soft in the head

Example Sentences

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Now don’t go all weak at the knees and soft in the head when you read this:

From Los Angeles Times

Bouloukos is a secret weapon of independent cinema; he was on my best-of list for 2013, for his supporting role in Nathan Silver’s feature “Soft in the Head,” in which he played a group-home resident who dominates the facility’s atmosphere with his smoldering silence and explosive rage.

From The New Yorker

The pregnant girls marked their babies or didn’t, but the grandfathers—unwarned—went soft in the head, walked out of the syrup house, left their beds in the shank of the night, wet themselves, forgot the names of their grown children and where they’d put their razor strops.

From Literature

"I think you've got to be a bit soft in the head with their policies," he claimed.

From BBC

At this point, despite lingering on for a few more years, Mr Blobby became a widely despised irritant, described by no less than the New York Times as “a metaphor for a nation gone soft in the head”.

From The Guardian