Sentence examples for softening up from inspiring English sources

Why is "softening up" prisoners useful to the American government?

Over the past few years, it seemed to me that he was softening up a bit.

Then it's back to his for breakfast, softening up said journalist with an omelette.

His and Osborne's post-election "softening up" is returning to haunt them.

First, far from softening up the Taliban, three more years of fighting could harden them.

Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent military analyst in Moscow, forecast " right now they are just softening up the opposition.

Softening up Roksanda Ilincic 's silken drapes had moved a long way from her earlier, sweetheart evening dresses.

For my money, chenin is better than the popular viognier, which works best when it is softening up Côte-Rôtie.

As part of the softening-up operation, there are now BOPE incursions in the slum almost every day.

Then Hardy gives you one of his softening-up hooks to the ribs -- "they were clearly married: for only the married know such grim, silent company".

But in light of what happened in the second half of the concert, I look upon the whole first half as a necessary softening-up process for both Dylan and the audience.