She, as doyenne of the family, expressed her views in gentle and straightforward suggestions.

The earliest compositions by Wolfgang are written in Leopold's hand; the father's gentle suggestions for amendments came later.

Petra filled the gap with gentle suggestions to me of a hot bath and did I have a tranquilliser?

Then Mr. Cuomo offered one other gentle suggestion for improving the story.

When he saw her at the first dinner after Walther's gentle suggestion she seemed friendly but distant.

The speech was a diplomatically gentle suggestion that the young Arya wasn't paying enough heed to affairs of state.

Mr. Blackburn offered gentle but specific suggestions, gesturing with his long tapered fingers.

Tess's gentle suggestion might as well have been an order.

A quarter of the children said the man was playing, not cleaning, at the first gentle suggestion by the interviewer.

The kindness in that soft gentle suggestion reached and thawed the cold 'nothingness' Robinton had been enduring.