Sentence examples for to soft-pedal from inspiring English sources
verb
To attempt to persuade without being obvious about it, by understating a position so the listener takes the good points as obvious.
I'm not trying to soft-pedal the very real pathologies of the modern conservative movement.
Clearly, Mr. Gore long ago discarded any instinct to soft-pedal his message.
So he devised a scheme to soft-pedal the racial transformation of Christ.
First, we see the full acknowledgment that a change has transpired, with no effort to soft-pedal the previous stance.
Most of the wits are on one side, no matter how nicely Mr. Greene tries to soft-pedal his brilliance.
Balthus learned to soft-pedal the latter quality after his first gallery show, in Paris, in 1934.
If she did engage in those ritual forms of self-abnegation that influential women are encouraged to spin to soft pedal their power in our media culture, we would "like her more".
This focus on trade and economic issues does not mean that Mr Modi's government can afford to soft pedal on strategic issues.
He continued: "As my friend PJ O'Rourke told me, 'you're going to have to soft pedal this death door stuff, Clive, because people are going to get impatient.'".
"We've had a whole series of measurers, a weakening of legal sanctions, which suggests that the regulators are expected now to soft pedal". Similarly, Peter Hamilton, who is a barrister whose cases involve the financial services market and FCA regulation, also said the FCA had softened its stance since Mr Wheatley was forced to step down.
We shouldn't even try to soft pedal it.
