In the end a healthy balance sheet and steady profits were what matter, he said soothingly.

ECONOMIST: Freddy Heineken

Yet if they do not, advises the ministry soothingly, economics tells us that there is no need to worry.

ECONOMIST: Russia's economy

Between traumas, the movie serves up soothingly banal musical numbers (composed by Elton John and Tim Rice) and silly, rambunctious comedy.

NEWYORKER: The Lion King

He magnanimously excuses The Economist's poor record of predicting the price of oil: our suggestion in 1999 that oil would remain dirt cheap was conventional wisdom at the time, he says soothingly.

ECONOMIST: Face value

For a while Oberon was able to get it off of her as fast as she could put it on, nuzzling her and speaking ever so soothingly about how the boy would be found.

NEWYORKER: A Tiny Feast