go soft

Graham is the type who might have been expected to go soft on such a divisive issue.

At that the earth seemed to go soft beneath her feet and her world lay blurred in a mist of amazed misery.

What I meant is that some of them do go soft mighty quick out here.

Why should He go hard on the innocent kid and go soft on a rotten thing like me?

Why did He make me go soft on the child if He was going hard on it Himself?

We let our bodies go soft, and dropped the spouter on the ground.