Word: soft-spoken
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Sitting comfortably at a table in Harvard Square’s Au Bon Pain, Mann is soft-spoken and modest, careful to avoid sweeping predictions about a season just underway...
...might not take Jack Li for an athlete the first time you meet him. Polite and soft-spoken from behind his glasses, Li is, by all accounts, as unassuming as can be. But his forehand, as it sails screaming down the line and very nearly kisses the baseline, tells a different tale altogether...
...called White Room in the company's Stockholm headquarters, is where Van den Bosch, 61, holds forth when she's not scouring flea markets in London or fabric fairs in Paris. She took the top design job at H&M in 1987 and functions more as a soft-spoken den mother--as opposed to an edict-issuing tyrant--to her team of 90 designers (mostly women...
...Martha Stewart, in all her tarnished glory, who drew the news cameras, the spectators jockeying for good seats, the visit from Rosie O'Donnell. But it was the slight, soft-spoken 28-year-old Douglas Faneuil, in his plain gray suit and tie, who last week owned the room inside the lower-Manhattan federal courthouse where Stewart is facing criminal charges for obstruction of justice and securities fraud. Faneuil is the former assistant to Peter Bacanovic, Stewart's broker at Merrill Lynch and her co-defendant in the trial. For three days Faneuil electrified the jury with his tales...
After all, the junior from California is admittedly soft-spoken and his insertion into the starting lineup last year was overshadowed by senior Patrick Harvey’s departure from the team...