stage whisper

It’s things like consistently scheduling events on dates when I said I couldn’t make it, stage whispers with other colleagues about upcoming plans when I’m right there, among other slights.

And she said” — his voice dropped to a stage whisper — “‘He’s going to be very big.’”

A Republican official in a “deep-red county,” he recounts, his voice dropping to a stage whisper, told him, “You have no idea how many Republicans are going to quietly vote for you.”

When I asked her about it, at first, she leaned over in a stage whisper: “Women are better than men,” she said.

Then, spying me, the group races off ahead of us, amid stage whispers of “It’s him!” and “Link’s here!”