Home prices are quite soft and sales are slow.

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"It's quite tough sand and not as soft as it could have been, " he added.

BBC: Roger Auster

It's thinner and lighter than an iPad, registering at 8.9mm thick and 21.2 ounces (603g), but it doesn't seem to be cheaply built -- in fact, its soft-touch finish felt quite sturdy and solid to us.

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His genre paintings retain an admirable toughness quite devoid of sentiment, despite their often soft subject matter.

ECONOMIST: Chardin

He was a soft-spoken, bookish man, quite frail looking, really.

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It's an incredibly sleek and solidly built device that won't leave us worried about durability, since it consists of aluminum on the sides and a soft-touch polycarbonate on the back that is quite similar to the material used on the 8X. (Unfortunately, it's also a fingerprint magnet.) Gorilla Glass 2 graces the display with the promise of preventing that beautiful screen from getting scuffed.

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This was quite easy, because the sand at the bottom of the hole was very soft and fine and dry, like sea-sand.

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The album-opening "Our Hell" sets the tone quickly: Nothing says "grim resignation" quite like the words, "Our hell is a good life, " as Haines issues a soft and subtle, vaguely obtuse argument for complacency in misery.

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