Mr. LaPierre's strong defense of existing gun laws, which he argued were poorly enforced, and his occasional pique were a contrast with Ms. Giffords's husband, Mark Kelly, a gun-owning former Navy captain and a retired astronaut, who quietly pulled, bit by bit, at the arguments against stronger background checks, which he and Ms. Giffords seek.
"No," he said quietly, a bit surprised to have to impart a lesson in the birds and the bees to a fellow adult.
The equipment pumped and swerved, quietly fusing bits of metal and polymer.
We sat quietly for a bit.
In person, he comes off as more quietly contemplative, a bit thin-skinned and very smart.
But it advances its questions quietly, and a bit too quietly: the resulting low visual impact is a major flaw.
"I feel good, so I'll just take it a bit quietly and respect concussion like we've been talking about in AFL, and hopefully by tomorrow I feel a lot better".
We were not riding the 20th Century Limited, I was not Eva Marie Saint and neither was my novel Cary Grant, but we did sit quietly for a bit, side by side, and enjoy the end of our initial adventures.
And while the match, set to start on Friday, is being played, it will be quietly doing its bit for the regional economy.
