soft-sounding

She also noted that soft-sounding, vowel-heavy names dominate the top 10, edging out more consonant heavy names such as Ellen.

Isabella Is Queen of Girls' Names Melanie Grayce West 2010

It may simply be that combat leaders have more leeway to make such soft-sounding points than do ordinary civilian politicians.

Letters to the Editor 2006

It may simply be that combat leaders have more leeway to make such soft-sounding points than do ordinary civilian politicians.

Letters to the Editor 2006

THE CHILDREN'S [/D2SC-CDSB] Investment Fund, a U.K. hedge fund, may have a soft-sounding name, but a battle it's waging with the Japanese government underscores just how tough it can be.

U.K. hedge fund 2008

It may simply be that combat leaders have more leeway to make such soft-sounding points than do ordinary civilian politicians.

Letters to the Editor 2006

The Balkans proved that soft-sounding concerns like human-rights abuses, ethnic slaughter, lawlessness, and ideological extremism could quickly mount into first-order geopolitical crises.

Kerry Faces the World 2004

The Balkans proved that soft-sounding concerns like human-rights abuses, ethnic slaughter, lawlessness, and ideological extremism could quickly mount into first-order geopolitical crises.

Kerry Faces the World 2004

There are quaint old towns growing out of crumbling battlements perched on rocks, towns of soft-sounding South German names breathing history of long ago.

From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker

Mrs. Conrad spoke in rapid and soft-sounding Spanish to the old woman who stood listening, her wrinkled face set in the monotony of hopelessness.

Across the Mesa Helen Bagg 1935

We think of him as dwelling on high Olympus; we read his lines by the light of dim candles; we quote him in sonorous monotone at twilight when soft-sounding organ-chants come to us mellow and sweet.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916