Sentence examples for softly around from inspiring English sources

If the dialogue is pretty clunky ("I pray that you grow up to be normal and make friends"), some scenes cast a spell: four moth-like dancers swooping softly around Oliveira as he walks unseeingly among them; repeated rushes upstage that culminate in slow-motion arches, like action replays of runners reaching the finishing line.

Her toes nudge empty Wild Turkey bottles, tread softly around diapers dumped on the grass.

Warrant-holders slam the Hong Kong exchange, not just for approving the prospectus but for treading softly around an important, and profitable, client.

The conventional wisdom is that this history requires the United States to tread softly around Iranian domestic politics, and not to intervene in moments like this one.

He speaks softly around strangers, giving one-word answers, and is too embarrassed to ask teachers and friends for letters of support or petition signatures.

Robina Muqimyar chases her training partner across the grass infield onto the track, her laughter illuminating the empty Kostas Kenteris Stadium as dusk falls softly around them.

It's a boutique Italian restaurant in west Hollywood where glossy people with perfect tans sit around softly lit tables, murmuring movie talk.

The high-arching rainbow, softly rolling around the rim and in.

Not sharing this stretch of time, with the brilliant winter sunlight falling more softly right around here because it's reflecting from somewhere across the street.

Holding her in the shadows of the Festival Theatre, as the rain fell softly all around us, she was no longer my mother.

(It was also pretty amusing to watch, as cable TV commentators had to softly tread around the fact that they, too, often pepper their commentary with similar verbal tics).