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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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Yen directs as well as stars alongside a host of familiar faces including Francis Ng, Julian Cheung and the increasingly ubiquitous Michael Hui, but Yen’s hardcore action fanbase may be left wanting.—
James Marsh,
Deadline,
10 Jan. 2025
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Wall Street analysts were lukewarm on Venu, noting that the hardcore fan who watches sports is willing to pay for a traditional TV subscription that provides a full slate of channels and events.—
Stephen Battaglio,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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But the erotic drama has polarized audiences and didn’t exactly light up the Christmas box office, either, and the 17-time SAG nominee was ultimately passed over this year.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA TODAY,
8 Jan. 2025
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While accepting the award for best actress at the National Board of Review Gala in New York City Tuesday, Jan. 7, the actress, 57, incorporated a steamy scene from the A24 erotic thriller into her acceptance speech.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
8 Jan. 2025
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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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But the parties happening before and after the awards show set the scene for even sexier fashions to take flight.—
Michelle Lee,
People.com,
6 Jan. 2025
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Forget boring party platter fodder and say hello to the new, improved melon: its more sustainable and much sexier.—
Rai Mincey,
Forbes,
28 Dec. 2024
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Only Wim's father and Fern's mother have received meaningful development, but this episode finds some time to underline how similar each parent is to their children... in their own, more mature ways.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
8 Jan. 2025
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With the company's shift to more mature programming in recent years, including its move to Netflix, WWE is now embracing brands that appeal to a more adult demographic, such as Real American Beer.—
Kevin Lynn,
Newsweek,
6 Jan. 2025
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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 22 Jan. 2025.
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