SITTING in a refugee camp outside Batticaloa, in eastern Sri Lanka, Radikhela, a skinny 21-year-old in a pink pinafore, softly describes how her father died.
This is the sort of live I envisage Bryan leading, with his tiki-style flame torches in the background of his videos, as he softly describes why a certain cigar is so expensive.
He spoke slowly and softly as he described each detailed image — a sharp contrast to his boss, who spoke quickly about his employee's talent.
He gave the press an extra hook by inventing a catchphrase for each of his collections: the 1947 Corolla line was followed by the Sinuous line, the Oblique line, the Tulip line, the H line, the particularly popular A line — a softly flaring shape described by Vogue as "the prettiest triangle since Pythagoras".
Short and hunched, with a thin beard and a baggy suit, Wildstein spoke softly as he described using the Port Authority — with its sprawling network of bridges, tunnels, and airports, and its almost five billion dollars in revenue — as a political "goody bag".
Then she began to softly cry after she described how she was "terrified" to be there.
Khaled Kamal, a softly spoken imam, describes a recent attack in the province of Latakia, homeland of the Alawites, the Assads' sect.
Softly and precisely spoken, he described his antipathy towards the licence fee, comparing it to "the tithes that the Church of England used to live off.
The political tradition he comes from could broadly be described as communist, albeit in the softly-softly Cuban or Italian sense – and he evidently sees no reason to reject entirely everything about that heritage.
