"The Matchbox Diary," written by Paul Fleischman and illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline, is a softer tale in which a 5-year-old 5-year-old 5-year-oldfather for the first timeetsd learns about her experience immigrating to America from Italy when he was young.
Much of this series tells a softer tale, a sort of "anthropological survey through the eyes of artists," Hoffmann said.
In contrast to the pixilated carnage on his laptop, soft-rocking tales of heartbreak from Beck's new album permeate the air, and Lola, the bulldog that Jack refers to as "one of the only miracles you'll ever witness with your own eyes," plays happily at his feet.
Rebekah Brooks, the 43-year-old former editor of The News of the World and daughter-figure to Rupert, was a prideful pre-Raphaelite Medusa, with a sweet face and soft voice spinning tales of innocence that didn't quite gel.
I also felt the faintest ripple of unease; I had attended Catholic school for 12 years in South Africa, and Sister Virgilius with her powdery palms and soft tread and tales of missionary fervor -- well, let's just say she made an impression on me.
Orsino in Twelfth Night says, "If music be the food of love, play on," Desdemona sings scraps of song, Ophelia plays the lute, there's heavenly music when Hermione's statue comes to life at the end of The Winter's Tale, soft music in King Lear when it looks as if Lear's madness is past … too many examples to mention.
The revival of 1980's electro makes an opportune moment for the return of Soft Cell, which distilled tales of glamour and excess down to Dave Ball's synthesizer blips and Marc Almond's histrionic voice.
When she wasn't making up tales about soft little bunnies, she liked to watch them get ripped to pieces; a fan of running to hounds, Brown was a charter member of an exclusive Long Island hunting club known as the Buckram Beagles.
It specialised in soft porn and bizarro tales of suburbia that positioned it firmly as an outsider publication.
McCamus's deep-voiced, laconic delivery is so mesmeric that he almost disguises the soft edges of his tale.
