At its worst, this produces the alcoholic beverage equivalent of elevator music, the Soft Sounds of Lager.

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The soft sounds of music and speech are amplified in the enhancement mode.

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Water running through the reeds in the canal beside them made soft gulping sounds as it swirled along.

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Seabear's love of soft folk sounds is unquestionable, but that doesn't stop the Icelandic band from infusing its music with layers of instrumentation.

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That sounds like a super-soft landing.

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This sounds kitsch, though Michael Gray, a British photographer, has produced a surprisingly soft and lovely print of three people outside the medieval Wiltshire abbey that once was home to the man who discovered how to use negatives to produce positive prints, William Henry Fox Talbot.

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Although it seems fairly straightforward and simple there is actually a tremendous amount of pedaling and steering involved, along with counting gears, remembering what parts on the course are rough or soft and need to be avoided, looking at RPM, paying attention to the sounds of the engine and the car and being on alert for the unexpected to happen.

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Frasier, a soft-spoken and friendly 27-year-old originally from The Bronx, tells a story that sounds lightyears away from plans to be an Internet mogul.

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