gently

"Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio."

He said so explicitly, but gently, and only at the end of a lengthy answer which Starmer would have agreed with the thrust of.

One husky man lifts his redheaded lady high in the air, puts her feet gently back on the floor and gives her a big kiss.

Take a sunset walk along the gently sloped, flower-scented streets above busy Sunset Boulevard in Brentwood — you will be immersed in a stillness broken only by birds chirping in the treetops.

“Hold your hand completely flat, like I’m doing,” she said gently.