On the surface Vasella is unimposing and soft-voiced, a gentleman from head to toe.

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Into this minefield of potential resentment and painful rancour, stepped a slight, soft-voiced chanteuse.

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He had us now, the old man: all of us were straining to hear what this soft-voiced dapper gentleman might tell us about the professor we celebrated and advertised and never really knew.

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