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Examples
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Soporific Gibreel missed the violence in this speech, beamed absently, placed an arm around Saladin's shoulders.
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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He had taken down the shutters of his employer's store, and was hanging in the windows two very gaudily lettered placards, "A balm for all, Jenkins's Soporific," "The need of an aching world, Muggins's Liniment."
The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand
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Soporific as the treatment may feel, it is a wake-up for your face, erasing the traces of time as if by magic. £125 for one hour, at Fenwick, London W1 (puremassage. com)
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Easter was particularly unimpressed by his countrymen's contribution to the deadly dull spells of aimless kicking that ensured a Six Nations descent from Super Saturday - two brilliant games featuring the other four sides in the tournament - to Soporific Sunday.
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Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » KXT Debuts With Good Tunes, Soporific DJ
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Really, my bad: I thought from the preview that Detective Crews (Damian Lewis) was more weird, like zombie-caliber weird, but that’s because he talks in the old See-Dead-People whisper, and the acoustics of the show — you can see a trailer here — are pure CBS procedural: big-room clanging and sound engineering courtesy of the Hammacher Schlemmer Soporific Sleep Machine department.
TV Upfronts: Second Thoughts on NBC - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Really, my bad: I thought from the preview that Detective Crews (Damian Lewis) was more weird, like zombie-caliber weird, but that’s because he talks in the old See-Dead-People whisper, and the acoustics of the show — you can see a trailer here — are pure CBS procedural: big-room clanging and sound engineering courtesy of the Hammacher Schlemmer Soporific Sleep Machine department.
TV Upfronts: Second Thoughts on NBC - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Sleep in Dream: Soporific Responses to Depression in Story of the Stone
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Jason Robards Can't Keep The Christmas Wife From Being Soporific
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