Word: soft-spoken
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McCormack and Flomenhoft both predicted that Drury's style of leadership will be similar to C.J. Young's in 1990-91: a fiery, but soft-spoken, on-the-ice leader...
Into this rhetorical arena comes Susan Faludi, 32, a soft-spoken, sharp- penned, Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter for the Wall Street Journal who spent four years writing Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, published by Crown in October. In 552 crowded pages, Faludi constructs a thesis out of alarming though sometimes selective use of statistics bound together with ideological glue, designed to explain why many women turned against feminism in the 1980s. Not only has her book become an unexpected best seller; it has also become a staple topic on the op-ed pages, one of those landmark books that...
Berkman Professor of Economics Andreu Mas-Colell describes Green as "soft-spoken," but warns that the economist should not be underestimated. "I think people will discover that he's quite forceful once he's made up his mind about something," Mas-Colell says...
Stein, 56, has cut hair here for 34 years and recalls the day the soft-spoken soldier shuffled into his shop in October...
...like Magic Johnson, you think this illness wouldn't attack someone like him. But it did." Many others were sobered at the thought that if even the most enchanted and mobile of bodies was vulnerable, it could, as Johnson pointed out, "happen to anybody." Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the thoughtful, soft-spoken 7-ft. 2-in. giant of the game, simply broke down and wept...