| The law shelters young people not out of sentimentality or soft-heartedness, but because parliament has rightly decided to give young offenders a chance, however limited, to grow out of offending. |
| But that could turn into accusations of soft-heartedness and strategic miscalculation should his conciliatory approach lead to more and bolder protests. |
| Benny plays small-town lawyer Richard Clark, whose soft-heartedness and sense of justice loses him case after case. |
| But Mr Glassner's humour is too laboured, his liberal-Democrat soft-heartedness can be too insistent, and his figures for one who is often taking issue with absurd extrapolations are surprisingly vague. |
| The soft-heartedness is positively stifling: what kind of churl could criticise such a show? |
