Ms. Heaviside's manner is normally soft-spoken, precise and composed.

Hensley was short, normally soft-spoken, and friendly with churchgoers.

And then there was his cousin Chislen Peña, a normally soft-spoken young woman who fairly explodes when her time comes to preach.

Roomer's normally soft-spoken voice was unaccustomedly and deliberately harsh.

The normally soft-spoken Senator continued, his voice rising: "What has happened to Robert Bork is wrong.

He was normally soft-spoken; Caudell had noticed that back in Nashville and in the trenches.

Though he is normally soft-spoken, the prospect of no longer walking by the museum's dinosaurs on his way to work makes him sentimental.

The normally soft-spoken and shy Hulman had a proud and vociferous version of the command annually.

Normally soft-spoken, he couldn't contain himself.

Ortner, normally soft-spoken, demanded of one friend who was midway through a narrative of a near mugging in the neighborhood.