In tidying up or polishing the former the roughness and irregularity of the latter is discarded like so much adventitious dross. |
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There was an awful lot of commercial dross and promotional foofaraw for LeBron to leave back there on the ground. |
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Two moments of unintentional humor I noticed through the usual dross of banal conversation. |
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For kids who grew up in the '90s, metal music means whiny frat boys half-rapping over oafish power chord dross. |
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The trick is to find them among the dross of ill-informed advice from psychobabbling hucksters who don't seem to live in the real world. |
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Blast furnaces are used to recycle slag, dross, and residues from other processes. |
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This movie is not completely without value, but there's a lot of sub-par dross to be sifted through to get to the worthwhile material. |
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But it is this producer who takes the programme beyond the usual reality television dross. |
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The packing continues, as I once again go through the process of winnowing out the dross that I have collected over the past dozen or so years. |
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In a time of crisis, real information, supplied in clear and concise terms is gold and the rest is just dross. |
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Google's success stems from its uncanny ability to sort useful web pages from dross. |
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So pity the poor book reviewer, her desk piled high with vanity press or self-published dross. |
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Secondary smelting is a related process used to recover nonferrous metals and alloys from new and used scrap and dross. |
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Aluminium dross tailings were used to produce two types of alums. |
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Parts coming off the machine typically do not have dross or slag left over from the cutting process, which means less time in the electropolishing postprocess. |
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The other is the idea that most people would rather watch cheap and cheerful dross rather than really good comedy and drama, wherever it is produced. |
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I went through the drawers of my dresser today, tossing out all the accumulated dross of over seven years, and then repeated the process on the study cabinets. |
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Her adventures as junior PI, the well-written dialogue and storylines apparently mark the series out from the usual teenage dross that populates our screens. |
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It's been downright merciless, transforming a highly regarded play about four desperate lives in 1950s New York into painfully embarrassing dross. |
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Johannesburg's two rivers are also considered unsafe, primarily because of untreated human waste and chemicals leaching from piles of mining dross. |
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My husband was, as always, in charge of drinks and music and once the small sherries had been decanted he selected some light inoffensive background dross. |
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He crossly turned down Germany's leading television prize, in protest at the dross on the airwaves. |
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It was a movie far ahead of its time and very different mind-fodder from most of the unmemorable gloss and dross that came out of Hollywood that year. |
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I know this may sound like a difficult challenge but if you apply yourself to the task you can get a modicum of enjoyment from the dross in your mailbox. |
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In just one morning all the dirt and dross had been unearthed, confessed, repented and forgiven. |
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Having recently renewed my subscription to Crikey, I was thinking as I read through today's dross that it is finally time to quit and ask for a refund. |
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Essentially we are spirit and soul, but our material bodies are dross. |
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In a female music world that seems dominated by cardboard girl bands and unlistenable dross from solo Spice Girls, Gabrielle is someone to be treasured. |
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Over the years, under ideal conditions, the kundalini fire of consciousness ascends to the higher chakras, burning the dross of ignorance and past karmas. |
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A sprue that's not kept full will increase slag, dross and air ingestion and produce inconsistent mold filling times. |
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The early metallurgy of gold probably involved little more than separating the metal by gravity from the dross of the placers and the quartz and other gangue of veins. |
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Rolling replaced hammering for consolidating wrought iron and expelling some of the dross. |
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We will transmit our handiwork to future Canadians, in the confident faith that time will merely wear away the dross of it, and that what is worthy in what we and our children build will be preserved. |
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Articles V and VI regulated the export and transport of opium and dross. |
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We want to ensure that it is rid of all the pointlessly contentious dross to do with the current situation and free of any additions which do not contribute to the formulation of the text. |
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It was a great shame in fact that the Belgian police overreacted in such a way by clearing bars of decent ordinary football-loving supporters, taking them with the dross that are the football hooligans. |
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They are in direct opposition to the classical image of the human body, ready, finished, fully mature, in a way purged of the mediocrities and dross of birth and development. |
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I prefer to say of it that, broadly speaking, it can still be improved, given the extent to which, and despite the unquestionable advances it entails, the dross from the previous documents still clings to it. |
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My God, what self-pitying, gratuitous dross. |
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Forsterite, also known as magnesium silicate, is the most common type of dross found in ductile iron. |
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Even with Tesla's searingly good Model S and BMW's wonderful i3 and i8, the EV haters still trot out their uninformed dross. |
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What might appear to be talentless dross to one, can be viewed as gifted genius to another. |
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Even in its moderate form, this argument presupposes that factual elements can be plucked out of panegyric as nuggets of truth isolated from the dross of empty verbiage. |
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Wrought iron was soft and contained flaws caused by included dross. |
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Chill depth in the castings poured with inoculant inserts was greatly reduced, and some of them had the optimum combination of zero chill and low dross. |
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She is a metamorphosist who can change gold to dross, joy to horror. |
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Wedron Flux developed Metal Pure AL 3, a homogenized flaked flux that allows total interaction with molten aluminum and produces a very dry dross with a low metallic content. |
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His editor has a talent for turning literary dross into gold. |
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