The kinds of minerals in clay affect how soft or hard it is to work with.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

Should it trump all other goods or does toleration reach a point when it ceases to be toleration and becomes in fact a kind of soft nihilism that can extend liberty to everything precisely because it takes nothing very seriously.

它胜过所有的好吗,或是容忍在达到一定的临界点时,就会崩解,而变成某种柔性虚无主义,且几乎援用到所有事物上,因为它对任何事都不是很认真。

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At the same time he heard, or imagined he heard,a light, soft step and then another.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

An "easy touch" or a "soft touch" is someone who is kind and helpful.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

"What I think some of these terrorist group may have underestimated is that we in the west or in Russia,in this case, are perhaps not quite as soft as they might have first believed."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30