softness

"I don't know whether it's softened me, but it certainly made me more aware of my own innate softness."

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

Mahadevan sees additional opportunities for using multistability to create fabrics that combine softness, seamless construction and functionality.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

So I started playing: pumpkin purée for softness, cold coffee to deepen the cocoa, melted butter, two whole zucchini and a frankly generous amount of chocolate.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

They are compatibly beautiful; her softness brings out his, and she grounds him in a way that, say, Ann-Margret, Presley’s more aggressive co-star in “Viva Las Vegas,” did not.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

She studies the picture, then touches my hair, squeezing it as if she’s testing out the softness of a pillow.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

His touch was special, even in introductions and final flourishes; he built waves within his playing, revealing softnesses in his sound even while working intensely.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2013

The authors have not entirely evaded its treacherous softnesses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Charmian, who was looking her best, her most self-possessed, a radiant minx, with fleeting hints of depths and softnesses, half veiled by the firm habit of the world, seemed to tower morally above the composer.

From The Way of Ambition by J. H. Gardner Soper

It was rather the profile of one of those Roman emperors, splendid in its animal strength, but lacking those subtle softnesses of eye and mouth which speak of an inner life.

From The Firm of Girdlestone by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"I shall be ready for him," said Lizzie, and as she spoke all her little feminine softnesses were for the moment laid aside.

From The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope