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Example sentences from the Web for softnessBut the softness, the muted quality in turn became an aesthetic. Digging the Gold in Dylan’s ‘Basement’|Malcolm Jones|November 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST It prefers nonconfrontation, and calmness and softness of voice are valued when dealing with adversity. Obama's Awkward Indonesia Trip|Sahil Mahtani, Kenneth Weisbrode|November 7, 2010|DAILY BEAST Yet there is a softness in some of these moments that Borat lacked. The Brünos Who Surround Us|Lee Siegel|July 11, 2009|DAILY BEAST But softness and irresolution were the characteristics of Austria's generals no less than of her rulers. The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)|John Holland Rose
He saw that a tender light, the softness of sympathy, came into her eyes when she noticed the plasters on his forehead and cheek. Spring Street|James H. Richardson Go among women with the good qualities of your sex, and you will acquire from them the softness and the graces of theirs. The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son|The Earl of Chesterfield The night had fallen, and through the open window the summer breeze came in, and the softness of the air was like a kiss. Mrs. Craddock|W. Somerset Maugham "We must go," he said, and remembering the softness of his voice, he was tormented.
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nounthe quality or an instance of being soft metallurgy the tendency of a metal to distort easilySee brittleness (def. 2), toughness (def. 2) Words nearby softnesssoft line, soft loan, softly, softly-softly, soft money, softness, soft on, soft option, soft palate, soft paste, soft pedal Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to softnesstenderness, flexibility, pliability, plasticity, malleability, heart, empathy, mercy, sympathy, kindness, humanity, charity |