Instead of gently deflecting the point, he conceded that removing private companies might be hard to do.

"Good enough," he says as he gently deflects the Elevator and points the nose of the Aeroplane upwards in search of the elusive Best Climbing Angle.

Menand gently deflects the idea that readers of the book risk corruption:

She accusingly asks him why he didn't write to her, and he gently deflects her.

Mr. Masur deflected these criticism gently, pointing out, as he had in the telecast of the opening concert, that he saw the Bruckner as a bridge between the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig and the New York Philharmonic.

Zaphod Beeblebrox would not be needing his set speech and he gently deflected the one being offered him by the spider.

Petersen reached across a slow hand and gently deflected the barrel of the pistol.

In our interview, she is a picture of control, gently but firmly deflecting nearly every question about her record and regrets into an upbeat answer about "my husband's" underappreciated achievements.

Alaire gently deflected the weapon with his own and took it from his hand.

The first one will be installed about 200 feet from shore, mostly submerged so that its sloping seaward face will gently deflect incoming waves that normally would be more destructive to the beach.