Like TV commercials, e-ads are harmless, if mind-numbing.
While they may present themselves as a friend, or even a romantic interest, their sole purpose in friending you may be as harmless as a mind game, or they may be after much more, such as your money, goods and property.
For years the authorities have blindly reassured New Yorkers that the smell is harmless — which brings to mind the empty reassurances of Madoff's feeder funds.
What this feeble, harmless romantic comedy calls to mind is an extra-long episode from one of the show's interminable final seasons, in which the cast seemed to change every week and nobody could remember if Donna was still a virgin or not, because nobody -- not the audience, not the writers, not even the long-suffering David -- cared.
If you're still disconsolate over the demise of "Beverly Hills 90210," what this "feeble, harmless romantic comedy calls to mind is an extra-long episode from one of the show's interminable final seasons, in which the cast seemed to change every week and nobody could remember if Donna was still a virgin or not" (A. O. Scott).
Never mind if that harmless wrong makes everyone miserable; never mind if coercing those who perpetuate it would take away the misery: the State must not coerce and the misery must remain.
(Scare quotes are necessary because it is more appropriate to reserve 'object' for a proposition as we have done above, but as long as we keep this in mind, it is harmless to use it in this way for LOT sentences).
Among the various uses that entities ranging from the NSA to the Pentagon to the State Department could make of such of McConnell's proposals as are actually adapted, the marginalization and rendering harmless of Wikileaks comes to mind.
Have an item in your hot bar like lapis or something completely harmless, not string or redstone, mind you.
Suffering in Queens In the Name of Art A harmless hunk of old-school mind-set?
And if you're not convinced there is a powerful cabal intent on poisoning our minds against this harmless habit (if eaten as part of a balanced diet, natch), just consider what they would have us call it: junk food indeed.
