Tom Parker Bowles

The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet.

British Critic

Seth Shostak

The usual metric for whether a planet is habitable or not is to ascertain whether liquid water could exist on its surface. Most worlds will either be too cold, too hot or of a type (like Jupiter) that may have no solid surface and be swaddled in noxious gases.

American Scientist

Ernestine Rose

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

American Activist

John Muir

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

American Environmentalist

David Trimble

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Irish Politician

Edmund Burke

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Irish Statesman

Rick Smolan

Data exhaust' is probably my least favorite phrase in the big data world 'cause it sounds like something you're trying to get rid of or something noxious that comes out of the back of your car.

American Photographer

Pranab Mukherjee

India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.

Indian Statesman

Michelle Dean

Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and mascara.

American Journalist

Sylvia Earle

If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.

Often used to describe substances or pollution harmful to natural environments or organisms.

Environmental Context

Referring to something that can cause physical injury or is severely detrimental to health.

Physical Harm

Suggests a strong, immediate, and negative impact, more than just mildly harmful.

Intensity of Effect

Describes behavior or attitudes that are extremely disagreeable or offensive in social contexts.

Social Unpleasantness

Indicates a behavior that strongly repels others, being more than just typically rude or unpleasant.

Intensity in Behavior

Usually implies something that is offensive or unbearable to the senses, such as taste or smell.

Sensory Repulsion

 when they know they're about to receive a noxious stimulus. That means they have some memory of physical sensations. We still have a lot to learn about animal pain. As our knowledge grows, it may one day allow us to live in a world where we don't cause pain needlessly.

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 and noxious gases as much as all the cars in the world. And the good news is that people are now talking about sustainable shipping. There are interesting initiatives going on. But why has it taken so long? When are we going to start talking and thinking

Rose George: Inside the...

 this enabled me to actually watch them moving from being completely awake to being completely unaware of all those noxious and terrifying stimuli that come in from the external world now watching brains dissolve and reassemble

Asking where consciousnes...

 but it's not. All politics is identity politics, a never-ending struggle to define who truly belongs. Instead of noxious myths of blood and soil that mark some as forever outsiders,

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 it's entire body is covered in a thick and noxious slime it's so gluttonous but once their jaws are in they can't get them out other ants seem to give a helping hand

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 its entire body is covered in a thick and noxious slime it's so glutinous that once their jaws are in they can't get them out other ants seem to give a helping hand

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 over the years hundreds of millions of tons of ocean wildlife have been extracted and hundreds of millions of tons of noxious waste have been put into the

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 and noxious slime it's so glutinous that once their jaws are in they can't get them out other ants seem to give a helping hand

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 is that compassion enhances our immune system. Hey, we live in a very noxious world. Most of us are shrinking

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 no matter how anybody tries reparative therapy or any other noxious things. Now, this is relatively rare,

Noxious