But it might just be that the kinder, gentler American TV show reflects a kinder and gentler country.
This gratitude concept that I began was a kinder, gentler (or perhaps spineless) approach.
The new pope, a Jesuit (another first), in fact has gentler views than his predecessors.
This is why they need a softer and gentler persona out in front of them.
Yet it is not just the trendy media that are projecting a kinder, gentler Islam.
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Roche's managers argue that mid-sized takeovers are gentler than the mega-mergers favoured by its peers.
Obama's Latino defenders buy the line that this is a kinder and gentler administration.
Horse-trainers have offered gentler hours, higher pay and more generous weight limits, to no avail.
"I decided a gentler, more persuasive approach was in order, " he told the Chicago Tribune in 1986.
Rather, the unit would bob in gentler waterways, taking advantage of views of marine flora and fauna.
She has grown outwardly gentler, though no less passionate in her convictions or steely in her determination.
Cycles might be a bit gentler than before, therefore, but you would not expect them to disappear.
It was they who promoted a kinder gentler globalization, one different from the old and cumbersome Anglo-Dutch imperialism.
America gave some ground on February 8th, outlining a gentler timetable and an easier ride for low-risk banks.
Recently, though, the IRS is kinder and gentler and might be willing to cut you a little slack.
Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard, an employment expert appointed by Strauss-Kahn in 2008, wants to maintain a kinder, gentler IMF.
It found Purell caused no hand irritation or dryness and proved gentler on the hands than soap and water.
Since an amnesty coaxed some 25, 000 armed Islamists down from the mountains, Algeria has become a far gentler place.
Even British Tories, intent on appearing a kinder, gentler party than before, find their Republican counterparts pretty strong medicine.
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Amid concern about rampant individualism and excess, she evokes a simpler, gentler era.
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Law schools are kinder, gentler places these days, with more experiential learning and collegial relationships between students and professors.
Thai billionaire Dhanin Chearavanont wants to popularize a kinder, gentler type of cockfighting.
These more dangerous plants often have their own benefits helping to unlock passages more quickly than their gentler counterparts, for instance.
Maybe we should just go back to the kinder and gentler days of three-martini lunches and personnel tethered to mainframes.
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Other male singers represent the gentler folk song tradition like Habib Koite and even Jamacan-style Rasta reggae like Tiken Jah.
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In short, it is far from clear that Mr Obama's policies have led to gentler treatment for terrorist suspects abroad.
Only when he does will we know whether a kinder, gentler Ryanair can be as profitable as his snarling creation.
W. Bush campaigned on Ronald Reagan's record and essentially promised to do more of the same, just in kinder and gentler fashion.
Its design tends to be gentler on tires and, as a result, Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean have performed better than expected.
Even a market share gain for Apple came only because its shipments dropped at a gentler rate than most of its peers.
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