Word: soft-spoken
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...were up to him, though, Reubens says, he would rather hide behind that character. "The thing that's always said about me is that I'm really low-key and soft-spoken, so I'm always wondering if I'm talking too loud. It's weirder being myself," he says. So Reubens is still very veiled, nervously cutting himself off every time he is about to reveal something, like saying he has evidence that he wasn't as excited by Nurse Nancy as the Florida police accused him of being. "You're going to make me come off like...
...despite their worst spring training in decades--one in which both Nomar Garciaparra and Manny Ramirez were injured and soft-spoken manager Jimy Williams managed to alienate even selfless knuckleballer Tim Wakefield--I stubbornly cling to my notion, renewed with the first pitch each spring, that this is the year...
...hopes of 1.3 billion Chinese strain even the mightiest of shoulders. But fueled by dinners of Texas beef, the 2.16-m Atlas has coolly shrugged off this monumental national burden. Last week, in his first game in the biggest of the big leagues, the National Basketball Association, the soft-spoken Wang wowed a capacity crowd by nailing two shots and a pair of free throws for his new team?the Dallas Mavericks. By the time the play-off-bound Mavs had triumphed over the Atlanta Hawks by 108-94, Asia's first NBA player had scored a respectable six points...
...great honor," said the soft-spoken Jonas at the awards banquet held in Lake Placid, N.Y. "I want to thank everyone, the coaching staff...
After the selection of Lawrence H. Summers to be Harvard's next President, professors on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) say they anticipate that a man used to the national stage would remain a high-profile figure during his stay in Massachusetts Hall, a sharp contrast to soft-spoken current President Neil L. Rudenstine...