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For the first two and a half years of Mr. Bush's presidency, Ms. Rice often seemed hesitant to take a more active role, eschewing the kind of hands-on approach for which Henry A. Kissinger and other national security advisers were known, and viewing her job chiefly as providing quiet advice to Mr. Bush.
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One is of an Obama who was able to do what he did with the help of her quiet, wise advice.
The doyen of Welsh rugby writers, JBG Thomas, summed him up thus: "He was a modest, likeable man, with a smiling face and a quiet word of advice for his men.
Still, people offer advice about how to quiet her or try to do so themselves by cooing at her or putting her binky in her mouth.
We seem to be in one of those periodic revivals of the American missionary spirit, which manifests itself in everything from quiet kindness to patronizing advice to armored divisions.
Mr. Giuliani was criticized for defending the police force a little too much; in the film he's as horrified as everyone else by what happened but keeps quiet because of bad advice from his press secretary.
This was parodied, and pulverized, by "Police Squad!," the great Leslie Nielsen TV show of the nineteen-eighties, in which Johnny the shoeshiner would, for a quiet buck, dispense professional advice not just to the heroic detective but also to priests, ballplayers, and surgeons ("Be careful not to puncture the myocardium").
And, amid all the publicity, she follows her own advice on the quiet.
But her advice also spurred quiet skepticism: by putting even more pressure on women to succeed, was she, even unintentionally, blaming the victim if they did not?
But in its quiet way, the exchange of advice and encouragement, cheer-leading and help was a surprisingly touching experience for a random Thursday.
Tydeman agrees, finding the writer "diffident and quiet, willing to listen to advice but with firmly held views on certain aspects of the text or production".
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