soft-core
Example Sentences
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With its soft-core, island-funk guitar and three-part vocal harmony, the song’s chorus is an early example of a Steely Dan quintessence: shrugging sarcasm, rendered resplendent.
From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2017
Not soft-core porn, but real love stories with happy endings — like a Sandra Bullock film, only with gay characters.
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2010
The movement has also produced a variant sect of soft-core survivalists.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has a nostalgically appealing, soft-core cynicism about politicians and foreign policy reminiscent of those 1930s' middleweight movie heroes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 to No. 1.
From Time Magazine Archive
