The Independent on Sunday found it to be "as sterile as a second-string US network sitcom with laboured badinage and plasticky cheer".
I find it corporate, sterile, claustrophobic and as acoustically arid a hall as I've ever heard.
The Times's critic was similarly dispirited; he conceded that Play was "desolately poetic" but found it as "motionless, impersonal and sterile" as the relationships it described.
One result, says Mr Schultz, is that some people find its stores "sterile, cookie-cutter, no longer reflecting the passion our partners feel about coffee".Starbucks and Pepsi rank among the 50 most valuable brands in the world according to the BrandZ Top 100, a ranking of the world's most powerful brands developed by Millward Brown, a market-research company.
It was very stripped down, it didn't privilege or respect virtuosity as the progressive rock scene did, and which I found very sterile.
On the contrary, we found no sterile eggs, poor nutritional conditions or injury in any failed embryo or nestling.
Such contaminants from manufacturing equipment are even found in sterile products produced for clinical applications, such as mouth swabs [7].
In some crops, chimeric ORFs are found in sterile lines (e.g. A-line), but absent in fertile lines (e.g. B- and R-lines).
F1 hybrids between almond and peach are usually fertile, but we found male sterile plants in their F2 and backcross one (BC1) progenies.
Interestingly, we found that sterile var transcript levels peaked during parasite invasion as well, but that not all var genes produced these non-coding transcripts [Additional file 24] [ 84].
