Sentence examples for softening him from inspiring English sources

Preparing a subject for interrogation means softening him up.

He defended himself ably, but Carson was softening him up for the blow.

She'd spent all that time softening him, or at least his image, and still he looked stiff.

If they insist on applying too much heat, they might just be softening him up so that Obama can finish him off.

Mr. Romney was savaged by Mr. Gingrich over his record at Bain Capital, softening him up for the coming Democratic effort to portray him as a heartless capitalist happy to fire people to enrich himself.

Mr. Obama's team has made Mr. Romney its primary Republican target for now, either softening him up for a general election matchup or trying to weaken him in the hopes of tilting the Republican nomination to a more ideological rival — or both.

Richie softened him".

It softened him, too.

The years, however, have not softened him.

The adoration hardly softened him, though.

"I softened him up," Norton told me in 2000.