Sentence examples for antiseptic from inspiring English sources

Some of the West End's most upmarket hotels are so antiseptic and uptight you'd hardly know you were in Jamaica, but the Rockhouse has managed to combine modern boutique comforts – a world-class spa, crisp bed linen, fabulous food – with the laid-back hedonism of the old Negril.

I do not doubt that the topless towers of Docklands are beautiful in their antiseptic way.

My garden meadow is gradually becoming an echo of the upland hay fields with the purple-blue of wood cranesbill, the antiseptic smell of yarrow and sneezewort and the spring yellow of buttercup.

"Formality is an antiseptic," says Mr Rodrigues.

Compared with the antiseptic legal memos, writes Jane Mayer, the author of a book called "The Dark Side", the Helgerson report is a "Technicolor horror show", including accounts of people who died in custody.

McVeigh's death was clean, antiseptic and calm.But the biggest difference was the reaction.

That has been overcome by adding emulsifying agents such as cetrimonium bromide (originally developed as an antiseptic) to the mix.The second problem is which particles to use.

As for drone critics, they saw a bid to make the killing of far-off foreigners feel antiseptic and respectable.

The Bavarian government instead opted for a solution that some have criticised as an attempt to bulldoze history: it tore down the Hotel Platterhof, once used for Hitler's guests, allowed a new hotel to go up at a safe remove and by 1999 had built a somewhat antiseptic documentation centre next to it.Whatever the motive, the result is not bad.

At Parkway's newest hospital in Singapore, the muted wall colours evoke a hotel; a special scent is piped in to mask antiseptic odours.

When grouped with nuclear weapons in the antiseptic abbreviation WMD weapons of mass destruction it is easy to forget just how devastatingly nasty biological weapons can be.