Sometimes the gentle Allen would be inside there, too, indicating, with his eyes, Look, go away, please go away, I am trying so hard not to call you KANT!

NEWYORKER: Tenth of December

They chew over great mutual concerns, sometimes with gentle teasing, mostly helping each other over intellectual obstacles, pondering the way ahead and the lessons of the path already taken.

ECONOMIST: Russia and the West

The great debate between left and right had faded into gentle sparring between conservatives and liberals, and it was sometimes difficult to tell the difference.

ECONOMIST: William Phillips | The