Sentence examples for are softened with from inspiring English sources

It's strange how the crimes of history are softened with the passage of time.

Notes of blackberry, grapefruit and bay are softened with vetiver and cedarwood.

The president has so far been insistent, the official said, that the barbs he aims at Mr. Kerry are softened with humor.

Characters are softened: with "My Best Friend's Wedding," test audiences found Julia Roberts's character unsympathetic, so the filmmakers eliminated a few scenes of her conniving and inserted a few more guilt-ridden closeups to turn the numbers around.

So some awful family/gender wars are about to commence, and Bell gets some laughs out of them, but these are softened with a lenient and faintly sentimental drama about her sister – a "personal project" giveaway.

The New York Times review described the album's sound by saying "Hard beats are softened with distortion, static cushions the tantrums, sneaky bass lines float beneath the surface".

The family painted them as older men with health issues — Roger Mayweather is diabetic — who are softening with age.

Already, markets are softening, with home sales declining and price appreciation slowing in Southern California and elsewhere in the U.S. In October, homes sales in the Inland Empire fell 5.8% from a year earlier, according to CoreLogic.

Even parkas might be softened with a baby-pink lining.

These days, the wood is softened with steam.

Metal filing cabinets were softened with lacelike stenciling.