Many artists are consumed with their creativity -- and pretty soft-headed when it comes to business.

FORBES: Crafty

"The rock is behaving well and it looks pretty soft, so that's encouraging, " he told BBC News.

BBC: Curiosity Mars rover hammers into rock

However, those multiplier estimates are pretty soft.

FORBES: Sequester and the Economic Forecast: Not Much Impact

With help from Sam Spiegel a hip-hop-schooled producer who's also the brother of filmmaker Spike Jonze Show Your Bones has a big, spacious sound, some pretty, soft moments and fully-formed songs with big choruses and spiky hooks.

NPR: Yeah Yeah Yeahs: 'Show Your Bones'

And yet, the Titanium interior is pretty artful, a sinuous composition in soft-touch materials, alloy-like painted trim, textured fabric, that piano-black plastic assuming your Steinway is made by Mattel and lots of electrons.

WSJ: 2012 Focus Titanium Sedan: A Stab at a European Sport Sedan��From Ford | Rumble Seat by Dan Neil

Stocks are a bit soft Monday as the oscillator hit pretty extreme overbought levels on Friday.

FORBES: Stick With Apple And Its Three Amigos

But Inge was very, very good, and he never wrote anything better than the soft-spoken story of Madge (Maggie Grace), a shy, pretty girl whose uncomplicated existence is upended when a handsome drifter named Hal (Sebastian Stan) passes through town and lures her into bed.

WSJ: Tales of the Lonely Crowd | Picnic | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | The Other Place | Theater Reviews by Terry Teachout

In an ordinary market like shoes or soft drinks, the case for blocking the merger of two out of six firms would be pretty weak, because we could be confident that consumers could shift to smaller competitors or new entrants should the largest incumbents do a poor job of serving their customers.

FORBES: Is Blocking Mobile Merger An "Assault on Innovation?"

The degradation on the option tyre, the soft tyre, is going to be the key factor, and it's something we looked pretty good at yesterday, so it's going to be a long race.

BBC: Downbeat Mark Webber promises fight to the flag