Your application sits idle, anxiously waiting for the user to send in a request. It passes back the response and then goes back to sleep until the next call.

Still, the manifestos have helped to transform a campaign which had threatened to send voters to sleep with its deathly difference-splitting into a showdown between distinct world views (see Bagehot).

And even if one have all the virtues, there is still one thing needful: to send the virtues themselves to sleep at the right time.