While most of the buzz was supportive, a few sour folks were a bit critical about celebrating domesticity, especially when it comes to enjoying the apparently less than chic gentle art of knitting and baking. (theinspiredroom.net)
Some years later, I was again drawn to read more Charlotte Mason and her «gentle art of learning». (shirleys-preschool-activities.com)
Both in the secular world and in the church, our characteristic approach to human frailty is not chastisement and dire threats, but understanding; not calling people to repent their sins, but teaching people the gentle arts of self - acceptance; not an ethic of cross-bearing, but an ethic based on the value of self - actualization. (religion-online.org)