tranquilizing

For a moment, you dive back into your pillow (one of the nine offered on the hotel's pillow menu; the "tranquilizing" one works as advertised), then grudgingly slide out of your four-poster, king-size, carved-teak bed, pad across the tea-stained silk rug and gaze out your suite's floor-to-ceiling windows.

Dream Hideaways: The World's Top Microboutique Hotels Forbes Life Staff 2010

That’s not exactly what I would call a tranquilizing experience.

A Share in Death Deborah Crombie 1993

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

I Have A Dream Speech (TEXT) Craig Kanalley 2011

His clothes were cut off and something was stuffed in his anus, likely a tranquilizing suppository.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

Mr. Putin has ridden the windfall of oil and gas revenues for a good decade, buying off the middle classes, tranquilizing his country, and justifying his authoritarianism at home as the price of restoration of grandeur and power abroad.

The Last Battle of the Cold War Fouad Ajami 2012

His clothes were cut off and something was stuffed in his anus, likely a tranquilizing suppository.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

His clothes were cut off and something was stuffed in his anus, likely a tranquilizing suppository.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

NEW YORK—Europe's never-ending drama is tranquilizing Treasurys to the point where even mounting signs of a healing U.S. economy can't rouse bond bears.

Euro Crisis Curbs Treasury Bears Even as U.S. Heals Cynthia Lin 2012

He does not love being reminded of that number, but during his career he has watched tennis evolve from wood to steel to carbon fiber, from a game of finesse and tranquilizing sounds to a slugfest.

A Father, a Son and Some Rafa Jason Gay 2011

His clothes were cut off and something was stuffed in his anus, likely a tranquilizing suppository.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011