But his heart was in the soft light and velvet banquets of croonerville.

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Here in a palatial nutshell was the palette and soft light, the practicality and brio, the deep tradition and smart modernity that I would see again and again over the next few days as I made my own accelerated loop through the trinity of cities Antwerp, Ghent, and Bruges that anchor the northern region of Belgium known as Flanders.

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His broadcasting life is shot in bright soft focus tones, whereas the CIA scenes are in much harsher light, like Steven Soderbergh's Traffic.

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It's unassumingly sturdy, soft to the touch without being slippery, light in hand without feeling disposable and just wide enough at 210.8 x 135.9 x 7.95mm (8.3 x 5.4 x 0.31 inches) to be perfectly manageable for single-handed use.

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His most popular screen character was in the hit Munnabhai movies - light comedies where he played a brawny, bumbling soft-hearted gangster.

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Suddenly the city has appeared like a mirage, its hills all bathed in a soft, golden light.

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The best part of the day was getting up at dawn and going down to the cool gray kitchen, the dark garden waiting at the door like some curious beast strayed in from the fields, a casual attentiveness in the coming light that seemed ready to include me, as it did everything else, in a soft, foreign stillness.

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Quins, who gave a debut to centre Karl Pryce, their loan signing from Wigan, then went two scores in front when Australian loose forward Bailey made light of some soft defence to crash over for his first try for the club.

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