Sentence examples for soft speech from inspiring English sources

But when I mentioned Venkitachalam, his soft speech turned sharp.

Natasha approached her door and simultaneously heard the susurration of soft speech behind it.

A tall, willowy man, his mild manners and soft speech belied his strong style of leadership.

A genial, fatherly presence in a sport not known for soft speech, Steward had an eye for up-and-coming fighters and a Balanchinian skill at molding movement.

And his modest humanness -- he peppers his soft speech with pauses and ums, chuckles at his own feeble jokes and fumbles with the eraser -- complements the message: that mathematical models and efficiency theory cannot explain the markets.

In any case, Ms. Brown's soft speech, inadequate soundproofing against construction and traffic noise from the street and the intrinsically elusive nature of the concepts she was talking about made the explanations hard to follow.

All articulatory movements, including the initial expulsion of air from the lungs, may be made with greater or less vigour, giving rise to louder or softer speech or to greater loudness on one part of what is said.

Here, we use a minimum mean square error (MMSE -soft speech presence probability (SPP) (MMSE -softbaspeechise estimation apresence probability [23], for eSPPMMSE-SPP -based power spectra.

The decidedly noncompassionate phrase iron fist has not even the smooth qualifier that Thomas Carlyle reported in 1850 was used by the Iron Duke's defeated rival: "Soft of speech and manner, yet with an inflexible rigour of command... iron hand in a velvet glove,' as Napoleon defined it".

The third-place finish of Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont, evaporated the aura of inevitability he once sought here, and his fiery concession contrasted sharply with Mr. Kerry's husky, "Iowa, I love you," and Mr. Edwards's soft, smiling speech.

His age and soft-spoken speech gave him a warm grandfatherly image.