The bundle feels soft, as if the car were climbing over a felled banana tree.

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The rear of the device has that familiar soft-touch feel, which really feels nice in-hand, and offers a bit of traction for those sweaty palm you get while using the device on the elliptical machine.

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Everyone hopes that the more games John Leslie gets under his belt the better he feels, and most of all most folk up here, where the heather is thick and soft, hope and dream that Gregor Townsend has one of his great games.

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Though the 101 XS' soft lines and plastic body don't provide much eye candy, we must say the device feels very good in the hand.

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She, like Juan, feels an affinity with the colours of her adopted homeland: Isabelle's hair is gathered round her face in soft, red curls and she jokes that her scalp has soaked up the shades of the soil.

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