Fort's colourful and amusing prose meanders through picturesque towns and sleepy villages where soporific suppers are served. |
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Or that certain rock records aren't among the most soporific music ever devised. |
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Norah Jones, guesting in her unknown, pre-Grammy days, drops by to croon I Walk the Line and a soporific Tennessee Waltz. |
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And, while coffee prompted psychosis and sleeplessness, cocktails were soporific. |
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Those intrusions of the world outside awaken me from my soporific slumber, as I dwell in drowsy numbness, as though of hemlock I have drunk. |
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A local Burmese solidarity group wants you to think twice about the country of origin of your favourite soporific. |
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Not sure why Penguin are reissuing Toujours Provence, other than it's 10 years since this soporific fluff was first published. |
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The Chancellor has overseen low interest rates, high employment and financial stability for several years, a soporific success story. |
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But when she read and when she lectured, it sounded like some soporific narration from the Discovery Channel. |
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Like an insomniac passing the time, she stares blindly into the artificial luminescence, as though hoping for either a diversion or a soporific. |
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For all the pain and suffering I believe his papacy brought to the world, I hoped his passing was eased with some soporific. |
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That makes it interesting to observers of American culture, but to Americans themselves it is a delightful soporific. |
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The options menu spared me the torment of the looped piano soporific that they have passed off as background music. |
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Its direction is so unpredictable, you shouldn't expect a general soporific. |
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It is a soporific reverie that wafts gently and beguilingly but ultimately insubstantially. |
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As a result, cultural choice is increasingly restricted, and a bland sameness, deadly and soporific, threatens the cultural landscape. |
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After a good half-minute of character development, our heroes cart out their mecha for some soporific combat. |
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His butler bosses him, and he spends all day dictating boring letters to other bankers and presiding at soporific board meetings. |
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I'm off to soothe my frayed nerves with the soporific tones of the shipping forecast. |
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The beauty treatment begins with a skin-brushing, proceeds with an algae all-over body mask and finishes with a soporific scalp massage. |
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He was dozing gently in the autumn sunshine when a late blowfly droned past, rousing him for his soporific state. |
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I shook my head and looked down at Shadow, now resting peacefully, the soporific noises of the waterfall lulling him to sleep. |
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The pros and cons of this fanciful idea are hard to assess, since he talks in a soporific monotone that renders half of what he says inaudible. |
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Black Nielson overshadowed them, with drowsy, soporific vocals, and unexpected twists and turns within each song. |
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Thinking of a love spell in terms of a chemical or mechanical soporific is missing the point, from my perspective. |
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Its concrete surface is the most soporific in the UK, and has been blamed for lulling drivers to sleep. |
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When treated with skill, though, it can be sensational, and small quantities added to a soporific bed of Merlot can turn a snooze into a dance. |
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The combination of marriage and motor vehicles is the most potent soporific of them all. |
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It was the air-con going off that disturbed my slumber once that soporific hum stopped. |
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As regards the insomnia I've had lately, I can heartily recommend Somnus, a soporific combination of Lettuce extract and Valerian. |
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Either you'll be enthralled by his underplayed persona or drift aimlessly and inattentively away from his soporific compositions. |
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The high-speed gyrations and shrieking monkeys have been completely eliminated, with a soporific aura of mystique and discovery permeating the recording instead. |
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Unless the work requires a more soporific interpretation, it would not be inappropriate to play it in a lively manner. |
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Like all opiates, it was an effective pain killer, an anti-diarrheal and a soporific. |
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A travelogue of the drug-testing labs at Pfizer, Eli Lilly, or GlaxoSmithKline would likely be soporific. |
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Yet Diana, with its soporific romance and awful dialogue, is a colossal bore. |
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Unlike other soporific cabinet secretaries, Homeland Security director is a position people really do care about. |
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The show is still unquestionably moving despite the soporific effect throughout. |
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This plant is considered as an excellent soporific and a very good remedy for severe headaches. |
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This medication was very popular for a long time because of its soporific properties. |
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It has a relaxing effect mental and physical and can be soporific in larger doses. |
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Television is a soporific which Numbs vigilance and confuses the Mind in its receiving functions. |
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Without being soporific, it can facilitate sleep through relaxation it brings. |
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Apart from these obvious attractions, I have always found it difficult to understand the appeal of this leisurely, some might say, soporific sport. |
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Inactivity is soporific while exercise revives a sleepy brain. |
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The soporific sound of creaking pine is usually enjoyed naked, with a chilled bottle of beer in one hand and, for authenticity, a leafy birch whisk in the other. |
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Regretfully, I know no soporific agent to make it all painless so that later on there is only a tiny scar on the skin that would remind one of the process. |
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The combined talents of Larsson and his English foil were responsible for earning Celtic an early lead, but soporific defending also helped the home cause. |
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The root, which is rather toxic, has anodyne and soporific properties. |
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I myself visited a striptease establishment in the early 1970s and found the experience detumescent and soporific rather than conducive to licentious behaviour. |
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I have it on good authority that the band's previous effort, To Bury Within the Sound, was even more soporific owing to the lack of heavy riffage. |
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In our sleepy little town where things moved with the soporific gait of undersea vegetation, high fashion made its startling appearance all of a sudden! |
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Not for her the kind of soporific bilge spouted by too many of her peers. |
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It's a game of surpassing, even brilliant, boringness and I dare say I'm one of only a few thousand native-born American citizens who can follow its soporific plotlines. |
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The rally acted not as a spur to opposition sentiment, but as a soporific. |
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Suitably soporific, it's one for sophisticated nighthawks only. |
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The side to be on is Frigate Bay South, where the waves merely lap in the soporific heat and the dark sand can be so hot you can barely walk barefoot. |
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A survey of user reaction demonstrated that the atmosphere is seen as rather dry and airless, but it is not a more soporific atmosphere than comparable conventional schools. |
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Both attempts were long, soporific, and failed both critically and popularly. |
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The atmosphere on sun-baked Court Philippe Chatrier was soporific. |
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Australian roads are endless and soporific. |
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Some people have felt the tyranny of it all and have begun to rebel against it but others are still asleep because of its soporific, hypnotic influence. |
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Today's accountants are no longer soporific. |
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We go on, with a motion so soporific, so dreamlike as to be uninferant of progress, as though time and not space were decreasing between us and it. |
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You are alongside him in the cockpit, thrillingly hedgehopping in his 'little Spit', and fearing the surprising soporific danger of that tiny enclosure while flying at night. |
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Vanquish all the dodgy bits from our literary heritage and all we would be left with is a bunch of words that are safe, secure, and stultifyingly soporific. |
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The doctor prescribed a soporific to help the patient sleep. |
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