Suddenly his voice seemed the most lulling thing in the world.

The voice is very lulling.

Paradoxically, "The Sandman" is not the most lulling bedtime fare.

It could not have been more lulling and dreamy had it been a purposeful Japanese garden.

This is the hour when all the world is sleeping; The winds are keeping A lulling music on the frosty sea.

Prior to Panter's work, kid shows had a more lulling aesthetic: everything was round, "cute", simplified, and pastel.

Windham Hill's recordings became the lulling music that aging 60's rock fans munched seaweed to, read their tarot cards to, fell asleep to.

The evening opened on a quiet note with "Beach Birds," a pretty, limpid 1991 dance for 11 birdlike creatures moving to a lulling score by John Cage.

The show's one interactive digital entry, a funny, polished, seriously angry sendup of online marketing by Tana Hargest, points to links between stalled political change and the lulling effects of consumer culture.

Replicating grisly crime-scene photographs, and softening their horrific look with gentle colors and a lulling score, Mr. Lee begins with a scathing sense of the futility that "Clockers" will describe.

Musically, though, the poems are disserved by the lulling score of William (Spaceman) Patterson, which is a warmed-over dilution of homogenized reggae, soul and New Age sound that somehow smacks of compromises and technical incongruities.

The rugs on the floor, deep, pulsing blues of heaven and red of the heart's dearest blood, came from Isfahan and Bokhara; the dark panelling gleamed; there was the lulling music of the sea and a fire of apple logs.

Sometimes I fell asleep on the pillows of the couch at Bianca's or even on one of the beds, listening to the hushed voices of the noblemen who came there, dreaming to the music which was always of the most lulling and soothing kind.

The film begins promisingly with a prologue that shows off Anton Furst's somber production design, Miroslav Ondricek's somber cinematography and Randy Newman's lulling score, technical virtues that are either overshadowed by the material's subsequent giddiness or, in the case of the music, greatly overused.

For the moment, there was a lull in the action.

There may be a lull of several days as a result.

David, there is a lull here, and of course we never know how long those last.

"We are in a bit of a lull at the moment over here."

A lull fell until the next lot was brought up.

She turned on the television to lull her back to sleep.

The next two weeks brought a lull in the fighting.

There's a major lull due in the next few days.

At last came the long lull that they knew from experience meant the end.

But the lulls grew longer, and so did the talking time.

"Then in a lull they returned fire and got out."

"You'll get a little bit of a lull in the summer months before the show," he said.

And she had provided the lull that made it all possible.

But for the moment there was a lull, almost a silence.

The lull in the missions seemed to have done some good.

From 1878 to 1906 there was a lull in operations.

Most of the main fighting had gone into a lull.

To me it seemed like the lull before the storm.

A lull struck, and she could hear some of his words.

Over the next three days, there was a lull in the fighting.

He had not gone to the point yet, and wished to lull the man.

"Then there was a lull, and now people are coming back."

There have been times when we've had lulls at certain points in the game, but this time was different.

And this also, he knew, was the lull before the storm.

There was a lull in the conversation while everyone considered.

The blood did not come at once, which lulled them further.

To find out if I'm the guy who lulled her.

But when he passed away in 1994, the campaign lulled.

He was being played like a fish, lulled, until they found him.

He less than any of them had been lulled by the treatment.

Even I, who should have known better, was once again lulled by it.

Lulled by the beat of her heart, he let his eyes close.

He thinks Americans are being lulled by a good economy.

June was once more lulled into a feeling of security.

Our talk had kind of lulled everybody else into quiet.

But in the meanwhile, we must keep the old man lulled.

They had lulled him, then hit hard when his guard was down.

Waiting for a person lulled to sleep by the hour of night.

It lulled him, like a voice singing in his head.

We had been lulled into a false sense of security.

We must keep him lulled in false security only a little longer.

But there was some- thing that made the fear less, lulled it a little.

Once we got the big lead, it seemed that they lulled us to sleep.

"I'm just lulling you into a true sense of security."

Talk about lulling me into a false sense of security!

Many in the town said they felt the wall lulled them into a false sense of security.

We've held off long enough to convince them that we're lulled.

Say never a probing word to any, leave them lulled.

The motion of the car had lulled him to sleep.

He'd never have his victim more lulled, that was certain.