31. The " Arousal-Nonarousal Scale " measures how energized or soporific one feels. 32. In the luggage and customs areas, though, the soothing pale-green motif turns soporific . 33. With his shaved head and soporific disposition, Weller comes across as a kind of Kung Futon. 34. At East 53rd Street where the Stork Club once held sway, there is a soporific waterfall. 35. The NFL remains a conservative world in which the soporific Pat Summerall is considered a great broadcaster. 36. That sounds nice, but the film's effects range from the soporific to the emetic. 37. And though Clinton tends to moralize in psychobabble, Gingrich's verbal soporific of choice is cyberbabble. 38. He is somber to the point of being soporific and must struggle his way to the occasional joke. 39. Mendelssohn's oratorios have acquired a bad reputation in some quarters by association with soporific Victorian imitators. 40. Yet, these stories are given short-shrift in favor of soporific plotlines with silly, stock characters.