Word: softspoken
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...English Car meeting, she is softspoken as she reads aloud a nonfiction passage about trees and shrubs. She waves her hands gracefully, occasionally lifting her index finder for emphasis...
When Peterson says this, you can't help butbelieve him. Articulate and softspoken, he carriesno traces of brashness or cockiness...
Then there's the intelligent, softspoken Bennie Bolton, whose anger mounts throughout the 1986 season and finally erupts before the ACC championship game...
...fair, softspoken senior has a shelf full of textbooks himself. Although he has spent time in Greece and Jordan, most of his knowledge has been acquired academically. His senior year of high school was spent studying nothing but languages at the University of Delaware. "That was the year I went wild," he says. In fact, adds Cooperson, he hopes eventually to become a translator of literature...
...with this film Benton, were he less modest and softspoken, could begin to advance a similar claim for himself. His script, honed from a 250-page first draft, is as sparing with words as it is rich in emotion. And some of the film's crucial moments are entirely free of meaningful dialogue. There is no better realization anywhere of a small town's sense of community than in the way Benton groups its citizens, first at a wake, then at a dance. At another moment, a pair of guilty lovers (Ed Harris and Amy Madigan), emblematic...