Softly
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But I can't pretend I tried to follow the storyline, as I kept missing bits when they spoke too
softly
while I was laughing.
He talks softly, wears a frilly shirt, mascara and black fingernail polish, is seen for about two seconds as a winged monster, claims to be two-thousand years old and presides over a live sex show where everyone wears masks.
This movie is going to
softly
talk to you, while cruising around the most beautiful places of the world, and will bring you to a sudden, explosive, unexpected ending.
A lot of this has to do with Mark Rylance speaking so
softly
and hesitantly that one wants to tell him to get on with it.
It's really hard to enjoy a movie in which nine out of ten characters speak so softly, whispering and grumbling without any sense.
Blair is much more vulnerable than he was a year ago, and he must tread
softly
if he does not want to lose further support.
But, as Egypt’s domestic politics take their course, Israel, which has had to tread
softly
in its relationship with Egypt and in Sinai since January 2011, will have to behave with even greater sensitivity in the days ahead.
Everyone has secrets – that is what people realize too late when a surveillance society falls
softly
into place.
Teddy Roosevelt, of course, preferred to “Speak
softly
and carry a big stick.”
“Speak
softly
and carry a big stick,” Theodore Roosevelt counseled.
The hump of Hitler’s bunker curved
softly
under the earth a football pitch or so away.
But he landed softly, and his two sons have already had splendid careers.
The US government, for its part, tends to speak
softly
when it comes to human-rights abuses in Turkey.
Central bankers are praised
softly
when they make profits and criticized loudly when they incur losses.
Trump’s approach to foreign policy is the opposite of President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous early-twentieth-century dictum: “Speak
softly
and carry a big stick.”
Rather than encourage the unions with exaggerated talk of strong European growth and inflationary excess – and disrespect them with threats and interventions – Trichet should speak
softly
and let nature take its course.
As Theodore Roosevelt once said, negotiations may go better when you talk
softly
but carry a big stick.
US President Theodore Roosevelt advised foreign policymakers to “speak
softly
and carry a big stick.”
Then, harmoniously filling the whole church from windows to vaulted roof, a full chord sung by the invisible choir rose, swelled, hung for a moment, and
softly
died away.
The priest helped him out of the difficulty, saying softly, with a smile on his kindly mouth, 'Kiss your wife; and you, kiss your husband!'
Agatha Mikhaylovna, seeing that a quarrel was imminent,
softly
put down her cup and went out.
'I'll soon be lying,' he said
softly.
'I can't give you an explanation,' said Levin
softly
and slowly, trying to control the trembling of his jaw, 'and it is better for you not to ask.'As the splinters were now all broken off, Levin grasped the thick ends in his fingers and split the stick, carefully catching a piece as it fell.
'I introduced him to you as Landau,' she said softly, glancing at the Frenchman and then back at Oblonsky, 'but really he is Count Bezzubov, as you probably know.
'Why do you, who boast of your truthfulness, not speak the truth?''I never boast and never tell untruths,' he said softly, restraining his rising anger.
He came up to her, and taking her hand said softly:'Anna, let us go the day after to-morrow, if you wish it.
Anna forgot her fellow-travellers;
softly
rocked by the motion of the carriage and inhaling the fresh air, she again began to think:'Where did I leave off?
'All right, you may go home,' she said
softly
to Michael.
She spoke softly, because the rapid beating of her heart impeded her breathing.
'Yes, yes!Hush!...' was all Kitty answered as she sat
softly
rocking herself and tenderly pressing the little plump arm, which looked as if a thread had been tied round the wrist, and was still feebly waving while Mitya kept shutting and opening his eyes.
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