Example Sentences

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It’s not like Sidney Lumet’s film of “The Wiz,” from 1978, where New York’s landmarks and topography and attitude are surreally, stupendously yet soporifically turned in on themselves.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022

And they start very soporifically, Azpilicueta letting Streller loose on the left side of the box and when David Luiz can't backpedal to head it Streller lashes a volley wide of Cech's right post.

From The Guardian • May 2, 2013

Silly wigs are duly donned, ponderous dialogue deadeningly delivered, sandy swords soporifically swung and CGI scenery splashed around dazzlingly, presumably hoping to distract us from the wooden performances.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2012

The lowest moments on the new album are soporifically dull, career-questioningly bad and, the worst sin of all, irrelevant.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2012

He was a man of high professional standards, a careful and deliberate, exacting judge who held himself to the letter of the law, however soporifically.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson