Word: quieter
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...ethnic Russians, who make up 20% of the population, the people I've met in Kiev seem every bit as determined as those in Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius to break with Moscow. If they succeed, their country would be one of the largest in Europe. However, their rhetoric is quieter and their strategy less confrontational than the Balts...
...most veterans, these are times for quieter ceremonies: the thanks for loyal neighbors and friends, for care packages, for letters; the new appreciation of the simplest freedoms; and the chance to put behind them a war that came by surprise, and mercifully ended before it could create a new generation of martyrs. It is because their sons and daughters were spared that people will line the streets while the soldiers pass by, but that should not be mistaken for gloating, or amnesia, or indifference to the suffering that continues in the shadow...
While Sonia refuses to step into the limelight, what about the rest of the family? The nearest heirs are her two children. Like his father at the same age, Rahul, 20, a Harvard undergraduate, shows no interest in politics, preferring photography and target shooting. He is the quieter, more introverted of the two children...
...their lives, and they've decided to make some changes. What matters is having time for family and friends, rest and recreation, good deeds and spirituality. For some people that means a radical step: changing one's career, living on less, or packing up and moving to a quieter place. For others it can mean something as subtle as choosing a cheaper brand of running shoes or leaving work a little earlier to watch the kids in a soccer game...
While the ground war was being fought on the sands of Kuwait this week, a quieter, more civilized disagreement was being played out on the pages of academic journals and newspaper editorial pages...