Sentence examples for soften us from inspiring English sources

The holidays soften us up for it, with elves and snowmen and lights in the trees.

Perhaps we should ignore it – and realise its purpose is just to soften us up for the budget.

Perhaps the idea all along was to soften us up for the inexorable advance of Twenty20 cricket.

Indeed, Yates's dark humor seems calculated less to please us than, as with any satire, to soften us up for the sterner truths.

"Friedman understood that, just as prisoners are softened up for interrogation by the shock of their capture, massive disasters could serve to soften us up for his radical free-market crusade".

Please, get rid of the gimmicks – the faux-concerned and impersonal feedback loop and the specious "choice" paradigm designed to soften us up for privatisation – and listen to your frontline staff.

It softens us up instead of making us hungry for more".

All this softens us up for the unsurprising revelation, later in the film, that Andreotti was no stranger to the workings of the Mafia.

They prey on those primitive emotions for the sake of softening us up, enraging us, leaving us open to jolt after gratifying jolt -- payback.

The Department of Culture, Media and Sport softened us up for the bad news by revealing that the "proportion of adults visiting a library" had decreased from 48.2% to 39.4% in the four years to 2010.

Years of debate over the depiction of gender may have softened us up, but, more important, gallerygoers are likely to have kept pace with artists like Lucian Freud and his young British follower Jenny Saville; her proud and livid nudes, many of them bereft of heads, make you wonder whether she studied reproductions of the Penns.