Sentences with phrase «odors of»

Without its ability to detect the odors of prey, the smooth dogfish could be left high and dry.

Fishman noted how customary the odors of her mother's paints and turpentine were in her home life growing up in West Oak Lane and in Havertown.

His second installation engages viewers to lift the tops of a series of garbage cans to inhale and guess the distinctive odors of the residents in an apartment complex in northwest London.

The perfume contains odors of smoke, gasoline, tear gas, burnt rubber, and decaying flesh and acts as an olfactory critique on contemporary luxury branding and political im / possibilities.

Ferrets are also quite attracted to odors of different kinds, especially those of worn shoes and socks.

Lack of early exposure to the sights, sounds or perhaps odors of a particular location, or one or more traumatic experiences associated with that location could lead to fear.

The third possibility, and the one that most often results in the worst odors of all 3 causes, is the microscopic, spore - forming, single - celled parasite called coccidia.

The python understandably interpreted the visual signals — opening cage, movement outside and the lovely odors of bunny — to mean that he was about to receive the world's largest lagomorph lunch, and acted appropriately.

When he spoke I could see scarecrows, chestnut trees, and could almost smell the odors of South Carolina.

The mingled odors of cloves, vinegar, and burning flesh spelled the butcher's.

Honestly, if I were blindfolded (insert «professional driver on a closed course» disclaimer here) and placed behind the wheel of both a Mustang GT and a Camaro SS, the only things that would serve to tell them apart would be the engine note (Ford's 5.0 has a cammy tone courtesy of its DOHC construction) and the smell of the interior (get in enough new cars and you begin to learn the distinctive odors of different manufacturers» interior bits).

Nausea, extreme food aversion, very specific food cravings, and total sensitivity to odors of all kinds.

«Statistical analyses revealed that compared to control condition both ambient odors of orange and lavender reduced anxiety and improved mood in patients waiting for dental treatment» — Ambient odors of orange and lavender reduce anxiety and improve mood in a dental office.

For example, C. elegans is capable of learning the odors of different bacteria and avoiding those that previously made it ill.

Women tended to prefer the odors of men without similar MHC genes, suggesting not only a link between the MHC group of genes and body odor, but also our preference for MHC genes that differ from our own.

And, importantly, when we presented them with seawater scented with odors of plastic debris, the schools responded in nearly the same way, clumping together and moving erratically as they would if they were searching for food.

There, the first rains before wet wintry and summer months are an important event, mingling the sweet odors of damp gum leaf oils, eucalyptus, animal waste and dust.

The results revealed that monkeys of both sexes inspected the smell of females from other groups longer than the smell of females of the same group, probably because they were more familiar with the odors of individuals belonging to their own social group.

The experiment was designed to explore whether the monkeys can discriminate between body odors of female group members and those of females from different social groups.

Women preferred the odors of more symmetrical men when in the fertile portions of their cycles.

We all hate the odors of mosquito repellents so imagine how much they are annoying to a highly sensitive being called baby.

Even it can control odors of 30 diapers perfectly.

EATING: Skiers walking the vaulted Gothic arcades of Innsbruck's 600 - year - old inner city are struck by the steaming, spicy odors of sauerkraut and smoked pork emanating from the windows of the Stuben that line the streets.

In Forme of Cury, hot spices were considered to be, according to culinary historian L. Patrick Coyle, an «essential luxury» because of the medieval belief in their digestive qualities and their ability to mask the tastes and odors of food spoilage.

Peculiar, wondrously appetizing odors of the kitchen greet our nostrils, for we are here on the classical soil of the Hungarian «gulyas,» which the Viennese pronounce «gollasch,» and the Hungarians «gujaasch.»

We feel as though we are following the author as he walks through the city's streets, smelling the odors of the marketplace, and catching sight of Kierkegaard as he strolls through the town's crowds to take his daily «people bath.»

Research suggests that the odor of your nervous sweat may subconsciously influence people's judgments of your personality.

Nevertheless, he decried, and actually seemed surprised by the fact that the jargon, presumptions, odor of sanctity, and especially the legal tools left over from the civil rights movement's glory years, now three generations past, are being used to sanction homosexual unions and in general make of non-heterosexuals yet another legally privileged group.

And if the world sees in Israel a legit case for criticism that bears a nasty odor of something else, I have to open your eyes.

JEM, your post has a strong odor of Pascal's Wager to it.

Still another consequence is exposed by people of the world's poorer countries, to whom talk about sustainability and reduced life styles has the familiar odor of injustice to it.

Sensing an opportunity to be heard by unprejudiced ears, and, writes Las Casas, «knowing the odor of holiness that they produced, he let himself into the straw hut which had been given to the religious for their quarters and made an account of his life.»

Mornings in Bodley, drowsing among the worn browns and tarnished gilding of Duke Humphrey, snuffing the faint, musty odor of slowly perishing leather...; long afternoons, taking an outrigger up the Cher, feeling the rough kiss of the sculls on unaccustomed palms, listening to the rhythmical and satisfying kerklunk of the rowlocks, watching the play of muscles on the Bursar's sturdy shoulders at stroke, as the sharp spring wind flattened the thin silk shirt against them; or, if the day were warmer, flicking swiftly in a canoe under Magdalen walls and so by the twisting race at King's Mill by Mesopotamia to Parson's Pleasure; then back, with mind relaxed and body stretched and vigorous, to make toast by the fire.

An old culture, like an old bear, can suddenly whiff the dank odor of its own mortality; and then it is tempted, and tempted deeply, to sacrifice its ideals for the preservation of its life — and thus to hasten the very demise in history that it fears so much.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

They may have a sweet smell, but it is like that of decaying leaves, for, with friendship, the odor of autumn comes.

The odor of exhaust fumes was overpowering.

There is an odor of decay surrounding the British body politic and a sense that the memory of a living European culture is in an advanced stage of....

It appears to him as a recovery from illness, as the odor of myrrh or of lotus flowers, as a release like that of a man who has returned from war, or from long years spent in captivity.

In the first of four poems which the Misanthrope addresses to his own soul, his name is unjustly abhorred by men, more than the odor of birds, or the stench of fish or crocodiles.

The rancid odor of the brokered outcome lingered in my nostrils for a very long time.

The prairie in December is brutal and indifferent, but that sated Christmas I was sixteen — with presents back home spilling off the sofa, the annual racecar - track looped in a figure - 8 beneath the tree, too many new books and boxes of candy, the mothball odor of the Christmas linen and the cloying scent of the juniper branches — I perceived, in some confused adolescent's way, the spirit's harrowing side.

Hoping that Zosima's corpse would be wondrously preserved, giving off the sweet odor of sanctity, Alyosha is horrified when it putrefies prematurely.

It was so sweet and the odor of it so strong that it penetrated the whole house with a pleasant and soothing scent.

A broken - down church filled with the musty odor of dry rot, made inconvenient by a leaking roof, and defaced by torn, moldy or faded altar hangings can not bear adequate witness to the God of the resurrection.

Otherwise, any suspicious smell, such as burnt toast or the odor of the refrigerator, could leave me running for the bathroom.

Regarding the theory that spices mask the odor of spoiled food, they noted that it «ignores the health dangers of ingesting spoiled food.»

The odor of this barbecue is most appetizing, and the taste not a whit inferior.

It was originally too thin, then I added a slight bit more corstarch and water and turned the stove down as said: however, it immeadiatly turned into one giant, unpleasant, sticky gloop with the odor of the vinegar.

The garlic and parmesan combo also eliminates the sulfurous odor of the sprouts.