More than three hours after Reggie Jackson's three homers in Game 6 won the 1977 World Series for the Yankees, he was still in his pinstriped uniform at his locker when he suddenly had a quiet question for the half-dozen reporters who had been questioning him.
When questions are invited from the audience, Susan Sontag rises and, in a reasonable, even friendly voice, says that she has a "very quiet question" for Mailer.
Now in the locker room he faced quiet questions and answered them in hushed tones, too.
For 45 minutes, there was a continuous flow of interactions between the students and BETAs, with scores of quiet questions and clarifications, and students often assisting one another.
But notwithstanding his five-hit crashing into what is now Club 28, he has both cleats in that awkward career phase where indisputable immortality will not quiet questions regarding his standing — and perhaps eventually his place — in the Yankees' lineup.
From the heights where he sat taking notes and turning his fine, thin face attentively upon each witness, he dropped occasional quiet questions like pebbles — small but with an edge.
When working, he is hyperconscious of what, when not working, he refuses to pay any attention to, such as a ringing doorbell or telephone, or messages being delivered for him, or quiet questions being asked in the hall.
There were quiet questions of age, size, shape, outcome, etc.
When he first ran for his party's presidential nomination in 2008, Romney hoped to quiet questions about his Mormonism by giving a detailed speech called "Faith in America".
In an industry defined by runways, flashbulbs, and this year's fad available at breathtaking prices, Simone Cipriani through the U.N. Ethical Fashion Initiative and Ilaria Venturini Fendi through her Carmina Campus line are stopping the show with their quiet questions: "Was it created ethically?
The ruling might have more definitively quieted questions about Pistorius except for one thing — a fissure on his team of scientists, with Herr and Weyand on opposite sides.
