The SEC had taken a big gamble on this case, turning what ordinarily would have been a fairly quiet matter involving a young, mid-level banker into a make-or-break moment for its response of the financial crisis.
"When I brought this concern up, I was quickly told by several people in the administration and Office of Housing and Residence Life that it was a quiet matter and I shouldn't be making a big deal with it," Tedesco said.
Scott spoke in a quiet, matter-of-fact tone, smiling slightly.
Like TV One's "Find Our Missing," a series about missing-persons cases that begins its second season on Jan . 9 it's both a typical docu-reality program and a quiet, matter-of-fact cri de coeur.
Reminiscent of 20th-century American photographers like Walker Evans, who captured quiet, matter-of-fact and often-overlooked moments, Mr. Larson also lacked the reformer's zeal, preferring the perspective of a self-effacing documentarian.
Huo's narrative gains power from its quiet matter-of-factness, and from the way it plunges almost seamlessly into dream worlds that can be both nightmarish and oddly consoling.
Military officials quickly apologized for the Koran burnings as well, but it seemed to do little to quiet matters.
SHIFT's unique vertical heat-stack design ensures that your Quadro equipment remains cool and quiet no matter how intense your tasks may be.
For 42 years, Libyans lived in a large, national corrections camp where the best ways to survive were to become a guard of the state or remain absolutely quiet no matter what humiliation and injustice was dispensed.
It's striking how the overall tone is not stridently feminist, but quiet and matter-of-fact.
As Mr. Obama carefully addressed the issue on Friday, his campaign's formidable network of grass-roots activists, and the Web sites crafted to give them "talking points" to carry into battle against Republicans, remained uncharacteristically quiet on the matter, even though the issue dominated political blogs for a second straight day.
