The dog looked round only once - when I made a gentle attempt to Rex the limb - but turned away immediately and stared resolutely ahead.

"I'll kill him--" "You don't have to, sweetheart," he soothed, jerking her into his arms when she evaded his more gentle attempts to embrace her.

I Map This Torinese chain's gentle attempt at world domination (there are branches on Broadway and Bleecker) is no reason to dismiss its wares.

But the eyelids with their fair lashes remained closed, and beyond those gentle attempts at waking him she was afraid to go.

Erlia did not respond to his gentle attempt at teasing.

He remains repulsed by her, and ignores her gentle attempts to get to know him better.

Her gentle attempt at making light of it brought the blood to my face and completed my humiliation.

In the meantime, even as Democrats made the first gentle attempts to turn the discussion to domestic policy, they were careful to hail the President and the allied victory.

In a later 1964 news story, Time Magazine would say, "The Atlanta decision was a gentle attempt to accelerate one of the South's best-publicized plans for achieving integration without revolution."

Doctor, I will be honest with you: you are far, far too in-telligent and far-seeing for me to succeed in my gentle attempt at deception.