To teach them in a simple, gentle way that they need to sleep.
But she probably could have found a gentler way to do it.
No gentle way to break the news popped into her head.
But he knew there was no gentle way to break this news.
"We could have asked that question, I think, in a very gentle way."
She just happened to go about her business in a gentle way.
Johnson's wife was a quiet little woman, with brown hair and gentle ways.
Later, if they made it, he would find some gentle way to tell her.
There was, he decided at last, no easy, gentle way.
That was actually a gentle way for the half to end.