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Example sentences for: softening

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Japan’s austere, ruthless, but statesmanlike new ruler, Yoritomo Minamoto, set up his government in Kamakura (just south of modern Tokyo), well away from the “softening” influence of court life that had been the undoing of his predecessor, Kiyomori.
There seems to be a kind of semantic quality that makes adjectives softer and gentler than nouns and makes of them softening agents.
The European press was softening up public opinion Monday for airstrikes against Serbia with gung-ho editorials and grueling eyewitness accounts of Serbian atrocities in Kosovo.
The Family Research Council's Gary Bauer and Eagle Forum's Phyllis Schlafly criticized him when he suggested softening the GOP platform.
One main reason for the softening, says the paper, is that Clinton doesn't want to appear to be pressuring Reno.