Sentence examples for have been softly from inspiring English sources

But my favorite is blocks that have been softly cut back with a gentle curve, so they look like giant stone pillows.

I had been writing invitations to Mary's and my engagement ceremony, the following week, while Sherlock Holmes had been softly practicing on his violin.

In the book, they were neat, fluffy little things, their edges prettily scalloped where their muffin cases had been softly peeled away.

In the next room extravagantly polished pink marble is curvaceously carved to look as if it, too, had been softly stretched and probed, leaving smooth hollows on the sides and a hole in the center between fine liplike curves.

Underneath his voice a drum kit has been softly rattling.

While the earliest known stag film has been softly dated to 1915, no one knows when the genre really originated.

Until now BT's plans to relaunch into mobile have been a softly-softly affair.

And Apple seems as though it's about to crack down on a number of apps that have been treading softly in these areas without directly violating them.

The ball might have been hit too softly for Sabathia to get LaRoche at first, even if he had fielded the ball cleanly.

The Blair Years have been criticised for a softly-softly approach to Blair, but in the end it paid off, showing quietly and through his own words that not only was it a case of "Blair against the world" but that he gloried in it.

Glyndebourne's Cavalli "revival" has been paced softly softly.