Still, it is not necessary to turn on a red spotlight when Ruth recalls nights in Greenwich Village pubs, when talk and poetry were as essential as alcohol, or to overstate the play's final moment, which must be softly open-ended.
"I've been thinking recently, I wonder if I'm going to get hit," she said softly, opening a private window before shutting it quickly.
It's the first time a film has landed as high as second place in the chart with less than £1m since September (when Killing Me Softly opened in that position with £956,000) and the lowest gross for a chart runner up since July (when Ice Age: Continental Drift occupied the spot with £720,000 earnings from Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland).
Over the last few weeks, Wolfgang Puck's Spago and McCarty's Michael's have softly opened the doors on radically new restaurants, with fresh design and totally revamped menus.
Upon your return from The Orange Place, grab dinner at the softly-open Tapanade in West L.A. before heading to Royce Hall for more Christmas shenanigans courtesy of Rufus and Martha Wainwright.
Emerging from behind the bar, he softly pops open a bottle of his 2000 vintage and tips a trickle of champagne to the floor before filling two flutes.
How come there isn't a top-tier game where you have to speak softly to open some doors, yell to scare enemies, or find a certain pitch and hold it to raise a bridge?
Softly she opened the closet door and took down the sealed casket.
"Killing Them Softly," which opens today, is, following "Argo" and "Skyfall," the latest of the year's ballyhooed releases to serve up praise of old-school ways via old-school cinematic means.
