And probably his best early poem begins, tellingly: "After success, your little afternoon success, / You watch jealous perplexity mould my head / To the shape of a dark and taloned bird / And fix claws in my lungs, and then you pass / Your silk soothing hand across my arm / And smile".
Sure, the latest April Fool's day Hillsborough Castle declaration was full of soothing language - 'some arms will be put beyond use' rather than surrendered and there will be 'ceremonies of remembrance' for all the victims and any arms transfer will be viewed as an 'act of reconciliation'.
Stay in the shade," she said, steadying my arm with the soothing pats of a school nurse.
At the end of the service, if they had troubles, they went over to the "prayer team" standing against a side wall, and the team huddled around them, touched them, and prayed over them, "asking God to make them feel safe, loved, and protected — wrapped in his arms, soothed by his embrace, washed by his forgiveness".
At the end of the service, if they had troubles, they went over to the "prayer team" standing against a side wall, and the team huddled around them, touched them, and prayed over them, "asking God to make them feel safe, loved, and protected wrapped in his arms, soothed by his embrace, washed by his forgiveness". If, under such ministrations, you didn't cry, this was something you had to explain.
The underwater silence combined with the rhythmic arm movements of your strokes can be so soothing.
He will weigh the endless flights from Australia to anywhere on Tour, mull over the painkillers he takes to soothe his sore right arm and ask himself how much more he wants to give to tennis.
A doctor on a bench flipped through a clipboard and talked in soothing tones to a man in glasses, a young woman anxiously clutching his arm.
With my eyes closed and my face tipped up towards the sun, I felt a soothing warmth linger momentarily on my cheeks and then slowly drip down my arms, as shivers drifted up my spine.
So the idea that America's NATO allies in Europe might actually aid the Chinese arms build-up seems abhorrent to Washington.The European response to this is soothing.
