How To Use Anodyne In A Sentence
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It does mean, though, that he runs the risk of smothering the most anodyne comment with the pillow of portent.
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The sound effects - such as the perfect hollow pop every time Sara takes her pills - work in harmony with the images to convey the dull repetition and anodyne ritual that make up any addiction.
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Somehow this avoids being just another silly pop song with anodyne lyrics about love and happiness.
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At their suggestion I sent a complaint there and was rewarded with an anodyne standard letter which was obviously sent out to all complainants but which dealt with none of the points I raised.
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If the utterly mainstream, occasionally anodyne nature of the entertainer's work makes him hard to accept as an enormously significant black role model, so too does his apparent oblivion to racial politics.
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HoF II was designed by the Taylor Morrison company, a home builder specializing in anodyne subdevelopmental housing in the Southwest.
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Any pretext for action was a kind of anodyne, and she despatched her maid to the Farlows 'with a note asking if Miss Viner would receive her.
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Once in a while, anodyne comment emerges in the mainstream about the ‘dumbing down’ of news.
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Somehow, such a rationale seems to me like an anodyne offered to those who seek an existence of painless acceptance rather than an endless quest to reconcile seeming irreconcilables.
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There is a good deal of modal harmony, taken from Scandinavian folk music, which is comforting to the ear but far from anodyne.
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The only consultations now were with Beckman's market research consultancy over anodyne questions of marketing.
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Dido's White Flag may have sold millions with its anodyne, broad-brush break-up lyrics, but Williamson's eponymous second album goes much deeper into more raw feelings.
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The infusion of Wormwood makes a useful fomentation for inflammatory pains, and, combined with chamomile flowers and bay leaves, it formed the anodyne fomentation of the earlier dispensatories.
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In front of millions of his viewers he is taking a moral position - a far cry from the days of anodyne news reports which assiduously avoided taking positions.
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Most attendees, however, will probably have more anodyne concerns to tussle with: like where did they leave their car in the first place, and how to drive with six inches of mud on their boots.
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He would talk until his head smoked of his list of miraculous cures -- of his balsams, his anodynes, his elixirs; in the benevolence of his soul he would, to accommodate the pockets of the poor, sell a pennyworth of the philosopher's stone; and, as a further illustration of his sympathy for suffering man or woman, give, even for a kreutzer, a mouthful of the Fountain of Youth.
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OK, perhaps its a bit cruel to suggest that Disney's first 3D computer animated film under the management of John Pixar Lasseter is a calculated smoothie of every Pixar film* squeezed through a Disney anodyne making machine.
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Overall, it's a little too anodyne and pleasant.
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It can be squeaky clean and anodyne.
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He will remain a man for whom anodyne causes a headache and swiftly moves to another bugbear.
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The album compiles all of the most important cuts from not only the three Rockville records, but includes material from Anodyne.
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It displays diuretic, anodyne, styptic, digestive, antihelminthic, expectorant, antipyretic, and antiemetic properties.
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The piece spends so much time trying to offend nobody and entertain everybody it ends up being completely anodyne.
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Something anodyne about turning away from sin and rejecting evil.
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And the music is horrifically anodyne.
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It is useful also locally in rheumatic affections as a resolvent and anodyne, in acne, and as a parasiticide.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
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There's something anodyne about even his best work; it has the cerebral coldness of a crossword or mathematical puzzle.
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And to top it off, the bridge as depicted in the above rendering is an anodyne collection of matchsticks, not even a soaring Calatrava creation!
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At other moments - for all the Chorus's endeavours - the concert is let down by anodyne music and lyrics.
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The wide renown of Puvis, a chameleon of a painter, meant that his relatively anodyne pastorals could be championed by just about anybody for just about any purpose.
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This is daytime television at its most anodyne.
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It may be that the last new anodyne, which is warranted to have all the virtues and none of the ill-effects of opium, had also come to the end of _its_ tether.
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I just find their music very anodyne, its very ‘consistent’, it lacks variation and is very safe - and that's the problem for the film.
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The oldest woman among the six -- the sternest, the one with an iron grasp of anodyne diplo-speak -- was translating.
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This plant, called "button-snakeroot" by some, is reported to be a stimulant, diuretic, and expectorant; also possessing powers as an anodyne; it is consequently given as a remedy in colic, the tincture or the decoction of the root being employed -- said to resemble senega snakeroot, and to excite a flow of saliva when chewed.
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Instead it is an anodyne light comedy.
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But Joe, "soothed and content under the anodyne of delirium," is dragged roughly downtrail by Kah-Chucte and Gowhee.
“There be things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice.”
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the anodyne properties of certain drugs
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The film is a cute, anodyne fantasy of 70s rock, based on his adventures as a kid reporter with Rolling Stone.
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Total confidence can be a dangerous anodyne, and is not necessarily synonymous with the togetherness that has served England so well.
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It is an anti-inflammatory, tonic astringent, diaphoretic, stomachic, nervine, anodyne and antiseptic.
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Faced between one party with bland anodyne policies crafted not to offend anyone, and another with evil policies which it truly believes in, voters will always pick the party with the courage of its convictions.
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‘He would say anodyne things that didn't offend people,’ says Scottish historian Richard Finlay.
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That memoir has now become an even more anodyne film, to be released in Britain next week.
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After all the speculation about the possible disagreements between them, their encounter has been little short of anodyne.
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This is an anodyne, desiccated version of the sultry performance for Graham in Paris.
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Yes, every single one of our businesses, I mean we know on Anodyne and American Furniture it's foam, which is a byproduct of polyfoam which is itself an oil-based product.
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He thus seems to go too far initially, and then shrink back to an anodyne conclusion.
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Under contract to Rank, he played so many anodyne heroes that he became ‘the idol of the Odeons‘.
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Originally from Colombia, cumbia has traditionally been a sickly-sweet, anodyne affair for dancing couples.
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It is not any part of my purpose to present a bland or anodyne view of the Bible.
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He is at the same time bullying and wheedling, but will, when cornered, reiterate the anodyne phrases he picked up on the intensive salesman's course.
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After some years of dolorous wandering in this palace of despair, -- for ` hope of rest to solace there is none, nor e'en of milder pang, 'save the poisonous anodyne of drink, -- most of those insnared to-night will perish, some of them in horrible torture.
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(AT 84) Instead of merely being quaint and anachronistic technologies harnessed to an anodyne future, we can re-conceptualise and re-pathologise space vehicles.
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She had this quote in her convention speech, a kind of anodyne quote about how small towns are good.
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As a noun, the English "anodyne" means "something that relieves pain," as you said, and as an adjective it means "pain-relieving.
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So, instead, we got a relatively neutral, anodyne report from the committee.
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Somehow this avoids being just another silly pop song with anodyne lyrics about love and happiness.
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This debut album is breathtakingly anodyne stuff.
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Something anodyne about turning away from sin and rejecting evil.
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The answer must be yes; for if he cannot, the courts will become the province of those anodyne centrists whose views don't offend anyone with power.
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I'd rather stand for something than be anodyne.
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I believe that such anodyne 'any-thingness' subliminally undermines the content of what is being said.
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Companies must take the difficult step of eschewing the anodyne of traditional research - tracking studies and attitude and usage assessment - the entire armamentarium of probes.
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The root, which is rather toxic, has anodyne and soporific properties.
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He thus seems to go too far initially, and then shrink back to an anodyne conclusion.
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It said that it had merely offered bland anodyne advice that it would offer to anybody who asked for it, and said that what happened next was certainly nothing to do with it.
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I want to be able to turn on Radio 1 and hear you playing your own unique music one day, stopping that flow of anodyne pop nothingness.
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His first wife Vivienne had been prescribed Hoffman's anodyne and paraldehyde to treat her nervous condition, two anesthetics that exude a strong scent of ether.
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Theyre's a band called anodyne that sounds pretty interesting playing tomorrow, and I talked to Big Jim about going. .but the Nor'easter has put those plans in jeopardy.
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Well, here's another reason not to like it: The malls of America consume more than a gigawatt of electricity per month playing the anodyne sales-spurring pop.
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This ersatz-Elizabethan mock-up, approximating to some incomplete and sketchy idea of the original, provides an anodyne facsimile of Elizabethan experience, from which the roughness, stench, and hazard have been removed.
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No matter how anodyne, fatuous, sensible or irrelevant.
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In essence, they are largely anodyne affairs and an opportunity for leaders to fire up the troops before going into battle.
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The whole film strays dangerously close to anodyne children's television fare at this stage.
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Notoriously misogynic and thoroughly misanthropic (due to gender and species xenophobia, respectfully), Palin-Drone prostitutes its own knocked-up 17-year-old spawn as anodyne for witless, anti-choice right-wingnuts.
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Directed with anodyne pertness by Raben, it's the story of Robbie Hart Ciaran McCarthy who, until he becomes a rock star, fronts a band that plays at weddings in Ridgefield, New Jersey.
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A strong infusion or tea of the hop is one of the most valuable remedies we have for gravel, and inflammation of the kidneys and bladder, it is narcotic or anodyne, that is it alleviates pain and produces sleep.
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The result is anodyne to the point of narcosis.
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Somehow this avoids being just another silly pop song with anodyne lyrics about love and happiness.
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It is useful also locally in rheumatic affections as a resolvent and anodyne, in acne, and as a parasiticide.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
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It is an anti-inflammatory, tonic astringent, diaphoretic, stomachic, nervine, anodyne and antiseptic.