Some of the glasses contained white wine that Mr. Brochet had doctored to look red, by adding a tasteless, odorless additive.
In the morning, after my father went to work, she mixed together fruit peel, raisins, cherries, almonds, bread crumbs, Guinness, brandy, beaten eggs, and an odorless, flaky, off-white substance called suet.
Corruption creeps in, unnoticed, "like some odorless gas," Sarah Chayes writes in her new book, "Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security,"* and confounds policy objectives without attracting much policy attention.
I bought a jar of fish-oil capsules that the label said were "odorless," but when I opened the jar at home, something smelled fishy.
Vodka, however, is colorless, odorless, and tasteless.... Despite all the misadventures and tragedies of Russian alcoholism, the spotlight here belongs to the inexplicable, almost universal delight that Russians take in the notion of drunken disorder... Vodka culture is dividing.
These chemicals are virtually odorless and tasteless, and infinitesimal amounts can kill a human being in a matter of minutes.
As evidence of nitrogen's humaneness, he cited an accident at the Kennedy Space Center in which two NASA technicians (it was actually three) succumbed to the odorless, invisible gas after being unwittingly exposed to it.
The box trend is widely considered to have originated with BirchBox, a company that sends sample-sized cosmetics to women (in perfumed pink boxes) and to men (in odorless blue ones), in the hopes that they will take to the samples and buy full-sized versions through the company's Web site.
Curtis lives in a practically treeless, odorless, sun-blazed suburb called Henderson, with hisdevoted thirty-two-year-old wife, the former Jill Ann VandenBerg, and seven small dogs, including Josephine, a Yorkie that, like the Josephine character Curtis played in Billy Wilder's 1959 movie "Some Like It Hot," is a male.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Perhaps the fast-expanding waistline of nonfiction correlates with the explosion of e-reading — on a tablet, all books are weightless, fontless, odorless, and less indebted to a good editor — but there is also an aspect of a sprawling book that feels out of step with the times.
Anna hates the garden, for it is filled with hybrid roses, bright and odorless, which she describes as "tarts".
