| Despite the fame and the globetrotting, the couple's domestic existence is reassuringly familiar. |
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| No effect was observed on visceral sites of metastases, although reassuringly no trend toward an increase was identified. |
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| When she smiled reassuringly, he threw his head back and laughed, which confused her, but she didn't show it. |
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| The fishcakes erred reassuringly on the enormous side, towering above a small pile of water cress salad and a pool of hollandaise sauce. |
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| The copier's footprint is reassuringly small, and it's no effort to move around with an unboxed weight of 9.95kg. |
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| I am taken into another room and a careworn man in a reassuringly green smock and matching trousers comes in to inspect the thigh. |
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| I reached my good arm up to Alexei and he took my hand, clutching it reassuringly. |
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| In an era of ever-changing pub interiors, the Stag's Head remains reassuringly the same. |
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| It all sounded reassuringly normal, apart from the occasional thump of a misload, whack of a cane, and cry of pain from Pandas. |
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| Human speech flowed like bubbling liquid from his lips, reassuringly soft with no aggressive edge to it. |
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| There're a couple of cartoons and trite quotations on a noticeboard left over from the previous tenant but nothing reassuringly mine. |
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| At this stage of the game, your manner should indicate to us that you will be a reassuringly familiar experience. |
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| He can work himself into a holy roller's lather on his motivational tapes, but in person he's reassuringly low-key, with an undercurrent of no-nonsense intensity. |
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| His emblematic white mullet and gigantic cigar are reassuringly in place. |
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| Our show-stopper of moments: Original, Unexpected, Surprising... yet reassuringly consistent. |
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| Being in a sect can be oddly cosy, reassuringly and stuffily familiar – to the point where any voices outside it are no longer heard at all. |
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| Lovely and, like the pillowy scallop in the next course, reassuringly expensive to source. |
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| Simon Bird has just returned, suitably jet-lagged and reassuringly speccy, from promoting The Inbetweeners Movie in America. |
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| It's reassuringly stable, yet easily rocked to brace against side-waves. |
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| But after marrying a rich, lonely heiress, his moral compass swerves in reassuringly complex ways. |
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| We ploughed into a tasty carrot cake and a pot of tea while 1990s music played reassuringly in the background. |
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| What's more, Ford has reassuringly demonstrated that the reliability of its cars is clearly on the rise. |
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| On winding roads, body roll is noticeable but you shouldn't worry about it as the Fit proves reassuringly predictable. |
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| As she reached the clinic entrance, a security officer noticed the woman's condition and stepped up to her reassuringly with a smile. |
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| The visitor to Turkey will find a great deal that is exotic, and also much that is reassuringly familiar. |
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| The increase in demand mentioned in our letter to shareholders last February has had a reassuringly positive impact on business. |
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| Explain the procedure in advance and continue talking reassuringly to the client throughout. |
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| Nadia rests her hand on her mother's knee and pats her reassuringly as she smiles. |
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| In the depth of the forest the primeval stillness was a bit awesome until a family of wild piglets moved in and started to root reassuringly through the chestnuts at my feet. |
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| Some things about the biannual New York Fashion Week remain reassuringly constant. |
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| Although Gilbert and George are promoting a reassuringly pedestrian and unartistic view of art, Higgs and Noble nonetheless do them something of a disservice here. |
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| They all seemed safe, unexcitable and reassuringly full of themselves. |
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| This compulsive optimism often serves him well in the midst of a crisis, giving him a reassuringly calm air. |
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| In Borken's messily vital urban context of supermarkets, small houses and traffic roundabouts, the bank's simple Euclidean form is a reassuringly calm, rooted presence. |
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| Light amber in colour with a fresh, lightly peated smoky nose, its taste is medium dry, smooth, and fruity with a reassuringly rich and well-rounded finish. |
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| We should already see the first positive effects on the division's earnings situation in the second half of 2007 owing to the measures taken as well as the reassuringly high orders on hand. |
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| And yesterday, Marc after going through so many changes of tack felt the pain return to his ribs: «but it was nothing dramatic,» he quickly added reassuringly. |
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| Books, by contrast, seem reassuringly built to last. |
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| Because wherever beer has long distances to travel, with concomitant exposure to different influencing factors, the quality of the beer concerned has to be rendered reassuringly stable. |
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| But the lineup of choreographers and companies for the 2002-3 season, which has an accommodatingly early 7 p.m. curtain time, is reassuringly varied and even funky. |
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| He hangs up and looks reassuringly at his wife. |
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| Each must be reassuringly regular, yet ready for the big stage. |
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| The premarital meat market of her era was reassuringly prim. |
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| Yes, really, cricket: that neglected staple of the British summer, a business of mannered and weather-bound slow-wrought drama, doggedly championed but somehow always reassuringly in retreat. |
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| In the middle of all this amorphousness, James Schuette's set design — the store interior flanked by a bedroom and a front porch — is reassuringly literal, linear and organized. |
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| Two reassuringly stern yet affable psychiatrists in suits – Dr Florian Ruths and Dr Stirling Moorey – faced 20 or so of us, and guided us through a series of exercises. |
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| These are such important matters that I feel it is inconceivable to bring the project to fruition responsibly without responding to them clearly and reassuringly. |
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| Is the concept of community created by the host society to conveniently and reassuringly designate diverse familial, cultural, political and religious sub-groups that sometimes even oppose one another? |
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| Move cautiously and reassuringly and the bear will purr contentedly. |
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| Once you've adjusted the bendable ear loops to fit, the 300vi make for a comfortable set of headphones that stay reassuringly in place during a jog or workout. |
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| Reassuringly the leaves are dressed correctly, by being turned with the slick of creamy sauce in a big stainless steel bowl. |
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| Reassuringly simple in design but given a contemporary twist by modern detailing, the boxes can be wall-mounted, placed on wheels or used freestanding. |
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