Others believe that overt style can have a soothing and positive influence.

I took the book to bed with me, and soon under its soothing influences fell asleep.

The men did not understand the words, but the poetry had a soothing influence upon them.

At first- perhaps under the soothing influence of laudanum -; she had seemed grateful for, even to enjoy, the attention she received.

He missed the soothing influence of the noise she called singing.

There was nothing to interfere with the soothing influence of the dose that I had taken, if my father's medicine would only help me.

The place had a soothing influence on him.

He drew in the smoke of his cigarette as if the soothing influence was grateful to him.

Mr. Sherry's soothing influence kept the four feet of his colleagues firmly on the ground.

"He's had a very soothing influence on what potentially has been an explosive situation."