soporific

IPA: sˈɑpɔrʌfɪk

Examples of "soporific" in Sentences

Could anyone ever consider terrific a delivery best called soporific?
"soporific" -- and in explaining Santayana's eventual road to prestige
It was part of the reason that my vocabulary at age three included the word 'soporific'.
How about it Rudy - buy me a pastrami sandwich for every time I call a Romney speech "soporific"?
The best I can say about the first half of the performance is that I don't often get to use the word "soporific" in casual conversation.
It may be remembered that Archibald, in what we may term his soporific period, had manifested a strong, although entirely irrational, repugnance to this east chamber.
While he quarreled with descriptions of his speaking style as "soporific," Kerry tacitly acknowledged that he failed to connect with enough voters on a personal level.
The first half could best be described as soporific, the encounter displaying all the characteristics of a scrap that had the spectre of relegation very much at the banquet.
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.