Drawing caricatures can simply be a form of entertainment and amusement – in which case gentle mockery is in order – or the art can be employed to make a serious social or political point.

Quite soon an element of self-parody appears ; even the august Charlemagne was not above gentle mockery in the Pèlerinage de Charlemagne.

About 1845 we have the first of that long series of half-page and quarter-page pictures of life and manners, executed with a hand as gentle as it was skilful, containing, as Ruskin has said, " admittedly the finest definition and natural history of the classes of our society, the kindest and subtlest analysis of its foibles, the tenderest flattery of its pretty and well-bred ways ", which has yet appeared.

" Do not go gentle into that good night ", a villanelle, is considered to be among the finest works by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas ( 1914 – 1953 ).

Brown had first sung Dies natalis in 1952 under the composer's baton, and his interpretation in the recording is described by Finzi's biographer, Diana McVeagh, as " among his finest: intelligent, poetic, and informed with his acute but gentle feeling for words.

In this, his finest moment, he reassures the apparition of his love and loyalty, and persuades her to go back to bed, thus assuming the enviable position of the upright but clement judge, the object of desire, the chivalrous consoler who wields both moral and sexual power and can afford to be magnanimous, can afford to feel sorry for the poor lovelorn wretch: " Much griev'd to thinke that gentle Dame so light " ( 1. 1. 55 ).

Seasonal visits from Southern Right Whales occur from June to November each year and the bay provides some of the finest viewing of these massive but gentle mammals.

The device, a set of hollow tubes, suspended over a small cylinder, connected by a cable, conducted a ' drawing ' operation for about an hour and ten minutes ...< p >" According to a reliable source in Ellsworth the following climactic changes took place in that city on the night of July 6 and the early morning of July 7: ' Rain began to fall shortly after ten o ' clock Monday evening, first as a drizzle and then by midnight as a gentle, steady rain.

He calls the poet a radiance among men and speaks with gratitude of that sweet image, gentle and paternal, / you were to me in the world when hour by hour / you taught me how man makes himself eternal.

The eastern slope of this escarpment is relatively gentle, dropping to the exposed shield of the ancient landmass that existed before the faulting occurred.

The age of the Spider impact event is not accurately constrained, but it has been argued it occurred after gentle folding of the Palaeoproterozoic quartzite, but before a regional episode of glacial erosion ; if correct it occurred between 900-600 Ma i. e. during the Neoproterozoic.

Although most of Santiaguito's eruptive activity has been relatively gentle, occasional larger explosions have occurred.

The ground was covered with soft pine needles and the slope was gentle.

The countryside looked like a beautiful open park with gentle slopes and soft gray tree-clumps.

He could only watch with a sort of gentle dismay while his body did these quick, appalling, and efficient things.

In particular he sought the gentle, sweet-faced nuns, with head coverings and veils coming to the middle of their foreheads, remembering their expressions until he reached home and set them down on paper.

Michelangelo found the rabbi in the room of study, a gentle old man with a white beard and luminous grey eyes, robed in black gabardine with a skullcap on his head.

She concluded by asking for a brief interview -- `` to settle with you where '' -- and she threw in a tribute to his `` gentle manners '' and `` the wild originality of your countenance ''.

Even if it did not, how would this little world of gentle people cope with its new reality of grenades and submachine guns??

She put a strong hand under the old man's arm and lifted him up, patiently, with the gentle cruelty and necessary tyranny that the young show toward the very old.

With the blue flesh of night touching him he stood under a gentle hill caressing the flageolet with his lips, making it whisper.

The central part of the facade evokes the surface of a lake with water lilies, reminiscent of Monet's Nymphéas, with gentle ripples and reflections caused by the glass and ceramic mosaic.

Dubbed " Abu Hashim ", Nami was considered " gentle in manner " by his colleagues, and reported that he had a dream in which he rode a mare along with Muhammad, and that the prophet told him to dismount and fight his enemies to liberate his land.

Van Driessen is a devoted hippie with a forgiving nature and gentle demeanor.

* For undergraduates ; mathematically gentle with a strong historical focus.

Active formations such as flowstone can be similarly marred with a muddy footprint or handprint, and ancient human artifacts, such as fiber products, may even crumble to dust under all but the most gentle touch.

In 2002, Kieran Roberts was appointed as producer and aimed to re-introduce " gentle storylines and humour ", after deciding that the Street should not try to compete with other soaps.

Instead, she came to prefer the company of " the gentle Camille Pissarro ", with whom she could speak frankly about the changing attitudes toward art.

He secured the feathers at their midpoints with string and at their bases with wax, and gave the whole a gentle curvature like the wings of a bird.

Although the letter g of the eponymous Gerry is pronounced as in go, the word gerrymander is most commonly pronounced, with a as in gentle.

Most Wolfhounds are very gentle with children.

It is affectionate with its family, and gentle with the children and friends of the family.

Produced by NSU, it had motorcycle-type front-wheel steering for gentle turns and negotiated tight corners with brakes on the propelling caterpillar tracks.

Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

Robinson of the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, Crowley adopted this line from François Rabelais, who in 1534 wrote, " DO AS THOU WILT because men that are free, of gentle birth, well bred and at home in civilizor ".

Paul had hosted a fifteen-minute radio program, The Les Paul Show, on NBC radio in 1950, featuring his trio ( himself, Ford and rhythm player Eddie Stapleton ) and his electronics, recorded from their home and with gentle humor between Paul and Ford bridging musical selections, some of which had already been successful on records, some of which anticipated the couple's recordings, and many of which presented re-interpretations of such jazz and pop selections as " In the Mood ", " Little Rock Getaway ", " Brazil " and " Tiger Rag ".

She is working as a drudge in Mrs. Bottle's grocery store at the time and manages to keep him concealed briefly, but eventually relinquishes him to Paddy Lynch, a gentle man who owns a " steak joint " and is able to give Sandy a good home.

The gentle and gracious Laura Belle is happy to welcome her to their home, but not so her husband, the wheelchair-using Senator Jackson McCanles ( Lionel Barrymore ), who calls her " a half-breed " and jealously despises her father.

The gentle coastline surrounding it is home to villages including Nefyn, Trefor, and Clynnog Fawr on the mainland, and Aberffraw, Llanddwyn and Rhosneigr on Anglesey.

Les Paul had hosted a 15-minute radio program, The Les Paul Show, on NBC in 1950, featuring his trio ( himself, Ford, and rhythm player Eddie Stapleton ) and his electronics, recorded from their home and with gentle humour between Paul and Ford bridging musical selections, some of which had already been successful on records, some of which anticipated the couple's recordings, and many of which presented dazzling re-interpretations of such jazz and pop selections as " In the Mood ," " Little Rock Getaway ," " Brazil ," and " Tiger Rag.

While easily intimidated by the cruelty of others, the chaplain is a kind, gentle and sensitive man who worries constantly about his wife and children at home.

According to Morningstar, " Gentiva is a gentle giant ... the nation's largest home health care services firm.

The drip line or trickle acclimating method is a safe and gentle way to introduce saltwater fish into a new home, and is a fairly simple one to perform.

His disposition must neither be too gentle nor too curst, that he neither faune upon a theefe nor flee upon his friends ; very waking ; no gadder abroad, nor lavish of his mouth, barking without cause ; neither maketh it any matter though he be not swifte, for he is but to fight at home, and to give warning of the enemie.

Yacón can easily be grown in home gardens in climates with only gentle frosts.

One of Melbourne's earliest suburbs, East Melbourne has long been home to many significant government, health and religious institutions, including the Parliament of Victoria and offices of the Government of Victoria in the Parliamentary and Cathedral precincts, which are located on a gentle hill at the edge of the Melbourne's Hoddle Grid, known as Eastern Hill.

Yet even this transition did not bring peace to this gentle, troubled artist, for in 2001, she suffered a nervous breakdown, which led to the loss of her home and studio.

be a ( gentle ) blade of grass at the foot of the mountain ; and jasmine flower at home