Words similar to softening

Example sentences for: softening

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There seems to be a kind of semantic quality that makes adjectives softer and gentler than nouns and makes of them softening agents.
And indeed, Cohen left the meeting with the latest Russian proposal for softening U.N. weapons inspections of Iraq.
The Washington Post leads with Indonesia's softening stance on allowing peacekeepers into violence-torn East Timor; the other papers also front the story.
Try it yourself, perhaps at dawn, when a thin haze drapes itself over the pavilions, redefining yet softening the features of this storybook skyline.
My grandmother's family, the Gannuscios , have long known that some distant relatives spell the name Cannuscio (the softening of hard c to hard g being very common as words move across Italy's myriad dialects).