"This is the other extreme: soft power, dialogue," Mr. Torreblanca said of the alliance.
Filmed in black and white, the game eagerly wishes to evoke the era of Raymond Chandler and Humphrey Bogart, but it is a goal thwarted by tin-eared, soft-boiled dialogue and a lot of very bad acting.
The musical numbers provide some pleasure, but the one reason to watch the show is Ms. Benanti, who has the skill to make the soft-boiled tough-guy dialogue work and who often seems to be the only adult on screen.
Whether the issue is Iran, Syria, Iraq or now Sudan, Europe always favors the softer approach, preaching "constructive dialogue" while the killing continues.
What makes the show so interesting is the way it it feels as if the walls of the space and the music – everything from electronica to soft lamentation – are genuinely in dialogue with each other.
This is a lot to ask, and the film — through the languor of its scenes, the soft-spoken sentimentality of its dialogue — is a passive-aggressive exercise in emotional coercion.
Yet when their statesmen meet, as they did this week in Delhi for their fourth annual "strategic dialogue", tomorrow's soft-focus happy ending is obscured by today's litany of disagreements.
We need a cultural transformation to break that silence ― we need to offer diverse pathways into climate dialogue and action, including soft ones.
Soft intelligence could also facilitate improved dialogue between Board members as the exposure to such information could facilitate the sharing of experiences and insights about patient safety issues and concerns.
Sitting in a semicircle and playing banjos, tambourines, bones, and fiddles, they sang comic songs and sentimental ballads interspersed with soft-shoe dances and snatches of dialogue.
