The equation also suggests a fragility of nature — how a small, seemingly harmless action can ripple through the ecosystem and lead to unforeseen disruptions.
Harmless, everyday actions performed by millions of users, such as taking fun surveys, had suddenly become tools for unscrupulous data miners.
The exclamatory cartoon balloons that pop up during a scene of gruesome vigilante justice late in James Gunn's "Super" are supposed to remind us that at heart the movie is a harmless live-action satire of comic-book revenge fantasies.
Use Satin Skin Powder with the assurance that it is positively innocent and harmless in action.
A second principle, "shamelessness," signified the necessary disregard for those conventions holding that actions harmless in themselves may not be performed in every situation.
"Without Prejudice" is a sensitive and moving drama illustrating how prejudice can arise in the workplace through a succession of seemingly harmless remarks and actions - and end up in a tribunal.
Biocidal products are preparations containing one or more active substances, with the intention of "destroying, deterring, rendering harmless, preventing the action of, or otherwise exerting a controlling effect on, any organism by any means other than mere physical or mechanical" (Biocidal Products Regulation, (EU) No 528/2012, BPR)[1].
Although Sprewell cursed, his actions seemed harmless compared with what he did in the fourth.
Other examples combine Nixon's unethical actions with harmless, playful acts: Build a Play-Doh model of Cambodia.
JW: I think Gladys made the mistake of thinking her actions were harmless, that it would peter out after a few weeks or months and she would be able to tell Cassie about it and they'd laugh and go out for margaritas or something.
