Dreaming "calms" the emotional "storm" going on in the mind.
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Nevertheless, society had by then somewhat calmed down, because the economy was growing.
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Opiates are prime candidates for self-medication due to their generally calming and normalizing effects.
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Your spirit and soul are calmed; it really is a paradise.
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Instead, it seemed, he had created a recalcitrant assortment of vested interests unwilling to heed calmer voices of reason and progress.
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The calming 2 is a calming 2 - you don't need to make much movement - and the agitated 4 is of course agitated because of the doubling of the movement.
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After this barely controlled screaming, which ends as abrupdy as it began, the aria returns suddenly, almost schizophrenically, to the calmer questions of the first part.
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A calmer assessment of the similarities and differences between the language behaviour of human and non-human primates would surely have won more devotees to their cause.
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False fears should be calmed by good information and the same means should be used to ensure that people come to fear the objective risks they face.
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Whilst the hostility towards the commission soon dissipated in the calmer cultural climate of the 1850s, the excitement that had attended its activities during the 1840s was replaced by indifference.
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After that, the star calmed down enough to conduct the rest of his tour less eventfully, to judge at least from the absence of fistfights in the news.
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I hope this message will be distributed when we get calmed down.
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After the order for her release was notified to her she calmed down and took food.
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We must not be calmed therefore with talk of a ceasefire.
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To some extent, though not entirely, that calms my disquiet.
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