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That leaves a few slightly more anodyne but serviceable (sorry) entries.
Because this is the problem: In the face of our postwar, retail, mobile, corporate culture, democracy is not only a seemingly ineffectual anodyne to social blight, it becomes a part of the problem.
All this is so anodyne as to be completely unobjectionable.
But after about an hour of anodyne sentiments, Rahm Emanuel, a Clinton political adviser more pugnacious than the others, couldn't take it any more.
Where the old Newt was a compelling meanie, the new one offers anodyne platitudes and empty uplift.
In theory, John Hope Franklin is the perfect chair for an anodyne exercise in racial reconciliation.
The speech writers are busily at work spinning out their anodyne alliterations, their balanced bromides, their cautious clarion calls.
They came thick and fast, starting Saturday in the Times of London, which disclosed that Melita Norwood (code name "Hola") had passed atomic secrets to the Soviet Union for 40 years while she worked as a secretary for the Tube Alloys project, a deliberately anodyne term for Britain's nuclear weapons program.
In so doing, he shows us that a great deal of sadism, animality, and outright lust can lurk behind people's anodyne professions that they just want to "uphold the law" or "maintain a level of decency.
Oddly enough, a century ago we did much the same thing with a rude Dutch term, pappekak , which we anglicized into the anodyne poppycock .
Honored in their day, not unremembered by a few solitary students of the past, their memories are going sweetly to sleep in the arms of the patient old dry-nurse, whose "blackdrop" is the never-failing anodyne of the restless generations of men.
The circumstances and conditions of the system increase or diminish the effects of medicine, so that an aperient at one time may act as a cathartic at another, and a dose that will simply prove to be an anodyne when the patient is suffering great pain will act as a narcotic when he is not.
An anodyne may be a stimulant in one dose, and a narcotic in a larger one.
The properties of different anodyne agents vary, consequently they produce unlike effects.
An adult, suffering acute pain, requires a much larger dose to produce an anodyne effect than one who is a chronic sufferer.
Relief is more quickly experienced, and the anodyne effect is much more lasting than when taken into the stomach.
Therefore, it may be employed as an anodyne for allaying pain, calming the mind, inducing sleep and arresting spasms, when opiates are inadmissible.
This anodyne compound is made by uniting several of the most valuable agents of this class, and its medicinal qualities are rendered still more efficacious by the addition of certain stimulating articles.
The benefits arising from their use depend upon their derivative power, as well as upon the anodyne properties which many of them possess, rendering them efficacious for soothing pain.
In medicinal doses, it is anodyne and antispasmodic, it allays pain, induces sleep, and arrests spasms.
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