George Bush, by contrast, appeared tentative, if not somnolent: unsure of himself and the issues.

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And although he affected brusqueness he was known as the Crocodile: somnolent until provoked he admired Kennan and respected his intellect.

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Suffice it to say that Isabelle Huppert is involved throughout, as a French woman visiting a somnolent Korean seaside resort.

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Mr Murtha's proposal caused uproar in America's usually somnolent House of Representatives.

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For months, the conference has been somnolent as other countries waited for a British election to return (they hoped) a government less in thrall to Eurosceptics.

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Usually somnolent hearings are now sometimes raucous.

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While the creation of money for the sake of it (Fed purchases of Treasuries and mortgages forcing cash onto bank balance sheets) is an economic somnolent on its own for boosting that which restrains our economic evolution, it also weighs negatively on the value of the dollar.

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