Word: softener
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...with his perky optimism, tends to bring it out. Dole has tried to suppress his brooding bitterness following his hatchet-man performance as the vice-presidential Republican candidate in the 1976 campaign. Since then, he has gone through two political make-overs designed to improve his body language and soften his style...
Once he took possession of Uncle Walter's chair, Rather experienced a rough ride. Ratings began to dip, and CBS's image makers began tinkering with Rather's dress and demeanor. Early on, they put him in sweaters in an effort to soften his intensity. For a while, Rather tried hard to be warm and homespun, his writing full of purple prose and corny puns. (Before the start of the Reykjavik summit, he announced, "Ready, set, Gorbachev.") Later he reverted, with equal strain, to a straitlaced, sober, almost glum delivery...
...sense of destiny and the Strolling Strings soften the crusts of Gorbachev and his crew of Soviets who mingled below the portrait of Abraham Lincoln? At the end, when Pianist Van Cliburn played Moscow Nights, Strauss thought he saw a bit of mist in the eyes of the Gorbachevs as they sang along. It was surely the most startling music in the East Room since Harry Truman played The Black Hawk Waltz...
...President also seemed to soften the 1983 description in which he called the Soviet Union "an evil empire...
...soften the wounds of a harsh day's toil...