But in person, the classically trained pianist is shy and soft spoken.
Genial, soft spoken, bald and lean, Life, who practised family medicine for much of his career, is a poster child for the longevity business.
Having interviewed him shortly after the 2003 invasion of Iraq - the ground element of which he masterminded - I can attest to his soft spoken, cerebral presence.
Both gentlemen were soft spoken and appeared to be genuine in their testimony, though they continued to acknowledge that they were aware of the financial risks they were taking on.
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By the time the soft spoken Dodgers manager sat behind the designated table for a 30 minute session with the baseball writers, a phalanx of microphones and television cameras were ready to capture every syllable and word that Mattingly uttered regarding the 2011 season and the future of his ball club.
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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.
He was chosen as a soft-spoken consensus-builder and is being lambasted for lacking charisma and punch.
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.
But the soft-spoken woman said she could still recommend death for whoever was responsible for the bombing.
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.
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