1.   The plays uses gentle humor to make a strong point.

2.   Everyone likes the gentle humor of his stories of family life.

3.   And it was laced with gentle humor and reminders of his personal and legal belief in human dignity.

4.   But Ephron knows her way around a story, and what the novel lacks in originality, it makes up for with gentle humor and deadpan observation.

5.   For all her gentle humor, Miss Goslar could castigate cruelty and indifference.

6.   Hardy hammered those points home with gentle humor.

7.   Gray, whose starting job was put into competition this week, apparently did not take well to this gentle humor.

8.   He performed these duties with decorous grace, gentle humor, and complete silence about his thoughts and feelings.

9.   Red Skelton, a master of mime and clowning whose gentle humor captivated generations of Americans, died Wednesday at a hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif.

10.   The Bible is full of gentle humor, with all kinds of word play.