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Example sentences for: softballs

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He may have pitched softballs, but that's what the ground rules of the occasion required.
Keep an eye out or an ear cocked today for the hard-soft distinction, and you probably will encounter examples within just a few minutes (not counting the ubiquitous hardwares and softwares , hardballs and softballs ). On the BBC World Service's main morning news program a few days ago, a news reader, in a story about a Kurdish influx into Europe, spoke of Italy as having a soft immigration policy, meaning that illegal aliens are given expulsion orders but not actually subjected to any further action.
Republicans generally congratulate Starr for his fair-mindedness and resilience in the face of partisan attack, then toss him softballs about whether the rule of law should apply to everyone equally.
In a world of Crossfire , it is so obvious and boring to have interlocutors priss around their hidden agendas, weave intellectually dishonest tapestries, and lob decontextualized softballs back and forth.