This quiet, polite, soft-spoken gentleman was going to turn out to be the enfant terrible of physics.

Mr Melzer was a white-haired gentleman, rather soft-spoken, which had surprised me on the telephone, and his voice fit his appearance as I now saw.

Loren's a soft-spoken gentleman, but a player who has shown he's a champion.

"Big Billy Hill" was the irreverent nickname given by Time magazine to the articulate, soft-spoken gentleman.

He was a soft-spoken gentleman dressed in a dark suit.

"He was such a nice, soft-spoken gentleman," said one neighbor who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

"Ernie was a soft-spoken gentleman who never had a cross word for anyone," she said.

But Mr. Taylor is an amiable, soft-spoken gentleman.

Or the soft-spoken black gentleman in his driving gloves?

He is generally a soft-spoken gentleman.