Word: softly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thing. "When I was young I could make love anywhere - in the street, on the boat, in the park, anywhere," booms the 66-year-old fishing magnate from Port Lincoln, South Australia. "Later in life, you gotta have the bedroom, the light ... everything's gotta be nice and soft, the ambience gotta be right. With tuna, it's no different. Everything's gotta be right...
...trick people into clicking on a benign-looking link that takes them to the video for Astley's hit Never Gonna Give You Up. By now millions of people have inadvertently watched the video, which came out in 1987, a more innocent time when people actually listened to generic soft-core pop on purpose--the song went...
...humanistic disposition is as relevant to the sciences—soft and hard—as it is to the social sciences,” he wrote in an e-mail. “General Education has a duty to serve both humanities departments and the larger cause of humanistic thinking and belief...
...Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Centre for Policy Research in Delhi: "They want to hurt India's economy and they want to provoke sectarian unrest between communities here." The blasts over the past three years, Chellaney and other analysts point out, have all been carried out against "soft" targets such as trains, public buildings and markets. Since 2001, India has tightened security around government officials and government offices. But in a country of India's size and population, it's impossible to guard against all attacks. "They've attacked India's Silicon Valley, India's commercial capital [Mumbai...
...Cuckoo on the Witness Stand." Elsewhere in the poem, he recounts that "I sang in a church choir during one war/ American TV made famous." Lee also likens his own poetry to "a mission," but he's no firebrand proselytizer. His tone throughout this collection is that of the soft-spoken, ecumenical humanist. A mini-aubade in "Become Becoming" likens dawn ("the air's first gold") to "that color of Amen." In the Emersonian "Evening Hieroglyph" he compares flitting birds to "decimals or numerals reconfiguring/ some word which, spoken, might sound the key/ that rights the tumblers in the iron...