After a few minutes, Wolfowitz's voice, which normally has a soft tremble, grew even more faint, and his aspect became wan.
And Mr. Haden seemed to confirm that when he thanked the audience -- in a soft, high, trembling voice -- for listening so intently.
The ailing 86-year-old king, his soft voice trembling, rarely looked up from his notes in the speech, broadcast live on Saudi television.
His frisée salad, a bistro standard, is a sophisticated, swirling nest accented with chunky bacon lardons, a soft egg trembling on top.
Despite being 120km from the source, London's soft clays trembled, causing chimney stacks and spires to fall and two children were killed by falling stones.
He speaks in matter-of-fact tones, his voice soft but never trembling.
I can feel the soft, unstable ground trembling under my feet and am bracing myself for the full shock of the quake.
Anna may be a privileged North American career gal, but Ms. Adams, with her soft features and trembling overbite, is not cut out to play the steely, entitled princess who might deserve the rustic comeuppance that Anna receives.
Small cooling ventilators continuously inflate three large balloon-like forms, causing the soft, translucent surfaces to tremble slightly.
Stacey and Clare tremble like soft set jelly but the group listen attentively as they take turns to cross-examine them.
Most affecting is the portrayal of the disintegration of Stoner's mind in his final days, but even passing details are freighted with melancholy: the trees that "trembled like soft clouds, translucent and tenuous", "the sweet scent of dying lilac blossoms", the leaves that "rustled and turned, ghost-like in the darkness".
