And this is never more true than when, as now, a few prominent cases prompt indignant headlines and rouse normally somnolent shareholders to action.
They should be withdrawn, said Mr Murtha, leaving a rapid-reaction force in the region.Mr Murtha's proposal caused uproar in America's usually somnolent House of Representatives.
It is necessary to look elsewhere for the perpetrators of the Wang attack, the latest to rock the historically somnolent state.During recent months there has been a succession of bomb blasts in the capital, Vientiane.
All of which enables Ms Tartt to make a rich study of race, class and family with a sprawling cast of characters: maiden aunts, an oily Baptist deacon, car salesmen, pool-hall hustlers and the black help that function just as easily as surrogate family or helpful, tidy ghosts.Tension created in a somnolent setting is key to how this novel works.
And yet fulminating Mr Osborne said little, and somnolent Mr Darling more than he can ever have expected.Throughout his long cabinet career and short stint at the Treasury, Mr Darling has specialised in neutralising calamities.
In Asuncion, the normally somnolent capital, as the news spread that the general was back home, thousands of jubilant supporters took to the streets.Mr Cubas had always insisted that "justice" would be done to his ally.
UNTIL recently a good place to catch forty winks amid the din of Mexico City was in one of the country's somnolent legislative palaces.
MarchFirst, another web consultancy, lost three leading executives.Cable & Wireless, a formerly somnolent British telecoms company, said that it would cut 11% of its workforce some 4,000 employees over the next year and that profits would be below its own forecasts.
Since last year it has been a formal co-developer of Rajin-Sonbong (Rason) in North Korea's far north-east.Declared a "free economic and trade zone" (the word free was soon dropped) as long ago as 1991, Rason remained somnolent due to Pyongyang's lack of commitment.
Just contrast the scathing criticism that Tony Blair has to put up with during an average prime minister's question time in the House of Commons with the normally decorous, somnolent calm of debate in the European Parliament.
The main debates have indeed been held in public and were open to any passing journalist or somnolent student.
