Soften
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Critics who want a more activist, growth-oriented monetary policy have tried--albeit unsuccessfully--to
soften
up the 68-year-old Dutchman with personal attacks and degrading insults.
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To borrow a concept from my country's CIA, it helps you to
soften
up your audience.
If we can feather the edges,
soften
those edges so we can control diffraction, well then we can see a planet, and in the last 10 years or so we've come up with optimal solutions for doing that.
So they're going to put pressure on these soldiers, military police, to cross the line, give them permission to break the will of the enemy, to prepare them for interrogation, to
soften
them up, to take the gloves off.
I don't know about the real Cobb but I got the distinct impression that the filmmakers' aim was to try to
soften
his jagged edges and reputation, not give us a true portrait of the man himself.
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