soft-core
adjective
of pornography
: containing descriptions or scenes of sex acts that are less explicit than hard-core material
Examples of soft-core in a Sentence
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The agencies that dole out state money to public charger companies — the California Energy Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission — have taken a soft-core approach to holding the companies responsible.
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Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
Their intercourse isn’t soft-core like Bound but features Marian’s shy, sly, self-consciousness.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 July 2024
The interstitial clips are sequences of near-naked or topless women caressing themselves to a soft-core soundtrack.
—E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
Plastered around New York City, the soft-core promo had pedestrians doing double takes.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
This makes the show feel like classic late-night premium-television soft-core, the stuff that comes up when people reduce the complexity of Euphoria or Trilogy to the wildest pull quote or plot point.
—Vulture, 30 June 2023
Such themes are dismissed as the stuff of romance novels and soft-core illustration.
—Vulture, 20 Mar. 2023
Aronofsky is not committed to gay spirituality (the lesbian vibes of his 2010 movie, Black Swan, were just a soft-core tease).
—Armond White, National Review, 15 Mar. 2023
Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
Their intercourse isn’t soft-core like Bound but features Marian’s shy, sly, self-consciousness.
—Armond White, National Review, 31 July 2024
The interstitial clips are sequences of near-naked or topless women caressing themselves to a soft-core soundtrack.
—E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
Plastered around New York City, the soft-core promo had pedestrians doing double takes.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
This makes the show feel like classic late-night premium-television soft-core, the stuff that comes up when people reduce the complexity of Euphoria or Trilogy to the wildest pull quote or plot point.
—Vulture, 30 June 2023
Such themes are dismissed as the stuff of romance novels and soft-core illustration.
—Vulture, 20 Mar. 2023
Aronofsky is not committed to gay spirituality (the lesbian vibes of his 2010 movie, Black Swan, were just a soft-core tease).
—Armond White, National Review, 15 Mar. 2023
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“Soft-core.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soft-core. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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