When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
'Rectify' is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.
I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.
Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives. They crave a cool, satisfying drink of insight and knowledge that will soothe their parched souls.
A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself.
Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.