He was a soft-spoken man with an unassuming manner, says BBC Urdu's Dilawar Wazir Khan.
For all of LaPierre's tough talk, friends and former colleagues describe a soft-spoken man who's a little scattered.
"When you create wealth in a short time, you think about philanthropy as you think about a business, " says Omidyar, a compact, soft-spoken man.
In contrast to Davy, with his charisma and flair, Faraday was a gentle, soft-spoken man whose lectures always put science, rather than the scientist, at centre stage.
When the biggest names in boxing talk about the future of the sport, they point to a soft-spoken man who weighs only a little over 100 pounds and hails from one of China's poorest provinces.
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And, once the screwdriver was in her hand, she felt instant relief from the pain of having an old soft-backed man snuffling under her tub, and then something more than relief: a blessed indifference, as if the very idea of feeling pain over such a thing were baffling.
Matt Damon, the soft-spoken leading man in box office winner The Bourne Ultimatum, turns out to be Hollywood's best investment.
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He was a soft-spoken, bookish man, quite frail looking, really.
As Pacquiao has ascended into one of the planet's most compelling athletes, so has the reputation of the 51-year-old Roach, Pac-man's soft-spoken engineer in the corner, counseling wisely behind black-rimmed eyeglasses.
Lampard stepped up to take the spot-kick but Sorensen got down to his left and held the England man's soft, side-footed effort - making it a third penalty miss in a row for the midfielder.
Maybe I'm filled with the milk of human kindness, or perhaps I have a soft spot for supermodels--I'm a gay man, so I have at least one soft spot for supermodels--but I actually believe that it's possible for a beautiful, young woman to fall in love with an obscenely wealthy older man.
His skin has the soft, weathered look of a man who has spent years in the sea.
Another sop to the soft-hearted 21st-century modern man is the option of using straw to pad your socks and hopefully cushion the blows.
In southern Greenland, back in July 2004, a local man - Ferdinand Egede - dug into the soft earth of a field to show me something he'd never expected to see in his lifetime: potatoes.
Now he turned, holding the little table upside down against his vast belly, and this soft thing, more than all the rest, announced him as a man deserted by women.
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.
This sounds kitsch, though Michael Gray, a British photographer, has produced a surprisingly soft and lovely print of three people outside the medieval Wiltshire abbey that once was home to the man who discovered how to use negatives to produce positive prints, William Henry Fox Talbot.
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