It's predictably mesmerizing and soporific, but don't fall asleep yet.
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They're not soporific but soothingly mesmeric, even the tragic ones.
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Moreover, her cursing keeps this mellow season from being too soporific.
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But that was not enough to revive the soporific yuan market.
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But these "Tordre" solos are on the cusp of the soporific.
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Perhaps never before has something so soporific been so tremendously alarming.
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Finally, it must be neither too lively in tempo, nor too soporific.
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Ballet is not a sleepy or soporific art; it is deeply invigorating.
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I know that sounds soporific, but that's exactly what has to happen.
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The soporific track drew almost instant comparisons to Icelandic indie darlings Sigur Ros.
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To others, it's a trigger word for math anxiety, or an instant soporific.
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And education's soporific wonkitude works in its favor: Negotiations fly under the radar.
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Several studies suggest that it is a more effective remedy than soporific drugs.
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The dark environment condenses the smell of the sugarcane, producing a soporific, intimate sensation.
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Thanksgiving is an endurance contest: You want wines that are energetic rather than soporific.
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" Cavett: Try instead saying, "That must have been dreary and made you feel soporific.
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Indica strains are more soporific and sleepy, and are best used in the evening.
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Though golden enough for any nostalgist, "Stories by Heart" is neither soporific nor cute.
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Or, rather, the pseudo-activity of a free-market model, which keeps people soporific?
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While the book's contents are soporific, the fact that it exists at all is exciting.
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Once baked, the dish is close in texture to a quiche, but denser, heavier, soporific.
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To protect a sleepwalker in your home, make it as safe and soporific as possible.
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Like the hot, sweet air itself, it sounds like being dragged through honey—strange and soporific.
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The intermissionless production takes its time, building to a chilling climax over 135 sometimes soporific minutes.
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The heat was soporific, and beside them, two buffaloes nosed through a pile of dung, quietly grunting.
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And soccer is soporific when it's dominated by the shortcut of long balls slapped diagonally down the field.
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The "Memoir" of his Aunt Jane was his second, following a soporific memoir of a local fox hunt.
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I have a high tolerance for soporific research materials if I know they're leading me into someplace worthy.
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In the soporific heat you would be forgiven for thinking that time had forgotten the New Jersey-sized nation.
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But now, by trying to lampoon whiteness, she's made a "white" play: shallow, soporific, and all about itself. ♦
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He is also a founder of Dream Water, a liquid soporific meant as a kind of reverse Red Bull.
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And for the most part, they all (including soporific billionaire Tom Steyer) played at the top of their game.
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This soporific winter mode is at least partly mediated by one of the major players in our chronobiology—melatonin.
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Tryptophan is one amino acid among many in turkey, and in combination with the others, its soporific effects are constrained.
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In a campaign that otherwise feels soporific to outsiders, and even to Germans, this "showdown" will pass as a climax.
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The soporific bureaucratese quoted above in fact describes the battleground of the vicious political infighting between Mr Xi and his rivals.
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In a bare blue cage we see two soporific lions, their eyes vacant, their fur painted with aloof strokes of white.
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Soporific billionaire Tom Steyer has lavished at least $35 million on television ads since he entered the presidential fray in July.
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Still, the moment of induction seemed purely adolescent: She and her sister wanted an escape during a soporific visit to their grandparents.
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Maybe it was that Oscar hosting gig, in which she amped up her energy to compensate for James Franco, her soporific co-host.
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And it's true, to more soporific effect, of the program's opener, "Round My World" (2012), with its pretty variations on arcs and circles.
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The effect, however, is nearly always tedious and soporific, the verbal equivalent of a weary double-reed player blowing nothing but remedial long tones.
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The effect was soothing, filling the space with notes vibrating with varying strengths — although edging on soporific at times, as evidenced by some audience members.
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To avoid muddying the texture, pianists rely on a clean, detached style, and as a result the music too often sounds subdued, fastidious, even soporific.
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Goad counterbalances the drink's all-embracing soporific effect with a box-set binge (right now, the terrifying crime series "The Tunnel" is in her DVR).
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It's intolerably boring; the expanse of space in the game is huge and empty, aside from some treasure and tedious battles, and navigating it is soporific.
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Virgil's decorous Latin gets translated into a language which calls for eloquent Latinate polysyllables: the Sibyl flings the guard-dog Cerberus "a dumpling of soporific honey".
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Some have always found it soporific, but it's a piece that merits reconsideration, influenced by both Japanese Noh drama and the theatrical productions of Robert Wilson.
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When the game — a soporific 963-0 win for England — failed to capture the fans' imagination, though, a few creative minds started fiddling with the cards.
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"The Federal Reserve just gave us a soporific quarter-point rate cut, an automaton-like 25 basis point slice, a predictable two-bit haircut," he said.
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A set of soporific ambient sounds from the Colombian artist Lucrecia Dalt had many audience members snoozing under the dim glow of the rock salt chandeliers.
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When Mark Anson came home with his hair on fire after a seminar on the seemingly soporific topic of soil health, his younger brother, Doug, was skeptical.
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Tennis would appear to be inherently ill suited to radio, both overly busy and potentially as soporific, in terms of narration, as something like the shipping news.
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Walker, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, even goes so far as to pre-emptively acknowledge his book's potential soporific powers.
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Word of the Day adjective: sleep inducing adjective: inducing mental lethargy noun: a drug that induces sleep _________ The word soporific has appeared in 13 articles on nytimes.
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This is the white noise comfort binge, the one that has been watched so often it has a quality that is not quite soporific, but definitely half-ignorable.
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In the background, however, lurks a dark question for the social networks — if their platforms become fluffier and more soporific, will their traffic, engagement and therefore revenues go down?
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With the pyramid out of sight, the installation confers importance on the Louvre Palace, at times overlooked by passersby today as the soporific backdrop to the glass, Modernist marvel.
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This is partly a question of tactics (like ignoring his points) as well as bearing (the chancellor's voice is soothing, even soporific, and her body language calm and controlled).
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This Stanley Kubrick film, made between his horrifying hits "A Clockwork Orange" and "The Shining," is known for its lush production value and leisurely (some would say soporific) pace.
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After a soporific first 45 minutes ended scoreless, more than 40,000 spectators at the Rostov Arena had little reason to expect the remarkable, rollicking second half that awaited them.
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The exhibition features 17 artists, whose wide-ranging works put the lie to prevailing notions that the weather is a soporific subject, that environmental issues cannot be made engaging.
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"In an environment of cooling growth and declining liquidity, market volatility seems unlikely to decline to the soporific days of old any time soon," Emmett said in a morning note.
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Inside, with the lid closed, it is as acoustically dead as a recording studio, quite soporific and, for this overweight Westerner, at least, rather snug at the shoulders and hips.
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Trump managed something similar with Jeb Bush, originally the most conventionally presidential of the G.O.P. field: He picked up on how soporific Bush could seem and never stopped mocking his stamina.
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A soporific mix of record-low wage growth, fierce retail competition and a sharp slowdown in rents has restrained underlying inflation for several years, and looks like lasting for a while yet.
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Unlike the previous debates, which were often soporific and anodyne, this one was lively and afforded viewers, particularly those who are still undecided, a sharply delineated contrast among each of the candidates.
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As part of Quadron, he made meticulous throwback 1980s and 1990s soul with the singer Coco O. And as part of Rhye, he made soporific lite-soul with the singer Michael Milosh.
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In that regard, last week's report in the New York Times that, outside the formal negotiations, the US will use the meeting to promote fossil fuels as a climate solution could be soporific.
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In September, at a normally soporific meeting of the Arab League in Cairo, Saudi and Qatari diplomats exchanged barbed epithets like "rabid dog" and heated accusations of treachery and even cruelty to camels.
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"I brought the knife down upon her in a soporific manner, just to prove to myself I could," Johannes writes during an early episode when he wants to assert his power over Elsa.
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Set to an ambient edit of the squealing synth-line from Diplo and the late Nicky Da B's twerking anthem, "Express Yourself," Malick's latest trailer features the usual sort of soporific wandering from Bale.
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Economists technically define full employment as any time a country has a jobless rate equal or below what is known as the "non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment, " which goes by the soporific acronym NAIRU.
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And it is the salvation of a soporific pay-per-view card that to that point failed to live up even to the press' modest expectations after its heavyweight co-star, Luis Ortiz, abandoned the show.
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Playwright Ayad Akhtar's script keeps things moving, never getting too bogged down in the financial flimflammery to lose audiences — a neat trick given the occasionally soporific nature of high finance to anyone who's not an account.
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LE CASTELLET, France (Reuters) - Lewis Hamilton said Formula One's rule makers should take the blame for boring races, rather than drivers, after Sunday's French Grand Prix served up a strong contender for most soporific of the season.
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Ocean's Twelve is a fascinating text to dissect, a triumph on a technical level, and as soporific and smug as a piece of entertainment as a filmed European vacation featuring George Clooney and Brad Pitt can be.
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Indeed, lying back on a bed covered with a patchwork quilt and overstuffed pillows in the guest room, with walls and ceiling covered in a paper-backed version of her linen Samode pattern, is an instant soporific.
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And so it has gone for Mr. Biden, whose experience in the wars over climate change is unmatched among Democratic contenders for the White House, but whose image remains soporific to the young activists driving the debate.
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The first half of this season mixed the soporific with the dispiriting until in late July the Mets ripped off a winning streak, and soon fans piled into this handsome stadium by Flushing Bay, bellowing and chanting.
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Although the headlines are jumbled, you can make out the originals if you listen closely — but the narrator's monotonous voice is soporific; the back-and-forth, lackluster pull of the same four or so strings mind-numbing.
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Nobody wants to get home from a restaurant job at 1:30 in the morning, stir themselves a medicinal, soporific negroni, shower off the greasy stink of a commercial kitchen and finally hit the pillow around 3 a.m.
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LE CASTELLET, France, June 23 (Reuters) - Lewis Hamilton said Formula One's rule makers should take the blame for boring races, rather than drivers, after Sunday's French Grand Prix served up a strong contender for most soporific of the season.
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While the average late night TV performance tends toward the soporific, the A$AP crew has always treated a televised appearance as the high-profile occasion that it is, putting together elaborate stagings and costumes worthy of the occasion.
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Despite its soporific air, Dire Dawa, effectively the railway's midpoint, is Ethiopia's second largest city, a fact it owes to the old French-built train line that had fallen in and out of use since its inauguration in 1917.
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LONDON — As the president of Brazil's soccer federation, Marco Polo Del Nero should have been here on Tuesday, watching his country's national team play out a soporific 0-0 tie against England in an exhibition match at Wembley Stadium.
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Shows like Forensic Files and The New Detectives covered one case (or sometimes more) per episode, relying on stagey re-enactments and soporific interviews with local law enforcement to sketch out the rough outlines of a murder or a disappearance.
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Dedicated to exploring questions of climate change, ecological imbalance, and human culpability, the exhibition features 17 artists, whose wide-ranging works put the lie to prevailing notions that the weather is a soporific subject, that environmental issues cannot be made engaging.
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Once inside, the view changes radically: A marble double staircase spirals up to a ridiculously ornate central rotunda that's smothered in gold leaf and arabesques, and you realize that, hidden inside this small, soporific city is a minor masterpiece of Beaux-Arts architecture.
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A 6-foot-11 junior from Germany, Wagner all but single-handedly brought an end to one of the wildest long-shot runs in tournament history, leading third-seeded Michigan to a grinding, at times soporific, 69-57 victory over 763th-seeded Loyola-Chicago.
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KAZAN, Russia (Reuters) - After playing the most soporific game of the World Cup so far, France will feature in a seismic last-16 clash of former champions with a resurgent Argentina on Saturday, and they will have to drastically improve if they are to stop Lionel Messi.
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In recent weeks, though, these nightly torments have been relieved by a book called "The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep" — a book whose powerfully soporific effects my son is helpless to resist, and which as a result has had a transformative effect on the style and substance of his bedtime routine.
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"The main feature of what has to be said are pretty soporific global financial markets at the start of the week and ahead of some key event risk(s) on Wednesday has been a further jump in oil prices," Ray Attrill, head of foreign exchange strategy at National Australia Bank, wrote in a morning note.
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Displaying an amour propre that appeared to know little bounds, Proust cited a review by his friend, the painter Jacques Émile-Blanche, who had lauded "Swann's Way" as a "little masterpiece" and had written that "like a gust of wind blows away the soporific vapors" of the other works available on the literary marketplace.
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So you could read tonight's remarks (a better idea than listening to their somewhat soporific delivery) in part as an attempt to hit the reset button, to pitch himself as a centrist dealmaker rather than a predictable ideologue, to leave the legislative struggles of his first year behind and get back to selling people on things they actually want.
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Yet even today there's something soporific about this French-speaking city marooned within Flemish-speaking Flanders, beset by administrative and linguistic divisions and the lethargy that stems from them, home to a poorly integrated immigrant population of mainly Moroccan and Turkish descent (41 percent of the population of Molenbeek is Muslim), and housing the major institutions of a fraying European Union.
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The soporific atmosphere most likely will give way to something far different and far more political when Qatar and Saudi Arabia meet to decide the winner of Group E. The countries have not met on the soccer field since diplomatic ties between the countries were severed 18 months ago, but the game's location in this Emirate capital adds another layer of tension.
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And some members of the City Council have even spoken of a sort of local analog of the congressional "nuclear option," a little-known provision in the Council rules that would allow for changes to the otherwise final carriage bill on the day of the vote — raising the prospect of a contentious floor debate rarely seen in the usually soporific confines of the Council's chambers.
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In the 90s, Nirvana was Alternative, and so was Candlebox and the Flaming Lips; around the turn of the century you may have seen "rock is back" bands like the Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs affixed with the tag; these days, Alternative comes to define everything from Lana Del Rey's narcotic West Coast pop, to Halsey's soporific Lana Del Rey playacting, to Xerox-rockers ranging from Capital Cities to Imagine Dragons to Walk The Moon.
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Alighting in Delft's soporific port, we hired a motorized rickshaw and bounced down decrepit roads, past Hindu temples, stopping to view various curiosities left by Sri Lanka's succession of European conquerors: a giant baobab brought by the Portuguese in the 221th century from Madagascar; a ruined 2222th-century Portuguese fortress built of coral; a herd of wild horses galloping across a barren plain, the descendants of those brought over, then abandoned, by Dutch colonizers 22424 years ago; a stone aviary used by a British governor to house his carrier pigeons.
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