In the circumstances, the choice of a soft-spoken, civilian lawyer seemed a palm of peace.
Mr. Marcombes is a soft-spoken, earnest electrical engineer and self-proclaimed geek who loves technology and electronics.
But being soft-spoken and shy, Abdullah is not considered to have the right stuff.
Son, soft-spoken but assertive, disputes the notion that luck has anything to do with it.
Drummer Brunet is a soft-spoken, doe-eyed woman of 23 who moved to Houma as a child.
Kocher is soft-spoken, young and obscure, but his credibility in the encryption business is sterling.
"Our point of reference is he was a kind, gentle, soft-spoken teenager, " Ms. Page said.
Tall, soft-spoken, and courtly, Woolley moves easily between the City of London, academia, and policymaking circles.
''I suspect the locals had low expectations, '' he says in perfect, if soft-spoken English.
He was a soft-spoken man with an unassuming manner, says BBC Urdu's Dilawar Wazir Khan.
Jackson was soft-spoken, shy, socially inept -- everything the fast-talking and personable Clinton was not.
One is the soft-spoken Mrs Macovei, who once ran the Romanian Helsinki Committee, a pressure group.
Ask him about his cozy dealings with Industry, and the soft-spoken 61-year-old mogul tightens his poker face.
No, we're not talking about Kit, the wryly soft-spoken roadster from the '80s TV show Knight Rider.
In the U.S., she's released three soft-spoken yet confident and moving albums, including her latest, Me and Armini.
As a result, soft-spoken whistleblowers who expose wrongdoing are typically held in lower regard than headline-grabbing criminal CEOs.
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Tough talk from a soft-spoken graduate of the University of Geneva's diplomacy school who later got an M.
The dog trainers were lovely, three soft-spoken girls who loved the dogs and the racket and the smell.
For all of LaPierre's tough talk, friends and former colleagues describe a soft-spoken man who's a little scattered.
Owned by the Beall family since 1976, Blackberry Farm is now run by the founders' soft-spoken son, Sam Beall.
"It's a big step, " acknowledges a soft-spoken Jibreel backstage at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
Strive Masiyiwa, the unassuming and soft-spoken founder of the telecoms giant, is the richest person to emerge from Zimbabwe.
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The soft-spoken Bansal smooths ruffled feathers when the zealot Saylor goes too far.
He is soft-spoken, a listener, who almost never shows a trace of anger.
But the slight, soft-spoken Vatsaloo credits the people of Baan Borang most.
Matt Damon, the soft-spoken leading man in box office winner The Bourne Ultimatum, turns out to be Hollywood's best investment.
She has a gentle manner that at times borders on vulnerability, and she is incredibly soft-spoken, despite her Estuary accent.
Camera-shy and soft-spoken, Giuliano, 55, joined ITT in 1988 as vice president of the defense unit before becoming chief executive in February 2001.
Miyauchi, whose soft-spoken manner and round spectacles make him look more like a literature professor than a financial revolutionary, is undeterred.
In the Commons, he earned a reputation as a thoughtful, soft-spoken speaker whose outside passions include hill walking and long-distance running.
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