Sentence examples for softly close from inspiring English sources

You could also speak softly close to them and look closely at them.

Softly close your eyes or gaze gently down the tip of your nose to focus on a pebble or a spot on a wall that will not move.

Starting on Nov. 16, however, we're off to the races: "Lincoln," "Silver Linings Playbook," "Life of Pi," "Hitchcock," and the forgotten "Killing Them Softly" close out this month, while "The Hobbit," "This Is 40," "Zero Dark Thirty," "Django Unchained" and "Les Miserables" all arrive in December.

The sound of her key in the lock around five in the evening caused me to jump up from the couch, turn off the television, and quickly and quietly run to my room, where I would softly close the door and pick up whichever book was near.

Then he nods softly, closes his eyes, and kneels.

I whispered, "Do you still think of Grandpa when you use that pillow?" His eyes remained softly closed, and a big smile filled his angelic, sleepy face.

Quietly close the carrier door, and speak softly to her.

"Who are you?" he says softly, so close she can taste his breath on her.

It starts with, and often returns to, a striking formation whereby its five dancers travel, softly and close together, around the stage: this has a dreamlike quality.

Press softly and close your eyes.

His largest and most impressive canvas is a softly sunlit close-up of a wrought-iron park gate with a long allée behind it (1893).