Mayweather has grown soft trying to protect his zero.
She acknowledged that the trend has been cited, less benignly, by those asserting that America's youth has grown soft.
His mind has grown soft from too much Internet usage, he says, "whether on my laptop with its glowing piece of violated fruit on the lid, or the awful little slab I've made the mistake of entrusting with my phone calls and, more and more, my higher faculties.
Her team, if it even continued to exist in the new Administration, would soon belong to one of the most anti-science President-elects in history, who has called climate change a "hoax," spread unproven claims about vaccinations' ties to autism, and mocked new brain-science-backed N.F.L. guidelines to prevent concussions, saying that football has grown "soft".
His health had been frail in recent months, his soft voice had grown softer.
You will also see a self-assured creature whose angular features have grown softer and more womanly, her turnout a departure from the constricting get-ups that once were her fashion signature.
It would be stale, as a newsweekly editor might put it, to deliver the following news: newsweeklies have grown softer over the decades, more likely to tackle lifestyle than life-and-death political struggles overseas.
Now 78, her features seem to have grown softer and twinklier with age, but there's no mistaking the pain in Philomena's eyes, nor her beady maternal determination to find her missing cub.
He also worried that his generation had grown soft.
Then, too, people sensed that the country had grown soft and decadent.
