Sentence examples for softening into from inspiring English sources

It's on an open, grassy plain, surrounded by peaks 1,200 metres high – sharp ridge-lines softening into rolling hills.

Most of them were abandoned now, the terraces softening into the mountain, scrub reclaiming ground from people who had gone to the cities long ago.

But what begins as a blushing, priapic opera buffa about coming of age turns into a verismo shocker, before softening into something mellower.

The designer caught some of the key elements for autumn 2013: especially the silken bathrobes or a full set of pajamas, as though the alpha male were softening into a more transsexual clothes horse.

I paused to inspect a cut on my shin and noticed that, us aside, there were no buildings, no people, not even any sheep, just jagged slopes softening into rumpled hills, all the way to the blue-rinsed horizon.

Then all hell would break loose, and the whiplash tones of her voice would sharpen, her piano-playing would intensify, her baleful stares and brooding presence even softening into something like contentment.

— have been softened into mohair.

Sharp angles soften into curves.

His voice softens into amused melancholy.

By lunchtime the cookies would have softened into a paste.

But almost immediately he softened into a more accepting tone.