He spoke steadily, his jaw quivering a little, but he never broke down.
Now, speaking steadily through a storm of barracking, he denounced the "obscene violence" surrounding the elections.
He did so by speaking steadily and smilingly to Diane Sawyer last night on ABC's "Primetime Thursday," with his arm wrapped protectively around his wife, Judith.
She displays a quick temper in print, but in conversation, Ms. Ravitch, with cropped white-and-gray-speckled hair, a T-shirt, jeans and sneakers, exuded quiet conviction, speaking steadily for three hours.
When was the last time you heard the word Web and thought of a spider?" Mary Szybist, who won for her poetry collection "Incarnadine," was visibly shaking and near tears, but she spoke steadily about the idea that culture is not altered by arguing well, but by "speaking differently" — that by rearranging language we can rearrange perception.
Keep calm and speak steadily.
'If I am looking at you, that's the one time I know I won't be listening to you.' His left eye didn't line up with whomever he was trying to talk to; when he was in social situations, trying to make chitchat, the person to whom he was speaking would steadily drift left.
He spoke softly and steadily and kept a steady gaze.
Lydia, her arm swinging steadily, spoke in a low, almost disinterested monotone.
