From the start, racism was the carbon monoxide of the show: a poison that couldn't always be detected over the pungent scent of cigarettes, sexism, anti-Semitism, alcoholism, homophobia and adultery, but that sooner or later was bound to turn noxious.
American and European shock turned into noxious fumes of hatred and paranoia.
In the summer of 2011, western Lake Erie turned a noxious green, as a massive algae bloom coated the surface and lapped up in mats along the shore.
About seven years ago, I praised her for several things, including turning the noxious generalization of "world music" into an idea that represents life as it is lived, and affords huge aesthetic possibilities.
Our preliminary experiments conducted with an intraperitoneal injection of rotenone, emulsified in oil, turned out to exert noxious effects; the rats presented liver necrosis and large weight loss (unpublished data).
The last major episode to grab the headlines came a year ago when many areas of Britain were blanketed in a noxious brew that turned the skies grey-brown for several days.
The puzzling traces that Zhang, as a wide-awake historian, tried to decipher turned on one central question: What noxious combination of internal rot and external threat had led to the fall of the Ming dynasty after more than two centuries of relative stability?
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Noxious fumes, spills and development have turned much of the area into a wasteland, causing severe deforestation as well as desperate poverty.
The present study [ 1] is the first to compare psychometric properties of these two pain scales in addition to the NVPS, at rest and during noxious (for example, turning and endotracheal suctioning) and non-noxious (for example, simple repositioning) procedures.
