Many in the crowd fingered rosaries, and some cried softly as the Mass unfolded.
There are so many natural variations in speaking, some of us sound husky, some high-pitched, some monotonous, some nasal, some with a lisp, some may use an "f" sound instead of a "th", some may be softly spoken, some loud.
Some youngsters approached her, some adults grunted softly the way they do to alert others, while Peony slowly and deliberately walked towards the center of the scene followed by everyone who had remained on the fringes.
Some Singaporean food shouts for attention, some speaks more softly.
Some of the softly spoken besuited men and women in bonnets and full-length skirts whittled; some gathered around a maypole outside the full-sized barn; many reclined for hours on giant hay bales.
Some - whisper it softly - have even been to former polytechnics.
But some will feel this softly softly approach is another example of the mixed messages people feel they get from Carney.
Some of Killing Me Softly has been filmed on a closed set, with only a handful of people allowed to see the rushes.
In real life, after the president told reporters that he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive," Mrs. Bush famously chided him for his bravado, teasingly asking, "Bushie, you gonna git 'im?" In the movie she merely suggests, ever so softly, that some people might misunderstand his Texan way with words.
"Some day," I whisper softly to myself, before returning to the task at hand.
