"What's important on Iraq, and on other important questions about terrorist states that are seeking to have weapons of mass destruction, is that our country engage in a somewhat elevated, thoughtful discussion about what free people ought to do given the circumstances of the 21st century," Mr. Rumsfeld said.
Soft-spoken and thoughtful – somewhat closer to Vera Drake's Reg than his harsher roles – Marsan is analytical about acting and clear about his function.
He came across in his nightly show as a devout liberal, quick to respond to injustice, thoughtful, somewhat (and appealingly) irascible and, above all, civilized.
The hope is that the revelation will be greeted not with gasps of disbelief or cynical shrugs but rather with a thoughtful, somewhat surprised response that Mr. Ewanick described this way: "I had no idea Hyundai was this kind of company.
"But I think children need a certain bit of risk to mature into thoughtful, cautious, somewhat adventurous adults".
The man himself is articulate, thoughtful and somewhat reserved, and he is also by far the most incisive and interesting of the film's talking heads.
Stravinsky, bully that he is, has also pushed out space deserved for a full review of the Britten Sinfonia strings, who toured a meticulously thoughtful if somewhat episodic English programme, ending tonight in Norwich.
Cleese describes the show as "a somewhat humorous, somewhat more thoughtful, [a conduit that] gives me a chance to sound off in my old age".
The rest of the changelog is full of thoughtful, if somewhat less flashy features.
This is neither a radical nor an original theory — we all know that feminism, gay rights and a morbid obsession with fuel efficiency grew out of the '70s — so in the end Hine has succeeded in writing a thoughtful, fair but somewhat derivative book about an era that was completely outrageous.
