When Rosamond was quiet, and Lydgate had left her, hoping that she might soon sleep under the effect of an anodyne, he went into the drawing-room to fetch a book which he had left there, meaning to spend the evening in his work-room, and he saw on the table Dorothea's letter addressed to him.
"Mercy on us, Anne, you've flavored that cake with Anodyne Liniment.
One liberal, male, feminist professor told me of a fairly anodyne analysis that he didn't dare publish for fear of being hounded as sexist.
Laudable though such sentiments are, they are dangerously anodyne.
As they are asked the usual anodyne questions ("Do you still have chemistry?
Now time for a spoilsport alert: As someone with a limited affection for Cirque du Soleil-style entertainments, which "Monkey" generally resembles, I found the show to be visually beguiling but anodyne, juvenile and a little tedious, even at the comparatively brief running time (by the festival's standards) of under two hours.
