I set out the next morning in search of someplace a bit more soothing.
There he puts on what he thinks of as a bit of soothing music — Paul Simon's "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover".
You're in an expensive restaurant, with flickering candles, white napery, perhaps a bit of soothing jazz on the sound system.
But the latest terrifying missive (courtesy of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC) is, mercifully, served with a bit of soothing chaser.
But the latest terrifying missive (courtesy of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC) is, mercifully, served with a bit of soothing chaser: Apparently, the political will to actually do something about reducing carbon emissions is starting to emerge around the globe.
At the end of the evening, Fadime's sage and cranberry tea was every bit as soothing on a wintery day as it sounds.
Right on cue, Mario Draghi popped up before the European parliament to administer a bit of his own soothing balm.
And as anyone who has ever driven a howling baby round and round darkened streets until it magically fell asleep knows, there's definitely a bit of self-soothing for adults going on here.
The ring may, then, seem like a distraction or a crutch, a bit of game playing to soothe the novelist's well-established postmodernist allergy to realism.
As he smoked a cigarette in his single bed his rage for violent revenge would be soothed just a bit by the warm soup.
Suddenly, I saw our battalion commander, Colonel Timothy Halloran (Happy was his nickname), take a seat on a nearby bench, and the mere reality of his presence soothed me a bit, as often happened when he hove into sight.
