Sentence examples for anything but harmless from inspiring English sources

Mr. McCulloch, the prosecutor, said the state's prisons were filled with anything but harmless people.

His thirst for revenge leads to Joe Carver, an out-of-towner who, while blameless, is anything but harmless.

It's probably why they were acquitted, as it was difficult to see them as anything but harmless.

Although blameless, Carver is anything but harmless, and after failing to negotiate a truce with his enemy, he sets out to destroy him.

So much of what is told as charming family lore — tales of foolhardy escapades and physical recklessness — in hindsight seems anything but harmless.

Nathan is alert to the danger of yielding to "the ruthlessness of a desperate infatuation guaranteed to be anything but harmless to a man bearing between his legs a spigot of wrinkled flesh where once he'd had the fully functioning sexual organ, complete with bladder sphincter control, of a robust adult male".

When something gets blown up on the ground, it generates shrapnel which, while deadly, eventually comes to rest on the ground, rendering it harmless to anything but the unwary bare foot.

Rights are diminished when they are unenforced or disregarded; they are also lost when technology exalts the interests of the state in a seemingly harmless algorithm that is anything but benign, but instead, is actively draining rights of all meaning.

In our religion, if anything is harmless, we just leave it.

But without security measures, Wi-Fi also allows a snoop to spy on every computer within a few hundred feet, or to horn in on your broadband Internet connection for anything from harmless Web surfing to sending out spam.

When it gets inside the body, it can manifest itself as anything from harmless pimples to life-threatening diseases, such as endocarditis (inflammation of the heart tissue) and septicaemia.