Linda Ronstadt brings the plaintiveness of folk singing, like pepper, and Rex Smith a softly stage-crafted vibrato, like salt, and suddenly Ah, Leave Me Not to Pine is a gourmet dish.
Before a hushed audience sitting at candle-lit tables, a songwriter on a softly illuminated stage sings her troubles while finger-picking and strumming an acoustic guitar.
The phrases slide from memory as smoothly as the dancers are pulled across the stage: softly, softly and then gone.
The final section brings others to the stage, softly drawn out of the wings, as if by magnetism.
In one repeated phrase, he took six big, slow, loping jumps in a zigzag across the stage, softly effortful.
Even John Edwards, in the spot usually given to the attack dog, barked oh so softly (matching the stage in his mahogany tie), preferring to hail a new man from hope with the mantra "Hope is on the way".
In addition to providing supplies to the ISS, this launch was going to be SpaceX's third attempt to softly land the first stage of their two-stage Falcon 9 on a platform in the sea.
SpaceX has attempted to softly land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket after returning from space on a barge in the ocean two separate times.
Prowling coolly around the small sand-filled circle in which most of the action is staged, calling softly for the assistance of Ariel (Christian Camargo), his helpmate from the spirit world, Mr. Dillane's Prospero is a deeply loving father, a compassionate if stern taskmaster, a wry observer of the frailties and follies of the human flotsam brought to his shores.
We would come on stage and play softly and sing about librarians".
In this ATC production, director Bijan Sheibani's main players are quietly commendable, softly illuminated on a black stage.
