But an election that had seemed a soporific canter has suddenly turned into a horse race.
Such feasts can be soporific, but unfortunately, so are the lectures, with undergraduate-level speakers sometimes reading from PowerPoint presentations.
The world gets news while we get the soporific message that even enxiety is good for you.
This very disjointed and mostly soporific presentation had been postponed from earlier this year but heaven knows why.
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They should be nonessential but not trivial, and require some attention to detail soporific, in a beneficial sense, without being stultifying.
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Administering a similar tranquilliser to the health service would be more difficult, however, even for the famously soporific Mr Darling.
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Mail-Well veered from envelopes, a sleepy business growing 2.5% a year, into the slightly less soporific commercial printing market, growing at 6%.
The dogged batting of Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Dwayne Bravo combined with the Proteas' ineffective attack to produce a soporific start to day four.
As an office bed and sanctioned afternoon naps are not likely solutions, researchers are looking into what can lift people out of this soporific state after lunch.
Jason Scott Lee and Anne Parillaud look dull and soporific in the leading roles, and even Patrick Bergin cannot do much with the blurred part of Russell.
I'm prompted to ask this following President Jacob Zuma's recent soporific address at the ANC's centenary celebrations, and the feisty debate it has triggered here in South Africa.
Paul Samuelson's textbook on economics did nothing but reinforce a suspicion I'd always held: Economics was obscure on its best day and as soporific as a Lutheran sermon on the rest.
He dismisses U.S. Ambassador David Scheffer's "All The Missing Souls" as "a soporific memoir" but extols the virtues of American sovereignty and exceptionalism as justifying the unilateral use of our military might.
Today's in-vehicle DVD players could evolve into headrest-mounted touch screens providing an entertainment experience like Virgin America's RED while accommodating a generation obsessed with sharing every soporific specific of their lives with the world.
But, like their counterparts in pre-World War II Britain, todays spies are serving up soporific conclusions certain (if not calculated) to encourage inaction by the West and to buy our enemies time to prepare their onslaught.
Many of those who do know what the slogan means (that the party must represent China's advanced productive forces, its advanced culture and the interests of the overwhelming majority of the people) find the notion soporific.
Colonised by the Spanish in the 16th Century, Colca harbours more than a dozen of these small villages notable for their ornate churches, soporific main squares and esoteric agricultural and artisanal specialties, including embroidery and alpaca wool products.
Roque Santa Cruz, deployed on the right by Martino, ought to have tested Japan keeper Eiji Kawashima after a corner dropped invitingly but the striker missed from close to the penalty spot as a largely soporific half ended goalless.
Weaving its way through a maze of broccoli-coloured islands in waters where Orca whales can be spotted during the summer months, the journey crosses the invisible frontier between the urban frenzy of Seattle and the soporific rhythms of the Puget Sound, the inland sea in which the San Juan Islands are located .
In a nutshell, then, by choosing food as your drug sugar highs, or the deep, soporific calm of carbs you can still make the packed lunches, do the school run, look after the baby, stop in on your parents and then stay up all night with an ill 5-year-old something that is not an option if you're regularly climbing into the cupboard under the stairs and knocking back quarts of scotch.
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