Sentence examples for soft minds from inspiring English sources

Adam Gopnik discusses the difference between highly intelligent people with sharp minds and those with soft minds, indicating that soft smart minds are the rarer of the two ("Music to Your Ears," January 28th).

I can just see soft minds being led, and I think the whole tone of the rhetoric has been so extreme that that is why it is hitting here".

Another example: When asked a perfectly normal question, one roiling the soft minds of the undecided voters, about what would happen if the numbers in his secret budget-and-tax plan didn't add up, Romney went full boss-in-a-snit mode.

With the older townsfolk in a puritanical tizzy, Peak Hawthorne is achieved: the very nature of theatre is condemned; it's the medium of the devil, who always has the best tunes, and the best lines, with which to corrupt hard bodies and soft minds.

Darwin is probably the best instance of the soft style in science history, and Bregman is very much in this soft-mind tradition.

Soft smart minds, though, are of another, rarer kind.

It became the center of a largely domestic ritual, presided over by women, and was regarded, in both senses of the word, as a gentle beverage, then pronounced "tay," as in Alexander Pope's "Rape of the Lock": "Soft yielding minds to water glide away, / And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental tea".

She looked down at the small ears of her daughter, unavoidably open to the world, eagerly capturing the sounds of the choking man and turning them inward to shape her soft, growing mind.