Sentence examples for rather softly from inspiring English sources
Or rather, softly and sensually.
I sing rather softly these days.
Counter-programmed as an alternative to Fury's wartime action, Love, Rosie, adapted from Cecelia Ahern's Where Rainbows End, landed rather softly in ninth place, with £373,000 plus £110,000 in previews.
They do have a useful free-kick now on the left flank awarded rather softly by referee Damon, who's quite good in that new Nelson Mandela film 22 mins And what a save by Carlos!
Kevin Pietersen made a typically wild start to his innings before falling rather softly to a prod forward at Lyon, but it was Bell's reckless swipe to mid-off that really kick-started England's demise.
North Korea protested its negative depiction in 2003's Die Another Day rather softly, and only raised the issue of the death of Kim Jong-Il in Team America: World Police by asking the Czech Republic not to screen the film. .
IT was raining — or rather, spritzing softly — as usual as Margaret B. Jones stood barefoot in her front yard last week.
He spoke about that, when asked, rather diffidently, softly rubbing the rims of his glasses in one hand, talking of Heidegger and Pascal and the notions of number held by the ancient Greeks, smiling often with what seemed to be repressed joy.
Rather than the softly softly, touchy feely approach of Mo it was the cold steel policy of Tony Blair and his advisers.
Most important, rather than speak softly and carry a big stick, Roosevelt usually spoke loudly in public and then, with unerring instinct, privately found a way to forge a compromise.
To realize what he meant, one need only compare the enchanting songs of the Swiss years, based on distorted folk texts, with Stravinsky's conventionally expressive, and (say it softly) rather pallid earlier songs.
