They're not soporific but soothingly mesmeric, even the tragic ones.
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Superficially, his sturdily built, naturalistic plays are soothingly old fashioned.
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Slippery, cool taro soup was soothingly bland, which is no put-down.
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Hopeless in their soothingly lit offices on their upholstered couches, I nod.
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As always with AMLO (as Mexicans call him), his tone was soothingly moderate.
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He soothingly assured voters that democracy, with a small "d," and socialism are perfectly compatible.
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Empathy is soothingly evident in his voice as I come to the end of my story.
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Daniel Zimmerman's sets are alarmingly, soothingly bland, suggesting an interior decorating collaboration between Ikea and Apple.
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The snippets of tapes we see are grainy and often soothingly banal, the textured stuff of the past.
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I'm invariably nervous; decades of bad haircuts have left me wary, but Crys, my barber, is soothingly consistent.
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A.O. Scott called the film "a dandy piece of entertainment, soothingly old-fashioned and bracingly up-to-date."
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The 54 rooms and suites are soothingly neutral, with a design meant to evoke volcanic vapors and the earth.
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The books naturally differ in tone, and the plays — one soothingly jolly, the other brilliantly harrowing — exaggerate that difference.
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Listen more carefully and discover quietly dissonant invention, modestly pretty and entertaining synthesizer noises, and indeed, soothingly peaceful ear candy.
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Calgary duo Smalltown DJs today shared a soothingly lush new single produced in collaboration with Broken Social Scene affiliate Lisa Lobsinger.
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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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Second, whereas Mr Rajoy was a toxic figure in Catalonia, Mr Sánchez, Spain's new prime minister, speaks soothingly of dialogue and detente.
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For all the striving that goes on among some of its citizens, the town itself emanates a contentment that is soothingly contagious.
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Like the Internet's Ego Death, this music glows with soothingly balmy heat, almost pastoral in its evocation of an endless, directionless summer.
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Ronaldson hands me a soothingly aromatic cup of tea and gets straight to explaining how she ended up running a floating apothecary.
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There is the Bronx Zoo, where, officials noted, a Louisiana native like Mr. Beckham might find the alligators and pelicans soothingly familiar.
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To help people cope, the Monterey Bay Aquarium is offering an online Morning MeditOcean, during which jellyfish soothingly undulate across the screen.
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Harry calmly asked people to take a step back, repeatedly checked if everyone was okay and spoke soothingly about looking after one another.
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A new visualization of US Census Bureau data reveals—in soothingly colorful bars and interactive key metrics—that married people are the weird ones.
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Everything is white but Franklin, whose skin is brown (with some pastel eye shadow and glistening sweat) and whose voice is soothingly, staggeringly black.
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Nor, he said soothingly, was the government actively promoting its use in classrooms: that was up to teachers, and they should not contravene the constitution.
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I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.
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If 2017 has you looking for a brief escape, this soothingly hypnotic video of peppers transforming into Sriracha is exactly what the (condiment) doctor ordered.
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A few weeks before graduation, a friend I'd known for about a year convinced me to start watching Terrace House, a soothingly undramatic Japanese reality show.
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Garner soothingly reads a few excerpts from a child's book titled, Go the F*ck to Sleep, penned by Adam Mansbach and drawn by Ricardo Cortés.
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"If I do something, I think you can take it on trust that it's in the best interests of the investigation," he tries to say soothingly.
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The inside of a duck feels a bit claustrophobic, but Brennan soothingly tells me that what I'm seeing are a series of blind turns, followed by spirals.
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"Baby will tell you what to do," a chipper midwife (Jo Hartley) says soothingly, unaware that Ruth knows all too well that her womb has a view.
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"CONSERVATISM can and does mean different things to those who call themselves conservatives," said Ronald Reagan soothingly, in an address to the Conservative Political Action Conference in 1977.
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Instead of a loud, blaring alarm, this clock wakes you up with a gentle sunrise-like light that gradually gets brighter until it soothingly rouses you from sleep.
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Denver based modular synthesist Lee Evans, aka Hippies Wearing Muzzles, has shared the soothingly swirling title track off his forthcoming Animist Pools EP for NYC label Human Pitch.
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Speaking for myself, it doesn't matter to me how soothingly a man coos that I'm not like most women, when those coos are accompanied by misogyny against most women.
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Her grandfather taught her all he knew of hunting with eagles — how to call to the bird in the sky, how to whisper to it soothingly when perched on her arm.
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Yet the unexpected gesture rested soothingly on this audience, drawn mostly from a music community where everybody seems to know everybody — or at least deeply understands the magnitude of this loss.
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Christine comes over and begins to soothingly massage my tummy, which is honestly awesome, while I hold my palms to my chest and pretend I have a little baby between my breasts.
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Maybe that's why women feel most at ease taking us to the local Planned Parenthood; we are so soothingly removed from every aspect of the situation at hand that we're basically compassionate aliens.
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We know he's great at reading poems, and now Tom Hiddleston has lent his voice acting talents to Planet Earth II, soothingly reminding us that we share a planet with awful humans, but also some pretty dope animals.
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"It's the idea of self-expression and identity and you're not stuck in one rut," Ms. Wells said, popping open Treasure, a bright purple lipstick that glowed like a jewel or a bruise in her soothingly neutral parlor.
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The build video above dives deep into how it was made, and it's quite cool to see how the clay, plastic, and epoxy come together to create the finished product while a soothingly deep voice over explains the process.
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O.K., Mama, I said soothingly again, O.K. I would take the box of treats from the cabinet above the sink, I would put towels down on the kitchen floor so she would have a soft place to lie down.
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He should be expected, however, to accurately describe the general drift of law and politics and culture, rather than soothingly telling audiences that little has changed since 1980 and that, Trump notwithstanding, the contours of conservative ideology can remain substantially intact.
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"Unless Trump speaks reassuringly and soothingly about the continued U.S. presence and commitment to the region, I won't be surprised to see long-held doubts awoken in the minds of many Asian leaders about the durability of the traditional U.S. role," he said.
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Over the summer, I sat down with Hitchcock for lunch in San Francisco to talk about Silicon Valley's evolving uniform, how she soothingly but firmly tells clients what not to wear, and the most important items of clothing every man needs to own.
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But in a world that seems to get more terrifyingly chaotic by the day, and where the health risks of football are increasingly well understood, I'd like to argue for an alternative tradition: an annual viewing of the utterly nonviolent, soothingly adorable National Dog Show.
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The sketch show joked about the appeal of the GOP presidential frontrunner on this weekend's episode, by tossing a bunch of its cast in a fake campaign ad, where between their daily racist lives of book-burning and fear-mongering they talked soothingly of Trump's "winning" style.
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From the moment I got behind the wheel of our deep-burgundy Fusion, felt the soothingly buttery-leather seats (stretched over eco-friendly soy foam, btw!), started up the surprisingly straightforward GPS, and eased the car out of the garage — into midtown Manhattan traffic, no less — I actually felt…kind of fine.
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Joe Pera is best known for his two Adult Swim specials from last year, "Joe Pera Talks You to Sleep," an animated short in which Mr. Pera speaks soothingly about subjects like voice mail, barns and Stephen Hawking; and "Joe Pera Helps You Find the Perfect Christmas Tree," a live-action holiday episode.
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This comic is best known for his two Adult Swim specials from last year, "Joe Pera Talks You to Sleep," an animated short in which Mr. Pera speaks soothingly about subjects like voice mail, barns and Stephen Hawking; and "Joe Pera Helps You Find the Perfect Christmas Tree," a live-action holiday episode.
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Comedy Joe Pera is best known for his two Adult Swim specials from last year, "Joe Pera Talks You to Sleep," an animated short in which Mr. Pera speaks soothingly about subjects like voice mail, barns and Stephen Hawking; and "Joe Pera Helps You Find the Perfect Christmas Tree," a live-action holiday episode.
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They sat me down, interrogated me, asking what I had seen with eyes closed, and I said: the honoraria of sadness, nugget-bright, ores ropey molten in the encased seam, and messages, or messengers, their in-between blood filamentals criss-crossing pain-clear soothingly swift, at rest in unassessable velocities across chiasms chasmic in their embassies.
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Some of the squeamishness she prompted can be attributed to male chauvinism and Tory patrician snobbery; Moore, a right-wing columnist for the Daily Telegraph and a former editor of The Spectator , likes to use this defense when Thatcher is at her most indefensible, soothingly reminding us of her role as the great disrupter of the old boys' club and its afternoon fug.
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On the upside, that cohort's meritocratic multiculturalism, its "you do you" faith that anybody might have a million-dollar idea, has encouraged an inclusive culinary scene that supports fantastic upscale Mexican places like Cala and Californios, countless soothingly hip Japanese restaurants like Izakaya Rintaro, intensely flavored street-market Thai at Hawker Fare and what has to be the planet's most interesting upscale Hawaiian comfort food at Liholiho Yacht Club.
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"I'd rather be with you," Radin croons soothingly, "Say you feel the > same way too." Like a good long soak in the tub, this may not be terribly > exciting, but it's cosy, warming and just what the doctor ordered after a > stressful bus ride home .
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The track's melody revolves into "over a simple, catchy guitar lick that morphs into a spare electro-infused beat". Tisdale soothingly harmonises over the groovy guitar riff and alternative pop beat that drives the chorus. Lyrically, the track explores the deep thoughts of anxiety and mental health.
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To their rescue comes Nanny – who enters their apartment as if by magic, and is full of abrupt shifts of mood, first cooing at the baby soothingly, then screaming at it. In subsequent scenes, John and Nanny have an affair, Helen takes baby and leaves, only to come back a moment later rain-soaked and unhappy.
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Sonea's Aunt smiles and soothingly assures her that she will indeed look after her, at least for a while, to help guide and prepare her for what is to come. As already disclosed by the writer, Sonea would give birth to a son named Lorkin, who is a major character in the sequel "The Ambassador's Mission".
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When the plane arrived in Nanjing, Zhang was immediately arrested and was incarcerated, staying in prison in China and, later, Taiwan, for more than fifty years. Chiang Kai-shek recorded in his diary that Zhang Xueliang "denied having known beforehand of the revolt and tried soothingly to argue with his chief".Hahn, Emily. _The Soong Sisters_ , NY: Doubleday, 1941, p. 212.
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The English poet John Keats could hear the sound of the fountain's water flowing soothingly from his deathbed. He said it reminded him of lines from the 17th-century play Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding (1611) and was the source for his epitaph: "Here lies one whose name was writ in water." Jess Walter uses the fountain as a plot device in Beautiful Ruins.
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There are some nice touches here as well, such as the sound of the piano pedals rising and falling, lending an intimate immediacy to the song. “There are angels in the glaslights”, Hecker sings soothingly. “The Greatest Love of All” (not a Whitney Houston cover—promise!) features quiet acoustic guitar arpeggios that augment the piano. On an album this piano- heavy, the guitar is a nice touch.
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" GamesMaster UK described the game as "Soothingly simple". AppSpy wrote "The name encapsulates the gameplay of this high score zen puzzler beautifully. " TouchArcade said "The Catch-22 here is a game that is paradoxically fun, despite a few flaws and a lack of modes that would otherwise cripple less creative games. If the developer commits to its future growth and repair (functional achievements and a co-op mode), Catch-22 will become a score-chasing game that players and their friends will have even more reasons for which to return.
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Critical response to "Paper or Plastic" was mixed. Daisy Jones praised the song as a "pure shot of sparkling pop", describing it as "sweet, poppy and hella catchy". Zarah Cheng of Hypebae praised Candy's vocals as "soothingly wispy", calling the song a "sultry track filled with a throbbing dream beat and slowly paced synth notes". While Wass initially responded positively to the track as showcasing Candy's versatility as an artist, he was more critical of it during his review of the follow-up single "Living Out Loud", including it in his list of the "string of flops" released to promote Daddy Issues.
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In Sweden, Eric Molander (Charles Farrell) professes his love for Ingrid (Barbara Greene), the beautiful young granddaughter of baroness Lindenborg (Marie Tempest). Meanwhile, in the nearby countryside, a plane with Paderewski and two other passengers on board is forced to land due to mechanical problems. The travellers take refuge at the baroness's country estate; one of them, worldly Mario de la Costa (Eric Portman), steals the naive young Ingrid away from her lover. With Paderewski's help --- he plays a hauntingly beautiful rendition of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" which soothingly calms the flighty-minded Ingrid and allows her to come to her senses --- Eric exposes Mario as a shameless fortune-hunter who already has a wife, and the young hero and heroine are reunited.
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