So much of it, while lullingly handsome and well bred, is dangerously precious, too.

The dance is lullingly even-paced at times but exquisite, like a drop of air suspended in honey.

Its mood is cool, enticing and lullingly bourgeois.

The carpeting was always soft underfoot, and soft music played lullingly through all the speakers.

If it all seems a little too cute, the "mood is cool, enticing and lullingly bourgeois" (Maslin).

The water slapped lullingly against the dock pilings and against the hulls of the moored boats.

Courtroom testimony, sometimes read in voice-over and sometimes re-enacted by performers who are less than convincing, is presented in a lullingly monotonous way.

Lullingly smooth, the ride soothed her tight nerves and began to untangle her complicated emotional web of embarrassment, fatigue, hunger, and suspicion.

Michael Corenblith's dazzling production design, hitting extremes from the lullingly sumptuous to the dangerously seedy, plays upon the film's full range of tricky maneuvers about how the other half lives.

The artful but lullingly understated "Rain Clouds Over Wushan" is billed with a more fashionably affectless short film, Matthew Buckingham's 20-minute "Amos Fortune Road."

And a sneak preview several weeks ago of Mr. Dunn's "Cocca Mocca" suggested that the new full-evening group work, though typically plotless and sometimes lullingly slow-paced, has rich veins of humanity and emotion.

Spreading westwards from the North Sea's expansive coastal beaches, through tranquil marshlands to the serenely undulating wolds and beyond, it beckons lullingly to any visitor weary of the hard sell commercial tourism of the more well trodden regions.

"Ruby in Paradise," written and directed by Victor Nunez ("Gal Young 'Un," "A Flash of Green"), moves lullingly from the gift shop to Ruby's little kitchen to the various seaside vistas she stops to contemplate from time to time.

By daybreak tomorrow, after a lullingly sunny day today, the combined forces of the storms were expected to invade the New York metropolitan region and the Northeast with what forecasters said could be the worst winter barrage in five years: 10 or more inches of snow and winds blasting to 50 miles an hour.