soft-spoken
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Skarsgård particularly makes a memorable impression in relatively few soft-spoken lines.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
Stafford, a soft-spoken churchgoer, loves motorcycles, camping and fishing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
To then dive headfirst into music was not an easy journey for the soft-spoken daughter of Italian immigrants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
They describe Machchhar, who is in his 30s and holds more than a decade of flying experience, as a soft-spoken, helpful and "always smiling" man who has remained calm under pressure since childhood.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Right away I drove to Portsmouth and met my mother’s childhood friend, a slim, brown-haired, soft-spoken woman of Mommy’s age whose eyes, it turned out, were working just fine.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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