He informed the patient that he had prescribed an anodyne, to be taken at bedtime. |
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Originally from Colombia, cumbia has traditionally been a sickly-sweet, anodyne affair for dancing couples. |
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So, instead, we got a relatively neutral, anodyne report from the committee. |
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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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That memoir has now become an even more anodyne film, to be released in Britain next week. |
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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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The piece spends so much time trying to offend nobody and entertain everybody it ends up being completely anodyne. |
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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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United arguably had the better of what play there was in an anodyne first half-hour. |
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It displays diuretic, anodyne, styptic, digestive, antihelminthic, expectorant, antipyretic, and antiemetic properties. |
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It is an anti-inflammatory, tonic astringent, diaphoretic, stomachic, nervine, anodyne and antiseptic. |
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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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At least this kind of talk ups the ante after the anodyne stuff we've endured at the majority of press conferences. |
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I was asked a series of anodyne questions about Bush and life in his White House. |
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Canada's engagement with Africa is frequently seen as 'progressive' or perhaps anodyne. |
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The bill itself is a rather anodyne bill, a tax treaty bill that deals with Greece and Turkey. |
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When I tried it on Derek Pollard I could see that he found it a bit anodyne. |
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Does it turn an anodyne presentation into a heavy-handed, bludgeoning or nasty one? |
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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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The person to blame for all this is the anodyne British pop star Gary Barlow. |
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And are Iranian overtures to France, especially to French business, anodyne or a way to undermine Western resolve? |
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Penelope is closer in sensibility to an anodyne sitcom than a precocious bildungsroman. |
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We take into account the emotional aspect which is not anodyne in the recurrence of these disorders. |
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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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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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The root, which is rather toxic, has anodyne and soporific properties. |
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I included an anodyne letter, but I shied away from saying what I should have said. |
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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 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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Then, in her 20s, she set about acquiring the tragic worldliness that the timbre of her voice conveyed. Compared with the anodyne, identikit bands churned out by talent shows, Ms Winehouse was an unusual pop idol. |
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The citrate is the most efficient as an alkali, but irritates some stomachs, the liquor the most anodyne, the acetate the most diuretic. |
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States typically like to stick to anodyne messages, like saving wildflowers or animals. But every so often a controversy crops up. |
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Far from being anodyne, the issue of accountability is increasingly important for platforms. The accountability systems they implement vary depending on the strategy they adopt. |
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When the collector feels that he can join his owns, he will return account to the druid or to the shaman of all that he felt, saw, heard and tested, even what was anodyne for him. |
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In other words, trivial, anodyne, fragmentary proposals which, at best, are ingenuous, in that they are a long way from dealing with a problem which claims the health and lives of millions of minors. |
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The air was heavy with the perfume of the flowers, and their beauty seemed to bring him an anodyne for his pain. |
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As a benumber or topical anodyne it is much inferior to aconite, hence in neuralgia the latter is greatly to be preferred. |
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That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs. |
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South of the Sticks, the western slopes continue round and anodyne while the eastern flanks become craggier with every passing mile. |
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This is the anodyne language of establishment think tanks like the Council on Foreign Relations — the kind of places that foreign-policy hawks have always held in a certain degree of contempt. |
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The leaves of the plant have anti-inflammatory, discutient, anodyne and antiparasitic action. |
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This is why these playlets have an anodyne look about them. |
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A possibly apocryphal story relates how he called a show of hands on some anodyne motion at a meeting of senior officials, on his first day as anti-corruption chief there. |
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The great shame for rural and regional people is that a once head-kicking party representing country interests has become an anodyne shadow of its former self. |
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Although we supported it, and although it was a step in the right direction, I rather feel that the April resolution that has already been mentioned was rather anodyne given the obvious seriousness of the situation. |
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Objections are by no means anodyne, of course: they alone enable the other contracting parties to give their point of view as to the validity or appropriateness of a reservation. |
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Noah takes things a little too far here, with rather anodyne results. |
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Examples given include drug or alcohol dependency and mental health issues10, but can also be more anodyne, such as emotional and financial disadvantages. |
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Ms Wallstrom wrote a rather anodyne speech exhorting the member states to live up to their commitments on human rights, particularly women's rights. |
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In sum, Long Way Gone is an oddly anodyne account of horrific events, except for the wistfulness and regret at the loss of Beah's happy boyhood in Mogbwemo. |
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Some toxic pollutants, such as heavy metals, cannot be converted into anodyne substances, whereas other inputs can more or less rapidly be degraded or recycled into harmless components. |
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To the unacquainted viewer, this appeared at first as a most anodyne appeal: once again, Member States of an intergovernmental organization reaffirmed their adherence to one of its own normative texts. |
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So, with a sigh, because novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand. |
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Instead, in a more Brechtian key, we are left stranded in catastasis, and Bernard Shaw and Totalitarianism forgoes anodyne closure in favor of sustained dissonance. |
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Often the results can be anodyne pastiche or the schlock of the new. |
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