Gentle
Gentle adjective - Not harsh or stern especially in nature or effect.
Mean machine is an antonym for gentle.
Mean machine
Both terms in one sentence
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That Cobb and Wagner would be at odds is altogether fitting, as Wagner was the anti-Cobb—the calm, polite, kind Gentle Giant to Cobb's twitchy, angry, tortured, Lean and Mean machine.
Source: Useful Notes / Baseball
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