Today, while the mainstream audio-book industry has mushroomed into a fiercely competitive $ 1.4 billion business, Hecht, 65, maintains a genteelly profitable cottage industry amid the behemoths surrounding him.
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By contrast, the Senate is genteelly fractious; Democrats are differing over whether Clinton should insist on a trial, and even some conservative Republicans say it would be silly to make him concede he lied.
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As the OED lumbers genteelly into the new millennium, it is heartening to note that however vital its computers have become, they can never fully replace the work of its pencil-wielding, flesh-and-blood staff.
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Mark Jacoby and Marin Mazzie also sing beautifully, but their roles as a proper Victorian husband and wife, each privately troubled and often genteelly at odds with the other, are not clearly defined by either the prose or the music.
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One of the key props is what this newspaper once genteelly referred to as " an artificial sex toy, " but it feels like a mere echo of the zipper and hair-gel scenes from " Mary ."
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He genteelly hands sweaters to his victims as he herds them into meat lockers, softly says " please " and " thank you " as he scoops the cash into a bag, and saunters away with a cheery farewell.
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He has also appeared co-hosting a segment called " ConTROVersy " with the Daily Show's other English correspondent, John Oliver, in which the pair calmly and genteelly discussed former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair over tea, parodying American stereotypes of Britons.
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When Tennessee Williams wrote " The Glass Menagerie " in the early 1940s, he had Tom, the aspiring writer who worked in a St . Louis warehouse and lived miserably with his genteelly poor mother and sister, go to the movies to escape his life.
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Subtly, he conveys the pent-up feelings of a man who has back-burnered himself for too long and is ready for some catalyst to help launch him into a more active form of life than the genteelly gloomy one into which he seems to have imploded.
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"I fell in love when I first saw the neighborhood, " said Joy Lo, a New Jersey native who works for a public relations firm and lives in Ju'er Lane, a cluster of renovated houses amid the genteelly decaying courtyard homes that once belonged to nobility.
