Word: soft-spoken
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...reason to be concerned by the rumble of a B-52 bomber overhead. The Americans were his strong supporters. Just outside his window there were U.S. commandos working with anti-Taliban Pashtun fighters. Besides, he had plenty of other things on his mind. The night before, the soft-spoken Pashtun tribal leader had received word that he had been chosen as Afghanistan's interim Prime Minister by the U.N.-sponsored gathering of Afghan factions in Bonn, Germany. And that afternoon several high-ranking Taliban commanders were driving out to Shahwalikot to lay down conditions for their surrender of Kandahar...
...Soft-spoken and modest to a fault, the pianist converted to Roman Catholicism as a teenager. "My faith affects my art because it affects my life," he explains. "Specifically, it puts things into perspective--success, failure, the opinions of others and all of the madness of life. I'm also conscious of participating in the creation of beauty when I play great music and of dealing with matters beyond the world of words...
...journalist and Bin Laden biographer Hamid Mir made headlines by publishing an interview with Bin Laden conducted at a secret location inside Afghanistan, in which the Saudi claimed to have nuclear weapons. Mir noted in passing that the bin Laden he met sounded more aggressive, even shrill than the soft-spoken terrorist he'd interviewed on a number of previous occasions. The Al Hayat claims about bin Laden doubles cast Mir's observation in a new light, at least for the conspiratorially minded...
McCarthy, Pusey’s old nemesis from Wisconsin, launched his attack on Harvard in November 1953, when the senator publicly declared that Harvard was “a sanctuary for Communists.” The senator demanded that Harvard fire Wendell Furry, a soft-spoken physics professor with communist connections who had been unwilling to talk to a Senate investigating committee the year before...
...Osema wanted was a bag of onions. The soft-spoken former nurse, who had moved to northern Afghanistan from Kabul to flee repressive Taliban rule, was making her first trip to the local market...