sotto voce

A local Dad joked sotto voce to his wife “And afterwards there will be a reception who will be in the auditorium!”

You would notice sotto voce that when ways and means were being discussed, times were always hard.

He believed in the value of viva voce discussion, and discouraged all unnecessary inter-departmental correspondence.

They wait patiently until his task is done, all the time purring gently and rhythmically in a sort of sotto voce accompaniment.

Here, too, elections were held viva voce under the beeches, at the foot of the wooded spur now known as Imboden Hill.

“Not the first time a man has obtained rank through his ‘baggage,’” observed one of the officers, sotto voce.