Sentence examples for inner rot from inspiring English sources
By showing the department of homeland security's squeaky clean exterior, without any indication of its inner rot, ABC is creating an illusion of security for its viewers.
Scratch a New England colonist, he thought, and you find Old England — the way a tree's bark may hide the inner rot.
Many of the exquisitely constructed, often amazingly grandiose gags evoke the realm of fantasy, which seems like a sort of X-ray of the inner rot of the cosseted class.
In shining a harsh light on the inner rot of selfish characters who first appeared in short stories by O'Hara for The New Yorker, this revival has succeeded only in turning them into zombies.
"Hunger Games" isn't the only pop-cultural artifact that primes us to view fashion as an expression of some inner rot, as vanity, a grasp at wealth, the shallow aspirations of a classist society.
They dunk the new glovein hot water for one second literally in and out, so that the water only dampens the outer surface and doesn't soak the inner linings, which will rot.
Or, as happens in some cases, the inner portions of the trees might rot away, leaving only the hard outside portion.
The physical world of Louisiana, its bursting ripeness and rot, becomes a metaphor for the characters' inner lives, and this is undoubtedly where the novel's strength lies.
It causes a brown heart rot, where carbohydrates are removed from the inner heartwood, leaving brownish, oxidized lignin.
Trim away any rotting, diseased or old growth from the inner part of the plant.
Each apple was cut in the field into four pieces (when its shape and rotting stage allowed it), namely top, bottom, lateral and inner sides, and each part was separately analyzed in the laboratory [see Additional File 1].
