Sentence examples for a soft west from inspiring English sources

Knight is tall, red-bearded, and weather-beaten; his voice is a soft West Country burr.

Sunday, Sept. 7 The weather is hot and humid, but a soft west wind is making the Long Island shore a little more comfortable.

She grew up in the rural, bohemian town of Ojai, California, the oldest of eight children, and still speaks with a soft west coast accent despite having spent most of her 20s in Europe and the UK.

So what she is doing in a high-stress, long-hours occupation like this? "A lot of my colleagues at university said they'd got this calling, but I never really had that," she admits, a soft West Yorkshire accent betraying her Halifax roots.

At 6 ft 4 in and weighing 22 stone, with a dishevelled appearance and a soft West Country accent, he was considered gentle by those he met.

"Our new album was produced by us, without outside influences," he said in a telephone interview, speaking in the soft West Country British accent that has been a familiar touchstone for millions of fans since the group's groundbreaking 1966 album, "Days of Future Past".

Although Stamp was an East End lad, he gave Billy a soft, slow, West Country accent, which may have been intended to imply that Billy, though kind and generous, is not overly intelligent – so much for 1950s regional stereotyping.

"You ever seen 'Ope Sandoval?" asks the other half of Massive Attack, Grant Marshall, in his soft West Country burr, before exhaling heavily.

APPROACHING the 20th birthday of Cisco, the world's largest maker of networking equipment, and his own tenth anniversary as chief executive, John Chambers has lately been telling people, in his soft West Virginian drawl, that he is "having fun again".

Mr Major, who clearly has a soft spot for West Indian cricket, enthuses about watching greats such as Clyde Walcott and Everton Weekes playing at the Oval in the 1950s, in front of excited crowds of recently arrived Caribbean immigrants.

I've always had a soft spot for West Ham, particularly after that stonking 2006 FA Cup Final (although at the time I remember pulling my hair out and cursing the day Paul Konchesky was born... glad that didn't come back to haunt me), but I can't stand Allardyce and that film Green Street was crap.