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It pleased him now to score off what he chose to think was the soft-headedness of his chief.

From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by Raine, William MacLeod

According to the newspaper and drawing-room myth, soft-headedness and idiotic credulity are the bond of sympathy in this Society, and general wonder-sickness its dynamic principle.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

I don't want her soft-headedness or foolishness to get any of Elizabeth's money away from her.

From Fair Harbor by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby