softly

Together, the crowd exhaled three long, loud sighs, then tapped their chests in unison, repeating softly: “This is my heart. This is my heart. This is my heart.”

A movie played softly in the background, something neither of us was really watching.

We say that the kind of stimulation that activates involuntary attention has to be what we call “softly fascinating.”

His voice shook, and he spoke very softly.

“It means my daughter is turning 20,” Williams says softly, referring to her and Ledger’s daughter, Matilda.