Although, the Ward Bond character softens the edge with "maybe we can communicate with them, after all they're humans, too" type of dialogue.

Tracy, playing a blustery, hard-to-take "regular guy" who would be an awful chauvinist and bully by today's standards, softens his character's hard edge and almost makes him appealing.

This softens the blow of the atrocities a bit; are we supposed to empathize with HIM?

Someone in TV land decided that Anthony Bourdain is too abrasive, in your face and rude, so the show "softens" Tony and loses all the spirit.

The unwinding of the US economy might even begin in 2006, particularly if Japan continues to grow out of its doldrums, the US housing market softens dramatically, and Europe’s economic recovery accelerates.

A bold opening gambit, the argument goes, softens the adversary for a more palatable endgame.

And then we had saved him when he lay gasping upon the shingle, and one's heart always softens towards what one has once helped.

The house was all in confusion; but still the niece ate and the housekeeper drank and Sancho Panza enjoyed himself; for inheriting property wipes out or softens down in the heir the feeling of grief the dead man might be expected to leave behind him.

Softens in sentence

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