Only Coach, and later Woody, the softheaded ones, seemed at peace with the world.
Whatever the length of the show's much admired tracking shot (six minutes, uncut!), it feels less hardboiled than softheaded.
"The hard heads and soft hearts are replacing the softheaded and hardhearted".
"Roots" is idealistic without being softheaded: there are message songs that speak clearly to the nation's crises ("We Got to Have Peace") alongside broader anthems (Mayfield's "Keep On Keeping On" predates Bob Dylan's use of the lyric in "Tangled Up in Blue" by years).
That said, without being softheaded about it, there is clearly debate going on within Hamas about what kind of language to use, how to pitch their rhetoric, how to play the political game vis-à-vis Israel.
The Guggenheim show is full of delights, albeit softheaded.
As Little Red Riding Hood, who starts out not innocent but merely blithely ignorant (Lapine and Sondheim are not softheaded about the nature of childhood), says after she has been awakened to life's dangers and excitements by her lupine encounter, "Isn't it nice to know a lot!
Hapless vulgar materialism and hapless softheaded communitarianism are among the easiest targets to hit these days.
Bill Dawers Savannah, Ga., March 23, 2010 To the Editor: The passing of the health care bill is neither a softhearted, softheaded "gift of charity," nor the end of the liberal agenda, as David Brooks suggests, but a solid and rational basis for a new beginning.
Since atheism is thought to be territory already secured, the targets now in view are the Big Questions, questions about morality, purpose and consciousness that puzzle softheaded people who muddle over them.
Keeping up the theme, the administration recently released a video of Mr. Obama waxing scornfully at the expense of his softheaded allies.
