Sentence examples for softly begins from inspiring English sources

The estate of Spirit's late guitarist, Randy Wolfe, also known as Randy California, contends that the famous descending-chord progression that softly begins the crescendo-building Stairway was lifted from Wolfe's Taurus, which was released a few years earlier.

In fact, according to Indiewire's blog The Playlist, "Killing Them Softly" begins with an excerpt from Barack Obama's speech at the 2008 Democratic Convention: "What is that American promise?

The light of a full moon shimmered on the plain, and from time to time they saw a rabbit jump, but Pereda paid no attention, and after a long spell of silence he softly began to sing a song in French that his late wife had liked.

The night is black and the radio tinny, and softly Pattinson begins to sing along.

A marathon of movies adapted from Ms. Oke's "Love Comes Softly" series begins at 11 a.m. 9 P.M. (CUNY) ORIANA (1985) In this Gothic romance, directed by Fina Torres, a Venezuelan woman (Daniela Silverio) is haunted by memories of the terror that lurked within the family hacienda she inherited from her aunt (Doris Wells).

Very softly, he began to stroke her palm with his thumb.

As I kept up my assaults, always choosing to yell rather than using the more subtle (and potentially effective) approach of speaking softly, I began to think about my need to overpower and control.

Softly she began to sing: "Don't let go, you got the music in you.... Don't give up, you got a reason to live/Can't forget, we only get what we give!" When she broke off, she was laughing and her face was flushed.

When she sings too high or too softly, her voice begins to wobble and crack.

SAMUEL BARBER'S Adagio for Strings begins softly, with a single note, a B flat, played by the violins.

As my companion and I leave the subway, the rain begins, softly.