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  • But they - like the infamous somnolent dogs of Bucharest streets, like the drab, grey concrete blocks in the suburbs - are not what Romania's future is about.
  • The somnolent Hampden conference suddenly started to come alive as he laid into Labour as a waste of space in Westminster.
  • Cut off this supply of neutrons - deliberately or accidentally - and the reactor reverts to its natural, somnolent state.
  • I would rather have a president more commanding than somnolent.
  • Or maybe the burlesquing hepcat Spaniards will roll one by the somnolent Coasters. shedders on 9 May 2010 Pop World Cup 2010: Round of 16 Match 8 – Spain 1 Cote d’Ivoire 0 | FreakyTrigger
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  • If you are a parent cursing a somnolent teenager for ignoring your appeals to tidy a bedroom for the umpteenth time this morning then these are the statistics for you.
  • Another herb called sarpgandha is famous for its somnolent effect, but should be used only under expert supervision.
  • Beyond the fruit trees, the road climbs into long-ago-terraced mountains, passing through several small villages where old men in berets sit in the shade of somnolent stone churches.
  • Myeloma is a disease of many stages, including one called smoldering or somnolent that is rarely treated unless it starts to progress. RutlandHerald.com
  • All of this passed through my somnolent head in about three seconds, but I simply couldn't be bothered.
  • In contrast to Meg Whitman, whose Friday night speech to delegates may be found in the dictionary under "somnolent," Fiorina's talk was energetic, punchy and well-crafted. FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
  • The somnolent ease with which the small town went about its business beguiled him. THE LAST RAVEN
  • All the order he saw beneath him - the streets, the parked cars, this somnolent London square - had a transient quality. MAMBO
  • Most of his waking moments were spent rushing to the aid of his somnolent colleagues.
  • My thesaurus lists all these unattractive equivalents: indolent, somnolent, lumpish, torpid, lax, good-for-nothing… and so on.
  • No one - except perhaps a few civil servants - can imagine returning to the somnolent politics of the past.
  • Our visit was late summer early autumn, and the garden was somnolent rather than sumptuous.
  • Except the lead character, the somnolent man, a lady and the Alsatian dog, there are no other characters in the film.
  • Sleeping Indian specializes in top-end wool hunting gear, and is named after a mountain in Wyoming rather than after a somnolent aborigine. Petzal's Picks For New Hunting Fashions
  • Even though my mind has been awakened from its somnolent state, the body has been subjected to an antipodal experience.
  • Her somnolent black eyes and tenderly pursed pink lips intrude upon the eggshell delicacy of her face with the most delicate affection.
  • Next time you're in the theater, look around you at all the somnolent hoi polloi stuffing their faces with popcorn and their psyches with trashy sexploitation.
  • The Ballot Question — oldest of dialectic nightmares — is often found astride of a somnolent sederunt. Lay Morals
  • There was an ancient cottage smothered in yellow roses where homemade lemonade and scones magically appeared at our table; tearooms at the back of farm shops piled high with local delicacies; cafes in the quiet back streets of somnolent towns; a National Trust teashop at a lovely red-brick Georgian mansion and the largest monastic ruins in Britain (take a bow, Beningbrough Hall and Fountains Abbey); and no end of rustic pubs. Roller coaster: a cycle trip across northern England
  • The man already has been discredited by the inexcusable mismanagement of his portfolio and by his spectacularly somnolent performance in the house.
  • Even the so-far somnolent Karnataka Government couldn't shut its eyes to what was unfolding.
  • Also, the patient was getting a little somnolent, which is never a good sign when you are worried about hypoxemia / hypercarbia, so I figured it would be best if a nurse accompanied her. Code blog - tales of a nurse
  • An hour later her powerful fingers have done the trick and I am feeling immensely relaxed and deeply somnolent.
  • By her somnolent expression he could see she was still tired.
  • It is suggested that hypersomnolent bipolar depressed patients seem to be at the greatest risk.
  • It did not come; but I fell into a kind of somnolent state, in which I suddenly felt as though I were sinking in swiftly flowing water. My Life — Volume 2
  • Where there is no pain, I notice legal drugs do an excellent job of tipping you into somnolent bliss.
  • Chad Dimpler will be pleased, even if currently somnolent.
  • The noise of the stream had a pleasantly somnolent effect.
  • A somnolent atmosphere hangs over the entirety of these proceedings, which mainly unfold firmly behind closed doors.
  • At first, chlorpromazine was administered as an adjunct to a shock treatment popular in France—packing psychotic patients in ice, on the theory that the drug enhanced the hibernation effect, which allegedly cured patients by putting them in a somnolent state. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
  • Now I have to look up "somnolent" in the dictionary. Petzal's Picks For New Hunting Fashions
  • What is most disappointing is the lack of interest in this matter from the somnolent Australian electorate.
  • My thesaurus lists all these unattractive equivalents indolent, somnolent, lumpish, torpid, slack, lax, good-for-nothing… and so on.
  • As long as women are willing to play the comforter role, why should our somnolent male character bother to deal with a relationship with a woman who wants to be treated as an equal?
  • At centre stage is not the athlete but the official belonging to somnolent associations.
  • It isn't the weight of history I feel when I look at his ­paintings: it's a kind of somnolent, The Guardian World News
  • But there is a problem with entering such a comfort zone - yes, she could do this in her sleep, and sometimes this has a strangely somnolent effect on the reader.
  • Was it prudently considered that the dullest of critics can read only as long as his eyes are open? and that the function of judge must incessantly bring under his cognisance papaverous volumes, with which only a super-human endowment of vigilance could hope successfully to contend? so that the goddess is driven, by the necessity of the game, to admit within the circuit of her somnolent sway, a virtue to which she is naturally and peculiarly hostile? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
  • I was sick yesterday so spent most of the day catching up with taped TV shows and being generally somnolent.
  • He lay quiet, somnolent after the day's exertions.
  • His somnolent reaction was to twist half around-exposing his left ankle and leg.
  • The lush and extravagant countryside, the somnolent seriousness of the army base and the intense, heavy sunlight had been most disorienting.
  • Sleeping Indian specializes in top-end wool hunting gear, and is named after a mountain in Wyoming rather than after a somnolent aborigine. Petzal's Picks For New Hunting Fashions
  • The noise of the stream had a pleasantly somnolent effect.
  • S----, a comfortable place very slightly disturbed by the fact that it had been already the scene of four battles; there was just this effect, as it seemed to me, that the affairs of the day were carried on with a kind of somnolent indifference .... The Dark Forest
  • Especially did he love to lie on his back and have his sleek, cream-coloured throat stroked gently while he purred in somnolent satisfaction. Rilla of Ingleside
  • It earned a word of praise from me, which pleased my companion, though the little town was poorly lit and somnolent. THE TARTAN RINGERS
  • While the Committee was looking at the strange electoral role practices of the family of the somnolent Queensland backbencher, he seemed to have something different to say.
  • A poetaster's aesthetic feathers had been ruffled, but his humanity, anemic and amoral, had remained unstirred, somnolent, and moribund.
  • Her somnolent black eyes and tenderly pursed pink lips intrude upon the eggshell delicacy of her face with the most delicate affection.
  • A poetaster's aesthetic feathers had been ruffled, but his humanity, anemic and amoral, had remained unstirred, somnolent, and moribund.
  • Or maybe the burlesquing hepcat Spaniards will roll one by the somnolent Coasters. shedders on 9 May 2010 Pop World Cup 2010: Round of 16 Match 8 – Spain 1 Cote d’Ivoire 0 | FreakyTrigger
  • It wasn't his report ‘ad-libbed to a small, somnolent audience at 6.07’ that did the damage.
  • In front of 1500 striking firefighters at a rally in Glasgow yesterday, the somnolent Prescott was not so much demonised as taunted.
  • It is sad that there are ineffective ministers and somnolent bureaucracy giving the people a raw deal.
  • There are horses in the sheds, turkeys in the cornstalk stubble, and barn kittens that play tag around a pair of somnolent corgis. SUPERBUG
  • It is a dry, somnolent , empty landscape, hard to unlock, hard to invade.
  • I swung my legs off the bed and in a somnolent daze and padded towards my computer.
  • The church was still and quiet, as the preacher incanted somnolently.
  • To get to their house you pass somnolent cows, grazing sleepily amidst green fields, little rivulets, coconut groves and brightly painted houses.
  • Men and women who lived here ate, walked and talked with a somnolent lassitude, that takes everything for granted.
  • the sound had a somnolent effect
  • It would be frenetic in the day, somnolent at night.
  • Well there was a little more activity today in my otherwise somnolent lifestyle.
  • But the reporter's calls obviously stirred up the somnolent possums within Labor and alerted government people to a delicious political opportunity waiting to be had.
  •  It means tired and lazy-sort of like "somnolent". He's Sarcastic
  • The poem turns out to be notable as much for its spirited adoption of the early twentieth-century's fascination with somnolent states as for a subtle differentiation from the era's norms.
  • His somnolent reaction was to twist half around-exposing his left ankle and leg.
  • Along with his haywire fringe of Brillo pad hair, Wright's somnolent nasal drone is the single most recognizable thing about him.
  • His somnolent reaction was to twist half around-exposing his left ankle and leg.
  • Clocks made from computer parts, pulp novels and funky record sleeves tick away the slightly dusty afternoon to the somnolent beat of ‘Stand by Me.’
  • Compared to the somnolent and soporific gentility of late nineteenth-century verse, the poetry produced by American writers in the twentieth-century displays a remarkable dynamism.

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