No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument all roads eventually lead to.
Prayer is the acid test of devotion.
Tea seems to tenderize cheap cuts of beef. After cooking chuck, boiling beef and brisket (I even mixed rib eye, which is ever so cheap, and it's great) I have decided that the tannic acid in the tea is what tenderizes beef!
No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our pretheoretical intuitions about these things into reflective equilibrium by way of armchair theorising.
With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.
Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.
Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.
Throwing acid is wrong. . . in some people's eyes.
I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.
The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.
There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.
There's a conspiracy to protect the young, so they'll be fearless, it's why you travel - it's a way of trying to let go, of lying. You don't sit in a stiff chair and worry, you keep moving. Postcards from the Alamo, the Alhambra. . . . You, fainting at the Buddhist caves. Climbing with thousands on the Great Wall, . . . Having the time of your life, blistered and smiling. The acid of your fear could eat the world.
But all the vitamins, amino acids, protein etc. needed to get stronger can be found in abundance in plant foods. Anything that is a fruit, nut, grain or seed is vegan and there are thousands of those.
If you are exercising to that point it is not doing you any good in terms of fitness, as it is all lactic acid and you can get injured but I think coaches were seeing how far you'd go for the team.
Just sprinkle a little lime to neutralize the acid.
The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction.
It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
If acids win - you lose!