What is "soft-spoken"

Usage examples of "soft-spoken".

In his strange, soft-spoken way, the young atheling was proclaiming revolution, so perhaps there was a streak of his old dad in him after all.

Compared to the stormy Baptist, he had seemed the gentle Rabbi, the soft-spoken Teacher, generally meek in temperament, and not given to such violent emotion as now apparently raged within.

Counter-Terrorist Center--a soft-spoken, steady counterpoint to the flamboyant Cofer Black.

He was a gentle, soft-spoken man, quite the opposite of his formidable wife, Hannah Jones Rodham, who insisted on using all three of her names.

The Wyred are taught to be soft-spoken, self-effacing, taught to be neither seen nor heard.

Of all the Democrats on the committee, Hyde felt closest to Berman, 57, a soft-spoken colleague who had represented his Los Angeles district since 1983.

She was genuinely happy for Althea, although it was difficult to imagine the soft-spoken, quiet young girl with a blundering, loud bragger like Paisley Winsloe.

And because of his Bay Area proselytizing for a Buddhist seminary, many had met him personally and were all in awe of his soft-spoken power.

Claudine abruptly realized she needed the expertise of this soft-spoken, undemonstrative man who, from photographs alone, had provided enough to back most of her early impressions.

He was never blunt or assertive as Adams could be, but subtle, serene by all appearances, always polite, soft-spoken, and diplomatic, if somewhat remote.

This was a surprising outburst, for Grandfather Bluestem was always a friendly and soft-spoken man.

Yet it was hard to credit the soft-spoken, dreamy-eyed Bridgeman with enough suspicion of anyone to anticipate the attempt on his life, merely because he had stood up for what he considered to be right.

He and John Carnegie had, as usual, been forced to chase down a naked Roman Gervase and wrestle him into the patrol car around ten and then deliver him home and into the hands of his extremely polite and soft-spoken manservant.

But back in Cebu, as Yousef rushed across the airport terminal to make the next flight out, Haruki Ikegami, a soft-spoken twenty-four-year-old Japanese engineer, had just made it through the metal detector.

They may be soft-spoken and often remain in silence, but it is a thunderous silence that veritably drowns out the egos chattering loudly all around them.