Sentence examples for soften you from inspiring English sources

They soften you up with some inconsequential sweetness.

The spider invited you into his parlour to soften you up.

It's to soften you up for the horror that comes raining down in the final 50 pages, when Boyet, so lately the toast of the runway, is interrogated, humiliated and given a close-up view of state-­sponsored brutality.

This way, they may take a long while to cook, but when they do finally soften you get thick nuggets of golden, melting onion flesh, somehow more satisfying than those skinny rings that get into a tangle and make your tart crumble to pieces as you slice.

The Bocca Cookbook exactly replicates the experience of eating in Kenedy's restaurant, by which I mean that the delicious-sounding dishes (the majority) soften you up for such things as pluck with artichokes (pluck is the bits – heart, lungs, liver, sweetbreads – that come out when you pull out an animal's windpipe), or focaccia with lung and spleen.

"Football can soften you up, but Jose Mourinho hasn't softened up, Wayne Rooney hasn't softened up and Sir Alex Ferguson certainly hasn't softened up.

"It softens you, it tenderizes you, makes you a lot more vulnerable.

Once the wheat, rice or barley has softened, you are free to season at will.

Venus passing through your skies eases personal relations and softens you up to spring for the restaurant tab.

(Once they've softened, you can turn up the heat a little, but keep an eye on them).

Mama got that look in her eyes when you didn't know whether she was going to scream in anger or cry with sadness, but, just then, she softened: You did that for me?