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Director Lawrence, working from Peter Craig and Danny Strong's screenplay, occasionally mistakes somnambulance for solemnity.

From Chicago Tribune • Nov. 19, 2014

There are moments when you worry he is making a fetish of his clear, careful sentences, moments when tidiness comes awfully close to somnambulance.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2010

In the earlier version tempi are sluggish, with a lugubrious beginning and general somnambulance that pervades until the final phrases.

From Time Magazine Archive

In an exhausted somnambulance, Si'Wren lapsed into her slumbers as well, until his groanings woke her once more.

From Si'Wren of the Patriarchs by Cheney, Roland Jon

I am particular, but at that time I was still in the somnambulance of philanthropy which brought us pedagogues to the Philippines.

From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Fee, Mary Helen