But then a skinny, soft-spoken 16-year-old from rural Tennessee took the stage.
He is skinny, soft-spoken and, in a bored sort of way, lists the demands issued to the state's communist rulers by his group, the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA), which represents local adivasis or members of India's tribal minorities.
A skinny, soft-spoken, mixed mocha girl with glasses and a (thankfully temporary) slouch from too much reading and too many word searches.
Even if I got kicked out or banned, at least I'd have this one subversive act: a not-skinny, soft butch girl with her bush out, disobeying all the heteronormative rules on gender, body image, and what's acceptable in public.
I love a denim shirt, black skinny jeans, soft pants, and short jackets because I am small.
It doesn't matter if you're fat, skinny, muscly, soft, hairy or bald... there is a brand of body shaming to fit your type.
You can use skinny and soft headbands to hold your hair from falling in your face.
Then there is the man himself: tall, skinny and soft-spoken, but vastly more affable and kindly than the surly beings who spring from his pen.
I casually flexed my muscles in the postures I'd practiced before my bedroom mirror so Lizzie could see my body not as the soft, skinny thing that it was, but as a pillar of strength and stamina.
He was thirty-one years old at the time, a skinny, thick-bearded, soft-spoken family physician who had grown up in a bedroom suburb of Philadelphia.
Her thigh muscles, normally firm and chubby in a growing baby, felt soft and skinny.
