soft sell
Example Sentences
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You can see how they use the soft sell to push these ideas into the mainstream.
From Salon
And negotiations with the holding companies weren’t exactly a soft sell, with warnings of living in “a war zone” of trucks and construction if they didn’t cooperate.
From Seattle Times
The fable advises a soft sell augmented by persistence.
From Salon
In the sun-drenched cafeteria, Valencia Bautista sat behind a folding table in a corner, delivering a decidedly soft sell.
From New York Times
It’s a soft sell, a marked departure from the conservative culture-war issues he stressed in mailings to Republican voters ahead of the convention and since then in frequent appearances on Fox News shows.
From Washington Post
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