They speak the way players their age usually speak, visibly excited but noticeably cautious, telling visitors to their lockers that they are fine with whatever role assigned to them so long as they win.
"I started the New Year with the feel-good factor, practising everything in moderation, with plenty of exercise and sleep," a (noticeably slimmer) Holmes told us at Monday's TV Choice awards.
"How can playing 15 pathetic fancy poms in front of all those thousands more of you pathetic fancy poms be called a worthwhile experience?" Sir Bill, noticeably put out, told us later that "to civilise him, I intend inviting Murdoch to have Christmas Day lunch with me at my club".
Mr. Romney had been noticeably more confident in the last few days, even telling reporters Monday, "I think I'm going to win".
Returning to the show 32 years later, she had noticeably mellowed, but didn't let that stop her telling Parkinson: "I thought you were sexist," and, a greater crime to her way of thinking, "didn't even dare say the word 'breasts'".
I'm still alive," she reportedly told Okawa, noticeably off her game.
They were noticeably moved as he told of running to his gunned-down father, who died on the floor in front of him.
The jury heard a chilling five-minute recording in which Kelly Jones yelled repeatedly at her young children, while one of her daughters, noticeably frightened, tried to tell her she loved her.
I think my daughter responds better to honesty most of the time -- I mean, she was noticeably relieved when I told her that Chuck E. Cheese is a person in a suit and not really a humongous cheese-starved monster mouse crashing kids' birthday parties -- but I'm hardly an expert on my own kids, let alone everyone else's.
Obama has become noticeably more aggressive in pushing the Senate to get moving on his nominees, recently chiding Republicans for obstructionism and telling the Senate to "do its job".
[The leeches are applied, and the patient becomes noticeably paler] Mr deKrugman: Told you.
