In his performance, Mr. Condit may have been trying to change the script from one American tale -- confession and redemption -- to another, the story of the strong, taciturn hero who does his duty quietly and keeps his own counsel.
Back then, she could hold forth without counterpoint about the evils of anonymous officials who felt a duty to quietly correct misleading messages from the White House and how they weren't senior+enough to know what was really going on.
In human decency we trust, so our duty is to go quietly when our team loses.
Her Condoleezza Rice — leaning forward in her chair, brow furrowed, quietly discussing duty and sacrifice — is particularly good, even if her words sound too bluntly scripted.
But his decision to quit the party he has supported all his adult life nevertheless matters.Having decided that he was going to vote Labour in May, Mr Jackson concluded that he had a duty not to go quietly.
For many years, the board has been quietly carrying out its duties without attracting much attention.
One indication that he would be quitting competition came in the last few weeks when his press officer Charlie Reid, who has run his media engagements since the Beijing Games, was quietly moved to other duties.
So can you.' " Committee members had been deeply impressed by Mr. Mann's oratory in the early days of the hearing, and his quietly moving appeals to duty and principle circulated widely in the news media.
He said he had intended to leave quietly, but had a "duty to make all this public" following the Telegraph's HSBC coverage, which "needed a microscope to find".
He was a capable administrator who quietly and effectively discharged his academic duties.
Otherwise, they should respond faithfully -- and quietly -- to the call of duty.
