The phrase "albeit soft" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to introduce a contrasting idea or qualification, often to soften a statement or acknowledge an exception.
Example: "The fabric is durable, albeit soft, making it suitable for both comfort and longevity."
Alternatives: "although gentle" or "even if tender".
Haim Saban, the media mogul who bought Germany's ProSiebenSat.1 this summer, said last month that he wanted to buy ITV but not without its sales houses.But the Competition Commission's conditions on the new company, albeit softer than expected, will make life tougher both for ITV now and for a prospective buyer.
A few of these non-tenure-track positions are the "moral equivalent" of the traditional assistant professorship in that they permit or even encourage independent research--albeit on soft money, stated Keith Yamamoto, a professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco.
Moreover, his runaway success in the King Edward VII Stakes at the royal meeting came, albeit in soft ground, over the King George course and distance.
Canada Day is all about getting absolutely shit-faced and proving that Canadians have their own, albeit relatively soft, identity.
Closer to our present, the writer wonders about the same compromises, albeit with softer language.
At 74, she looks like, well, Barbra Streisand, albeit a softer, more subdued version than the one you know from six decades of movies, from her Oscar winning-debut in the musical "Funny Girl" (1968), in which she recreated her Broadway performance as the Ziegfeld entertainer Fanny Brice, to the comedy "The Guilt Trip" (2012), with Seth Rogen.
With rain forecast for Saturday, Collected is likely to find himself running over an off track once again, and while Nyquist won his lone start on a track not rated "fast" – the Florida Derby on a Gulfstream track labeled "good" – several of his rivals have shown an affinity for the mud, albeit in softer company.
I lost patches of hair trying to get a soft (albeit oily) Jheri curl.
Playing to the perception that she's one tough cookie, albeit with a soft side, the book, from its title onward, also presents her as something of a hawk.
