21.   Clearly, it helped soften her image as only a mechanical, prepubescent twirling machine.

22.   Early Saturday, workers used giant cranes to place concrete barriers at either end of the area and tried to soften the image with large concrete flower pots.

23.   For his part, Cheney said that he was not seeking to soften his image.

24.   He also seemed to be deliberately softening his image.

25.   He badly needs to justify himself and soften his image.

26.   He has tried softening his image but spoils it by insisting that the public expects President Clinton to compromise with him but not the other way around.

27.   He is softening his image just a bit for his second shot at a U.S. Senate seat.

28.   He has hardly softened his image with campaign commercials and pronouncements that all but call Messinger a porno queen and a coddler of killers.

29.   He did his best to soften his image with voters, however.