soporific

• Reviewers termed it "soporific," "prolix,"" mortally tedious," "desperately facetious, "while others found it "clever," "fascinating," "never been equaled for clarity of thought," and "mind broadening," and they even likened it to Gulliver's Travels. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 06 - June 1995
• His delivery was as soporific, as it has been for years. —  The Guardian World News
• There is a misunderstanding about the meaning of the word soporific and when Thompson explains it to McDonald they both enjoy a laugh, at themselves mostly, they let go a little, and it is one of the most human and intimate moments in the film up until that point. —  OnMilwaukee.com
• After dinner, I lay down on the couch, with the Dial in my hand as a soporific, and had a short nap; then began to journalize Mr. Emerson came, with a sunbeam in his face; and we had as good a talk as I ever remember to have had with him. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
• They proved to be soporific, for he gradually reclined backwards on the green turf and fell asleep, surrounded by and partially covered with grapes, like a drunken and disorderly Bacchus Now Tyrker was a man in robust health; full of energy and high spirits. —  The Norsemen in the West

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