Sentence examples for quiet speaking from inspiring English sources

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(A speaker at the conference noted the shocking disjunction between Sedgwick's quiet speaking voice and the bold statements she made in print).

He's a spry seventy-two, thin as a branch of manzanita, with fierce, appraising eyes, a quiet speaking voice, and the poor hearing of a guy who's spent half his life standing in front of a stack of amps.

Because I have a really quiet speaking voice, I assumed I wouldn't be able to sing really loud, but I like the fact that there's that difference – that I can exist in that quiet way and then be really forceful and strong when I'm making music".

Dano is brilliant as Wilson, a career-best for him: his deceptively blank, bland, open face and disconcertingly quiet speaking voice are put to great use, sympathetically recreating Wilson's gentleness, persistence and suppressed agony – his moon-like features framed by a pudding-bowl haircut that grew out, not into wild hippyish tresses, but an unflattering mop.

In fact, his reticent demeanor and quiet speaking voice don't give much of an impression at all, besides perhaps that of a doting grandfather.

On Christmas Eve 1968, a church service for the POWs was staged for photographers and film cameras; McCain defied North Vietnamese instructions to be quiet, speaking out details of his treatment then shouting "Fu-u-u-u-ck you, you son of a bitch!" and giving the finger whenever a camera was pointed at him.

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At one point, he had fifteen or twenty seconds of quiet time while waiting for Weisblum, who had stepped out, and he deadpanned, "Now what do I do?" Weisblum returned and, detecting the quiet, spoke of "a moment of Zen contemplation".

However, at the end of the interview, his son, who had been quiet, spoke up and said, "Wait a minute, Dad; this is kind of interesting".

Douglas, who has mostly kept quiet, spoke with the New York Times recently about his opposition to the series, which he had declined to participate in.

But he's the quietest spoken lad.

No music, only the welcome buzz of quiet voices speaking.

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