Sentence examples for quiet firm from inspiring English sources

We will miss her quiet, firm presence.

But Desmarais, Rosenthal, and their colleagues turned out to be clients of quiet, firm sophistication, and Hadid performed with considerable flexibility and great sensitivity.

It wasn't a problem.' Ian McGeechan and Jim Telfer, enlightened despots who allowed the tour captain, Martin Johnson, to impose his quiet, firm personality on the team, were happy to let the players draw up their own pre-tour rules.

There was, though, a different discourse from Marcos Senna; in glasses, a soft voice and a quiet, firm dignity, politely but persistently refusing to be dragged into a controversy, he insisted it was nobody's fault but theirs.

Early in the design process, Arad was teamed with the landscape architect Peter Walker, who shares his minimalist sensibility, and they have made the space around the two footprints a handsome and restrained civic square, with oak trees, benches, and light poles giving the place a kind of quiet, firm order.

It was Miller's quiet, but firm, protest.

We will continue to conduct ourselves in a quiet but firm, democratic, transparent and peaceful manner.

"I thought about it," she said in a very quiet but firm voice.

It was still a quiet, circumspect firm when Zeckendorf was invited to join.

And that is when the village made a quiet but firm ultimatum: Pay up or go thirsty.

Several observers said the government had felt quiet, though firm, pressure from the Christian authorities to execute Mr. Mansour.