Word: softener
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...This is his swan song, meant to soften his image as a hardhearted jurist. Rumors are swirling about his possible retirement. Close observers of the court doubt that Rehnquist, 78, is planning an imminent departure. Still, the decision could take some of the sharp edges off his epitaph...
When given this scenario, girls tend to focus on the feelings of both the moles and the porcupine. Gilligan says one girl asked if she could put a blanket on the porcupine to soften the blow of its quills and let it stay in the moles’ house...
...meeting, the Faculty will vote on whether to officially soften this language from a requirement of independent evidence to a request that students “provide as much information as possible to support their allegations...
Just as compassionate conservatism didn't do much to win over hard-core Democrats, the overseas version probably won't convince the President's most vociferous European critics. But it could help soften his gunslinging image. Talking about the message that the Administration wants to send the world, a White House official says, "It's simple: Who has done more for you on the things you care about?" --By John Dickerson
...staunch anticommunist who boycotts elections, and a drunk who supplements his income through insurance fraud. Míla Brecka, on the other hand, is a school principal who clearly profits from his party membership yet justifies it: "Not all communists are the same. Somebody joins them in order to soften [the system] from within. Somebody has to sacrifice himself." After years of estrangement - Mára once taught and romanced Brecka's wife, now an official of the all-powerful visual artists' union - their paths cross again when Mára is commissioned to design a mural for Brecka...