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A number of large hotels line the Lucayan Beach, their massive façades softened by the hundreds of masts of the yachts moored on the inlet.
However, the resolution was softened to the point of ambiguity by the dissent (and eventual abstention) of Russia and China; the NYT says the UNSC resolution "skirts an outright threat to use force."
The release of the latest batch of Nixon tapes shows that death has not softened the old anti-Semite, except in the sense that he's dead.
… A piece argues that prosperity and nationwide effervescence have "softened the political culture."
The vigor and intellectual integrity of the High Renaissance had softened into the stylized sophistication of Mannerism, the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque.