Sentences with phrase «so inert»

It's odd, really — the wood grain, so inert on its own, is suddenly transformed into a violent gesture, as though even the most unassuming of natural phenomena would look feral next to the mechanical absolutes of Op Art abstraction.

The Woman in the Fifth could have worked better if everything didn't feel so inert.

The decline of the Die Hard series continues unchecked with this empty cacophonous clanger that is so inert story-wise that no amount of explosions can blow the cobwebs away.

Neutrinos are so inert, they mostly pass right through Earth, but Davis managed to capture and count a few in an enormous underground detector.

Nor is RNA quite so inert or structurally constrained as its cousin; its conformational versatility and catalytic abilities have been implicated at the very core of protein synthesis and possibly of RNA splicing.

The trouble is that Teflon is so inert that few methods are available to modify it.

If everything lives, how can this or that dead body appear to be so inert, so lifeless?

Not exact matches

The problem is that components can degrade, making the weapons either unstable, so they can blow up in a soldier's hand, or inert, so that soldiers can't fire the weapons, leaving them vulnerable in battle.

If the human mind is the sole reality, and the so - called physical world unreal, an inert, lifeless machine, it is easy to see how the barking and writhing would not be seen as manifestations and responses to pain.

It is by avoiding the rapid decay into an inert system of equilibrium that a thunderstorm appears so extraordinary.

The temptation to determinism in our thinking arises from the fact that the bulk of nature, the mineral level studied by geology, physics or inorganic chemistry is constituted by aggregates of occasions so conforming to their past that any present state in this inert realm seems to be the purely passive recipient of a series of events leading up to it.

Leibniz had also argued against most seventeenth - century thinkers, that whatever is purely inert, and without any capacity to act, is nothing, so that the source of the action of all things is intrinsic to them.

It does not leave us inert, as critique so often does.

Nonsynthetic materials may also be used as inerts so long as they are not specifically prohibited.

Inerts perform a variety of functions, such as to modify pesticides so that they can be sprayed through equipment, improve adhesion to plant surfaces, and act as carriers so that materials can be usefully applied.

Also, the can is an inert environment, so wines must be made ready to drink, but this doesn't mean it can't hold quality wines.

Radiopaque and radiocontrast agents typically used in ductogram, CT / CAT, MRI, MIBI scan, or PET scan diagnostic tests are extremely inert and virtually unabsorbed when taken orally, so they do not pass into the milk and it is not necessary to interrupt breastfeeding when they are used.

The Little Spruce Organics website states that polyurethane laminate is an inert material, so in order for it to release harmful chemicals it would need to be heated to extremely high temperatures, so most cloth diaper covers are considered «safe.»

The Sigg bottles are expensive, but are virtually indestructible, and are of aluminum with an inert lining so nothing leeches into the liquids in the bottle.

Conventional wisdom at the time was that moons are small, inert bodies, so the discovery of lava lakes and sulfur jets on Io came as a shock.

So the 1920 prize was given to the Swiss Charles - Edouard Guillaume for his ho - hum discovery of an inert nickel - steel alloy.

«The status quo is so enormously inert they essentially hate to touch it,» he says.

The gas is inert, so does not damage the insulation; being cold, it does not cause the damage identification by heat would cause.

The borosilicate glass that forms most chemical vessels is inert and hugely durable, so you can heat, cool and react the brews within knowing the glass won't explode, deform or interfere with the reaction.

We currently have little idea how even simple life could have evolved from inert chemicals, so we must not get...

The prevalences and isotope ratios of the noble, or inert, gases, such as neon, argon, krypton and xenon, provide a valuable tracer of ancient processes, because they are chemically nonreactive and so do not change much over time.

Such materials are biologically inert, so they should not be rejected by the immune system.

«And it's clearly telling us something important about why putting one thin layer of iron selenide on this substrate, which everyone thought was inert and boring, changes things so dramatically.

So just as some observers have feared, warming temperatures could release formerly inert carbon from the soil.

Certain particle compounds may directly generate ROS in vivo because of their surface chemistry (eg, metals, organic compounds, and semiquinones) or after bioactivation by cytochrome P450 systems (eg, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon conversion to quinones).6, 290 a, 290 b A particle surface or anions present on otherwise more inert particles may disrupt iron homeostasis in the lung and thereby also generate ROS via Fenton reactions.291 Other PM constituents may do so indirectly by the upregulation of endogenous cellular sources (eg, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate [NADPH]-RRB- oxidase) 292,293 or by perturbing organelle function (eg, mitochondria) by taken - up PM components.261 Particle stimulation of irritant and afferent ANS fibers may also play a role in local and systemic oxidative stress formation.294 Given the rich antioxidant defenses in the lung fluid, secondarily generated oxidization products of endogenous molecules (eg, oxidized phospholipids, proteins) or a reduction in endogenous antioxidants per se may be responsible at least in part for the state of oxidative stress in the lungs (along with instigating the subsequent cellular responses) rather than ROS derived directly from PM and its constituents.

Glass is inert so there is no migration of components of plastics to the contents.

But Spectre is so confused and inert that Craig can't even sell the signature «Bond.

As for Clooney, he has been stripped of the self - deprecating character tics that made even his dramatic roles in «Michael Clayton» and «Up in the Air» such joys to behold; here he plays someone so closed - off he's virtually inert.

Seemingly high - brow because it's so low - key, but underneath that veneer is an inert, thinly plotted melodrama premised on trite characterizations that would be offensive if they weren't so absurd.

But everything in this movie is tame: the affair is about as passionless as it can get, even for the English; the guy is pretty boring — more traveling salesman than transgressive cad; and the film itself is written and shot so tastefully as to be pretty much inert.

But the rest of the film was hopelessly inert, the humans so staggeringly dull that I'd have been content to see them destroyed underneath a public park - sized slimy claw.

The actor looks so good behind the wheel with a sneer on his lips that you almost don't care that Dirty Mary is an inert series of conversations in and around cars.

But there's only so much life anyone could breathe into this inert caper.

If nothing else, director Bill Condon and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg deserve credit for rendering the story's passive conclusion so epically, but they're ultimately beholden to the inert source text and its exacting fan base.

Idle hands the work of the devil, though I'd only go so far as to say that Honeydripper is inert.

Studies have shown that ethics professors are no more ethical than the average population, so knowledge alone is not enough — it remains inert.

The balance of grip, power and braking ability is well matched, but it's pretty inert, so while there's no question the RCZ is effective, progressive, poised and exploitable, it's also fair to say exuberance is in short supply.

The upgraded steering system feels so much more natural and engaging, loading up progressively as you build speed, versus the comparatively inert and distant standard rack.

Jeep has made big boasts about this car moving away from agricultural handling to more car - like road manners, but it has focused so heavily on a smooth ride that can handle the worst British tarmac that the drive is rather inert and disappointing.

And it is inert in the body, so it can be used as a dust on some desserts.

Driving the car felt like steering a brick taped to the back of a duck (note: I played this on the PC, and it may be much better on a console controller), and in the early game you're so desperate for scrap that you must destroy cars you fight to get it — which often revolved around ramming inert cars for 60 seconds to get them to finally blow up.

So voracious is the presence of the twelve works in this focused retrospective of Al Loving's work, set as they are against the inert framing of the white cube, that they might be better described by the activities that resulted in their making: stack, weave, layer, tear, cut, drip.

These remnants of landscape have been collected from friends and colleagues living in protest sites such as Egypt, Yemen, the Philippines, Indonesia, Crimea, Benghazi and Ferguson, Mo., so Kaino is elevating these otherwise inert objects into instruments for revolution.

One Cl atom can destroy numerous O3 molecules in a catalytic cycle but under normal conditions the CL will eventually react with other molecules present and form an inert compound, a so - called chlorine resovior.

We will start with a theoretical radiatively inert atmosphere which will still have undulations at the tropopause due to uneven surface heating below but they will be minimal and so for all intents and purposes the rising and falling columns will both follow the dry adiabatic lapse rate as they move up and down: