"On one level," Lethem says, "the book hinges on the joke of replacing the hard-boiled narrator - who's supposed to be this Bogart figure impressing everyone with his Machiavellian control of circumstances and conversation - with this absolutely soft-boiled chaos of language".
show absolutely no soft hand.
David Crossley, the principal, said: "We want our pupils to be autonomous learners but we will absolutely not be a soft touch.
Billy has the kind of looks I used to go for a couple of years ago, when I was about fifteen: soulful and soft, with absolutely no hair on his chest.
In 18 pz we have associate PiezoSurgery system, which exploits the ultrasounds action, effective on the bone but absolutely atraumatic on the soft tissue.
The basic mechanisms are ultrasounds, that working in a frequency range between 25 and 30 Khz, determining very low oscillations on the tip of the handpiece, with effectiveness in cutting hard tissue but absolutely atraumatic on the soft tissue [ 2], with bio-stimulating effects.
When Mr. Nixon suggested Mr. Bush, the secretary said, "Absolutely not, he is too soft and not sophisticated enough".
I absolutely adore you," Jack Lemmon says, soft as a puppy, in the closing moments of "The Apartment".
If we absolutely must sit on pure, soft sand, all we have to do is dig down a foot or two in the backyard, and there's a perfect beach right under the bed of perennials.
Our house was like a softer version of Absolutely Fabulous at times – this complicated mother-daughter relationship in which sometimes the daughter is the mother.
