To Edie, even then, Krejcf-the-Tailor seemedsoftheaded and inefficient.

As an anti-Soviet socialist with roughly equal disdain for hardline Marxists andsoftheaded Western liberals, Bentley quite literally made enemies right and left--but mostly left.

Because military force alone will always risk creating more new fighters than it kills, it is notsoftheaded to insist that we pay attention to the underlying causes of Islamist extremism, not just its surface manifestations.

I also realize how "smart" we've become, how good at speaking the language of law and politics--and how afraid we are of appearingsoftheaded. If something can't be quantified and qualified, measured and priced, we can't talk about it.

Nowadays, anyone in the Jewish community who speaks out against Israel is almost automatically rewarded with a medal of bravery by the liberal andsoftheaded. Perhaps that is what Sand is so desperately seeking: redemption without struggle or self-examination.

But Valco's star buys are still the soft-hearted deli counter lady Margaret (Rita May) andsoftheaded shelf stacker Leighton (Joel Fry).

That loyalty requires each member to avoid raising controversial issues, questioning weak arguments, or calling a halt tosoftheaded thinking.

Vicar But I stopped going several years ago when the pulpit was taken over by asoftheaded happy-clappy vicar.

It skewers marriage, entrepreneurship and manual labor only to reaffirm them in the final stretch, and in a way that doesn't feel especially bighearted (like Judge's toon series "King of the Hill"), justsoftheaded.

Call me asoftheaded sentimentalist, but I was surprised at that attitude, a bit scandalized, in fact.

And like his colleague William Stanner, with whom Coombs co-authored a report in 1974 on the need to lift morale, instil a sense of purpose to overcome squalor, lack of power and enforce discipline, Coombs was nosoftheaded romantic.