Sentence examples for comparatively harmless from inspiring English sources
Red phosphorus, comparatively harmless, is used in matches.
Amid violence and drug problems, smoking may seem a comparatively harmless vice.
The possible interactions between these chemicals, often comparatively harmless in themselves, are deeply disturbing to officials of the United States Public Health Service.
To the English inmate, Jeeves was comparatively harmless – before being moved to this cell, Attwood would have to walk past another every day in which resided a prisoner called Booga.
And it would make sense for the Berliners to rock'n'roll with it, because sex and drugs take us right back to the comparatively harmless decadence of the Weimar Republic, rather than letting us dwell on the more unsavoury decades between 1933 and 1989.
Interestingly, though we're not told this, Alessandria is also Eco's own birthplace, which might suggest a certain affinity with his hero, whose two main characteristics, repeatedly stressed, are a magical ability to pick up foreign languages and a compulsive urge to tell lies (most of them, be it noted, comparatively harmless fantasies).
