Their doom is civilized and quiet, measured out in cups of tea and crossword puzzles and Sunday Mass.
A number of quiet measures against car bombings were put in place a couple of years ago for passive defence against car bombs: barriers, vehicle monitoring and quite a lot more besides.
Focused intelligence-gathering and quiet protective measures are taken.
The Orange County district attorney, Jim Woodall, is known for a quiet, unassuming, measured manner.
She sits on a New Orleans police car that slowly sinks underwater as images flash past, powerful evocations of blackness: bodies, hair, quiet faces measuring how others have discounted their lives and moved on.
'For a long time, when I was on the blanket, I had no real idea what I looked like,' he says, some 30 years later, his long hair now gone, his speech quiet and measured.
Jack is quieter, more measured, nodding through his younger brother's flightier declamations and often delivering, afterwards, an ambiguous "mm".
To be fair, the voice of the narrator is quieter, more measured – and perhaps more congenial – than those of its predecessors.
