Example sentences for: gentleness

How can you use “gentleness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The expectations for McCourt's follow-up to the best-selling Angela's Ashes were high, and critics are uniformly disappointed: It "lacks the drama, the magic, the gentleness, the lilt of the first book" (Deirdre Donahue, USA Today ). They're quick to point out that 'Tis , which picks up McCourt's life at age 19, once he has left Ireland for America, is not a bad book, it's just not as good as the first.

  • And, for all his elitism and secretiveness, George had a most un-Hitlerlike strain of gentleness.

  • Branch interprets the Malcolm-Martin choice not, as the press did, as a simple contrast between violence and gentleness, but as a contest between democracy and its critics.


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