How To Use soft-pedal In A Sentence
- Here was a soft-pedalled, soft-grained performance, miraculous in its level of delicacy attained and avoidance of the precious. Times, Sunday Times
- From one angle you might criticise his interpretation for its caution and soft-pedalled drama. Times, Sunday Times
- As anyone who has watched either show will know, this is not a place for soft-pedalling truths. Globe and Mail
- But, in the meantime, surely there's something fundamentally problematic for contemporary audiences about the movie's soft-pedalled subject matter? Times, Sunday Times
- Given that it is two papers out of a single edition of nature which are “in question”, I can see why this paper is soft-pedalling furiously. The Hwang Affair: A Chronology « Climate Audit
- This is a rather sensitive issue - I think we'd better soft-pedal it for the moment.
- Lower down the stave, articulation was soft-pedalled to such an extent that some syllables never carried beyond the platform. Times, Sunday Times
- We would certainly hate to see him back down and start soft-pedalling, social media-wise, just because the manager got upset. Times, Sunday Times
- And where Treasury soft-pedaled on regulatory consolidation, for fear of angering powerful constituencies, Dodd went much further, combining not only the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency with the Office of Thrift Savings, but throwing in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for good measure. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » The Clusterf**K Continues
- And then they came back said no, they resigned on principle, concerned about the commission's soft-pedalling the reports involving Kofi Annan's relationship with his son, Kojo, and Kojo's relationship with Cotecna firm that got a big contract from the U.N. The bottom line is, you now have a pall cast over the investigation. CNN Transcript May 3, 2005
