful, a little restrained.
Miss O'Sullivan's swimming was a gentle breast-stroke, so a double did the nude scene.
Do we really expect Asma to be kinder, more gentle of a figure just because she is a woman?
Where the model sees a gentle breeze, there is instead a mighty storm.
The refuse rises into a gentle hill and then flattens out in a plateau.
Mr Cao trained as a priest, yet his gentle manner belies a tough fighting spirit.
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Country harmonies tumble along, a pedal steel evokes big-sky country, and a gentle piano keeps the song moving in a poised shuffle.
"Reece was a gentle giant loved by many people who had a huge circle of friends, " they said.
The inquest heard it was a "gentle" push but that a degenerative brain condition made Mr Phillips unsteady on his feet.
Simultaneously touching the mouthpiece of the pipe with one's front teeth and applying one's throat produces a unique timbre comprising a clear and gentle whistling sound and a drone.
"Bart was a lovely 'gentle giant' of a man who I have so many fond memories of inside the British Olympic Sailing team, " added Robertson, herself a double Olympic gold medalist.
He was a gentle but cautious fellow, my father, with a rock-solid faith.
All-rounder Andrew Flintoff had earlier tested his side strain with a gentle warm-up in the nets and appeared as a substitute fielder shortly after lunch.
For much of the way it was a gentle wade through shallow water, the wet rocks providing a surprisingly firm grip for both sandals and bare feet.
Needing time to calmly consider his options, Capt Moody used autopilot to put the plane into a gentle descent, and instructed his first officer to issue a mayday call.
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