We have absolutely no sympathy whatsoever for offences of this nature - which, whatever their degree of seriousness, we find repulsive - neither do we believe that they should be hushed up.

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In hushed, vaguely conspiratorial tones we talked some more.

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We headed upstairs, del Toro adopting the hushed garrulity of a docent.

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"We are used to keeping secrets, " Vassily says in hushed tones, even though he is speaking in the privacy of his own kitchen.

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For that we must turn to the notorious saga of the bad, bad girl who told me in hushed tones that, while she was staying in a room with two beds at the Setai in Miami, she proceeded to carefully remove the Christian Fischbacher satin sheets from the unused bed, then meticulously remake it so as not to alert housekeeping.

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