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  • Stacey Kent, On tourThough she's popular all over the globe, the soft-voiced, intimacy-invoking, Grammy-nominated jazz singer Stacey Kent has become a big deal in France in recent years.

    This week's new live music Andrew Clements 2010

  • Later, Mr. Lilley also turns up in Tokyo, as the Japanese housewife Jen Okazaki, a soft-voiced but tyrannical manager of her son Tim's skateboarding career.

    All About Yveses Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

  • We know sadness looms over the home of Maggie (a soft-voiced Amy Irving) and Lawrence (the always dependable Mark Blum).

    Michael Giltz: Theater: Zoe Kazan Pens Play; Glee's Groff Gets Ugly Michael Giltz 2011

  • She remembered the young bookkeeper at the laundry -- not a workingman, but a soft-handed, soft-voiced gentleman -- whom Charley had beaten up at the corner because he had been bold enough to come to take her to the theater.

    CHAPTER VI 2010

  • At that time, he seemed like a typical student—thin, shock-haired, soft-voiced, and unworldly.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • Out on the water flickering lights and soft-voiced choruses marked the fishers returning from the reef.

    THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN 2010

  • We know sadness looms over the home of Maggie (a soft-voiced Amy Irving) and Lawrence (the always dependable Mark Blum).

    Michael Giltz: Theater: Zoe Kazan Pens Play; Glee's Groff Gets Ugly Michael Giltz 2011

  • In manner he was a dapper ironist, soft-voiced and accepting of the curious turns that fate was inclined to take.

    We Shall Not See His Like Again Richard Schickel 2011

  • It was an oasis surrounded by a well-manicured green with an elegant terrace of bamboo in the midst of a chaotic city, whose inhabitants, hard-spirited but soft-voiced with skin the color of slivered almonds.

    The Forgetting Room 1-6 2010

  • My soft-voiced Dad was so proud at my birth, and here I was feeling like a perv.

    Decision Paralysis, Or Why I Can't Get Out Of Vault 101 SVGL 2008

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