I found that I was regularly writing in the margins of "The Finkler Question," after a statement such as "Whereupon he stormed out of the house," the quiet objection "No, he didn't".
More recently the department, perhaps hoping to quiet objections in the legal community, has said that both men may see lawyers.
On Thursday, another, quieter objection came from the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Johannesburg, which unveiled an exhibition of photographs documenting the bad old days of apartheid.
When Mr. Zaatari was selected to represent Lebanon at the 55th Venice Biennale, which runs until Nov. 24, he chose to focus on this Israeli pilot's act of conscientious objection with a quiet, evocative, film, "Letter to a Refusing Pilot".
But if your objection was solely on principle, go with a quiet word later: Better odds for striking a happy compromise one on one.
"It is inconceivable that FEMA can certify the plan over the objections of the counties and the state, even if the objection of the state is in the form of a quiet whine from deep in a bunker," Mr. Brodsky said.
If the United States seeks to make its objections clear to allied nations, it must open a quiet dialogue and pressure them to correct their records on religious freedom.
Hunched over in his wheelchair, thinner and paler than in 2009, Major Hasan was a quiet, soft-spoken defendant throughout the trial, making only a handful of objections and asking few questions.
A quiet processional began.
