He even joked about lulling her to sleep with his teaching.
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It's uncommonly beautiful, and its melancholy, reflective tone can be lulling.
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A more stolid soul might have found the gentle waters lulling.
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Onslaughts of seismic upheaval gave way to lulling plateaus of noise.
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With seductive tranquility and lulling shimmer, Steichen's trees sway and hum.
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But after lulling the viewer into passivity it takes a menacing turn.
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But acknowledging that distress accomplishes nothing besides lulling a person into complacency.
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"This was no campfire with steady, lulling pops and crackles," she observes.
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Colleagues said they feared semiautonomous cars lulling people into ignoring the road.
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The fragrance is punchier than the flavor, which is lulling and tentatively sweet.
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It shared the old-school sensibilities of the AWA without lulling you to sleep.
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Tom Hardy will be lulling children into peaceful slumber with one last CBeebies Bedtime Story.
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Her voice was lulling, soft, melodic, even when she was spitting out hard-edged bars.
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Opium addiction becomes an over-chewed metaphor for the lulling security of one's native home.
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It makes for a lulling feast of eye candy, an effectual fusion of golden intensity.
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It's a popular employer-provided perk that is lulling workers into a false sense of security.
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At the end, gorgeous, soft strings set the tone, lulling you into a drifting, pensive melancholy.
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The repetition, the lulling rhythms, the touch of mystery (who is the old lady whispering hush?).
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Every so often, a female GPS voice provides a new instruction, lulling us deeper into the countryside.
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I'd curl up, read, and nod off, the voices of the adults below lulling me to sleep.
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It's a dreamy, lulling story that's exceptionally well rendered, and it's on a lot of streaming services.
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Lulling familiarity was not Joël Robuchon's aim when he built the first Atelier almost 15 years ago.
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Heroin had a lulling effect, he and others said, but fentanyl is killing many of their peers.
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In better moments, the blurred landscape and timescape allow the language to become as lulling as an incantation.
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The floating, lulling sounds of Portuguese set to music serve to fill the gap between here and there.
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Ideally you'll match your breathing to Somnox's rhythm, lulling your brain and body into the perfect sleep state.
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The recent blissed-out, slow-moving sideways pattern in the area of record index highs had a lulling effect.
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The first half of the film is really focused on stretching your imagination, lulling you into the everyday monotony.
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Apparently they have also succeeded in creating the kind of lulling effect by which gambling establishments are often characterized.
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It begins with hypnotically chiming guitars and Rachel's limpid, lulling tones, before launching into a woozy indie pop cut.
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And in the song's main conceit — an amorous escape from the workweek grind — there's something comfortingly routine, almost lulling.
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Years of low interest rates have had the same lulling effect on investors as the steadily climbing stock market.
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There's no Trinity here to soothe that pale forehead, lulling ideas around "privilege" for that damaged psyche of yours.
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She was 4 or 5 when she started lulling herself to sleep with a prayer she'd repeat over and over.
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From hole-ridden tees to thick dresses, my motley pajamas have never kept me from lulling into a deep sleep.
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Then it's even worse: He's lulling people into a false sense of security, cynically aping French traditions while remaining unbearably other.
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It must be spoken and performed, his mellifluous voice lulling among the wonders in order to underline, more starkly, the horrors.
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"People say I always make the same mistakes..." he half-sings, his voice lulling, before spidery beats clatter in over synths.
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The nation could hope for no one better to sit at its bedside, soothingly and wittily lulling it into purring contentment.
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Wearing blissful expressions and lulling about nature in stages of undress, the young women in Jana Brike's paintings are voyeuristic and unsettling.
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A radio plays lulling music somewhere in the kitchen, and the pungent aroma of fresh milk, cream, and butter overpowers my senses.
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He was so restrained in the act that in my fog it seemed faraway and lulling, like something happening to somebody else.
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It's more like a restless night, in which stretches of lulling sameness are fitfully interrupted, sometimes in a good way, sometimes not.
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In "Scared Song," from her late-1980s album "Do You Be," a mood of lulling gentleness was eventually whipped into hyperventilation and howling.
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Frank released a handful of singles this year via Blonded Radio, but "Chanel," sung over slow, lulling piano chords, was the most arresting.
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"Simply be aware of what's going on right now, in this moment," a lulling female voice began, ocean surf rushing in the background.
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In the first study, his hand-over-hand playing across all the piano's registers brought a lulling quality to the music's gentle dynamics.
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Although it's formatted like a typical sitcom, it's styled like a graphic novel, lulling you into a false sense of security on both sides.
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They are lulling us with the comforting thought that we can just wait out the next two years, although they hope it is six.
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Though the sources of the sounds are often identified in the track titles, like "CHORDS for guitar," its meditative pace has a lulling effect.
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As he put it in his autobiography, "the bright prize of bringing back the bacon of new knowledge lulls any conscience that needs lulling".
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Mr. Parsons's 1990 "Nascimento," by contrast, finds the right language for the lulling tones of Milton Nascimento, the Brazilian artist who provided the score.
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As adept as the island is at lulling you into a kind of tropical reverie, the resort bungles the job of managing its guests' expectations.
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Williams-Garcia's prose is lush and lulling; she's gentle with her characters but captures the fullness of their conflicting emotions with the lightest of strokes.
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But we're not there yet, and a growing body of evidence shows that these partially autonomous systems are lulling drivers into a false sense of security.
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Tuning in once a week doesn't allow for as lulling a feeling of escape, and it turns the show instead into just another to-do item.
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From the speakers flanking him comes a sweet, synthesized drone — complex tones that fill the massive space, lulling the audience into a kind of midday trance.
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The Baltimore dream-pop band Beach House's sound thrives on repetition: lulling synthesizer drones, flowing guitar riffs and clipped phrases from the lead singer Victoria Legrand.
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Its biggest and proudest selling point is "Sleep Stories," which are recordings of famous people reading short stories with the intent of lulling you to sleep.
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But at the center of it all is his lulling, reflective piano style, which is as easy to love as it is imposing and conceptually advanced.
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His most recent album, "When You Wish Upon a Star," features classic tunes from American cinema; the renditions are lulling and picturesque but not altogether soothing.
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Ms. Marin was inspired by the farandole, the lulling French folk dance in which the performers hold hands and skim the floor with light, skipping steps.
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There may be fleeting upsides to lulling the public into a sense of calm, but at some point reality needs to break through all of the pomp.
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As this production at the Clurman Theater opens, Luke Cantarella's set evokes a cloudy Scottish seaside, while M. Florian Staab's sound design offers a gently lulling surf.
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At Tribal Council, Sandra works her voodoo on Tai, lulling him into making a play against Ozzy — and then immediately telling the tribe she'll happily vote Tai out.
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White noise machines, with their soft, steady, repeating loops of sound, help mask sudden or unusual noise, thus lulling your brain into relaxation, and eventually, sweet sweet sleep.
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Accompanied by just Scott Colley's bass, Chico Pinheiro's toasty guitar and her own occasional hand percussion, Ms. Souza strikes an interrogative stance on "These Things," a lulling original.
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But this steady climb is lulling bankers, lawmakers and regulators into repeating mistakes that contributed to that crisis and cost millions of people their jobs, homes and savings.
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From there, she imports the paste for kang huy lay, a pork belly curry that's a mellow confluence of ginger and garlic, both fresh and pickled, and lulling.
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This severe action would exert a heavy price on the Kim regime for its lies to the international community and for lulling America into a summit in bad faith.
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The repetition of small, bashful musical motifs and pious invocations of noble sentiments created a lulling haze that dissolved any potential message about the common experience of national identity.
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Amen Dunes: Freedom (Sacred Bones) This strange album, New York indie veteran Damon McMahon's breakthrough as Amen Dunes, is as lulling and disconcerting as psychedelic folk-rock can get.
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The cut features distorted rubber masks (a favorite of Fec's) of celebrities, politicians, and other characters nodding over synth warbles and distorted closeups, lulling you into a hypnotic unease.
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She played off Littlefinger's expectations, letting him believe that she might actually consider allying with him, lulling him into a false sense of security while she quietly schemed against him.
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It offers the lulling comfort of permanent volume, the same bulwark against scarcity that draws us to the all you can eat, the BOGO, the unlimited refill, the family size.
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Beginning, like Ms. Thorvaldsdottir's piece, with ethereality, Fjola Evans's lulling new "NOTT" unfolded gently, marked by little mandolin plucks and a vocal part sung with floating ease by Lucy Dhegrae.
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It was Mr. Trump himself who warned that winning might get tiring, that spoiling his supporters risked lulling them into a false sense of security ahead of the 2020 election.
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Instead, we respond to the inherent uncertainties of data by adding more data without revisiting our assumptions, creating an impression of certainty that can be lulling, misleading and often dangerous.
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Despite the warnings we've been given, the teller's calm, lulling voice draws us in again, fills our childlike imaginations with the hope that this time things will turn out differently.
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Letter of Recommendation Earlier this year, while driving through one of those lulling stretches of desert sameness, on the way to visit family in Arizona, I came to a river.
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"We also lack a clear sense from the government about what no deal would mean in practice, this may be lulling businesses into a false sense of security," he said.
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Yes. When I reached Owen Williams by phone, he said the game was devilishly good at lulling players into believing they're closer to winning each time than they probably are.
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The Baking Show has some lulling cadence of its own; with the limited theme music indicating moments of success, kindness, and suspense, you can track an episode from another room.
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Even better, it's fabulous filmmaking that uses all the cinematic tricks of the trade — lulling cinematography, sumptuous scoring, brooding lighting, deceptive mise en scène — to build upon its extremely unreliable narration.
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The country's tsunami warning may have been lifted too soon before all the tsunami waves made landfall, the New York Times reports, lulling some locals into a false sense of security.
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Shots range in duration between 10 seconds and several minutes; the viewer feels to be floating with the imagery, and when the cutting briefly quickens, a lulling, bobbing motion is simulated.
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Something of the lulling Jacobite music is gone; it is difficult to imagine someone reading aloud the Alter version to a lover, as so many have read aloud the K.J.V. rendering.
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That almost had the feel of England lulling itself to sleep a bit, the 'we're up and it's going well and the ball's way over there' moment you need to avoid.
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The eight original tracks on "Somewhere Glimmer" are soft, slow and cinematic; Mr. Wieselman often uses simple loops, not building to a critical mass, but lulling you into a rolling meditation.
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It's similar to when a depressed person decides to take his life; his mood can seem to lift with the decision, lulling family and friends into a false sense of security.
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Like when I'm lying in bed and am all done with Twitter and email and Facebook for the day, I switch over to the more passive, lulling scroll of Tumblr and Instagram.
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She wears infantilizing girlish dresses to hit jobs, lulling her targets into ignoring her as a threat while readying her preferred (very feminine) weapon: a stylish hair accessory that's actually a lethal blade.
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Like the works by Bebe Miller (no relation) and Mr. Varone, "state" was lulling and mildly evocative — it served as a kind of palette cleanser to Mr. Abraham's more urgent and expressive choreography.
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It was a gentler soundtrack than the hiss of cars outside on Queens Boulevard, and a lulling accompaniment to the plates that streamed steadily from the kitchen to my table in the corner.
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That differential grows if, like many people, including me, you take advantage of the recumbent machine's lulling, gentle posture to read, watch television or otherwise loaf while pedaling, achieving only a light exercise intensity.
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For investors it's a cocktail made all the more dangerous by the fact that corporate credit spreads have been so tight, lulling them into a false sense of security as they chase higher yields.
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And best of all, the lulling force of the concert's brief opener, "Prelude to Breaking" (1986), led by Mr. Sunderland, evoking the force and sheen of a wave sliding, roaring and pulling itself apart.
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He's into a lot of spirituality and New Age stuff, but... my question is: Should I bother communicating with him and continue lulling myself into a false sense of security, or just move on?
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IW: The scene when "Perfect Day" [by Lou Reed] is playing, and he sinks into the ground—I think that was a great way to have that overdose, the way that you're lulling towards death.
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As in Season 1, it's soap opera presented with intelligence, taste and high production values, and it's a pleasure to watch, though the pleasure is perhaps more lulling than it is exciting or truly moving.
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"I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information," he told an audience in 2015.
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We watch the plot unfold in a lulling series of domestic and small-town settings: The sisters fall in love, grieve loves lost, and commit a few murders and resurrections -- all with numbingly little self-reflection.
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During affecting stretches of the final movement, a forlorn melody is first played by a solo cello (here the superb Carter Brey) against streams of sound that become like undulant sonic waves — sometimes lulling, other times threatening.
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Its second movement contains passages of such harmonic complexity that they could have been written by Wagner, Brahms's great rival, who died earlier that year, as could have the unexpectedly soft and lulling coda of the finale.
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After lulling walkers into a daytime reverie, the path comes upon an art installation consisting of a giant wooden hand that captures the white water of the Dix-Huit Cascade before channeling it back into the bisse.
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But now the implications of those scenes were chilling: The village acquiescing; the wedding that turns violent; the lulling placidity of nostalgia and sentiment and then the sudden, brutal way the background tension comes into the foreground.
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Like the painter and critic Manny Farber, the subject of an incisive and moving essay in this volume, Hamrah is suspicious of anything that dulls the senses, lulling audiences into a false sense of security and therefore complacency.
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I thought about that a lot after returning home to L.A. after the funeral, when I bought "Hereditary" and watched it on YouTube every single night for two weeks the screams of Toni Collette lulling me to sleep.
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One concern so far, though, is that current generations of automated driver-assistance systems, like the Autopilot feature offered by Tesla Motors, may be lulling some drivers into a false sense of security that can contribute to distracted driving.
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What happened instead was a controlled experiment: 90 minutes of lulling, ambient improvising, played by the band and four others it had rounded up from the corners of the festival's aesthetic map, who hadn't played with one another before.
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For all his feints and flicks, Totti's single greatest trick is how long he has been able to approximate his best, lulling Rome – and by extension, Italy – into demanding he remain essential long after he reasonably ought to be.
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Ogles said Guggenheim deceived investors into buying a type of annuity from its Security Benefit Life unit, for which he paid $145,000 in 2012, by lulling them into thinking they could enjoy "uncapped" returns that rival annuities could not.
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The dancers, to Gladys Knight & the Pips' soulful rendition of "The Way We Were," enact gestural choreography that becomes ritualistic as they spread out and echo one another in a canon structure to create a lulling sense of reverberation.
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Performing in front of polychromatic 16mm projections by her friend and collaborator Paul Clipson, she sat cross-legged with a guitar and array of effects pedals, her lulling score providing the perfect comedown to the hecticness out on the streets.
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It's relatively tedious research, but the internet helps (when it doesn't hurt, by lulling us into forgetting that there is as much that is not online as there is up in the cloud), as does my tendency towards OCD-light obsessiveness.
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Relaxing into the second part with a lulling motif for bassoon and strings — you might think of Ravel — "Must the Devil" troubles the piano's serenity with a sustained low tremble in the basses, and a disturbing plunk of honky-tonk.
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The totalitarian rulers in Huxley's book do this not by oppressing their citizens but by giving them exactly what they want, or what they think they want — which is basically sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll — and lulling them into complacency.
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But along the way, the director Bong Joon Ho will pull a fast one of his own, lulling the audience into a false sense of triumph that wouldn't be possible without Cho Yeo Jeong's comically precise performance as Mrs. Park.
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They are lulling him into a false — you know, the Cohns of the world are bringing him down a path where he is getting lulled into a false sense of security because he's starting to get some positive media press on Syria.
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It is one of the few staples of modernity without severe and readily apparent downsides: all it does, or all it seems to do, is make things cooler, while generating a soft, lulling noise redolent of childhood afternoons spent indoors watching cartoons.
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It means that he could blend, seamlessly and selflessly, into a background that is so constant and so lulling that we eventually stop noticing the ugliness and the violence—the plain blind righteousness that edges hard into madness—of what we're hearing.
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He complements James Harden and Chris Paul with smart off-ball movement (Gordon is so good lulling his man to sleep before darting off a screen for a clean catch-and-shoot look), the ability to space the floor, and attack a closeout.
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Speaking at EPIC's Champions of Freedom event in Washington last summer, Cook said: I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information.
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He can check all the big man boxes, but Cousins is also capable of lulling defenders into hypnosis with footwork, punishing them with his perimeter skills, and generally displaying a degree of speed and touch that would be the envy of many guards.
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Inside their kitchen, they light the gas lamps, and it's all very lulling — until, out of nowhere, comes a thunderclap so bold and startling that, at the performance I saw, at least a half dozen spectators visibly jumped out of their seats.
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A 30-year-old, stay-at-home mother, she has lost herself in an existence of such lulling routine that she can keep it up now without anyone — not her husband, not their young son — noticing that her mind has gone elsewhere.
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At best, even the most simple tasks might take a while longer; in a worse scenario, you might be lulling yourself into a false sense of security with all sorts of gadgets and gizmos, while overlooking what actually matters to you and your particular threat.
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The dark of the forest becomes a tactic for lulling the viewer into a heightened sensory state, where the film's audible components and the palpable desire to elucidate the dim images on screen invites a spiritual cinematic entanglement between the audience and the elephant.
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Whannell, who wrote and directed, has a knack for keeping the viewer guessing — lulling us into a false sense of security just to yank us back out of it, or dialing down the intensity just as our frightened anticipation balloons to the point of bursting.
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Lulling us into a false sense of standard-Feist-acoustic-guitar-security, the track swerves all expectations to reach its final form as a garage-y stomper that will improve the life of every teen girl whose hands and earphones it finds its way into.
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"This is pulling people in who are looking for a particular phrase on google, lulling them into a false sense of security with good information, and then hitting them with a dodgy link to steal their money," said Lee Munson, a CompariTech security researcher, over the phone.
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But much of their work, at least what was presented here, was genially suave Latin pop standards — a bit lulling in this large dose, though lifted by the passionate singers and warmly subtle accompaniment from the guitarists Pancho Navarro and Brendan Cowan and the percussionist Leonardo Granados.
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Nubs of beef might be simmered with turmeric, ginger and garlic, to deliver a gentle, lulling warmth, or patted down with awaze, a paste of berbere swirled with tej (Ethiopian honey wine) and tossed swiftly in a pan, barely long enough to soften the edge of heat.
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Rather than minimizing the risks of Lyme disease by stating it is easy to diagnose and easy to cure — which is not the case — and lulling the public into a false sense of security, let's pull together to address the great public health risk that irrefutably exists.
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But if I had learned anything from spending three days moving in one of the most hostile digital landscapes in the world, it was that lulling yourself into a sense of total security while online is exactly the sort of mentality that malicious hackers rely upon for their craft.
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Lulling people into thinking they might enhance their driving skills by taking a psychoactive substance is irresponsible, especially when young drivers are already statistically more likely to get into crashes, and realistically, they're probably going to have a lower pot tolerance than someone who has been blazing for 50 years.
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At best, even the most simple tasks might take a while longer; in a worst-case scenario, you might be lulling yourself into a false sense of security with services and hardware that you don't need, while overlooking what actually matters to you and the actual threats you might be facing.
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If you've ever watched a Drake interview (like last week's one with Zane Lowe, for instance) you'll know that the guy has the kind of big beaming eyes, lulling voice, and shiny white teeth that will make you listen to his every word with a kind of dazed expression on your face.
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"Goodnight Moon" is by far the most famous of Brown's hundred or so picture books, and for good reason: It replicates the lulling, la-di-da cadences that toddlers use when they jabber to themselves, and it captures the strange tendency of young children to assign emotional lives to ordinary household objects.
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Instead, Stranger Things uses 80s cinema as a launching point, lulling you into a story you think you know, before it slyly sidesteps tired, regressive story beats—particularly in allowing the hysterical mother to grow into a powerful, selfless character, and not treating the female teen lead as a romantic prize to be won.
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Her new track with Jimmy Giannopoulos, who produced it with an assist from Bekon (Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre), goes so far as to incorporate some baritone sax ( a la Morphine if that helps you place why it feels familiar) with Kravitz's droning chant of "home, home" lulling us into a sense of calm determination.
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It's all unaffected vocals, acoustic guitars, and handclaps, beginning with the tongue-and-cheek "Happy Singing Band" and lulling into a sort of dream state before snapping back into "Covered in Frogs" and a cover of Nirvana's "On a Plain"—one of two Nirvana covers they did during this era ("Polly" was the other).
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There is a lulling quality to the play's narrative form, which, in the cozy darkness, can feel like a bedtime story (I couldn't help but notice some heads drooping), and there are too many of those Amgash anecdotes, with their parade of bit characters, which at first provide an opening into the drama of the Bartons but eventually distract us from it.
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The English master George Benjamin has been broadly admired in New York since his opera "Written on Skin" rocked the Mostly Mozart Festival in the summer of 2015; Benjamin's musical language, unapologetically modernist but deeply alluring, is a stream of lulling consonance and violent dissonance which has its roots in the sensual but strictly calculated music of his idol, Olivier Messiaen.
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To anyone who has ever felt over-
exposed to the world, to anyone who
has ever harbored hatred in his or
her heart toward droppers of names,
writers of papers on Flaubert, toward
eaters of frogs' legs, all of this has a certain seductive lure; there is a kind of lulling charm in being assured in that dazzling Salinger prose, that one's raw nerves, one's urban hangover, one's very horridness, is really not horridness at all but instead a kind of dark night of the soul; there is something very attractive about being told that one finds enlightenment or peace by something as eminently within the realm of the possible as tolerance toward television writers and section men, that one can find the peace which passeth understanding simply by looking for Christ in one's date for the Yale game.
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