| Ed is voluble, softhearted, irascible, loyal to friends, and drinkative when it comes to single-malts. |
| Conservative critics bemoaned the pernicious consequences of softhearted penal policies and demanded stricter control of ticket-of-leave men. |
| Maybe I'm not so softhearted, but where I come from, deer meat is a delicacy. |
| Instead, the doubters tend to be softhearted dupes. |
| Apart from its balletic set-pieces of gunfights, the film ran a gauntlet of emotions from violent excitement to melodramatics to softhearted sentimentality. |
| On the 28th Grey again expressed one of his softhearted propositions for peace. |
