softly

Stefani, appearing to shrink away from her, softly replies, “Are you going to hit me?”

She's softly spoken, warm and very down to earth - but you quickly get a sense of her focus and determination.

I’m softly given instructions to use as many of the towels as I want in the bathroom to pat myself dry.

A photograph from the early 1900s shows a man with a softly rounded belly and a straight white moustache.

"I'm coming home," he sings softly to himself as his wheelchair rolls over broken glass and shrapnel.