soft touch

Example Sentences

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As a writer, Hughes was gifted with a heavy hand and a soft touch.

From Salon

He told BBC Scotland News that he had plans to fix the NHS, get young people into work and to end a "soft touch" approach to justice.

From BBC

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

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

From BBC

You are, in their household, considered a “soft touch” — someone who is easily guilt-tripped and/or coerced into parting with your money.

From MarketWatch