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Recent Examples of soft-core
This is the character most relatable to the man who founded a media company whose sole purpose was to manipulate women into taking their tops off and engage in soft-core pornography on camera and cut them out of the earnings.
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
Ranking Coppola’s 23 features — his 1962 soft-core Tonight for Sure is not included, nor is his misbegotten New York Stories short feature or the Disney attraction Captain EO — was a difficult proposition.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
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.
—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
Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
Ranking Coppola’s 23 features — his 1962 soft-core Tonight for Sure is not included, nor is his misbegotten New York Stories short feature or the Disney attraction Captain EO — was a difficult proposition.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soft-core
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Indeed, some particularly hardcore fans took to sharing their results and comparing strategies each day on social media.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
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Even the most hardcore gamer visiting Japan should try these more lighthearted experiences on their pilgrimage through the arcades.Reece Rogers, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
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The film is an erotic thriller with nods to Brian De Palma and Paul Verhoeven, but with a Brazilian twist.Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024
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Ryan, then America’s sweetheart and established queen of the rom-com, had around that time changed direction, appearing in Jane Campion’s erotic thriller The Cut, and UK interviewer Michael Parkinson grilled her on her decision to appear nude.Caroline Frost, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2024
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The next decades will witness, for the first time, the full impact of one-child families on adult Chinese society.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2012
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At first, the dynamic seems ambiguous: closer to that between a mom and her barely adult son than a wife and her husband.Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
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Celebrate 2025 with over 500 candles illuminating the sexiest party in town.Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2024
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And while responsibly aging cucumbers might not seem like the sexiest hobby, there’s plenty of (literal) spice involved.Fran Tirado, Them, 18 Dec. 2024
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That led me to send mature 5-year-old Kentucky Straight bourbon whiskey to Singapore, which is oppressively hot and humid 12 months out of the year.Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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The cubs are now at about 60% of what their handlers expect to be their mature weight.Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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For the first seven years of the rating system (1969-1975), nearly half of the top films (33 of 70) were R- or X-rated.Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 26 July 2024
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What audiences see are silhouettes engaged in a shadow play of entwined hands and arched backs, sensual but not X-rated.Rebecca Ritzel, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
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“Soft-core.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soft-core. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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