soft touch

Example Sentences

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In a nation of noisy confrontationalists—the skillful soft touch replaced by the swing of a folding chair—reason is routinely drowned out by the loudest voices in the room.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Scotland's soft touch beginning had been cast to the winds.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

They didn’t intend to subsidize the state’s soft touch.

From Slate • Jun. 19, 2025

Avichal said the mission requires brute force but also a soft touch, as when an elderly woman in Altadena recently asked a cleanup crew for a personal treasure buried in her home’s rubble.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2025

I walked slowly down the hall, surrounded by my shouting and jostling classmates, seeing only the beautiful soldier, feeling only the electric tingle of her soft touch on my head.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang