A curious tone underscores the soft public announcement late last week, through the ABC, of the planned expansion of the war memorial.
If the bidding doesn't get to hot, expect to hear some soft of announcement within the next month and a half, but don't expect any major ripples in the cellphone world.
Mr. Leedham said he considered Mr. Hall's support soft and his announcement premature because the slate members had not met.
The timing of today's soft-drink related announcements seems like more than a coincidence, but it's worth noting that Foursquare's deal is quite different from SCVNGR's.
We have done the face-saving way out: a patriotic announcement and a soft cushion quietly arranged..
The breeze was soft; the guide made garbled announcements about Henry Hudson and the Little Red Lighthouse, and Michael touched the back of my neck.
A couple of days after the V.M.A. announcement, Mary Marshall Clark, the soft-spoken director of what is now called the Columbia Center for Oral History, was sitting in a small, icy performance space, with polished concrete floors, in the west of SoHo.
Boxee has said they see Google TV as complementary rather than competition, but that kind of soft-pedaling is expected on announcement day.
Not that everything was high-decibel: "Announcement" offered long-lined, soft-edged string melodies, inflected with graceful slides that evoked the fiddles' Chinese counterparts.
Prior to its announcement, analysts had expected the soft drink maker to earn $1.79 per share in 2002.
Conductors make announcements urging passengers to "use soft tones and go to the vestibule to make calls".
