Sentences with word «soporific»

9) The power of association: Ensure that the same piece of soporific music is quietly playing each time you fall asleep.

However, milk contains relatively little tryptophan, so the soothing and soporific effects of warm milk may be purely psychological.

Having watched this unscary, cheerless thriller while slipping into increasingly soporific states of dismay and ennui, I couldn't tell you what the appeal is in 2014, other than pure nostalgia.

Apart from being a smooth con to support their respective clergy, religions continue to be nothing more than primitive soporifics for the weak, gullible and stupidest people who can not accept responsibility for and limits to their own lives.

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Here again there are modern counterparts and derivatives, for apart from foundations in a God of supreme power, righteousness and grace who is implicated in the suffering of his people, who condemns their sin yet offers release, prophetic preaching today escapes from soporific optimism only to fall into moral diatribe.

Sure, you can dock your iPod and listen to your tunes, but that won't give you the local news, a ballgame or the late - night drone of a call - in show (the best soporific I know).

It watched Ellis, once almost ruined in the middleweight division, create a tactical masterpiece that, though soporific to television viewers and the live crowd, was demanded against the deadly counterpunching of Quarry.

Motion can have an irresistibly soporific effect, which can be useful but isn't the best way to get him to sleep at night.

Labour's soporific leadership election burst into life with the publication of a YouGov poll for The Times, which put the veteran left - wing candidate Jeremy Corbyn 17 points ahead of his nearest rival, Andy Burnham, on first preferences.

It breaks completely with the Thatcher - Blair - Cameron economic consensus, sparking some electricity in this campaign's soporific proceedings.

Soporific test drives are highlighting risks in the road map, says Jamais Cascio

Contrary to what certain Hollywood blockbusters or soporific college lecturers would have you believe, great stories and accurate science are not nemeses.

Thus, it is no wonder that turkey, which provides the raw material for the synthesis of sleep - related serotonin, is purported to have soporific power.

Meet our 46 ″ deep soporific couch - strosity nicknamed «The Nap Master.»

What a terrible waste, then, that fine minds like Kruger's have decided instead to transform it into a substandard estrogen melodrama that boils down, and quick, to a lot of soporific nothing.

«The first forty - five minutes are excellent,» Tarantino stated about «The Lone Ranger» before conceding, ``... the next forty - five minutes are a little soporific.

The anthology format is a smart vehicle for this kind of cultural criticism, insofar as it articulates Jia's communitarian politics in structural terms without resorting to too much heavy symbolic lifting — it's enough that the four protagonists are on parallel tracks — or soporific speeches.

Soporific seaside vistas give way to lavish townhouses, while Jonny Greenwood's breathtaking score adds heft and grandeur.

Across its slender 95 - minute run time, the film doesn't so much build momentum as pulsate alternately with periods of high drama and soporific lulls, yet it all coheres, due in large part to some truly astonishing music cues.

There are fine moments in DREAM HOUSE, but not enough so that the easily parsed story and oddly soporific direction fail to become insurmountable hurdles.

Compared to the Toyota Prius, Kia's hybrid is better to look at, easier to see out of, much more practical, and less soporific to drive.

From Margaret Wise Brown's classic Goodnight Moon to Sandra Boynton's The Going - to - Bed Book, bookstore shelves are full of soporific books.

At one point, as Clem works on one of her plant documentaries, she says: «You think that lettuce just sits there innocently on the ground hugging itself with its soft billowy leaves and dreaming of nothing more ambitious than being part of a salad or a mildly soporific soup?

Each Sunday we were lulled into a nondenominational oblivion by the church's soporific organ music, and it was here, in the light - filled, stained - glass chapel of the Westminister Presbyterian Church, that I discovered something far more commanding than the gist of any sermon.

My term for a society dependent on feel - good, soporific variations on the Power of Positive Self - deception is The Nanny Culture.

Journalists have sided with activists to pen soporific op - eds about the need for «equality» in video games, while the people who actually play games just want to know if the latest instalment is good value for money.

Soporific jaundiced warbler, based in London.

Andrew Berardini for Art Review (March 2012) writes that Bress's work is ``... less intensely disquieting than slightly unsettling, like the portraits in the hallways of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, which turn holographically to follow visitors» every move... Here, though, the costumes and characters and creatures in the pictures look almost friendly: softish and colourful, moving at the nonthreatening, soporific half - speed of most young children's television programming.»

A lot of the post-debate buzz about President Obama's soporific performance (as Jon Stewart made clear, it was not the Denver altitude!)

Even in the thick field of science, where soporific writing is often considered a virtue, he writes entertainingly and well...

The 90 - minute argument careened from the embassy assault in Libya to Medicare to abortion, and it was a lively, spirited thing — a nice change of pace from its weirdly soporific presidential counterpart last week.

While they're completely soporific, you'll never look a fool in those colors.

The content may be somewhat soporific, but the concept of asking judges in effect to draft an executive summary and to make it available for press and public is both novel and exciting.

Other features include a garden bedroom with a lawn, topiaries, soporific plants and a tented cubbyhole for children to sleep in.

Certain aromas, such as lavender, are known to have soporific effects, but once you're asleep, can smells influence what you dream about?

As lovely to look at, relaxing and soporific as the perfect summer day sung by David Bowie at the beginning of the film, Wim Wenders» The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez scatters some nice ideas amid non-stop French dialogue that only speed readers of subtitles will be able to follow fully.

It's a collection of life - lessons and unduly angsty characters in search of something to do, all set to the kind of mellow, indistinct indie - rock soundtrack that makes everything feel more soporific.

But if we abandon ourselves to progress, letting things go with the comfortable assurance that all will be well in the end, then progress becomes the most dangerous of soporifics, a veritable Demon's drug, and one of his new names.

«Everything seems to suck up the sound,» complained a former associate pastor, who found the place too dark and soporific.

soporific, entertaining, debasing, informative, misleading phenomena that enters their homes on an average of seven hours a day, every day.

I affirm my faith in the promise of Easter, of the resurrection, not only of the Lord Jesus Christ but of us all; the resurrection not as a panacea or placebo for those who can not cope without medication, or as the soporific of the masses (Simone Weil said that revolution, and not religion, is the soporific of the masses), but as the reality which lights the day.

From the Vicar of Dibley, to the saccharine, soporific «Songs of Praise» (with apologies to all those who love either of these shows), the BBC reminds me of Religious Education at school.

Or perhaps we give up both earth and heaven and seek in prayer only a soporific for our troubled spirit.

This smoothie looks great, I saw on your website about it's soporific qualities and I think sometimes we could all use a bit more of that

Soporific from start to finish: You couldn't hear the crowd, the camera coverage rated a Zzzzzzzzz, and announcers Charlie Jones and Len Dawson seemed to take a New Year's holiday.