"kryptonite" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used as a metaphor for something that is a fatal or serious weakness to a person, situation, or thing. For example, "The financial burden of the project was the kryptonite that ultimately caused it to fail."
One can't help noticing that when Mr Obama mocks himself, he mocks himself for being super-human.Conservative satirists would love to toss some kryptonite at him, but he is a slippery target.
WITH Europe's leaders still dithering and the US "super" committee seemingly disabled by kryptonite, there seems to be a shortage of political vision around the world.
"Gun violence has become our kryptonite," she says.
(Technically, Alexa, a for-profit firm founded by Kahle and sold in 1999 to Amazon, collects the data, but is under permanent contract to ship it after a six-month lag to the nonprofit archive).However, the archive's kryptonite is a simple file: robots.txt.txt
And the immigration issue, if not handled correctly, is his kryptonite".
This is more like David vs Superman than David vs Goliath, alone I have no chance, but you the people are the kryptonite".
Which just goes to show how much the consensus knows kryptonite when it comes to football.
They tell me that, in a culture where a woman's worth is measured by how closely she resembles our notions of beauty and in which age is seen as the kryptonite of attractiveness, they feel utterly invisible.
Bitterness is its kryptonite: the hops present in all beers – but especially IPAs – mean that, if cooked for too long or in the wrong style of dish, they can produce inedible results.
If Coldplay are a music critic's kryptonite, then Tom Waits is critical catnip, applauded as the true one-off he undoubtedly is even when his music sounds like sandpaper being scratched over dropping dustbin lids.
The kryptonite came disguised in a low scuttler from Tahir that sneaked beneath his chopping blade.
