But the things that have made Megyn Kelly a star her lawyerly instinct for conflict and her ability to challenge conservative dogma just enough to obscure her devotion to it don't seem entirely compatible with the type of soft-focus patience that she may soon be trying to project.
Of the sextette "I hear the soft note" in Patience, Sullivan said to the singers, "I think you will like this.
In recent years, the writer George Saunders has made the championing of so-called soft virtues — tenderness, forgiveness, patience — something of a personal crusade.
The way he and other buyers describe their new country retreats, it sounds as if the soft market, and some patience while searching, has offered the chance to fulfill a dream.
As an Iranian official once said to me, the reason behind Iran's growing presence in the region despite the sanctions and isolation were "soft power accompanied with patience".
Though tentative in the Parker days, he had a characteristically soft sound and coolly-timed patience of phrasing that became steadily more eloquent and assured through the 1950s and 60s, despite big changes in the musical structures around him.
Then the soft-spoken man of infinite patience turned his attention to me.
Her voice was soft and kind and held immense patience.
In short, women continue to be devalued, and all too often qualities ascribed to the "the feminine" (i.e. caring, nurturing, gentleness, patience, compassion), are regarded as soft, weak, or yielding.
Off it, he's soft-spoken and religious, and he has no patience with the politics that pollute the sport.
