How To Use Soft-pedal In A Sentence
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Here was a soft-pedalled, soft-grained performance, miraculous in its level of delicacy attained and avoidance of the precious.
Times, Sunday Times
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From one angle you might criticise his interpretation for its caution and soft-pedalled drama.
Times, Sunday Times
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As anyone who has watched either show will know, this is not a place for soft-pedalling truths.
Globe and Mail
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But, in the meantime, surely there's something fundamentally problematic for contemporary audiences about the movie's soft-pedalled subject matter?
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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This is a rather sensitive issue - I think we'd better soft-pedal it for the moment.
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Lower down the stave, articulation was soft-pedalled to such an extent that some syllables never carried beyond the platform.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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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
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On the issue of industrial pollution, the environmental activist plead with the government not to soft-pedal.
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President Hu and President Obama on Wednesday played up the two nations' common interests but soft-pedaled or ignored longstanding issues that divide them.
China Top Official: Hu's Visit 'A Great Success'
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I call it soft-pedalling and doing it breaches the trust with the license fee payer.
Ruth Turner Arrest - BBC Response
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But the newest version of candidate McCain does not dillydally, soft-pedal or claim to live outside politics-as-usual.
A Whole New McCain - Swampland - TIME.com
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He refused to soft-pedal an investigation into the scandal.
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That the top two leaders are willing to engage with the tribal elders, some of whom may be harbouring the militants who in turn are accused of staging attacks on Afghan and Nato forces across the Durand Line, should not be seen as soft-pedalling the issue.
War On Terror: For Whom We are Fighting?
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He refused to soft-pedal an investigation into the scandal.
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Raise a glass to the master, and the soft-pedalling pilgrimage that brought you a little closer to his vision.
Times, Sunday Times
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China relationship, played up the two nations' common interests — and soft-pedaled or ignored longstanding issues that divide them.
Rivals Seek New Balance
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His advisers soft-pedaled the president's blunder
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All I did was grump at Glenn Reynolds for soft-pedalling his plagiarism, a position I thought was not good for a professor to hold.
Archive 2005-08-01
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Far from soft-pedalling, this approach might signal a significant increase in the pressure brought to bear on sophisticated fraudsters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet, while the movie may earn a few points for honesty, it remains a soft-pedalled weepie.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some rights groups have accused Britain of soft-pedalling on sensitive political issues to avoid harming its trade prospects.
David Cameron vows to raise human rights issues 'without hectoring' China
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Like the trustees, stewards and owners of Britain's other stately homes, the Carnarvons had got used to the idea of soft-pedalling their class and privilege in favour of a workmanlike attitude to custodianship that blurred the distinctions.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Yeah, I think they've been soft-pedalling this long enough.
Pelosi Says The Dem Primary Is Over, Declares Obama The "Nominee"
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On the issue of industrial pollution, the environmental activist plead with the government not to soft-pedal.
