She speaks softly, having grown up, she said, in a family with three boys and lots of yelling.
In this final set Ms. Gruber audibly relaxed,by singing not more loudly, but more softly: her voice grew gentle and found the center of the pitch in Falla's "Tus ojillos negros" and Guridi's "Jota".
Hutton refuses to condemn rebels John Hutton, the business secretary, took a softly-softly approach to the growing list of dissenting MPs but stressed that the party ought to present a unified front.
He sums up the film as "a softly satirised presentation of the culture they grew up in.
My skin grew spots, and my hair fell softly to the ground.
Instead, for a twitchy, perversely funny stretch, he mumbled and fidgeted, softly, often monosyllabically, responding as Mr. Letterman's formulaic jive grew testy.
What, I ask this affable, softly-spoken 32-year-old, was your earliest political conviction? "I grew up in a mining town in Nottinghamshire," he says.
His softly rounded nose had grown straight and narrow.
"Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf".
Like Kent, Slovo – who grew up in South Africa where her parents Joe Slovo and Ruth First were leading anti-apartheid campaigners – is softly spoken yet committed.
