But, she does have a soft spot for Spencer Pratt.
|
|
But the king of the jungle has a soft spot.
|
|
But immigrants occasionally find a rare soft spot in him.
|
|
Domestic demand has been a soft spot in the economy.
|
|
Stura, the founder of Skylands, has a soft spot for cows.
|
|
I have a soft spot for the aging Chrysler 300 sedan.
|
|
Guess the Dark Knight has a soft spot for Disney princesses.
|
|
That was smart because I have a soft spot for grandmas.
|
|
But I must admit to having a soft spot for him.
|
|
I have to admit, I have a soft spot for them.
|
|
"I still have a soft spot for Boris," she said, smiling.
|
|
You know who doesn't care for Healy and his soft spot?
|
|
Eugene Chung has a soft spot for authors without a pulse.
|
|
Mark Twain's fiction held a soft spot for the flimflam man.
|
|
The U.S. housing market continues to be an economic soft spot.
|
|
As Americans we have a soft spot for stories of redemption.
|
|
Or he just has a soft spot for high school newspapers.
|
|
"I have a huge soft spot for the Rosé," says Chetiyawardana.
|
|
We have a soft spot for Maybelline's cult-classic Baby Lips line.
|
|
" And Mandel has a soft spot for Cowell, whom he calls "sensitive.
|
|
I think that's another reason I have a soft spot for Klara.
|
|
Seven episodes later, Chuck is shown having a soft spot for Blair.
|
|
It also doesn't hurt that he's got a soft spot for Scully.
|
|
When he has the puck you try to find a soft spot.
|
|
A deviant with a soft spot for mountain living and white powder?
|
|
Our big ol' soft spot for Love Actually isn't one of them.
|
|
Judging by how mad Hatch got, Brown hit a soft spot. pic.twitter.
|
|
He has always, for whatever reason, had a soft spot for Flynn.
|
|
Luckily for the Chargers, they've hit a soft spot in their schedule.
|
|
I've always had a soft spot for Disney's the Big Bad Wolf.
|
|
I've long had a soft spot for Kobo for a few reasons.
|
|
But he still had a soft spot for the NASCAR of yesteryear.
|
|
She didn't have to, but she had a soft spot for Arleen.
|
|
He has many loyal friends and a soft spot for sick children.
|
|
I have a soft spot in my heart for Charmander and Squirtle.
|
|
"My kids grew up going to Ozzfest, 20 years it's been around so I have a very soft spot in my heart for Ozzfest," Sharon Osbourne told E!. Seems Ozzy may still have a soft spot for Sharon too.
|
|
Left-wing American academics have always had a soft spot for Marxist regimes.
|
|
Natalie is a sweet girl and has a soft spot for the Banana.
|
|
It also helped that fans typically have a soft spot for tough guys.
|
|
"I have a soft spot for the outcast," Kylie says in a confessional.
|
|
Some simply attribute it to Jaqen's soft spot for Arya and lol nope.
|
|
"I have a really soft spot for the Lisa 2/5," Alex said.
|
|
"I have a soft spot in my heart for the organization," Barnette says.
|
|
Curiously, Trump has one soft spot that defies easy characterizations: he likes dictators.
|
|
As an '22011s kid, I have a soft spot for platformers in general.
|
|
We already knew the Kardashians have a serious soft spot for fast food.
|
|
Tayshia's "soft spot" for JPJ ultimately won her over, at least for now.
|
|
"Claws" has a soft spot for seediness, for garish aesthetics and clackety shoes.
|
|
"I have such a soft spot for tacky early 2000 fashion," he said.
|
|
Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich has a soft spot for players of their ilk.
|
|
I have a soft spot for my first video, Nice to Meet You.
|
|
The internet has a special soft spot for celebrities getting excitable about other celebrities.
|
|
Dr. Frye had a soft spot for one unlikely agility athlete: a basset hound.
|
|
I've got a soft spot for everyone from my hometown (looking at you, Bey).
|
|
Aside from that, I've a soft spot for the soundtrack to 1991's Leander.
|
|
I've got a soft spot for the Hebrew rapping and the sick *flute* work.
|
|
If you didn't have a soft spot for Idris Elba before, you will now.
|
|
I wanted to be a vet, because I had a soft spot for animals.
|
|
Here's the kicker, he's got a soft spot for Hillary Clinton's right hand woman.
|
|
The Beckhams appear to have a soft spot for flannel-clad, red-haired rockers.
|
|
Future may have a soft spot in his heart for the iconic Disney character.
|
|
With him is Reid, violent, unpredictable and disdainful of Jack's soft spot for Alicia.
|
|
She had a soft spot for those in need, her mother would later recall.
|
|
I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics.
|
|
But she's dragged down by her inexplicable soft spot for that mansplainy man-child.
|
|
I miss holding your hand and that soft spot and scar on your face.
|
|
I have a soft spot and a high bar for comedic commentary on technology.
|
|
"I have a soft spot in my heart for the zombies," he told NPR.
|
|
On Trump's side, through his coarse nationalism, crude transactionalism, and soft spot for strongmen.
|
|
I still have a soft spot in my heart to have a woman president.
|
|
But who among us doesn't have a soft spot for Chandler, Phoebe, et al.?
|
|
The British artist and Wes Anderson collaborator Hugo Guinness has a soft spot for animals.
|
|
Like most of the world's best DJs, Chrissy has a soft spot for the past.
|
|
But for those of us with a soft spot for nostalgia, it will be missed.
|
|
It's not just me that's discovered a soft spot for the side-mounted fingerprint sensor.
|
|
He's not the only Hemsworth with a soft spot for the former Disney Channel star.
|
|
Fortunately for us, there's always been a soft spot in those two hearts for Earth.
|
|
Manufacturing has been a soft spot and ISM surveys show that it is in contraction.
|
|
Heck, we already know Game of Thrones has a soft spot for redheaded British musicians.
|
|
But I've always had -- and always will have -- a soft spot for the Backstreet Boys.
|
|
M.H.: I have a soft spot for this Benson colt because he loves to nap.
|
|
We'll admit we have a soft spot for celebrities who enjoy ribbing each other online.
|
|
It has exposed the soft spot in this Mandalorian, which affects his actions going forward.
|
|
He also had a soft spot for Aiden McGeady, an altogether less remarkable Irish winger.
|
|
I have a soft spot for breakthrough products like Parallels, even years after they appear.
|
|
A soft spot in jobs continued for mining with oil prices falling through the year.
|
|
Passionate, smart, and seriously funny, with a soft spot for kids and four-legged friends.
|
|
All of the ReAction figures are pretty cool, but we've got a soft spot for Gorn.
|
|
Only over one pet peeve, Marlow confides: Dye has a soft spot for food that smells.
|
|
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Is Europe's economy merely encountering a soft spot or entering a more lasting decline?
|
|
Though otherwise a fact-based person, I have a soft spot for the pseudoscience of astrology.
|
|
It's no secret that both Haibon and Iaconetti have a huge soft spot for romantic comedies.
|
|
Probably because she shoots mainly film, beautifully, and I have a soft spot for that medium.
|
|
I have a soft spot for younger sisters, and I can spot them 100 yards out.
|
|
Rambo is a two and half-year old English Bulldog with a soft spot for popsicles.
|
|
According to his daughter, Zelda Williams, he also had a soft spot for the Denver Broncos.
|
|
The soft spot at which personalized choice architecture hits is that of our most intimate self.
|
|
Critic's Notebook There's one soft spot left in the television cycle, and we are in it.
|
|
Mr. Litton has a soft spot for them, and for the youngest members of the audience.
|
|
The Queen probably won't abandon him—she's always had a soft spot for her second son.
|
|
As a cinephile, I have a particular soft spot for science fiction and issues of representation.
|
|
"Tony has always just had a soft spot for Jordan," Ms. Rock said in an interview.
|
|
"I struggle with this one myself," admits Sean, who has a soft spot for dining out.
|
|
But my oldest soft spot has been for people guarding some small flame against considerable winds.
|
|
But Trump has found America's soft spot, its vulnerability, and he's plunging his fangs into it.
|
|
Despite a soft spot for such arcana, Ms. Hesser is not tempted by certain new trends.
|
|
"For the second quarter, we knew mathematically that inflation was going to hit a soft spot from the year-over-year effects, but there was also an expectation that we would pull out of that soft spot in the third quarter and fourth quarter," he said.
|
|
Sidebar WASHINGTON — Justice Antonin Scalia loved opera, but he also had a soft spot for Bob Dylan.
|
|
I've had a soft spot for Misþyrming since I first saw them at Eistnaflug several years ago.
|
|
But if they can find a soft spot in their heart to forgive Nick, I've forgiven him.
|
|
Giraudet also has a soft spot for animals, and had volunteered in a lion refuge in Johannesburg.
|
|
But as painful as the dancing is to watch, Gosling's got a soft spot for the costume.
|
|
They have a soft spot for old-fashioned country squires who are the linchpins of local societies.
|
|
When a celebrity has a soft spot for pups, it just makes them all the more lovable.
|
|
The Times has always had a soft spot for animal show celebrities, especially those that perish tragically.
|
|
She holds no tolerance for one-trick phonies and she carries a soft spot for rogue musicians.
|
|
Luckily for them this shadowy figure seems to have a soft spot for… you know, the Earth.
|
|
I have a soft spot for fuchsia pink lipsticks but that also means I have high standards.
|
|
What we learned from our research is that we all have a soft spot for fast food.
|
|
Bottom line I have a soft spot for breakthrough products like Parallels, even years after they appear.
|
|
I have always had a soft spot for leaders who are able to change late in life.
|
|
Kent singled out Western Australia as the country's main soft spot for jobs, housing and business investment.
|
|
Does anyone else have a soft-spot for the bleak and the wretched in their entertainment choices?
|
|
You seem to have a soft spot for the unorthodox, Black Mirror, Freak Show, and also this.
|
|
We all have a soft spot for Prisma, the app that turns smartphone photos into stylized artwork.
|
|
My mom, a high-school-educated Nuyorican with a soft spot for Hallmark holidays, was not pleased.
|
|
Of all the children I cared for, I had a soft spot for one child, a preteen.
|
|
Rob says he's still a hardcore Washington fan -- but he's got a soft spot for the Cowboys.
|
|
He said he did not trust politicians as a class but had a soft spot for Mrs.
|
|
It seems they both have a soft spot for Welsh actors, humiliating poor Lily, and questionable hair trends.
|
|
I have a soft spot for sneakers paired with festive outfits, like a sparkly dress or a suit.
|
|
Director Jenny Gage describes Langford to me as a "fierce feminist" with a soft spot for dad jokes.
|
|
One of you is totally a Charlotte — a confident, brilliant young woman with a soft spot for intellectuals.
|
|
Still, the euro-zone economy is clearly picking up speed, even as America's goes through a soft spot.
|
|
Baby Sussex take note: Royal dad-to-be Prince Harry has a soft spot for sweets for breakfast!
|
|
It turns out Parker's got a soft spot for soulful tunes from the late '70s and early '80s.
|
|
Aroids comprise the vast majority of Ms. Offolter's business, largely because she has a soft spot for weird.
|
|
"If they found our soft spot with the Magnitsky Act, we found theirs," a Russian political analyst remarked.
|
|
Call us sentimental, but we'll always have a soft spot in our hearts for Whitney Port's sensible style.
|
|
Unless you have a soft spot for The Iron Lady or August: Osage County, which you do not.
|
|
Having grown up on pop-punk and emo, Anna has always had a soft spot for live musicianship.
|
|
Kindred is vertical agnostic, but it has a soft spot for the future of cities, work and living.
|
|
It's not a mortal sin for a senator to have a soft spot for a home state industry.
|
|
That being said, I have a soft spot for the experience of watching films in a movie theater.
|
|
And we're reporting on the work of a CNN Hero who has a soft spot for feral cats.
|
|
But there were always hints "peppered through" that George might have a soft spot for Meghan, says Janetti.
|
|
I still have a soft spot for HIPSTERS DON'T LIE, but the new theme entries are definitely better!
|
|
It added that Trump's apparent "soft spot for military men" could lead to him listening more to Kelly.
|
|
Tobias Harris got into the high post area, in the soft spot of the zone, and took advantage.
|
|
And the Florida shooting will only draw attention back to Trump's soft spot for the oil-rich monarchy.
|
|
I'm with you on the first but I have to admit I have a soft spot for politicians.
|
|
On the other hand, it was important that no one imagine he had a soft spot for her.
|
|
I have a soft spot for cool maps, whether it's fantastical artwork or something that documents real world history.
|
|
But what is so interesting to me is Donald Trump does have a soft spot in the immigration debate.
|
|
But I have soft spot for the Red Sox because of Nomar Garciaparra, my favorite player of all time.
|
|
Beliefs are another great shoegaze band and we just played with an excellent Halifax shoegaze band called Soft Spot.
|
|
Harbach has a soft spot for the Toxorhynchites genus, which have a convenient penchant for eating Aedes aegypti larvae.
|
|
It's clear that the Weibo community has soft spot for the Oscar-winner and a great sense of humor.
|
|
But New Yorkers, who had a soft spot for the talented and charismatic Mr Weiner, gave him another chance.
|
|
She's always had a soft spot for the British bus boy who'd befriended her son in the SUR kitchen.
|
|
Seems Flip has a soft spot for Trump, although he might want to check the status of local airports.
|
|
So it makes sense that the crooner would have a soft spot for a certain zombie-apocalypse TV show.
|
|
"She still has a soft spot for him, and will always be a friend to him," the source says.
|
|
But gamers with a soft spot for half-shell-sporting heroes might just have cause to get excited again.
|
|
When he stepped on the soft spot, his entire leg sunk down through the hot pavement, leaving him stuck.
|
|
"I definitely have a soft spot for Derek, yes," Tayshia told the cameras on Monday night's Bachelor in Paradise.
|
|
I've always liked exploring things we tend to take for granted, and I have a soft spot for underdogs.
|
|
Marion served, she had a soft spot for her position on the Board of Regents of Texas Tech University.
|
|
Alice Lake, a single mother of three, has a soft spot for strays and a history of bad judgment.
|
|
"You have a soft spot for her, it seems," CNBC host Carl Quintanilla said to Cramer on Sept. 12.
|
|
Henderson Rematch Makes No Sense We've all got a soft spot in our hearts for the legendary Dan Henderson.
|
|
Ben had too much raw power, too little reverence for tradition, and a soft spot for the dark side.
|
|
Manufacturing is another soft spot, with tariffs and the threat of new tariffs giving recruiters pause before hiring new people.
|
|
Now, we have a soft spot for red-carpet fashion moments with a message, like Felicity Huffman's subtle pantsuit nod.
|
|
As a daughter, granddaughter and sister of veterans, Charlie Hyatt has always had a soft spot for those who served.
|
|
Ahrens also had a "soft spot" for children, in particular his 10-year-old son and 8-year-old-daughter.
|
|
Lakin is 22010 years old, a wisecracking, bespectacled white girl with a soft spot for conspiracy theories and fart humor.
|
|
But Harrison hypothesizes that America's soft spot for Horstmann might've been what landed him in hot water one year later.
|
|
But hopefully someone on Lego's jury has a soft spot for cheesy '80s popcorn flicks and helps number five along.
|
|
Just because you have a soft spot for classic 8-bit gaming doesn't mean you still like tripping over cords.
|
|
But then enough of us realized we had a soft spot for this movie, and it had to be included.
|
|
But then enough of us realized we had a soft spot for this movie, and it had to be included.
|
|
I have a soft spot for old movies—I love Mildred Pierce and Working Girl, as well as Girl, Interrupted.
|
|
I have a soft spot in my heart for Tom Sawyer, probably because I was far from a perfect child.
|
|
"Benji" was so universally beloved that even Alfred Hitchcock is said to have had a soft spot for the film.
|
|
There was no looking down for a soft spot to fall, nor for the leg that would undercut my own.
|
|
"I have a soft spot for these things where people's T-shirts are accidentally nailing the whole situation," he said.
|
|
Some of the writing is blander than it needs to be, and she has a soft spot for worthy proclamations.
|
|
Through it all, she says, she had a soft spot for her mother, whom she felt a need to protect.
|
|
Australia's economy, which has grown steadily without a recession for more than a quarter century, has hit a soft spot.
|
|
Not because I think the chief justice has developed a soft spot in his heart for the right to abortion.
|
|
He said it was punks playing metal, which I have a real soft spot for, so I was hooked immediately.
|
|
And for Disney Channel fans, it's great to see there's still a soft spot in her heart for those early days.
|
|
Sam will always have a soft spot for House Mormont, and if Jorah lives he'll owe his life to Sam Tarly.
|
|
Consumer electronics were a soft spot during the holiday quarter, due to price deflation and a lack of major product introductions.
|
|
In today's buzzkill edition of beer news, we will probably ruin the soft spot that you've always had for Mexican beer.
|
|
Its first director, Monsignor Dario Vigano, was a self-proclaimed fan of digital communication with a soft spot for Walt Disney.
|
|
It's cute, but we have a soft spot for the flight attendant with a heart of gold and Big Law dreams.
|
|
"I think I'll be the disciplinarian parent just because Caleb already has such a soft spot for the baby," says Maddie.
|
|
"That's just the kind of kid he was, always a soft spot for kids and people in crisis," said his mother.
|
|
Two of them, Seamus Milne and Andrew Murray, are privately educated Marxists who have a soft spot for the Soviet Union.
|
|
The soft spot in the euro-zone economy turns out to be not temporary, but a reflection of weak export demand.
|
|
A third soft spot that Trump has offered to Clinton can be found in his claim to superior strength and energy.
|
|
Mr Ramadan, who confessed to having a "soft spot" for the notoriously brutal cops, wondered why they were paid so little.
|
|
In contrast with Rubio's soft spot for football, his team pointed out the Texas senator's love of pop culture and impressions.
|
|
If you're a millennial woman, there's a good chance you have soft spot in your heart for the endearing, Selena Gomez.
|
|
However, after observing Helena for the day and developing a soft spot, Gracie tells Mark that she still hasn't found her.
|
|
Last September Swift squad member Gigi Hadid noted that she and the singer both have a soft spot for British men.
|
|
Because the night might be dark and full of terrors, but we're like super sure it has a soft spot too.
|
|
Ferguson was a skeptic of wantonly high-brow art and lover of folksy films, with a particular soft spot for comedy.
|
|
But Bolm, a former record store employee and vinyl nerd, has a soft spot for the records that time has forgotten.
|
|
Like most people, DJs and producers have a special soft spot for the songs that soundtrack crucial moments in their lives.
|
|
Houston has always had a soft spot for local celebrities, and the Bushes served as Exhibit A for the city's ambition.
|
|
Also, doesn't sound like he's got a soft spot for Kim Jong-un, who he calls a "chubby, evil little f***."
|
|
Their first encounter, during a summit of Western leaders, fueled speculation about Mr. Trump's seeming soft spot for his Russian counterpart.
|
|
Not surprisingly, Paddington still saves the day for these fussy souls, because Matilda has a soft spot that I won't reveal.
|
|
She kept her job at Downton despite her thieving past and developed a soft spot for ol' Mosely in the meanwhile.
|
|
Plus, I'm every fan of the MCU has a soft spot for Barnes, who has really been put through the ringer.
|
|
The poor quality is all a part of that beautiful 1980s vibe that so many people have a soft spot for.
|
|
The clue for 55 Down is my favorite, having a soft spot for word origins — I'm glad Will left it in.
|
|
The clue for 55 Down is my favorite, having a soft spot for word origins — I'm glad Will left it in.
|
|
This puzzle was my first accepted puzzle in The New York Times, so it holds a soft spot in my heart.
|
|
"I believe from that day on I had a soft spot for nurses," he told the Veterans History Project in 2005.
|
|
I also have a huge soft spot for dimestore-level detective fiction, so, imagine my delight when I heard about KONA.
|
|
Gorka would likely be horrified to learn that the "Arthur" creators have long held a soft spot for the gay agenda.
|
|
We love the convenience of streaming songs as much as the next person, but we have a soft spot for vinyl records.
|
|
If you've seen Sing, you know that its filmmakers have a soft spot for Taylor Swift and Katy Perry's kid-friendly hits.
|
|
Good news: Indie fans with a soft spot for strong female leads will no doubt be lining up for 20th Century Women.
|
|
"I always have a soft spot for a house that needs love," says the designer in the new issue of HGTV Magazine.
|
|
" "I have a soft spot for the outcasts because I guess I was the outcast in a lot of ways, growing up.
|
|
Some commentators are suggesting a "soft spot" in our discrimination laws makes Airbnb and the hosts exempt from U.S. public accommodation law.
|
|
But if his follows are any indication, he has a soft spot for certain TV hosts and media outlets, namely Fox News.
|
|
If you've been a fan of R29's for years, you'll know we have a soft spot in our hearts for J.Crew.
|
|
"But he wanted to contribute to the community and he has a soft spot for people, especially the elderly," Drexel tells PEOPLE.
|
|
The place had a soft spot in many people's hearts in part because of that song "Spanish Harlem" by Ben E. King.
|
|
"For as maligned as 'W' is in the mainstream media, a lot of conservatives have a soft spot for him," he continued.
|
|
Most people seem to have a soft spot for an Elvis impersonator – a slightly shit one, if I do say so myself.
|
|
That said, the brand's new Outrageous bar is a dream invention for peanut butter fans with a soft spot for Reese's Pieces.
|
|
It's a short vignette, but will stick with those who have a love of family and a soft spot for kids' dreams.
|
|
"I prefer a yeast-risen doughnut, but I have a soft spot for that blueberry cake doughnut from Dunkin'," Swain told Insider.
|
|
Buenaflor has owned Soft Spot on Bedford Avenue for 12 years, and opened Kilo Bravo off a side street three years ago.
|
|
At times, he appears to have a soft spot for the so-called Dreamers, immigrants brought to the United States as children.
|
|
And while I love barbacoa, I also have a soft spot for artisanal tacos — I would eat that chicken tikka masala taco.
|
|
He's drunk and calls her ugly — a soft spot for her character, and as anyone who has followed Gaga's career knows, herself.
|
|
I'll admit I've got a soft spot for Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, because he's smart and sane and clearly detests Trump.
|
|
He said that quote, if my wife were from Mexico, I think I would have a soft spot for people from Mexico.
|
|
One soft spot was a 49,203 drop in full-time jobs, though that followed an incredibly strong run over the past year.
|
|
" As for a hero, I've always had a soft spot for Robert E. Lee Prewitt from James Jones's "From Here to Eternity.
|
|
Tom Ough: I had a soft spot for the cyclists who would stop for neither man nor puddle and sailed on through.
|
|
But I'd prefer to imagine that one of the worst terrorists of the century actually just had a soft spot for western cartoons.
|
|
Not so fast... However, despite his apparent soft spot for authoritarian leaders, Trump has not extended this friendliness to Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
|
|
They worry that she has too much of a soft spot for certain longtime hangers-on who don't necessarily serve her interests well.
|
|
Fred's soft spot for his errant handmaid still throbs enough for him to help her this episode with a Commander Lawrence personality assessment.
|
|
Garza says many of the people at Mondo grew up playing Castlevania, and have a soft spot in their hearts for the game.
|
|
I think because I had that soft spot for him, it allowed me to put up with way more than I should have.
|
|
Luckily for Kufrin, she found love with Garrett Yrigoyen, but it it seems that Tartick still has a soft spot in her heart.
|
|
"I have a soft spot for the outcasts because was the outcast, I guess, in a lot of ways growing up," says Jenner.
|
|
Sehgal speaks clearly and definitively, strong with logic and rigor, a quintessential business executive but with a soft-spot for play and sentimentality.
|
|
Like the central bank, the government revised up its view on private consumption, considered a soft spot for the world's third-largest economy.
|
|
I have a soft spot for songs that change in response to something happening in the lyrics, and "Polymorphing" is a great example.
|
|
But it looks like the actress still has a soft spot for the campy cheerleading film she starred in all those years ago.
|
|
The biggest surprise on Monday nights' Bachelor finale wasn't Ben's final rose recipient — we all knew he had a soft spot for Lauren.
|
|
He comes by it honestly: The Arizona senator attributes his soft spot for undocumented immigrants to his childhood growing up on a ranch.
|
|
But to his legions of fans, Hank is also hilarious (albeit accidentally), has a soft spot for Barry, and has fantastic dance skills.
|
|
What some athletes might view as failure, however, only enhanced Poulidor's status among French cycling fans, who have a soft spot for underdogs.
|
|
We also have a soft spot for a standout olive-green trouser suit, which was paired with a white and rust-colored shirt.
|
|
I hope this puzzle provides that smile-inducing "Aha!" on your end, and isn't just indulging my soft spot for constructor-y wordplay.
|
|
While Sugimoto's photos can provoke serious philosophical introspection, the man himself is constantly cracking jokes, and he has a soft spot for puns.
|
|
And it isn't just sugary soft drinks that Buffett has a soft spot for; he's also known for indulging in McDonald's every morning.
|
|
Over the years, he's made no secret that he has a soft spot for the country and its authoritarian leader, President Vladimir Putin.
|
|
The bottom line: Even techies have a soft spot for the gadgets and brands of their youth — or, in some cases, their parents' youth.
|
|
But you won't just leave the theater with a soft spot for Killmonger — you'll walk out obsessed with his bangs and side fade, too.
|
|
God bless those mamas who had their babies this early I have a soft spot in my heart for those families even more now.
|
|
I've always had a soft spot for a good ol' post-apocalyptic tale, but more often than not they can be a bit samey.
|
|
In fact, I think, although I like them all and I have a soft spot for Amy Barrett because she&aposs a fellow Damer.
|
|
LOPE founder Lynn Reardon was surprised by Minter's soft spot for the horse -- Wooden Phone was not an adoption candidate after his many injuries.
|
|
To be honest, I always had a soft spot for Rufus, in a 17-year-old "hm, what a nice dad" kind of way.
|
|
Greek fiscal policy is now "in a much sounder basis than before" but banks' non-performing loans were still a "soft spot", he said.
|
|
It's an act of compassion that Tennessee Williams, who always had a soft spot for the broken monsters of humanity, would surely have appreciated.
|
|
She posts from them for fun, but notes that the end of Delicious as a fandom community is a bit of a soft spot.
|
|
Donuts Joe has a soft spot for Krispy Kreme, and he's said that he prefers the classic glazed treats right out of the oven.
|
|
Just above Prince Harry's head is a poster of Berry, meaning the Duke of Sussex has a soft spot for the X-Men actress.
|
|
Just because he's a pimp and he can be violent, doesn't mean he can't have a soft spot, or care about literature or movies.
|
|
There are several reasons why executives at industrial firms have a soft spot for unwieldy structures, despite the fact that shareholders usually detest them.
|
|
Yet while I do have a soft spot for DBZ and the myriad media that orbits it, I fell off the bandwagon years ago.
|
|
King presses Kelly on the recent allegations, and clearly hits a soft spot when asked if Kelly has ever held women against their will.
|
|
And apparently, the idea hit a soft spot for fans, because countless users quickly flooded the brand's Instagram feed with some VERY strong feelings.
|
|
Yet no foreign leader has taken more skilful advantage of Mr Trump's soft spot than his guest in Washington this week, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
|
|
Rager and Ray are now 28 and 23, and though neither works at Target anymore, they certainly have a soft spot for the store.
|
|
"Even when baseball has tested my patience and allegiance, I've always managed to hold on to my soft spot for the Cubs," she wrote.
|
|
The show, presented by Childsplay, was originally produced by the National Theater of Great Britain, which has a soft spot for Dr. Seuss, too.
|
|
But his soft spot for certain people didn't stop him from raping waitresses or smashing his girlfriend's head on the hood of a taxi.
|
|
They may not all give Vera Wang or Marchesa a run for their money, but they've certainly earned a soft spot in our hearts.
|
|
They each know the other's soft spot — Claire has Jamie's romantic love, and John had 20 years with Jamie that Claire can never have.
|
|
Yet Washington's move still strikes at a national soft spot for China that has weighed on the minds of the country's leaders for decades.
|
|
Firman, 15, was on the student council at the liberal Muslim experimental school they attended, and he had a soft spot for Taylor Swift.
|
|
"Trade has been consistently a soft spot for Canada and this report doesn't change that," said Benjamin Reitzes, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets.
|
|
But she's got a soft spot for her sister, Annabel, who periodically calls for help with the brutal men she keeps hooking up with.
|
|
It was a soft spot for him even when there was a lot of other stuff in the book that might have concerned him.
|
|
Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLE — I have a big soft spot in my heart for Ann Patchett, the author quoted in today's Cox and Rathvon acrostic.
|
|
She's got a new solo album coming out, but still seems to have a soft spot for her old group -- given her song choice.
|
|
" Hunter, 52, also said that Edwards "has a real soft spot" for their daughter and that they're still "very good friends and great co-parents.
|
|
Her character on Younger might have a soft spot for glamorous soirées, but in real life, actress Hilary Duff much prefers casual parties at home.
|
|
It's an involuntary reflex—sort of like the one that makes your leg kick when a doctor thwacks the soft spot just below your knee.
|
|
For example, a Cancer dad probably has a soft spot for kitschy memorabilia, while a Virgo dad likes simple things that serve their purpose well.
|
|
Though the actor, whose name is actually Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt, is a proud Bostonian, it appears he has a soft spot for New Hampshirites.
|
|
My soft spot for TV housewives can be traced directly back to those many hours spent curled up in the glow of the small screen.
|
|
But as someone who sits at a laptop most days, I have a soft spot for programs that take full advantage of the larger screen.
|
|
The new wave of swimsuit brands breaking into the scene seem to share a soft spot for retro silhouettes — which is something we're all for.
|
|
But really, sincerely, if you've a soft spot for vibrantly violent racers with a supercharged twist, and have the means to play Blur, do so.
|
|
But still, I hold a soft spot in my heart for Winter Anderson, the goth-y Hillary-Clinton-enthusiast-turned-killer portrayed by Billie Lourd.
|
|
I've always had a soft spot for the shuffle: the original, white-stick-of-gum-shaped model was the was the first iPod I owned.
|
|
He is now a proud member of a local military-patriotic club, as well as an environmental activist with a soft spot for endangered birds.
|
|
She's a strong woman, and it will take a very strong woman not to retain a soft spot for the generosity of such a company.
|
|
Lawrence's latest Dior campaign will also thrill fashion nerds — or, at least those who have a soft spot for the days of Dior-branded-everything.
|
|
The account seems to have a particular soft spot for memes about SpongeBob and the Avengers, couching them in captions about worship and youth groups.
|
|
We already knew Homer had a soft spot for expansion teams but this episode confirms it, as it appears as though he's a Coyotes fan.
|
|
He had a soft spot for Westerns and for the television series "Kojak," about a big-hearted New York City detective played by Telly Savalas.
|
|
Sunday Routine The Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki has a soft spot for the United States Open, which begins on Monday in Flushing Meadows, Queens.
|
|
In terms of influencing my music, not as such, no, although I have a soft spot the kind of vocal style Eurotrance it's descended from.
|
|
Designed by a pair of Australian twins, Kite & Butterfly is a must-look for anyone with a soft spot for crochet and/or flower crowns.
|
|
As a Dead fan with a soft spot for neo-hippie products, I picked up one roll-on fragrance and two packets of bath salts.
|
|
This book is an invaluable resource, and I have a particularly soft spot for it; it led to my lifelong love affair with Parmigiano-Reggiano.
|
|
Hofmann may have to rely on the soft spot for Vine in people's memories to get enough activity on Byte to recreate its predecessor's magic.
|
|
He always had a soft spot for a police officer named James Burke, who rose under his tutelage to become the county's chief of police.
|
|
So I have a soft spot for the costumes in the initial episodes, when the wrestling women aren't yet playing their in-the-ring roles.
|
|
"He grew up poor so he had a soft spot for the downtrodden and the vulnerable," friend Jeff Koinange, a prominent broadcaster, wrote to Reuters.
|
|
Throughout this story, Farr finds that soft spot between the justified fear of an extraordinary threat and what could be dismissed as everyday maternal nerves. Netflix.
|
|
Apart from having a soft spot for brooding partners and the inclination to analyze everything and anything, they also share a preference of low-maintenance beauty.
|
|
"I have always had somewhat of a soft spot for Windows 98, despite it driving me insane back in the day," Darby wrote on his blog.
|
|
The account is worth a follow, but I have a soft spot for shots of '90s Xennial and Gen-X gays embracing their full queer selves:
|
|
Market breadth continues to lag a bit, with fewer than half of all S&P 500 stocks in a technical uptrend, to cite one soft spot.
|
|
MG: Too many to list but I have a soft spot for Seventeen by Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines and The Philadelphia Story by George Cukor.
|
|
Former NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal has always had a soft spot for law enforcement — and now he has announced plans to run for Sheriff in 2020.
|
|
And though I never finished Black Flag or even started Unity, Rogue, or Syndicate, I still have a bit of a soft spot for the series.
|
|
Although the pair have been separated and off to new and loving forever homes, Barney will always have a soft spot for a kitten in need.
|
|
Also, I have a soft spot for aesthetically-pleasing ads: Now I really want a McDonald's anime with some of the art form's more traditional elements.
|
|
Whether it can extend gains depends on the strength of domestic demand, which has been a soft spot in the world's third largest economy, they say.
|
|
I have a soft spot for "Buttons" (2011), which they created in conjunction with Alex Kalman, and which is actually hundreds of micro-documentaries pasted together.
|
|
He clearly has a soft spot for songs that delicately pull at the heartstrings, and emotional ballads that are best listened to while scream-singing along.
|
|
VAR did provide England with a lifeline though, a penalty awarded for a foul on White, but Houghton's soft spot kick was saved by Alyssa Naeher.
|
|
Personally, I have a soft spot for titanium watches, I like that they're quite light (compared with steel) which makes them very comfortable on the wrist.
|
|
I still have a soft spot in my heart for raggedy band tees and bat mitzvah sweatpants riddled with holes, those will still do the trick.
|
|
He has, perhaps not coincidentally, had a soft spot for notebooks since he was a child, when he drew during family drives to keep himself entertained.
|
|
The two men had a close relationship, and Eitan had a soft spot for Sella, a promising officer considered a potential commander of the air force.
|
|
Clinton had a soft spot for "Ol' Boris," whom he considered a bulwark against Russia's Communist Party, which was growing in popularity as Russians' misery increased.
|
|
A few chance encounters with Buck leave John with a soft spot for the animal, and together they embark on an adventure that brings them closer.
|
|
Frank has a soft spot of course for his own mother's loaf, a classic that has gotten a lot of attention in stories about our book.
|
|
Even the Fed should not be concerned much about the soft spot in spending and is expected to continue on its course to raise interest rates.
|
|
If a character is trying to look tough, it's probably at least partly a facade, and they're hiding an inferiority complex or a surprising soft spot.
|
|
Although he writes as a scholar, he introduces himself as a theist—indeed, a part-time Anglican minister—but one with a "soft spot for atheism".
|
|
"Having that soft spot for soldiers is part of the Israeli solidarity, and it is part of what is really unique about Israel," Mr. Goodman said.
|
|
SCHMUCK is a bit edgy for my current taste, but I'll always have a soft spot for Yiddish and other words that relate to Jewish culture.
|
|
The president, who has investments in India and sees its prime minister, Narendra Modi, as a kindred nationalist, may even have a soft spot for the country.
|
|
I'm holding out for Spotlight, and I even have a soft spot for this theory that Room could pull off a huge upset, Million Dollar Baby-style.
|
|
We certainly have a soft spot for certain art and artists that worked in the periods following modernism... especially ones that tended towards a more conceptual practice.
|
|
The experience left Swildens with a working knowledge of intellectual property battles in the tech world, and a lingering soft spot for others facing hefty patent claims.
|
|
Kanye West will always have a soft spot in his heart for his hometown of Chicago, but he won't be moving to the Windy City anytime soon.
|
|
Her political opponents, in turn, have sought to find a soft spot on issues of authenticity — chiefly Ms. Warren's handling of her claim to Native American ancestry.
|
|
Simon Cowell, the tougher-than-nails former American Idol judge, apparently has a soft spot and it's dedicated to his admiration for the guys from One Direction.
|
|
"Bernie was such a fixture of Vermont politics for many years, so I sort of have a soft spot in my heart for him," this supporter said.
|
|
While everyone still has a soft spot for Zayn, it's clear this is Harry's moment — could this be the real reason the "Pillowtalk" singer is laying low?
|
|
The "Mad Money" host has, in the past, admitted to having a soft spot for Warren because of her thoughtful approach about difficult problems facing the nation.
|
|
Whether it's the picture-perfect application of lipstick in Mulan, or the big library reveal from Beauty & the Beast, we all have a quirky Disney soft spot.
|
|
In the meantime, taking care of the Broncos and the Chiefs has given the Titans a well-earned soft spot on the schedule this week: the Jaguars.
|
|
In a 2016 interview with Vogue, discussing her recent move there, Solange confessed that her soft spot for New Orleans and its culture went far beyond articulation.
|
|
He's actually nicer than his reputation suggests, with a particular soft spot for animals, disabled children and injured drivers — the three causes his Tony Stewart Foundation supports.
|
|
"There's a soft spot in my heart for the color and fantasy of the '80s," Ms. Petras said while surveying a room anointed with cupcake-shaped banquettes.
|
|
As a card-carrying liberal, I even have a sneaking soft spot for Newt Gingrich's alternative Civil War histories, though I draw the line at his politics.
|
|
Agle also has a soft spot for monsters and sci-fi characters, depicting them sitting with their pets, perhaps, or joyriding through the desert in their convertibles.
|
|
While P.S. I Love You hits that soft spot of losing your great love, much of its premise is straight-up icky up but framed as romantic.
|
|
I have a soft spot for Ms. Maymudes because her pet-themed debut was memorably charming, so I was happy to see her name in lights again.
|
|
She has a soft spot for Jennifer Lopez, which is why she trained her last week even though she isn't technically available for hire for personal training anymore.
|
|
Former WWE star and Survivor contestant Ashley Massaro was known for her brash public persona, but she had a soft spot: her 18-year-old daughter, Alexa Massaro.
|
|
Yet, although the bearded zealots are wary of football, they have a soft spot for the sound of willow on leather, even founding a national team in 2000.
|
|
But perhaps the bigger reason I'm okay with the time traveling is that I have a soft spot for Steve Rogers and I want him to be happy.
|
|
The Ohio band may have a soft spot for their native Midwest, but this amount of reverb suggests the ocean is just a shimmy and a shake away.
|
|
Don't ask me why, but ever since I watched that crushingly sad episode of Futurama with Fry's dog Seymour, I've had a real soft spot for emotional cartoons.
|
|
Although she also paints portraits and landscapes outside of the beach, Gilbert has a soft spot for depicting waves, partially as a result of her own childhood nostalgia.
|
|
Like every other Hollywood star with an ounce of British blood in them, she has a soft spot for Burberry (particularly when getting dresses for a talk show).
|
|
According to the Daily Beast, Manigault was "despised" in the White House, but Trump had a soft spot for her and the two had developed some serious trust.
|
|
I have a soft spot for "Show Me the Monkey" because it's one of the only episodes in which Veronica gets to have more than one female friend.
|
|
The sightings, which affected tens of thousands of people, exposed a soft spot in airport security where potentially just one individual with a drone can cause widespread chaos.
|
|
Every culture has a soft spot for comic resourcefulness, and you can still see a Puss & Mew, as it was called, at the Beefeater distillery, in South London.
|
|
Where Sylvia is wiry and cerebral, a successful astrophysicist and supposed "prude," Carlotta is a whimsical, willowy bohemian who dislikes books but has a soft spot for Rilke.
|
|
Sport hinted at by the ends of 17-, 24-, 36- and 47-Across Revealer: VOLLEYBALL As a lifelong volleyball player, I have a soft spot for this puzzle.
|
|
Don't worry, she still has a soft spot for Eve, teasing her throughout the meeting and reminding her to "be professional" as they browse the tech they'll be using.
|
|
She's an avid journaler in the book, and she has a soft spot for "bubblegum" music like Katy Perry (which show-Moe probably wouldn't be caught dead listening to).
|
|
Of course, as an astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, deGrasse Tyson might be expected to have a soft spot for Musk's grand intergalactic plans.
|
|
It's no secret that we have a soft spot for British TV shows, and Absolutely Fabulous — Ab Fab to die-hard fans — ranks among the cream of the crop.
|
|
I also retain, even after all these years, a soft spot for at least some of the profusion of diagrams that characterized trade theory when I was a student.
|
|
READ: Donald Trump's soft spot for dictators He offered solutions such as "we're going to have unbelievable intelligence," and nothing much different to the current Obama administration strategy there.
|
|
Policy-makers hope that prospects of a sustained recovery will prompt companies to boost wages and household spending - a particularly soft spot in Japan's economy, the world's third-largest.
|
|
As history has shown, China has a soft spot for mega projects, whether it be the construction of the Great Wall of China or the colossal Three Gorges Dam.
|
|
But it isn't necessarily his lack of experience, nor his soft spot for the Boy Scouts of America, that critics find troubling about his appearance on Trump's short list.
|
|
Soft spots aside While Abe understands that Trump's got a soft spot for being treated like a king, there are complex issues for the two leaders to work through.
|
|
Where his SaveMoney crew and, more specifically, Chance and the Social Experiment, largely traffic in gospel-infused hip-hop, Towkio has always had a soft spot for electronic music.
|
|
See, during one of the debates last fall, Jeb demanded that Trump apologize for saying that Jeb had a soft spot for Mexico because his wife was born there.
|
|
Mr. Ghani had a soft spot for the uncles, he said, having lost two of his own on a single day decades ago, in an earlier era of war.
|
|
He doesn't overdo the self-consciousness, but he knows that the audience has a soft spot for unusual children, whose aura of innocence is a screen for otherworldly powers.
|
|
In fact, there's only one way to make sense of the NCAA's seemingly random internal jurisprudence—the association has a soft spot for schools that submit to its authority.
|
|
For this reason, I hold a soft spot for the fast food chain, one which I tried to intellectually harden on my way to meet Caliburger CEO John Miller.
|
|
Kyoji Horiguchi versus Neil Seery I have had a soft spot for both of these fighters for some time but they are polar opposites in their backgrounds and methods.
|
|
Their man, Roy Moore, an accused pedophile with an unrepentant disdain for modernity and a soft spot for slavery, lost to Doug Jones, a former federal prosecutor and Democrat.
|
|
I've always had a soft spot for this park, though its 12 hard courts at the Brian Watkins Tennis Center are cracked and slippery and the nets are threadbare.
|
|
Birkenstock, the outdoor sandal and clog company known for adorning the feet of the extremely fashionable and granola-eaters alike, has always had a soft spot for designer collaborations.
|
|
From "Iron Will" to "Snow Dogs" to "Eight Below," the studio's executives clearly have a soft spot for rugged frontier tales of tough Arctic men and their canine companions.
|
|
While we'll always have a soft spot for PSLs, these seven products are giving Starbucks a run for its money when it comes to the best use of pumpkin.
|
|
Stylists say Meghan, who already has a soft spot for Canadian fashion, could further throw this country's fashion industry – known for its craftmanship and modesty – into the runway limelight.
|
|
The Colonel happens to be dating a Weekday Warrior, Sara (Landry Bender), so even though he hates this group of students he's got a tiny soft spot for them.
|
|
Ronald DeSantis, certified master chef and CulinaryNXT principal adviser, said he also has a soft spot for Chi-Chi's salsas, but his favorite variety is Fiesta-Style Smoky Chipotle.
|
|
The housing market has become another soft spot, as rising mortgage rates have stalled new home sales, which fell 5.5% in September to their lowest point in a year.
|
|
Wesley reveals that he has a soft spot for the genre-defying duo Twenty One Pilots, who are nominated a few times and are on their way to megastardom.
|
|
"Manufacturing is still a soft spot but frankly, the data in the US economy has gotten better in past few weeks," said Ed Keon, chief investment strategist for QMA.
|
|
Lieutenant General McMaster and Kelly, a retired four-star Marine Corps general, have a soft spot for France born of their admiration for the French military, the diplomats said.
|
|
We may find the tradition fairly useless and anticlimactic, but that doesn't mean we don't still have a soft spot for the versions we see on TV and in movies.
|
|
And way before they were style stars in their own right, the Jenner sisters also had a soft spot for the classic, late-2000s teen uniform: Juicy Couture and Uggs.
|
|
Sony's mammoth 13-inch Digital Paper tablet, essentially a huge Kindle you can write on, is still a pretty rare sight, but I've always had a soft spot for it.
|
|
In a post on her site titled "25 Things You Didn't Know About Me," The Hills star revealed that she has a major soft spot for the Mother of Dragons.
|
|
Sandra Oh and her Grey's Anatomy husband, Kevin McKidd, enjoyed a night out together Thursday – and it seems she still holds a soft spot for her former on-screen husband.
|
|
While he noted that recent economic data show a "soft spot," Cooperman contended that a bear market, marked by sustained selling, would look imminent with mounting signs of a recession.
|
|
It's a good time to be a death metal fan with a healthy sense of curiosity (or a soft spot for older weirdos like Atheist, Demilich, Cynic, and so on).
|
|
She'll always have a soft spot for Joni, though — in a 2014 interview with Us Weekly, Moore revealed that the pup was the first pet she got as an adult.
|
|
The recent success of "Strictly Come Dancing", a televised ballroom-dancing contest, is testament to a lingering national soft-spot for its old blend of sequined razzmatazz and Victorian politesse.
|
|
From a no fly zone in Syria to potentially putting troops on the ground, Hillary is showing a soft-spot from the neo-conservatism that gave us Iraq and Libya.
|
|
He said his friend had a soft spot for "Lonesome Dove," the TV mini-series based on Larry McMurtry's novels about two retired Texas Rangers on an epic cattle drive.
|
|
Underscoring its optimism on the outlook, the BOJ even revised up its view on private consumption - considered a soft spot for the Japanese economy - to say it was holding firm.
|
|
While the Canadiens were buzzing in the offensive zone, Byron found a soft spot in the slot and ripped a shot past Halak after receiving the feed from Artturi Lehkonen.
|
|
Starting at the soft spot at the top of Danielle's head (known as Du 20) he applied pressure while stressing the importance of communicating with your partner to ensure comfort.
|
|
CNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday that he has a soft spot for Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren because she has really spent her career thinking about how to help people.
|
|
With a soft spot for the crackpot, Boyle has, over many years and novels, made hay with American iconoclasts and ideologues, myopic seers who strive against the currents of convention.
|
|
My dad did have a soft spot in his heart: There were some donation forms with dollar amounts carefully written in pencil by him for the A.S.P.C.A. He loved cats.
|
|
That face was a brilliant fit for Quinn, introduced in Season 2 as a coldhearted operative with a soft spot for Carrie Mathison, the show's lead, played by Claire Danes.
|
|
If Lidstar is for those with a soft spot for shimmer and shine, then Skywash is its sheer matte twin that has a New Yorker subscription and lives in Greenpoint.
|
|
Like many Texas liberals, Wright has a soft spot for the three Texans who reached the White House — a feeling no doubt heightened by his loathing of the present occupant.
|
|
The Knicks, of course, would be interested in signing Irving, a six-time All-Star who grew up in New Jersey and has a soft spot for Madison Square Garden.
|
|
The only reason this compilation wasn't ranked as the absolute worst is because there's a Roll Deep track on there, and I've got a soft spot for the first Killers album.
|
|
I do have a soft spot for the fact that they introduced people to a certain kind of political production, that is, when you talk about talking to a mass scale.
|
|
Whether you are among those who loved the beautiful music, or the completely terrifying nightmare scenes appealed to your preteen goth sensibilities, millennials have a soft spot for the movie Anastasia.
|
|
John McCain has a reputation for being a tough political player but he let his guard down Thursday when he admitted having a soft spot for American pop princess Britney Spears.
|
|
As someone who was bullied in elementary school and junior high, I have a real soft spot for stories about the underdog who evolves and embodies success as the best revenge.
|
|
If the Golden Gophers have a soft spot on offense, it's their inability to generate big passing plays, as their longest of the season has gone for just 35 yards. 1.
|
|
First, it encrypts all in-car transmissions; this prevents a security soft spot like a backseat media screen or Wi-Fi hotspot from becoming a back door into more critical systems.
|
|
Deal-making hit a soft spot following the 2014 oil bust as banks tightened lending to distressed drillers and buyers and sellers remained at odds over the value of energy assets.
|
|
"You need to know, that I'm always going to have a soft spot in my heart for Kathryn and I'm not going to let anything happen to these kids," he said.
|
|
On Saturday night, Bankhead will be rooting for his alma mater, but he'll also have a soft spot for Kotsar, one of only two freshman starters in this year's Final Four.
|
|
And it goes without saying I will always have a soft spot in my heart for HBO going back to the rewarding experience I had producing Alan Ball's Six Feet Under.
|
|
Of course, true freedom and equality beckon, which is why Mishra shows an occasional soft spot for lone wolves—including Timothy McVeigh—who hope a spectacular blow will shatter the glass.
|
|
The congressional requests for financial records pertaining to him, his companies and his family members hit him in a soft spot, as Trump has been fiercely protective of his private businesses.
|
|
Nina, showing signs of a conscience of her own as well as a soft spot for Anton, was caught trying to sneak a message out of the compound to his son.
|
|
Ms. Nauert, who moved back to New York to be with her family, is not interested in returning to Washington, people said, but Mr. Trump has a soft spot for her.
|
|
He established his own aesthetic — pan-Asian, with a soft spot for sushi and Southeast Asian spices — with the food trucks and restaurants he opened in Austin and, more recently, Houston.
|
|
Consumption has been a soft spot in Japan's otherwise strengthening economy, with its weakness blamed for keeping inflation subdued by discouraging companies from raising prices, leaving growth heavily reliant on exports.
|
|
The Danish designer Oliver Gustav has a self-proclaimed soft spot for "crooked places" — like his Copenhagen apartment, situated in an 18th-century building of architectural significance, according to the government.
|
|
If you were in the soft-spot tween demographic that devoured Lizzie McGuire, one of the show's highlights was watching ordinary 13-year-old Lizzie basically slay when it came to guys.
|
|
A 0.7 percent decline in goods exports, which were hit by falling daily and meat shipments, was practically the only soft spot and that should change this quarter with dairy prices recovering.
|
|
Make Your Velvet MatchThough this go-to holiday texture has a super-soft spot in our hearts, it can start to feel worn out when it's the hit fabric at every party.
|
|
I can't help it: I've really got a soft spot for the damn cat, particularly when her mouthless mug is imprinted on a fittingly millennial-pink gel mask from Peter Thomas Roth.
|
|
Listen, for better or worse, I have a soft spot a boy who knows how to do comedy, and last night proved that Guadagnino's 2012 UCB Improv 201 class really paid off.
|
|
In an interview with CNN, Kelly talked about how he channels Doug Stamper and why after all this time, he still has a soft spot for one of fictional Washington's toughest characters.
|
|
The French have a soft spot for authority, and the mighty presidency (atypical for Europe) and the academy (founded to guarantee the purity of the French language) are both symbols of that.
|
|
No matter who you want on the Iron Throne, every fan of HBO's sprawling fantasy had a soft spot for a man of few words who committed himself to guarding Bran Stark.
|
|
" She also made contentious Facebook posts in recent years that include saying: "Obama has a soft spot for homosexuals because of the years he spent as a male prostitute in his twenties.
|
|
Owens still seems to have a soft spot for Brady, though ... 'cause when Sam says he'd be a Pro Bowl player TODAY if he were playin' with the G.O.A.T. -- Owens doesn't disagree.
|
|
"There is no hard proof yet of direct links between Trump himself and Russia, but he does have a weird, noticeably soft spot to both the country and its leader," Oliver said.
|
|
Bill Cunningham — the New York Times street style photographer with a keen eye who earned a soft spot in the hearts of New Yorkers and many beyond — has died at age 87.
|
|
Steve Hauschildt, "Strands" I have an enduring soft spot for Steve Hauschildt's meditative, distinct electronic music, and "Strands" — the title track from a new album Hauschildt's releasing this October — is typically mesmerizing.
|
|
Last Monday, the Cincinnati Reds took note of Syndergaard's dawdling delivery with runners on base and stole five bases, uncovering a soft spot in what was previously perceived as an ironclad makeup.
|
|
Maybe I have a soft-spot for Dawn because her own progression to becoming an actual person mirrored mine (minus the vampires), but it's time fans lay off the collective Dawn hate.
|
|
Since then, I've always had a soft spot in my heart for toaster ovens, and I've tested ones that cost way more than that humble $40 toaster oven I grew up with.
|
|
I met her first, and I already had a soft spot for her because she used to write in the cafe of the Traverse Theater in Edinburgh when I was the director.
|
|
Directed and produced by Jonathan Alter, John Block and Steve McCarthy, "Deadline Artists" is clearly imbued with a soft spot for the two men at its core, whatever their flaws and foibles.
|
|
Trahan and Blackman refer to this transition as the "Grey Zone" — otherwise known as a soft spot for equities when sentiment changes from a moderate risk-off to full-blown risk aversion.
|
|
As a beauty editor with a particular soft spot for all things hair, I'e tried a ton of products, but it's Unite's formula that I go back to time and time again.
|
|
Trump's soft spot for strongmen was on display again Monday, when he phoned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to congratulate him on winning a referendum designed to dismantle the country's democratic infrastructure.
|
|
You certainly don't expect to develop feelings for characters in a game like this, but it's hard to come away from Bulletstorm without a soft spot for any of its central players.
|
|
When Mr. Bregman wasn't working on projects about gangsters, crime and violence, he seemed to have a soft spot for relationship stories with at least a touch of idealism and wistful comedy.
|
|
Gerrit Cole has played for two teams in his seven-year MLB career, but it&aposs clear the newly-minted Yankees ace has always had a soft spot for the Bronx Bombers.
|
|
All's fair in love and the last week of a campaign, but still it's a little audacious, since Corbyn clearly has an old revolutionary's soft spot for a certain kind of terrorist.
|
|
Odds are you have a soft spot for paper airplanes – they're a quick, simple, and undeniably fun solution to boredom that probably got you sent to the principal's office more than once.
|
|
The president has a well-known soft spot for autocrats willing to hammer Islamist militants (resulting civilian casualties be damned) and has repeatedly expressed a desire to work more closely with Russia.
|
|
But if you have a soft spot for whimsical Victorian pastiches — or just suspect you might — the confection of a book that is The Gentleman is your perfect end-of-summer read.
|
|
I'm not a Trekkie, but I certainly hold a soft spot for The Next Generation—as I think most of my peers do—after watching countless reruns during my childhood in the '90s.
|
|
The white-hatted Mr Zelaya, whose soft spot for Venezuelan socialism terrified the Honduran elite, planned to hold a non-binding referendum on whether to convene a constituent assembly to change the constitution.
|
|
Some of that glitz and schmaltz seemed to hang around in his gentle American voice, as well as in his soft spot for Rachmaninov and the too-lush sound of his string sections.
|
|
Maid of honor raps and choreographed bridal-party dances have been kind of a thing in the past couple of years, but we always have a soft spot for a '90s-themed one.
|
|
Understandably for a glaciologist, he also has a soft spot for shots of glacial cover, though it can be a mixed blessing to watch them diminish over Landsat's 45-year-long visual record.
|
|
In a sport that is so frequently held up by athlete injuries, it should come as no surprise that fans have a real soft spot for fighters who are able to stay active.
|
|
Brendan Canning, "Book It to Fresno" As a Canadian who grew up during Broken Social Scene's indie rock reign, I have a soft spot for Brendan Canning, that band's shaggy, beloved co-founder.
|
|
Generally, researchers try to both notify a company that a vulnerability exists and work with the company to patch it before a public announcement that would alert hackers to the security soft spot.
|
|
The Week Ahead Though New York theater has always had a soft spot for Southern eccentrics (paging Tennessee Williams!), the singular, vernacular lyricism of Eudora Welty has seldom been translated to the stage.
|
|
Yet to me, and lots of other people with a real soft spot for the OTT melodrama of late-70s disco, Posa will live on forever as the one and only Dennis Parker.
|
|
Lauren Ash may play a hilariously overzealous store manager and security guard with a hard shell on NBC's Superstore, but in real life, she has a soft spot for fellow actor Keanu Reeves.
|
|
The 'Fresh Prince' is in the Big Apple promoting his latest movie with Martin Lawrence, "Bad Boys For Life" ... and it sounds like Will's still got a soft spot for the recording studio.
|
|
But as a preservationist appointed to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation by former president George W. Bush, she also has a soft spot for maintaining the work of modernists who preceded her.
|
|
Dragusin, who now creates them full-time for his company Candylab Toys, had a soft spot for the boxy muscle cars of the 1960s and '70s with their clean, blunt lines and bold colors.
|
|
Apparently a spanking — or worse, a tweetstorm — would normally be in order in the SNL world of Trump and Sessions, but our fair president has a soft spot for the disturbingly cute attorney general.
|
|
If you have a soft spot for green tea infusions, Italian fruit cake, and fudge whipped cream, you might consider grabbing your passport and following your taste buds and caffeine crutch around the world.
|
|
Many people have a soft spot for the highly …Read more ReadFarmers in the Midwest Face Decades of Recovery as Flooding Strips Away Crucial SoilThe Midwest floods continue to be a slow-moving disaster.
|
|
Make no mistake, though: Serpentskirt is OG goth—they have a soft spot Chelsea Wolfe, but are obviously way, way more in love with the Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Dead Can Dance.
|
|
Their red hair is attributed to Queen Victoria, whose soft spot for gingers prompted breeders to appease the monarch by breeding out black Highland cows—an irrevocable English influence on a supposedly Scottish breed.
|
|
"I've long had a soft spot for typography, geometry, vintage design, data, and — after working on several projects based on older literary works — older books which combine one or more of these," Rougeux explained.
|
|
After the Jets pulled to 27-17 with nine minutes left in the game, Darnold overthrew Andre Roberts in a soft spot in the Vikings' two-deep coverage, and Holton Hill made an interception.
|
|
I've got a soft spot for fishing mini-games, and though Final Fantasy XV's take is hardly complex, there's enough going on that I found it a relaxing diversion from the task at hand.
|
|
I have a huge soft spot for outdated computer games and software, so the Internet Archive has given me an excellent Valentine's Day gift in the form of a collection of Windows 3.1 software.
|
|
Andrea Carla Michaels: Although Michael Wiesenberg and I have yet to meet in person, I have a soft spot for him because my father's name was Michael Eisenberg, so I felt an instant kinship.
|
|
We're in a soft spot in the schedule at the moment — "Legion" is over with; "Twin Peaks" is not quite here — so why not check out some current examples of TV's most durable genre?
|
|
One is that he has always had a soft spot for racists, ever since as a young real estate developer he was sued by a Republican Department of Justice for systematically discriminating against blacks.
|
|
More adventurous than most, it's not easy to nail down just one trend Solange prefers, so we rounded up a few — including her penchant for bleach-blonde hair and notable soft spot for graphic liner.
|
|
If you don't have a soft spot for scatological humor (just as some were reticent about Season 1's elaborate dick jokes), Vandal doesn't need you along for the joyous, genius ride of Season 2.
|
|
The Shape of Water is the new movie from director Guillermo del Toro, who's always had something of a soft spot for monsters: Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, Pacific Rim, and Crimson Peak are all from him.
|
|
There's a modern version of the $15 Retro Hauler available now, but the classic version will always have a soft spot in our hearts since it transformed into a miniature drag strip for impromptu races.
|
|
"Star Wars," dinosaurs and "The Little Prince" are always popular, though Pereira himself takes the greatest pleasure in lesser-known works, with a particular soft spot for local artists who prioritize aesthetics over intricate engineering.
|
|
The bank expects oil supply to tighten in the first quarter as top exporter Saudi Arabia cuts production, but Citi's Ed Morse also forecasts a soft spot for demand in the opening months of 2019.
|
|
Trump evidently has a personal soft spot for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin that few Republicans share, and his approach to trade policy remains at odds with the bulk of the GOP and the business community.
|
|
One soft spot was slow growth in North America, Cordwell said, which despite Spotify's global reach could be seen as a gauge for how well it is competing for subscriptions with Apple Inc and Amazon.
|
|
For me personally, being too far out into the farmlands to get anything besides Pizza Hut delivered, this tracks—and also explains why I still have a soft spot for a thin crust Meat Lovers.
|
|
After a bit, I moved on to emo and punk, though I kept a soft spot (sometimes difficult considering Alex Turner's apparent transformation into... a cowboy?) and have dipped in and out of subsequent albums.
|
|
When Jay was a teenager, he read about Buchinger in a book by the illusionist and magic historian Milbourne Christopher, charmingly depicted here as a staid Brahmin with a soft spot for the ardent student.
|
|
We saw a man who said he was so mean he'd make medicine sick reveal a soft spot, visiting children with illness and disability around the world, telling them they, too, could become the greatest.
|
|
In an interview with "The Lead" on CNN, Connolly told host Jim Sciutto that the recent decision from the Trump administration to sell lethal weaponry to Ukraine came despite Trump's "inexplicable" soft spot for Putin.
|
|
With bleach blonde pigtails and lollipops as accessories, Baby Spice wasn't exactly easy to take seriously but her ability to see the positive in every situation definitely won her a soft spot in our hearts.
|
|
For someone with an extremely well-documented love of LOUD GUITARS and AMPLIFIERS TURNED ALL THE WAY UP, Beach Slang's James Alex sure has a soft spot for the quieter side of rock and roll.
|
|
Later in Savage's podcast, Kunis went on to play a few rounds of "Make Love, Marry, Murder" with the RHOBH cast, and Kunis revealed her soft spot for married pair Mauricio Umansky and Kyle Richards.
|
|
Mr. Trump's soft spot for authoritarians dates at least to his presidential campaign, when he praised Saddam Hussein for being "good" at killing terrorists and suggested that the world would be better off were Col.
|
|
Consumption has been a soft spot in an otherwise robust recovery, hampering the BOJ's efforts to achieve its inflation target as firms remain wary of raising prices for fear of scaring away cost-sensitive households.
|
|
But amid promises to build a wall along the southern border and a vow to take on the Islamic State, Mr. Trump showed that even he had a soft spot when it came to babies.
|
|
And as Emily, a no-bullshit new character who has a soft spot for Jesse and absolutely nothing else, Lucy Griffiths features a fantastic blunt dryness that balances out much of the show's filthy ramblings.
|
|
It makes sense that the champion of the Green New Deal, which calls for stronger environmental policies coupled with laws that would help put an end to income inequality, would have a soft spot for houseplants.
|
|
And he's got a soft spot for biographies of great American forces of change, from Andy Grove to Martin Luther King Jr. Of course, you could space that reading out over a manageable amount of time.
|
|
In fact, I had a bit of a soft spot for people who might not have had the ideal profile, but had long track records of seeking out learning opportunities to get to the next level.
|
|
Stitch is sorry that he can't keep in touch with his long-distance bestie, he's an insomniac, and he has a nostalgic soft spot for ice cream cups that come with wooden sticks to eat with.
|
|
Though many movie lovers have a soft spot for Kevin McCallister wandering around the Big Apple at Christmas time, star Macaulay Culkin still prefers the original Home Alone film to its sequel — for a distinct reason.
|
|
The German newsweekly "Der Spiegel" has called Trump "the world's most dangerous man" and even waxed nostalgic for President George W. Bush, which for a European publication is like suddenly discovering a soft spot for Dracula.
|
|
I also have a personal soft spot for him because he was the single most fun part of the atrocious New York Knicks teams I had to (read: chose to) watch while I was in college.
|
|
I've always been a fan of ultra aggressive music; I was a big metalhead in high school and I've always had a soft spot in my heart for grind music and all that sort of stuff.
|
|
Trump has made it inescapably clear he has a soft spot for dictators and no great passion for liberal democracy, with its pesky separation of powers, independent rule of law, free press and protection of minorities.
|
|
A soft spot for horses runs in the royal family: As we see in the show, the Queen owns and breeds horses, and she has been known to make an appearance at races and other events.
|
|
In particular I have an aesthetic soft spot for the cheaper Pro-Ject turntables, but you'll get more bang for your buck from the step-up model of the cheap AT table above, the Audio-Technica LP120.
|
|
A pirate and a thief, it's clear from the start that he's willing to say anything to get what he wants, but Jamie and Claire have a soft spot for those trying to escape the King's justice.
|
|
She feels a soft-spot for Marcus and returns with him to his dimension: This sudden change in Danvers's demeanor doesn't strike Earth's mightiest heroes as weird, even though they've heard her tale of brainwashing and rape.
|
|
Launching at Cannes could be the ideal way to kick-start the film's Oscar campaign, and the festival clearly has a soft spot for Nichols: His 2012 drama Mud premiered in the competition, just like Loving will.
|
|
His comments, emailed to Reuters on Thursday in response to questions, come at a time some economists suggest the Philippines could be a soft spot and vulnerable if higher U.S. interest rates spark capital outflows from Asia.
|
|
We all know that John Krasinski now has rock hard abs for his new movie, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, but it's obvious the actor will always have a soft spot for his daughter, Hazel.
|
|
ZURICH, March 0.623 (Reuters) - A Russian billionaire with a soft spot for Faberge eggs continues to be hit hard by his Swiss industrial portfolio, with steelmaker Schmolz+Bickenbach on Thursday his latest holding to report a loss.
|
|
Record: 0-5Last week: 27thWeek 5 result: Lost to the Cardinals, 26-23Week 6 opponent: at Baltimore RavensOne thing to know: Cincinnati just finished up the soft spot in their schedule and didn't pick up a win.
|
|
Last, but not least, there's Kim (Rhea Seehorn), the straight-laced attorney whose soft spot for Jimmy has revealed unexpected sides to her personality, who begins to see him in a different light as the season progresses.
|
|
Mr. Loeffelholz was an unusual figure in the "Chicago" milieu — a standby for the character Mary Sunshine, a journalist with a soft spot for sob stories who is played by a male soprano dressed in women's clothing.
|
|
"Him working on my soft heart, for me giving to our servicemen, and I believe that he hit the soft spot, and I felt like I needed to give to help out the people that helped us."
|
|
Personally, I couldn't resist Matthew Sullivan's MIDNIGHT AT THE BRIGHT IDEAS BOOKSTORE (Scribner, $26), an appealing first novel featuring Lydia Smith, a kindhearted Denver bookseller with a soft spot for the homeless men who haunt the aisles.
|
|
I've always had a soft spot for the spy-show trope of having to develop your own clandestine photos because you can't trust your film with some random employee at the drugstore photo lab down the street.
|
|
Private consumption has been a soft spot in the economy as slow wage growth prevents households from loosening their purse strings, in turn discouraging companies from hiking prices and keeping inflation far from the BOJ's 2 percent target.
|
|
Liberals and moderates in New Hampshire, who are plentiful and who are allowed to vote in the primary of their choosing if they are not registered with a party, also seem to have a soft spot for him.
|
|
It makes sense to see "The Power to Compete" on Gates' list of must-reads: "I've had a soft spot for Japan that dates back three decades or so, when I first traveled there for Microsoft," he says.
|
|
Tomorrow is Kendall Jenner's 23rd birthday and, because we have a soft spot for analyzing the Kardashian-Jenner clan's Zodiac signs, we're taking a deep dive into her astrological identity, from her sun sign to her planetary placements.
|
|
By virtue of the show's writing and all-female inmate cast, every criminal we've met so far on Orange had a notable streak of compassion or humanity (even Vee's manipulation of Taystee came from a soft spot...somewhere).
|
|
But when the leader of the strongest nation harbors a deep, almost inexplicable dislike for Ukraine while holding a soft spot for Putin, that makes for a much bleaker and more uncertain future for Zelensky and his country.
|
|
Perhaps the most prolific and gleeful thief in the history of manuscripts was the 19th-century Count Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone Libri-Carrucci dalla Sommaia — known appropriately as "Libri" — for whom de Hamel has an unmistakable soft spot.
|
|
My dad and I both have a soft spot for Theodore Roosevelt, and one way to understand Senator Tester's bipartisan appeal is that he's less of a cookie-cutter Democrat and more of a Bull Moose wild card.
|
|
But what most separates him from his peers is his talent for assessing the configuration of the players lined up opposite him, divining the soft spot and strategizing — in mere seconds — how to snake or shimmy through it.
|
|
A TikTok he posted in January has more than 225,000 likes and shows Austin running into the frame while Bruno Mars' 2010 song "Marry You" plays, revealing the 19-year-old has a soft spot for short girls.
|
|
Mr. Berg, a silver-haired Norwegian pensioner known by his neighbors to have a soft spot for neighboring Russia, was 60 when an acquaintance in his Arctic hometown recruited him in 2015 to work for Norway's military intelligence.
|
|
Jennifer has a soft spot for the spicy turkey loaf with sriracha, the Japanese loaf with miso and mirin, among the international numbers, and for a classic, Senator Susan Collins's mother's loaf, which has a dab of horseradish.
|
|
As a housing policy junkie myself, I have a soft spot for Castro who build on his experience as a big city mayor and former HUD Secretary to deliver what's probably the best housing program in the race.
|
|
Its subjects include a young mother, Halley (Bria Vinaitte), her six-year-old daughter, Moonee (Brooklynn Prince), as well as Bobby Hicks (Willem Dafoe) the building's hardworking manager who has a soft spot for Moonee's small troubled family.
|
|
I have a soft spot for the indie-rock band Okkervil River and its lead singer-songwriter, Will Sheff, and as an editor I felt fortunate to guide his personal essay into The New York Times in February.
|
|
Lee, who first got into politics as a lawyer fighting for tenants' rights, was often criticized for what seemed to be a soft spot for tech companies and the money and people the industry brought into the Bay Area.
|
|
One of the reasons I've always had a soft spot for The Man in the High Castle is its take on what would have happened had the US been under not just German occupation but Japanese occupation as well.
|
|
It pains me because usually just being Indian American, I have sort of a soft spot for other Indian Americans and naturally we don't have many folks in government and I thought okay, he seems he has the history.
|
|
Alice Was A Real Girl Henry George Liddell was the dean of Christ Church at Oxford, and Carroll became very close with Liddell's young daughters — Lorina, Edith, and, of course, Alice, for whom Carroll developed a particular soft spot.
|
|
While I have a soft spot for this 1995 AFC Championship Game comeback win over Jim "Comeback Kid" Harbaugh, I can't stomach the exclusion of Terry Bradshaw's shootout Super Bowl XIII win over the Roger Staubach-led Dallas Cowboys.
|
|
Michelle Goldberg Although I'm a squishy-hearted liberal, I have a soft spot for dyspeptic reactionaries like H. L. Mencken and V. S. Naipaul, men — they're almost always men — who speak to a dark, misanthropic corner of my soul.
|
|
Mr. Monory's canvases can be easily compared to the work of '80s American postmodern painters like David Salle, Jack Goldstein, Troy Brauntuch and Eric Fischl, but he has a soft spot for older figurative artists, too, like Edward Hopper.
|
|
The Beverly Hillbillies, the shopping scene in Pretty Woman, Jay Gatsby — we have a special soft spot for a character who is judged as low class, even after they get rich (although that doesn't seem to extend to our current president).
|
|
Reid, 27, tells PEOPLE her daughter's sleep space "is now my favorite room" in the house and aside from the crib, she has a soft spot for the Sion Double Dresser ($1,799) and matching Sion Nightstand ($669) from Paynes Gray.
|
|
While there's no doubt in my mind that Maroilles has earned its place next to a flute of Champagne, I have to admit, I have a soft spot for the—dare I say it— authentic way of consuming this cheese.
|
|
We've long had a soft spot for the first game on the various VICE channels, and the series it spawned, covering it in various weird ways over the years—from nightmares to pub signs, via ketamine weirdness and tight tunes.
|
|
Villanelle may or may not be a psychopath The charismatic killer who likes to watch the life drain from her victims' eyes and is able to laugh at dead bodies, also has a soft spot for older dark-haired women.
|
|
The British band isn't necessarily known for its super loud sounds and heart-shaking rhythms — you're more likely to enjoy their tunes from the couch than the dance floor — but the researchers clearly have a soft spot for the musical group.
|
|
Victor, who admits he has a big soft spot for Joan's performance in Humoresque (she literally walks into the ocean at the end of the movie, what more could you want from a performance?), is put off by Davis' cynicism.
|
|
Ghraoui, scion of one of the oldest Damascus merchant families with business dating back to 1805, says he always had a "soft spot" for the Central European nation where he has been doing some non-sweets business since the early 1990s.
|
|
Every once in a while, a dark horse might slip into the ranking—"The Doomsday Machine" (he had a soft spot for William Windom) or "Balance of Terror" (ditto for submarine movies, of which this was a variation with starships).
|
|
Tracey Ullman must have a soft spot in her heart for makeup artists, because she is keeping a crew of them employed with her new sketch comedy series, "Tracey Ullman's Show," which receives its American premiere Friday night on HBO.
|
|
As far as sophomore records go, which I will always have a soft spot for, Favourite Worst Nightmare speaks loudly to who the Arctic Monkeys were to become as a band, as songwriters, and in the zeitgeist of the later 2000s.
|
|
The band's first full-length record just dropped, and we're devilishly delighted to be streaming it here on Noisey—as you may have noticed, we have an awful big soft spot for NOLA and the racket its residents kick up.
|
|
But she does entrust to her diary the details of the food, mostly Italian, that she loved cooking (though she also had a soft spot for French squash soup, oysters with Gruyère, and duck with orange stuffing and Cumberland sauce).
|
|
McCain is a known quantity in Arizona—where a sitting senator hasn't lost since the 220006s—but conservatives and Democrats are hoping the rise of Trump will give voters the necessary push to buck the state's soft spot for incumbents.
|
|
Wordplay THURSDAY PUZZLE — I have a special soft spot in my heart for families that solve puzzles together, especially when the children in the families grow up to continue the family solving tradition, or even make puzzles of their own.
|
|
Cleary, who turned 100 last year, wrote eight Ramona books; I have a soft spot for "Ramona and Her Father" (the fourth in the series, published in 1977), in which Ramona matures a little after her father loses his job.
|
|
If he is a Cultural Senator, then that's part of his delivering for his constituents — he spread an image of Jamaica around the world, and now everyone has a soft spot in his or her heart for that magical island.
|
|
As a West Point history major with a soft spot for heavy metal, Mr. Schute had been a state trooper in New Jersey before being called to Iraq in April 2003 to command a United States Army Reserve civil affairs battalion.
|
|
Keanu Reeves is in his taciturn element as the assassin/killing machine, who has a soft spot for dogs, and is so thorough about his work that foes are usually shot twice in the body, then once in the head for good measure.
|
|
Though fans have since stopped shipping the pair in favor of a possible Brienne and Tormund romance, it's hard not to have a soft spot for the two unlikely friends who once sparred, joked around, and protected each other during dangerous situations.
|
|
In the 19 years since Coachella began on a polo field in the arid desert of Indio, CA, it has evolved from a rock-centric festival with a soft spot for dance music into the tricked-out official start of festival season.
|
|
In that light, the triumph of The Shape of Water makes another sort of sense — it's a movie about the movies, something the Oscars have always had a soft spot for (think Argo, The Artist, even last year's almost-winner La La Land).
|
|
He said trade war fears seem to have calmed down with talks between the U.S. and China progressing, but at the same time, the U.S. economic data has hit a soft spot with weakness in retail sales and September durable goods orders.
|
|
Clinically, that is an absolute no-no, but my doctor wanted to let Paula see that I was OK. She was only 19 at the time, and I think he had a real soft spot for us because he had children our age.
|
|
As much as people (an estimated 95%, by our estimation) complain that it's a bunch of commercialized Hallmark bullshit, there's a soft spot in many of us who love the idea of love, no matter who we may be celebrating it with.
|
|
And it means elevating a veteran for whom fans have a soft spot above a logjam of fighters in their primes, who are presumably not thrilled at the idea that Old Man Henderson could leapfrog them on his way out the door.
|
|
I've had a soft spot for them since they first appeared on my betting slip, but despite being in awe of the atmosphere I realised that the passionate support displayed by the ultras came from the connection that they have with the club.
|
|
The other big improvement with the Pebble 23 is its design, which is now much sleeker than the original, but still very much reminiscent of the Pebble Classic— if, for some reason, you have a soft spot for the original's bulky square look.
|
|
I've had a soft spot for Chicago and its inner city since high school, when, as a reporter for the Carl Sandburg High School student newspaper, I left my suburban enclave to report on life as a student growing up in the city.
|
|
Take-Two Interactive— Shares of Take-Two Interactive, the maker of popular video game franchises Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, fell 0.5% after Wall Street firm Jefferies downgraded the stock to hold from buy, citing a "soft spot" between game releases.
|
|
"I started out writing for the SF Weekly and still have a bit of a soft spot for alt-weeklies — there aren't many other outlets that will let you write back-to-back features about nail polish and police misconduct," says Kate.
|
|
But it's undeniable that the new First Lady has a soft spot for a particular set of Italian designers who often find themselves embroiled in a whole lot of negative drama, and judging by Dolce & Gabbana's Instagram accounts, the admiration is mutual.
|
|
They'll also hit the studio to record six new songs that same month that will undoubtedly draw upon Thomas's love for technical death metal, Benallie's Scandinavian black metal, and Lloyd's soft spot for the the drum work in Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin.
|
|
"Saudi is one of the most interesting economies in the region but Bahrain is always our soft spot, we find it much easier to do investment in Bahrain because we are the block of the neighbourhood, we can get our way," he said.
|
|
Speaking to Mike, a longstanding West Ham fan who has a mildly incongruous soft spot for FC St. Pauli, there is a feeling that while the transition was couched in spin and obscurantism, the move still has the potential to be positive.
|
|
Its legislative agenda on immigration is focused on "the wall" and on cutting legal immigration rather than E-Verify; it hasn't stepped up workplace immigration enforcement much (drawing ire from Laura Ingraham's website, which called workplace enforcement the "soft spot" of Trump's policy).
|
|
Howard the Duck (created by Steve Gerber) is probably the best-known — mostly for starring in a notorious '80s flop — but I've also got a soft spot for MODOK, a gloriously ridiculous villain whose full name is Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing.
|
|
If the 10,000 residents of the Massachusetts island did not have such a soft spot for deer, they might not be entertaining the prospect, which could provide the groundwork for an even more exotic approach to controlling tick-borne diseases on the mainland.
|
|
One theory, Mr. Loughlin said, was that the pile had struck a very soft spot of river mud and had begun to sink rapidly, jolting the 60-ton hammer into a rapid drop and putting a particular strain on the boom, which buckled.
|
|
"Major emerging economies' growth dynamics have thus far counterbalanced this soft spot, and global growth may recover in the remainder of the year due to US fiscal stimulus and a rebound in OECD growth," it said, referring to a group of developed nations.
|
|
Join us for a brief retrospective on the last decade of Android devices: the good, the bad, and the Nexus Q. This is the one that started it all, and I have a soft spot in my heart for the old thing.
|
|
Here's the thing about Healy that we learn in this episode: He's got a soft spot for women with mental illness, because his mother suffered from one when he was a child, ultimately deserting the family because she didn't have the necessary help.
|
|
Miriam is a teacher in her early 40s trying hard to conceive a child, and there's meant to be something maternal in her soft spot for Hannah — whose own mother, tormented by bipolar disorder, is not a helpful presence in her life.
|
|
Similarly, there's a thinner soft spot at the back of the case, allowing the pairing button to be used through the leather, and there's a wrist strap attachment point for anyone who really wants to dangle their AirPods case on their wrist.
|
|
More low-key than the New York Film Festival and more eccentric than New Directors/New Films (the Film Society's other annual omnibus programs), Film Comment Selects has a special soft spot for what might be described as politically aware art-house movies.
|
|
But I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the love triangle, in part because it was my way into the franchise to begin with, and in part because I think it's actually a really effective tool for character exploration.
|
|
Barb, Trevor, and Amy Barb, a veteran nurse who is ultra-strict with Will and has a soft spot for Stella, confronts Will after he sneaks into Stella's pre-op room to comfort her before her first general anesthesia since Abby's death (very romantic).
|
|
Tough as nails with a soft spot for furry pets, TV's Judge Judy Sheindlin won the hearts of viewers all over again when a 2012 episode about a dog named Baby Boy and a dispute over ownership of the animal went viral this week.
|
|
MANILA/HONG KONG (Reuters) - The Philippines has drawn kudos and inflows as one of Asia's fastest growing economies, but some economic indicators raise a question of whether it could be a soft spot if U.S. interest rate hikes spur capital outflows from Asia this year.
|
|
Say what you want about our generation ruining gyms, napkins, restaurant chains, and countless other industries, but we've got a soft spot for nostalgia, and we're not afraid to celebrate it — from chowing down on Lunchables to picking out our new favorite makeup brushes.
|
|
At a dinner with Housewives Luann D'Agostino and Dorinda Medley, the 53-year-old Zarin Fabrics matriarch hears the scoop on the latest battle between her former friends Bethenny Frankel and Ramona Singer — admitting she has a soft spot for the drama the show brings.
|
|
John Mayer discovered another thing he was grateful for this Thanksgiving weekend: This Is Us. The 39-year-old singer admitted to having a soft spot for NBC's hit show of the fall after watching the first episode of the new series on Friday.
|
|
Digging back into games that you have fond memories of playing, classics like Super Mario World, Diablo 2, or Sonic the Hedgehog that might already have a soft spot in your heart, can bring a nostalgic sort of comfort with their outdated visuals and sounds.
|
|
When it came to the guys from Friends, there was some discord: While Khloé wanted to marry Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) and kill Ross Geller (David Schwimmer), Kim admits she has a soft spot for Schwimmer because he played their dad on The People v.
|
|
Whoever made this video has a soft spot for our dear departed Margaery Tyrell, the best character in all of Game of Thrones, and gives her the spot just before the final swooping shot of Dany's dragons and the Ironborn fleet sailing on Westeros.
|
|
Frank is kind of flopping around in all ways (mostly his hair) as Annalise's assistant ("secretary" if you're nasty), and Bonnie is still the same organizational wizard with a soft spot for the boss, helping her lie on her side to relieve pregnancy pains.
|
|
Rather than wielding data and turnout machinery as tools, Mr. Trump has instead battered at the political map in a less discriminating way, trying to shift the national race a point or two in his favor and perhaps find a soft spot in Mrs.
|
|
Considering their Kids Choice Awards wins and contributions to cartoons, it was always clear that Destiny's Child had a soft spot in their hearts for their younger fans, but that was never more apparent than in their appearance on All That on Valentine's Day, 1998.
|
|
I could sense how my mother, who sniffed at reality TV as a rule, found herself annoyed by Ms. Manigault yet also had a begrudging soft spot for her — something I can't decouple from her own effort to overcome workplace bias against women of color.
|
|
The multi-hyphenate actor, musician, author and founding member of the cannabis-infused Cheech & Chong is loath to cite favorites in his extensive collection of Chicano art but confesses a soft spot for Wayne Alaniz Healy's "Una Tarde en Meoqui" ("One Afternoon in Meoqui").
|
|
Fighters against injustice touched a soft spot with him: the wrongly court-martialled General Sheng of "I Know Your Name Well", or the "White-Eyebrow Hero" Lord Bao, China's most righteous judge, whose story he had been telling all and sundry since he was five years old.
|
|
But because we know Krasinski has such a soft spot for the show that rocketed him to stardom, it's not out of the question to think he may have snuck a little tribute to Dunder Mifflin in one of his biggest post-Office projects to date.
|
|
Devon is focusing on recharging his bright and beautiful light, and JP is – well, I have a soft spot in my heart for the JPs of Survivor, the stoic strongmen who have a sure hand with the slingshot and comically banal commentary in the confessional booth.
|
|
But some fans have a lingering soft spot for the cards and the music that accompanied them — and that has led to a thriving cult community around the cards on YouTube, coming together to circulate both the original test card designs and their perennially popular soundtracks.
|
|
The second-year wideout routinely wins on third down — on Sunday, he cooked Cardinals cornerback Jamar Taylor for 29 yards on third-and-4, then found a soft spot in a zone for 10 yards on third-and-9 — but he also does the dirty work.
|
|
Noisey called up Courtney while he was driving around his neighborhood running errands to talk about life in the band without Mondanile, the uncommon art of writing out your own guitar tab, and why he'll always have a soft spot for the Wendy's Spicy Chicken sandwich.
|
|
It's not too far-fetched, as far as conspiracy theories go, because as the Watergate scandal proved, Nixon did have a soft spot for KGB-style politics (and, as multiple recordings proved, he was a big old racist.) However, Nixon didn't invent the racist war on drugs.
|
|
Their relationship was helped during the USMCA trade negotiations in large part by the close relationship the House speaker already had with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, for whom she is known to have a bit of a soft spot, sources familiar with the dynamic said.
|
|
All the guys in my office roll their eyes when her name comes up, but I have a real soft spot for her because I have watched ... She was a bartender when Amazon talked about going there, which was first announced this thing, which is really interesting.
|
|
With fond memories of growing up in a small city in the Midwest, where the population (and housing prices) have barely budged in recent decades, I admit to having a soft spot for some of the underdogs on Amazon's list of finalists: Indianapolis; Columbus, Ohio; and Nashville.
|
|
I briefly considered placing a HIT rebus in each of these squares, but decided on X's to represent hits instead, figuring that I could only push my luck so far, and it doesn't hurt that I have a soft spot for the high value Scrabble letters.
|
|
Related: Don't Be Surprised If North Korea's 'Executed' Army Chief Comes Back to Life According to Madden, Kim Jong-il did, however, have a soft spot for an annual synchronized swimming event in Pyongyang, which he would sometimes attend without his presence being noted in state media.
|
|
Everyone from Kate Hudson, to Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, to NFL star JJ Watt have a soft spot for Chip and Jo. Jennifer Lopez recently owned up to being a Fixer Upper fangirl and even met with Joanna about designing her new Malibu beach house with Alex Rodriguez.
|
|
However, she'll always have a soft spot for that album, calling it something she'll "look back on and find to be one of the most beautiful times of my life, was when I realized that it's me and it's them and that's what makes this fun for me."
|
|
Luckily, Geneva's sister, Isobel, has always had a soft spot for John Grey, who has been making quarterly trips to Helwater to check up on Jamie, and John — in an attempt to hide his homosexuality — agrees to marry her, enabling the couple to raise Willie on Jamie's behalf.
|
|
Even Jaime, the golden boy who scoffed at Tyrion's tendency to champion the downtrodden at the start of the episode, is one of the "cripples, bastards and broken things" that Tyrion once admitted a soft spot for back in Season 1 — in fact, all of our surviving heroes are.
|
|
One of Bush's last visits to China was during the Beijing Olympics in 2008, where he told the Washington Post in a rare interview China was an important "friend" and "supporter" of the US. Schell said the Chinese people always had a soft spot for the first Bush president.
|
|
And even if it inevitably shrinks toward its own diminishment, week by week, as is likely if the usual market forces of the commercial TV business prevail, "The Conners" could come to rest in that soft spot that marks much of audience expectations for broadcasters these days: good enough.
|
|
But as the episode went on, Taffer let on that he had a soft spot for these pioneers of LA punk and had booked a lot of bands who are now known as legends far before he was branding bars and helping dysfunctional families mend their relationships on television.
|
|
But then, I feel there's actually an advantage of speaking to them, because if you're able to pierce through that first set of barriers, there is then a soft spot, where they start looking at you as an older sister, they see you as softer than the men.
|
|
However unlikely, it seems as though this beautiful friendship has only gone from strength to strength, as Rozay had Martha—who, you may remember, has a longtime soft spot for hip-hop—reveal his new album artwork for Rather You Than Me, which drops next Friday, March 17.
|
|
So let me go out of my way to say that, while the vast majority of his work ranges from "not good" to "extremely bad," I still have a soft spot for the small handful of comedies he's made that would qualify as "pretty funny," like Billy Madison.
|
|
Hard to pick just one reason why dogs bring so much joy: there's that tickly, cold feeling when they push their noses against you; the way they look at you like, hey, I love you; that fuzzy, soft spot between their eyes…so much good within a dog.
|
|
Though I share the movie heritage of my generation in retaining a soft spot for the intricate fencing matches in the Errol Flynn "Robin Hood" and the Stewart Granger "Scaramouche," that fondness rather depends on those lightweight swords making a little hole instead of chopping off a limb.
|
|
Set across the backdrop of the late 1970s, and based on John le Carré 's spy thriller of the same name, the show casts Pugh as Charlie Ross, an actress whose skill and soft-spot for leftist causes gets her recruited by the Israeli intelligence service for a secret mission.
|
|
Booth and Brennan stayed relatively consistent — he was the surprisingly emotional man of action; she was the completely rational scientist with a sneaky soft spot at her core — but the show would often try out a bunch of different things with its supporting players until it landed on one that worked.
|
|
But Clinton stuck with her strategy, and by the end of the debate, after throwing out lines on Trump as a puppet of Putin, as a paranoid conspiracy theorist thinking the Emmy's were rigged, on his statement that he opposed the Iraq war, and on taxes, she found his soft spot.
|
|
Where older songs like "Buttery Sprouts" and "I Am Extra Natural" introduced the project with playful wordplay and a soft spot for the Silver Jews, A Partner to Lean On grapples with personal and political fallout and the overwhelming burden such hardships can place on the level of the individual.
|
|
Yet Mr Corbyn's popularity among Labour's half-million members and affiliates is not replicated among Britain's 19733m voters, most of whom do not share his desire to overthrow capitalism and unilaterally forsake the country's nuclear weapons, nor his soft spot for strongmen such as Vladimir Putin and the late Hugo Chávez.
|
|
Not only do we learn that he's got a romantic soft spot for vintage melodrama, has a ninja sword hidden in an umbrella, and once played Lady Bracknell in a performance of The Importance of Being Earnest, but he also gets a couple of stellar comedic moments in this episode.
|
|
" Max Nordau, in his 1892 book, "Degeneration," a mocking survey of fin-de-siècle culture, shows a soft spot for Péladan, declaring that "the conscious factor in him knows that [mysticism] is all nonsense, but it finds artistic pleasure in it, and permits the unconscious life to do as it pleases.
|
|
However, until recently, I'd yet to sign up for the popular fitness app ClassPass — you know, the one that officially made boutique fitness a thing of the masses — even though I love mixing up my workouts, and have a soft spot for studios that stock Malin + Goetz shampoo in the showers.
|
|
First, Trump has demonstrated an unusual soft spot for Saudi Arabia: It was the first country he visited on his first trip abroad as president, and he has backed some of Saudi Arabia's most radical policies, like its isolation campaign against Qatar last summer and its destructive military intervention in Yemen.
|
|
The former first daughter spoke about her soft spot for animals in a new interview with FastForward, a San Francisco Bay Area-based magazine run by high school students, revealing that her favorite animal-related Twitter accounts include those of the World Wildlife Fund, National Geographic and the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
|
|
Though I have a soft spot for the retailer's timely, trendy duds (and especially its on-point fall arrivals), I've been attempting to move away from fast fashion, not only for environmental and ethical reasons, but also because I want to craft a wardrobe that feels unique to me, rather than mass-manufactured.
|
|
So, again, Equifax has managed to dodge worse consequences over the 2017 breach, despite the hack resulting from its own internal process failings after it failed to patch a server that was known to be vulnerable for months — thereby giving hackers a soft-spot to attack and swipe data on 147 million consumers.
|
|
If Jon needs to live a little longer to make his resurrection "worth it" from narrative standpoint but the Night's Watch still has to take a pretty major hit, it would make sense for the show to throw an emotional punch by offing the ginger fella with a soft spot for Brienne.
|
|
Assange offered pardon by Trump, lawyer says Trump's got a demonstrated soft spot for issuing pardons, and he's also got a history of trying to cover up scrutiny into how Russia tried to help him win in 2016, so who knows how to treat this shocking new allegation by Julian Assange's lawyer.
|
|
He clearly has a soft spot for chimichurri because he deploys it again with the shrimp anticuchos (the shrimp are very big and look even bigger because they're grilled with their heads on), served with a squirt of huancaína, the spicy yellow cheese sauce that is something like Peru's version of queso dip.
|
|
"The Defiant Ones" harbors an obvious soft spot for these big personalities, but ultimately provides an enlightening window into Iovine and Dre in particular and the big business of the music industry in general -- a twin tale that's messy, complicated, and a lesson in the talent and tradeoffs that come with building an empire.
|
|
I played right into the producers' games and developed a soft spot for Mr. Guyliner after the round two package about his bipolar diagnosis at the tender age of 9, specifically the part about getting a guitar for Christmas and finally having something to love instead of living exclusively in a world of pain.
|
|
A computer nerd with a soft spot for free speech and no musical background whatsoever may seem a strange placement, but Jarre has made a career of turning electronic music into an international talking point, and as he explained to THUMP during a recent phone call, Snowden's fascinations mirrored the overall project of Electronica.
|
|
A Dog's Purpose, the upcoming film from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment about how dogs don't really die but instead are reincarnated over and over as other dogs to teach humans about love, was never going to be more than a slightly manipulative, feel-good movie targeted at anyone who has a soft-spot for puppies.
|
|
The decapitated Xing Tian isn't especially cuddlesome — in Hodgson's rendering, the displaced facial features that now adorn its belly include fangs and a unibrow — but only the hardest heart wouldn't have a soft spot for the book's featured ghost, which resembles Robert Redford in his Jeremiah Johnson period (if Jeremiah Johnson had a humpback).
|
|
Bernie SandersBernie SandersIowa Democrats to issue 'minor correction' to latest caucus results The Hill's Campaign Report: Democrats tout Obama ties as race shifts to New Hampshire Tlaib: DNC rules committee members working on Bloomberg campaign is a 'conflict of interest' MORE (I-Vt.) with a line drive straight to his likability, electability and "not-a-team-player" soft spot.
|
|
But I do want to figure out why audiences have deemed it fun for a movie experience to involve compulsory mental compliments to a quirky male director for being cool enough to like James Brown and Beck, and omnivorous enough to also have a soft spot for Myspace pop star Sky Ferreira and one '60s soul classic.
|
|
I might not always like the real-life Kardashians (after all, how coincidental can it be that Kylie Jenner announced her pregnancy 72 hours before they air a commemorative episode?), but the anniversary special reminded me that I do have a soft spot for the edited-but-real, semi-fictional world of Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
|
|
Conservative critics see Francis, who was chastened by the experience of living under a military dictatorship in his Argentine homeland, as someone who is quicker to denounce right-wing despots than left-wing ones, and who harbours a soft spot for anyone who claims to champion the interests of the global south against the economic might of the north.
|
|
More from NBC News:North Korea warns region is 'close to nuclear war' amid U.S. drillsTrump and Putin speak by phone, discuss potential personal meeting'Tortured with electricity': Chechen gay men recount days of abuse The Trump administration may not have a coherent foreign policy yet, but one theme is emerging: The president seems to have a soft spot for despots.
|
|
And despite my innocence, I was civically sentient enough to understand that Mr. Trump and his producers must have known there was an entire cross-section of other households across America that probably had a soft spot for the contestant Jessie Conners, an earnest young white woman from Wisconsin who'd carved out a managerial position for herself.
|
|
If the MMA community seems to have a particular soft spot for Boykin, that's because he was an enormous fight fan, and he left a mark on martial arts that went beyond the time he and Dyrdek sparred at a karate studio, and wondered aloud whether a gi big enough for Boykin existed or if he'd have to use bed sheets instead.
|
|
Infants and young children may not be able to recognize their need for fluids, so it's critical to provide frequent fluid intake and keep an eye out for symptoms of dehydration: irritability or lethargy, no tears when crying, no wet diapers for as little as three hours, a dry mouth and tongue, sunken eyes and cheeks, and a shrinking of the soft spot on top of head.
|
|
Via Media Matters, a direct transcript of his remarks: KEVIN WILLIAMSON (CO-HOST): But yeah, so when I was talking about, I would totally go with treating it like any other crime up to and including hanging -- which kind of, as I said, I'm kind of squishy about capital punishment in general, but I've got a soft spot for hanging as a form of capital punishment.
|
|
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Wednesday said President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has a "soft spot" in his heart for his former personal attorney Michael Cohen.
|
|
Click here to view original GIFBy today's standards it was ugly, it was slow, and it was primitive, but Windows 95 was the first operating system I mastered inside and out, and I'll always have a soft spot for Microsoft's most memorable PC OS. That can be the only explanation for why part of me would also love suffering through a mobile version of Windows 95 on a smartphone.
|
|
The pragmatic politics of FDR became the New Deal under the crisis of the Great Depression; the cautious compromises arranged by Senate Majority leader Lyndon Johnson in the 1950s transformed into the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts; the ruthless Richard Nixon found a soft spot for meaningful environmental policy after oil spread across the beaches of Santa Barbara and voters became concerned about the despoiling of the natural world.
|
|
This isn't to say, however, that he's out of touch with what's happening—he has a particular soft spot for people like Young Thug who shift generically and stylistically, in a similar way to Outkast: This desire to not allow people to get used to what you're doing is potentially what has lead André to decide that it wouldn't be a bad thing if Outkast were to shut up shop, as he moves on to new projects.
|
|
The president's number two, Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceTrump adopts familiar mantra on possible recession: fake news The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters FEC chair calls on Trump to provide evidence of NH voter fraud MORE, was perhaps the biggest conservative proponent of the First Amendment when he was in the Congress and while not nearly as good at creating headlines as his boss, he still has a soft spot for the Fourth Estate, hearkening back to time as a radio broadcaster.
|
|
I do have an inexplicable soft spot for Howard Stern; you'd be hard-pressed to persuade me that he is not among the most fantastic interviewers ever: His conversation with Conan O'Brien, which he himself lauds as his best, marvelously delves into anxiety, depression, and the perils of success and failure; his one with Jon Stewart goes, deeply, into the former Daily Show star's estranged with relationship with his father; and his discussions with people like Lady Gaga and Gwenyth Paltrow will sincerely give you a brand-new perspective on both of them.
|
|
"What the military establishment (in Pakistan) has been saying is they're not going to fundamentally change their approach to Afghanistan, as long as what they think there's going to be continued security threats not only from Afghanistan but also from India," Hassan Javid, a political science professor at Lahore University of Management Sciences, said Pakistan has historically had a "soft spot" for anti-India terrorist groups based in Kashmir and groups like the Haqqani network and the Taliban that target Afghanistan, because it views Afghanistan as a strategic resource, Javid said, in case of an attack from India.
|
|