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"acrid" Definitions
  1. having a strong, bitter smell or taste that is unpleasant
"acrid" Antonyms
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304 Sentences With "acrid"

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The acrid stink of charred rubber hung in the air.
There is an acrid whiff of 1914 in the air.
Plumes of acrid smoke came barreling out of tree tops.
Clouds of acrid purple smoke cut through the tropical air.
But the acrid atmosphere of partisanship was impossible to avoid.
A faint, slightly acrid odor still hung in the air.
Their work has the acrid odor of truth, still smoldering.
If they chose incorrectly, they were punished with acrid quinine.
Acrid smoke The air pollution around Deonar has been particularly bad over the last few days; an acrid, choking haze that coats the back of the throat, reddens the eyes and shortens the breath.
Even neighborhoods further away probably can still smell the acrid smoke.
Multiple, deafening volleys of acrid tear gas burst above the crowd.
They are acrid with tear gas, and they unravel with desire.
"The gunsmoke was so acrid ... you really couldn't see," says Wankel.
And winds drove the flames and acrid smoke in unpredictable directions.
Traffic was snarled, and whiffs of acrid air stung the eyes.
Our egos fuel an ecosystem that can become acrid with familiarity.
The acrid smell of singed hair gives me an immediate headache.
So Bee opted to use the most acrid words she could find.
That acrid smell could be an indicator of a male yeast infection.
We barely could smell the acrid scent from the burning oils. 8.
Acrid smoke does not flood our nostrils and make our eyes water.
To drink, order a fiimto , which balances sugary sweetness with acrid hibiscus.
Schools are closed, but the acrid, eye-stinging air travels indoors, too.
Set against an acrid yellow wall, the monumental work looms over you.
It has that acrid note, right at the back of your tongue.
At times, they burned around the clock, churning out acrid, black smoke.
The air did not smell acrid; it smelled like freshly clipped grass.
The air filled with the acrid smell of blood and tart wine.
Soviet double agent inside MI6, you tasted the acrid stench of paranoia and
Just whom does it benefit to dismiss this success story with acrid "critique"?
Pam, played with acrid humor by Ms. Madigan, barely bats an unmascaraed eyelash.
Even as a fan of ranch, the acrid smell was making me queasy.
Even with her car's windows closed, the acrid smell "was awful," she said.
There was an acrid, unseen fog looming: two weeks later came Election Day.
Acrid, yellowish smoke has blanketed towns and cities, raising concern about public health.
A day earlier, one trailer blew up, sending acrid smoke into the area.
The acrid smoke and ash from the pits was a constant annoyance to soldiers.
Then the wind changed direction and a cloud of acrid smoke enveloped the group.
The Israelis have not yet fired live ammunition, but the acrid fumes are overwhelming.
The debate turned acrid over President Trump's condolence call to the widow of Sgt.
The power was out and an acrid tang of smoke hung in the air.
Wires were protruding from the bucket and witnesses described an acrid smell filling the carriages.
THROUGHOUT its steep climb away from Delhi, the plane remained enveloped in an acrid fug.
The fire has spewed thick, acrid smoke, which is visible from dozens of miles away.
Those left behind stew in the acrid juices of "cultural loss" and pine for yesteryear.
Meanwhile, the continued downward slope of unemployment has not made our politics any less acrid.
She was hunched over a basin, and the acrid scent of vomit filled the air.
The leafy tang will purge your palate of the acrid, oily residue of vehicle exhaust.
"I think my pant leg is on fire," he said after noticing the acrid smell.
Brewer still remembers the acrid odor that hung over military bases where burn pits were used.
The whole area smells acrid, like paint, and bags of caustic soda, a decontaminate, lie nearby.
Every time I picked it up, a wave of an acrid-sweet vomit scent wafted upwards.
I really hated this beer at first, and even the second can seemed acrid and harsh.
Puppy usually woke in a fit, tense with the acrid taste of morning mouth oozing out.
A dark plume was visible from dozens of miles away and local residents reported acrid smells.
In Britain, the question found its echoes in an equally acrid discussion of leadership and power.
The cities of the developed world may once again smell acrid smoke and see bricks flying.
The faint acrid smell of coal, oil and abrasives neutralizes the sweet smell of the forest.
Many at the time were reluctant to go downtown, where acrid air, fear and devastation lingered.
Browned garlic is burned garlic, and its acrid flavor will seep throughout an otherwise perfect dish.
The Safdies stage his wheeling and dealing with relentless pace and an acrid sense of humor.
The manure piles were acrid, but the compost itself had a rich and pleasant odor, like cigars.
Slowly, the acrid tang of artificial sweetness wafts inside, and sounds fade in somewhere behind my head.
Protesters set fire to tyres, filling the air with acrid smoke, and pelted the police with stones.
Thick acrid smoke could be smelled miles away in Houston and was visible dozens of miles away.
Thick, acrid smoke could be smelled miles away in Houston and was visible dozens of miles away.
Amid billowing smoke and the acrid smell of jet fuel, crew members pried open the emergency doors.
Her chords had the bright payoff of internal octaves as well as the acrid carp of dissonance.
But when he picks up a canister of newly processed oil, he smiles at the acrid odor.
Of course, there's no correct amount of stale, acrid garlic, but the kitchen really goes all in.
The child inhaled a draft of acrid gas that set off a rasping cough and watering eyes.
But many visitors are surprised to find that nights out often feature the acrid smell of decades past.
Near Baladiya Street on the sit-in's western edge, the acrid stink of tear gas coated the air.
The acrid smell of resin and paints is the only hint that everything on show is utterly tasteless.
Instead, he chases the ghost of TRL past with acrid pop cavities that he once held with contempt.
Lyonne reveals Nadia's painful childhood slowly, in jerky monologues that drip out of her throat like acrid syrup.
The intense heat left onlookers drenched with sweat, and the air was filled with an acrid, burned scent.
Ms. Brown's acrid palette and stylized, often grotesque figures signal a departure from her earlier, more sedate realism.
Just so long as the acrid fumes do not screw up my old DOS word processor, I'll be fine.
So during the dry season several fires break out every day and smoulder away, releasing plumes of acrid smoke.
The show tenders itself as a kind of acrid medicine, to be swallowed because it's supposedly good for you.
Odd smells were passed under my nose, smells so acrid and potent they had me doubled up in pain.
The heat was insufferable, but if they opened their windows, the car would be flooded with the acrid smoke.
A dark plume was visible from dozens of miles away and local residents reported acrid smells from the fire.
There was also less acrid black smoke swirling around with little sign of tyre-burning, as on previous weekends.
It all lends a fluid, fleshy power to Snakeoil, which is otherwise high on transient textures and acrid impact.
There is no restaurant where I'd be glad to see littlenecks steamed with way too much stale, acrid garlic.
Strife between fathers and sons propels this acrid portrait of 1950s Houston, the latest of Burke's Holland family novels.
An acrid smell still hangs in the air in parts of Taza, and its narrow streets are unusually quiet.
He has been credited with championing civility and compromise in Congress during an era of acrid partisanship in U.S. politics.
David Brooks I'm beginning to think this whole sordid campaign is being blown along by an acrid gust of distrust.
With nowhere to throw things away, much is burned, and the air is filled with a dense and acrid smoke.
The acrid smell, wafts of smoke and pools of incinerated garbage lent this seaside community an apocalyptic air on Tuesday.
" Portions of the guitar solos from "Paranoid Android" echo the phasing effects from Aphex Twin's 1995 track "Acrid Avid Jamshred.
The acrid air choked the city and an ominous black cloud spread over the mayor's new hope: plastic garbage bins.
The earth itself comes apart, and from its depths blast fiery molten rock, acrid gas, and towering plumes of ash.
It exploded in a violent burst, rocking the bottom of our boat and filling the air with an acrid smell.
"Nicholas Meyers's music is Kurt Weill acrid without being Kurt Weill melodic," Walter Kerr wrote in The New York Times.
But the point has been made, and its disturbing suggestiveness lingers afterward, like the acrid smoke of a sneaked cigarette.
But they remain open, shrouding neighborhoods in acrid plumes and bulging with flattened handbags, car windshields, needles and rotting food.
That came after a container of organic peroxides exploded and caught fire early Thursday, sending acrid smoke into the air.
The sudden flash, the boom, the acrid stench and utter randomness of death were as haunting as they were incommunicable.
Across the region, people wiped stinging smoke from their eyes and huddled inside to avoid the scrim of acrid air.
Firemen had broken down the front door and smashed the windows; an acrid smoke still drifted from the lower ones.
Earlier this month, thick acrid clouds blanketed the capital Ulaanbaatar as winds blew smoke from the wildfires blazing in the north.
Early last year, Lay Peng Pua says she started smelling acrid fumes around her home in the rural town of Jenjarom.
Chlorine and sulfur-rich vapors produce an acrid fog that smells like farts and can sear the lining off human lungs.
Mark Kelly, Giffords' husband, told CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday that acrid political rhetoric had consequences but change was not impossible.
The hope is to get in front of the mildew and mold already blooming and acrid in the humid Texas heat.
In my years living in the area it was normal enough to wake up to an acrid haze on summer mornings.
Less than an hour into the flight smoke and an "acrid smell" started to fill the cabin, according to Simple Flying.
These ancient beverages were flavored with juniper berries, mint, honey and cinnamon, possibly to mask the acrid taste of the resin.
Passengers said the episodes left them rattled as some cars filled with smoke and the acrid smell of an electrical fire.
The acrid odor of fire is always cause for alarm in the mysteries C. J. Box sets in heavily forested Wyoming.
A thick, acrid and dangerous pall from hundreds of fires filled the lungs of citizens trying to go about their lives.
The smoke is so acrid, even at a distance of a hundred miles, that it makes your eyes water and lungs hurt.
I spent those 48 hours sh—ing this acrid black sludge, rage-puking and praying for the sweet, merciful release of death.
The acrid smoke caused air quality to deteriorate to dangerous levels from Singapore to Vietnam as thousands of fires burned for months.
An acrid, burning smell indicated that organic material was intact within the bone — a good sign for the potential retrieval of DNA.
Several buildings that were set on fire on Wednesday ahead of the deadline were still smoldering, sending acrid smoke across the camp.
Not long ago, when wildfires were raging across California, winds pushed the smoke into Tulare, leaving an acrid smell in the air.
The kitchens operate every day, and when there is little wind the acrid smoke hangs over the village like a poisonous fog.
Often arriving in puffs of acrid black smoke, these leaky, rust-coated beasts have become a ubiquitous sight from Bangladesh to Bolivia.
I knew what she was going to say before she said it — I could already smell the acrid odor of scorched plastic.
In the 1950s, when Pittsburgh's blast furnaces were running full steam, the city was covered by a blanket of dark, acrid smoke.
Above them, in acrid colors, are images of antique clown dolls and a cartoon of a top-hatted seafarer wielding a sextant.
For days now, a cloud of acrid smoke has settled over the Bay Area, blown down from the Kincade Fire in the north.
So Theresa May discovered as she arrived on November 6th, into a haze unusually acrid even for the world's most polluted big city.
You can smell and taste it: The exhaust fumes tickle your nostrils and coat your mouth, leaving an acrid taste on your tongue.
The device was planted by a group with links to the Klan, and Lee wastes no time in laying forth the acrid ironies.
Residents woke up to a pall of grey left behind by acrid smoke from fireworks that remained trapped in the city's cool air.
Greenpeace said on Monday that acrid smog had wafted across Siberia as far as the Ural mountains, posing a threat to people's health.
A sizing medium made of coal-ash and acrylic establishes an acrid key signature the artist follows consistently in his subsequent color choices.
But as he worked the pile, more experienced firefighters warned him to avoid the acrid smoke and fumes that looked foreign to them.
Dolmades come with dense mild yogurt, while ladotyri cheese from Lesvos is a dry, pleasantly acrid mix of olive oil and sheep's milk.
Yakutsk, Russia (CNN)Landing in Yakutsk, six time zones east of Moscow, the first thing you see and smell is thick, acrid smoke.
According to the Los Angeles Times, "It was just the poor quality of the air that was a hazy, acrid, smelly, burning presence."
Residents described hearing an enormous explosion as a mushroom cloud rose over the car bomb site, enveloping the city in acrid black smoke.
As is often the case with tradition, the potential guilt kept me going even as it filled every room with an acrid cloud.
Residents woke up to a pall of grey left behind by acrid smoke from fireworks that remained trapped in the city's cool air.
Here the scents are more domestic: parched cow dung, acrid but pleasant, and the sickly-sweet spice of chai, cooked on an open fire.
If you've ever wanted to taste your bud or concentrates without any kind of acrid burnt taste than this is the vape to buy.
Over the past few days we've been trying to find a better way forward from the acrid pile of burning trash that was 2015.
Associated Press photos showed Abu Sabla running, wobbling and falling on the ground with the acrid white smoke spewing from his mouth and nose.
The company said on Monday the fire, which has spewed thick, acrid smoke that is visible dozens of miles away, could burn until Wednesday.
Delhi's smog could get even worse, SAFAR said, as farmers burning stubble in areas around the city have been generating clouds of acrid smoke.
But now the sky is coated a sickly gray, filled with acrid smoke from the 17,000 acre Ferguson fire raging near Yosemite National Park.
There, air quality in Kuala Lumpur neared "unhealthy" levels and residents took to social media to complain about poor visibility and an acrid smell.
Everywhere you went Duke Dumont's "Need U (100%)" hung in the air, as heavily as the sweetly acrid stench of slow-cooked pig-product.
Unlike nearby establishments charging a fiver for a jar of acrid kale juice, everything in Ridley Road is modestly priced, no matter how specialist.
Over the weekend, Mr. Trump launched an acrid attack on the mayor of San Juan after she criticized the federal response to Hurricane Maria.
On a recent morning, the acrid smell of burning methamphetamine — or shabu, as Filipinos call it — wafted through a remote corner of the cemetery.
I had a rage of ambition and an acrid dissatisfaction that, along with a love of the world, were bound to come out somehow.
One of them, Roger Stone, a friend and adviser to Mr. Trump, offered a particularly acrid farewell: "Rot in hell," he wrote on Twitter.
But thousands of immigrants toiling in the fields initially lacked masks to protect them from the thick, acrid smoke that wafted across the county.
Yesterday, The Hartlepool Mail got word that children are getting their rocks off by huffing the acrid smoke coming off of on-fire bins.
The pungent odor of decomposing kombucha leather, the acrid tang of burning paper, or the cloying sweetness of deep-fried flowers wafts through the halls.
The air was acrid with smoke, and through the trees, Gregory saw the flicker of the lights from the Philadelphia Fire Department trucks and ambulances.
In a year in which the N.F.L.'s bumbling relationship to race has been at its most visible, this whitewashing has a particularly acrid smell.
"Someone's hair is literally on fire," Meg Ryan said to her date, the designer Christian Siriano, as an acrid smell perfumed the preshow cocktail hour.
If you're looking for a gentler option than the acrid, no-nonsense stuff found at the drugstore, then a non-acetone formula is for you.
"I've got posh cigarettes," Clegg said, passing around a pack of Marlboros as an alternative to the acrid homemade "Jungle cigarettes" sold in the camp.
The acrid smell of tear gas is unmistakable — it fills your throat and nose and burns your eyes and skin, unless you wear a respirator.
The morning would dawn, with spent tear gas canisters and shards of rocks littering the streets, the acrid fumes still stinging skin and burning lungs.
It shuttered more than a million barrels per day of crude production, though some facilities have resumed operations even as acrid smoke lingered in the air.
She crushed it flat and burst it with the pressure, and the scent of it seemed to spoil in a matter of seconds and become acrid.
Whether it's a spoonful of the acrid concoction in hot water or mixed with Aztec healing clay for a mask, I now can't live without it.
Not even the sweetest Vidalia onion or the ripest red-fleshed peach, growing wild in the mountains of Georgia, can blunt such acrid bitterness, such hatred.
The music they make is sparse, but crushing drone pieces out of slow-moving lute melodies and acrid, smoky feedback that Jarmusch wrings from electric guitars.
The show is basically sung through, although the rhythms and colors of the music vary, as does the flavor of the lyrics, now acrid, now heartfelt.
To study volcanoes, scientists brave the rippling heat of lava and acrid gases, climbing up slopes and sometimes into craters to place instruments and take measurements.
The smog is acrid, eye-stinging and throat-burning, and so thick that it is being blamed for a 70-vehicle pileup north of the city.
LOS ANGELES — An acrid campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against the movie "A Dog's Purpose" ended up having more bark than bite.
It's exceptionally dark because the air is thick with volcanic fumes which start to burn our sinuses with an acrid, sour smell halfway up the steep trail.
The medicated butter is succeeded by three sessions sweating in acrid steam inside a kind of a vertical coffin, reminiscent of a prop in a Victorian sideshow.
People use some to dump their trash or relieve themselves, and one caught fire on Friday, sending a thick cloud of black, acrid smoke into the air.
Mr. William, an unemployed 52-year-old, gladly accepted a ride, and as he settled into the back seat, the acrid stench of alcohol filled the car.
On Sunday night, distraught parishioners gathered near the smoldering ruins of the church, where smoke and the acrid smell of ash hung for hours in the air.
From amid barrels of liquid substances, an acrid smell hanging in the air, he held up a notebook detailing instructions for concocting white phosphorus and incendiary weapons.
In the frantic moments after the canisters hit the ground, the acrid smell was everywhere and I could see children crying, their eyes stung by the gas.
Women clutched purses on their laps, and a few riders held handkerchiefs over their noses to keep from breathing the acrid air streaming through the open windows.
Torrential downpours in affected areas since midweek have helped contain the fires but many still blaze, with the possibility of more acrid smoke being blown towards Melbourne.
As we walk into British Iranian cook Yasmin Khan's East London home, she apologises for the sharp, acrid scent of dried lime that lingers in the air.
It's in the oily taste of the water, on the blackened leaves of fruit trees, and in the acrid odor in the air, according to the Washington Post.
Philip Rocco, a political scientist at Marquette University, in Milwaukee, talks of the "acrid tang of 2016" as Democrats try "to counteract their failure to truly campaign" there.
Activists blocked streets and set fire to plastic barricades, the acrid smell mixing with the tear gas, and ripped at least two telephone booths out of the ground.
Activists blocked streets and set fire to plastic barricades, the acrid smell mixing with the tear gas, and ripped at least two telephone booths out of the ground.
The unusual reluctance comes after years of toxic relations between him and Mr. Obama, culminating in an acrid public feud over the American-brokered nuclear agreement with Iran.
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Firefighters on Wednesday extinguished a fire at a Mitsui & Co petrochemical storage site outside Houston that has been billowing acrid smoke for days, the company said.
Sometimes all we can bring you is the words of the police spokesman, the suspect's picture from a high school yearbook, the acrid stench of the burned woods.
They savor the thrill of the first hit of newsprint in the morning, with its slightly acrid odor and its ironclad association with the first cup of coffee.
Their senses were soon choked with the smells of wet canvas gear, seawater and acrid clouds of powder from the huge naval guns firing just over their heads.
They won only eight of 28 games over all, posted an acrid minus-265 goal differential and set several other ignominious records that are unlikely to be broken.
He told of days in darkness in the hold of the ship, and the sour water given to drink twice a day, acrid with vinegar to prevent scurvy.
Over acrid cups of black coffee, Mr. Pamplin explained why marine rocks, like the ones in the cliffs surrounding Lyme Regis, have an abundance of fossils in them.
Exhibit A is the belief by many that even racist or sexist or otherwise acrid, disrespectful views should be allowed on college campuses in the name of free speech.
Litter is strewn on the ground and, with no washing or toilet facilities in the makeshift settlement, the acrid smell of life on the streets is hard to ignore.
The acrid, metallic, plasticky, burning smell, the sort of odor that prompts the question: Is something that is really not supposed to be on fire on fire in here?
Crude from Saudi Arabia and other countries around the Middle East Gulf, on the other hand, is mostly denser and contains much more sulfur (giving it an acrid odor).
I have no shame in scarfing down a bunch of roasted asparagus, retiring to the pisser, and then taking in the bouquet of acrid piss flowing out of me.
The Suansilphongs, in fact, serve tom yum, the sour and spicy soup that can be found at almost every Thai restaurant in the land; often it's watery and acrid.
Californians know a great deal about wildfires -- having to flee them, breathing acrid smoke, brushing blankets of ash off their cars and sometimes watching their own homes consumed by flames.
But now it is mixed with an acrid, oily smell, like burning tires and evaporating gasoline: the smell of the state of Oregon's entire fuel supply gone up in smoke.
Jerusalem Journal 11 Photos View Slide Show ' JERUSALEM — In the violent East Jerusalem slum of Issawiya, trash burned next to an open bin, filling the air with an acrid stench.
Like the sound bath that had just finished, the acrid scent spread through the air with slow determination, making this a concert you could hear, see, feel and also smell.
When I flew into San Francisco last Sunday, the haze shrouding the city was not the usual charming fog, and there was an acrid smell, like a barbecue on steroids.
"Sometimes all we can bring you is the words of the police spokesman, the suspect's picture from a high school yearbook, the acrid stench of the burned woods," wrote Fausset.
During my first visit, in 1993, Jim Courier defeated Stefan Edberg in a torrid men's final, and when the photographers returned to the press room, there was an acrid smell.
In Secaucus, where a faint skunky new odor now mixes with the acrid belchings of trucks on the Meadowlands Parkway, Harmony Dispensary is looking forward to progress, however it comes.
The acrid smoke, which is so significant it is visible from space, is threatening to harm Iraqis' health just as hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing Mosul for their lives.
Photo: Christoph Ruckstuhl (AP)Smells, like the tangy scent of the ocean or the acrid odor of smoke, are powerful cues that shape our memories and warn us of imminent threats.
MACAO, Portugal (Reuters) - Large parts of Portugal's interior are desolate places these days, with charred trees as far as the eye can see and an acrid smell lingering in the air.
In 1943, residents of Los Angeles thought they were under chemical attack by the Japanese when an acrid cloud moved in, burning eyes and lungs and cutting visibility to single blocks.
Though the strength of the other instrumentation never suffers for lack of attention, Von Spain's wondrously versatile—here exquisitely clear, there demonically acrid, always enthralling—voice is a clear focal point.
Feeling impossibly frail and weary, the 82-year-old Cohen parried with a thoroughgoing renunciation—of Jahweh, Jesus, Vishnu, sex, and the acrid jokes he'd been cracking for half a century.
With an acrid, lightly distorted sound and a habit of subtly stirring psychedelia and country rock into his dexterous improvising, Scofield has been one of jazz's leading guitarists since the 29595s.
A few minutes later, the air picked up a harsh scent: the acrid odor of the fire, riding the early-morning breeze into Santa Clarita, roughly 20 miles from the backlot.
I don't like the smell: Surgeons seem to cauterize everything they cut, and burning flesh has an acrid odor, but either it doesn't last or my nose gets used to it.
The registration battle is the latest acrid dispute over voting rights and suppression in North Carolina, where the outcomes of a number of high-profile election contests could hinge on turnout.
The authorities blame the acrid air on pollution, most of it from car exhaust and wood-burning furnaces, and a layer of warm, stagnant air that has trapped the toxic particles.
The irony could not be more acrid: our hero, unable to lose his heart at the hotel, then loses it in the one place where the loss is considered a crime.
Dumbstruck observers stood rooted to the spot as the scale of catastrophe sunk in, questioning whether the cathedral would survive the night as clouds of acrid-smelling smoke rose into the sky.
But earlier this month, in a comment reported after the opening of a show of his work at David Zwirner, his London gallery, the artist sounded more acrid than in Kelly's depiction.
Something else happened in 2008 A prime argument for assuming so is that, of course, it was after Obama's election in 2008 that the race conversation took on a newly acrid tone.
By the time the gunship's fire moved on to another part of the hospital, the air had filled with acrid smoke, and Faizullah could hear the sound of flames licking the building.
Rapid growth, especially in the last decade, has debased much restaurant cooking, drowning the tastes and textures of dishes like fish-fragrant eggplant in gobs of acrid chile, oil and monosodium glutamate.
Mr. Coltrane bleats and heaves through his solos, spewing out odd clusters of notes, splitting acrid tones and repeating big windmill patterns until they seem to have broken free of their context.
The verdict ended a short trial based on an acrid dispute between the men over the high-profile rescue of a group of children trapped in Thailand in the summer of 2018.
SINGAPORE/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Air pollution in Singapore rose to the "unhealthy" level on Friday as acrid smoke drifted over the island from fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said.
The price is high, but from business leaders to professional sports leagues, Trump is systematically compelling every institution in American society to decide whether it can afford to stand beside that acrid flame.
Much of Southeast Asia was blanketed in acrid haze for several months last year and, as pollution levels spiked, thousands of people were afflicted by respiratory illnesses, while tourism, schools and flights were disrupted.
Sinosphere BEIJING — As the grimy, gray smog spreading across northern China settled on the town of Linqi, its schools received a "red alert" notice to cancel classes and protect children from the acrid haze.
The state owned company wanted to expand production to ten million tons a year, says Ma, but the acrid haze that hung over the city could be a major embarrassment for the then Olympic hosts.
FLINT, Michigan — Five years after Flint's water turned brown and acrid, leaching lead out of old pipes and carrying other contaminants into people's homes, Carma Lewis still can't bring herself to drink from the tap.
The Shijiazhuang city government, also in Hebei province, said on Thursday that car owners with certain number plates can only drive on specific days until the end of the year, following days of acrid smog.
A thick, acrid smog has settled over the capital over the past week, a combination of smoke from burning crops in surrounding agricultural states, fireworks on the Hindu festival of Diwali, dust and vehicle emissions.
They joined bands like Kryptos, Third Sovereign, Acrid Semblance, Myndsnare, and Threinody, playing sporadic gigs at college festivals or at Razzberry Rhinoceros (known universally as just 'Razz'), the only pub venue of note in Mumbai.
The deputy chief minister of Delhi State, Manish Sisodia, ordered the closing of some 4,000 schools after seeing children vomiting out the window of a school bus ferrying them through the acrid air on Wednesday.
" She added, "Because Clarence Thomas has been poor, has been nearly suffocated by the acrid odor of racial discrimination, is intelligent, well-trained, black and young enough to be won over again, I support him.
Acrid, black smoke was seen pouring from a chimney at the Russian consulate in San Francisco Friday, a day after the Trump administration ordered its closure amid escalating tensions between the United States and Russia.
The New York Daily News: "The House Intelligence Committee presents a coherent and compelling case for impeachment ... There may be no single, smoking gun, but there's ample acrid black stuff rising from the White House."
As the crowds surged, hundreds of riot police with shields advanced, firing rounds of tear gas, rubber bullets and sponge grenades - a crowd-control weapon - at protesters, sending clouds of acrid, burning smoke through the streets.
I settled in Brooklyn just in time to see the Twin Towers come down, watch the papers flutter like confetti over the East River, and inhale the acrid-sweet smell of burnt flesh below Canal Street.
It had a savory, herbal element that combined with the lively acidity may be reminiscent of a, ahem, very good vinegar, which has a tart tang that is a long way from the acrid industrial versions.
After a year of pleas about the acrid, discolored water that was being pumped into their homes, Flint's residents, with the help of some Virginia Tech researchers, convinced the state government that there was a problem.
The acrid black smoke that once billowed from the backstreets has gone, and the rivers that wind their way through the town of about 2127,0003 people, though still cluttered with trash, are much cleaner, residents say.
The acrid smell of smoke and ash hung in the air, and people walked around shell-shocked — with a mixture of adrenaline and despair — as they waited for what many assumed was the inevitable next attack.
As Iraqi and Kurdish forces join US allies taking back Mosul, retreating Islamic State forces are setting fire to oil fields and other chemical facilities, burning some 5,000 barrels daily and blanketing the region in acrid smoke.
Close your eyes and imagine yourself back there: That acrid, sharp smoky smell on the air again; a wet roach being passed around; one of your friends is cueing up a funny video he saw on YouTube.
A crackerjack team of designers, led by Mimi Lien, will replicate the sticky floors, beer splatter, sweat and acrid cigarette smell — they've even unearthed a trove of Paco Rabanne, which will emanate from the air-conditioning ducts.
On Thursday, protesters lobbed firebombs and chunks of concrete hacked out of the sidewalks at riot police, who fired back tear gas and cast a choking, acrid haze, which hung over Exarchia into the early hours of Friday.
After months of torturous negotiations, acrid insults, internal tensions and enough social media airtime to fill a Netflix series, Italy's populist leaders bowed to the demands of the European Union to roll back its expensive, rules-flouting budget.
The country's leadership was worried that its citizens simply wouldn't tolerate air so polluted that it can be difficult on some days in some cities to see through the soupy, acrid haze to the buildings across the street.
A series of acrid-hued woodcuts of a colossal, anthropomorphized rat riding two horses over a cityscape, and a rat hand-painted inside a huge pipe lying near the painting underscore the vermin-like nature of human civilization.
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Despite clear skies and sunshine, residents of the Serbian capital have gasped this week in the acrid air, struggling to breathe in a city whose air pollution readings have approached those of Beijing, Delhi, Lahore and Karachi.
I was a straitlaced high school soccer player during the Four Loko years, but I do remember, with a warm sort of disgust, the acrid taste of college ingenuity — tequila and blue Gatorade, whiskey and strawberry-kiwi Snapple, etc.
A couple of tables away, a Big Gulp-size Yankee Candle in a surprisingly not acrid Christmas Cookie scent ($24; 4.1) was next to "Less," a novel by Andrew Sean Greer that won the Pulitzer Prize ($15.99/$10.87; 3.7).
Helicopters dropped water about every two minutes and firefighters coped with thick acrid smoke as they fought to save the site that honors the Republican president who led the United States during the final years of the Cold War.
In France, the acrid smell of urine has been a particular blight on the nation's capital stretching back centuries, and Mr. Lebot noted that the carbon of the straw had the added benefit of combating the odor of urine.
Acrid yellow smoke clogs the skies of major Western U.S. cities, a human-caused fire in the Columbia River Gorge rains ash on Portland, Oregon, and a century-old backcountry chalet burns to the ground in Montana's Glacier National Park.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong has reopened five of 13 beaches closed since last Sunday following a palm oil spill, after authorities collected more than 150 tonnes of acrid-smelling clumps in one of the Chinese territory's worst environmental disasters.
TREUENBRIETZEN, Germany (Reuters) - Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes as around 600 firefighters battled a blaze in a forest strewn with unexploded ammunition south of Berlin on Friday and a pall of acrid smoke hung over the city.
In Washington, relations between President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are acrid, and last year more than 50 members of the Democratic caucus boycotted Mr. Netanyahu's speech to Congress in which he criticized Mr. Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.
They conceded, though, that there was little historical precedent for such a relationship, especially when the incoming president had ousted the incumbent's party after such an acrid campaign, and that Mr. Trump and Mr. Obama were never likely to become buddies.
But such gatherings cannot mask the acrid partisan atmosphere in Congress as well as back home, where lawmakers say they are increasingly worried about hostile audiences and constituents filled with vitriol who are unrestrained in venting at their member of Congress.
Gosha Rubchinskiy eau de toilette From: Gosha RubchinskiyAroma: Crisp, Boyish Inspired by the acrid smell of skateboard wheels hitting the hot pavement, this first fragrance from Gosha Rubchinskiy celebrates youth and freedom — though it is oddly reminiscent of a classic citrusy cologne.
When the drug kept me from sleeping and dulled every part of me, I reduced the dosage—snapping pills in half, running my tongue over the rough, acrid edges, thinking about how the desire to please our parents never really leaves us.
The acrid exchange demonstrated several truths about Mr. Trump's presidency: He often hires for top positions people he does not know well or, as with Mr. Tillerson, had not even previously met, grows disenchanted with them or alienates them and casts them aside.
There, he serves fine-dining dishes that showcase bitter vegetables like the wild greens known as quintoniles and prickly pear cactus, or nopal — and Pujol is especially known for his dark, rich, intensely complex, intensely acrid mole, aged for over 1,200 days.
From living in some dark-timeline version of Hong Kong: students trapped inside a besieged university, sending notes to their loved ones in case they die at the scene; politicians attacked in broad daylight; shops shuttered and the air acrid and burned.
As we moved with the Iraqi troops into the neighborhood of Shuhada, scenes of immense destruction and the acrid smell of explosives bore testament to the fierce battle that had taken place the day before between Iraqi special forces and the militants.
At the series's lowest moments (like the penectomy/enslavement plot that takes place in what I started to think of as Fast-Forward Dungeon), it can feel as airless and acrid as "The Walking Dead," just another macho cable wallow in sadism.
One February day in 1988, I emerged from the subway on Lexington Avenue to find that East Sixty-eighth Street, where I'd recently begun working as a private secretary to a countess, was overrun by fire trucks and acrid with the stench of smoke.
BEIJING — A blaze roared through an apartment building on the blue-collar edge of Beijing, killing at least 19 people, many of whom were apparently migrant workers from the Chinese countryside who were trapped in acrid smoke, officials and local residents said on Sunday.
As residents of Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city, complained of shortness of breath, stinging eyes and nausea from thick, acrid smog that they compare to living in the smoke of a camp fire, the country's minister of state for climate change smelled a conspiracy.
"Influx" (2016) is my favorite piece — a little carnival of a painting whose stunning relationships of hot pinks, acrid greens, and chilly yellows has such a mystifying surface that even after DiBenedetto told me how he made it, I couldn't really understand its construction.
Either way, the smoke screens appeared effective: From the Israeli side, a detachment of Israeli soldiers ensconced behind earthen berms near the Nahal Oz kibbutz could only occasionally glimpse the hundreds of protesters in the Shajaiye neighborhood of Gaza City through vast clouds of acrid black smoke.
You waddle over to the bathroom, braving the acrid stench of old piss and freshly cut coke, tramping through the ominously dark puddles on the floor, standing shoulder to shoulder with a bloke talking to himself, sweat threatening to send him the way of the Snowman.
That was the nightmare experienced by the passengers and crew of Air France Flight 116 this week, when their Boeing 777 was diverted to the city of Irkutsk on Sunday, about 2,600 miles east of Moscow, after an acrid smell and light smoke wafted through the cabin.
After acrid smoke from fireworks set off late last month for Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, merged with emissions from other sources, levels of the most dangerous particles of air pollution rose to more than 16 times the level that the Indian government considers safe.
Visiting the Indonesian coast can bring on a kind of whiplash: One moment you're dazzled by opulent biodiversity — monkeys and bats flying through the air, manta rays swooping through the crystalline water — the next you're in an environmental hellscape of acrid smoke and burnt tree stumps.
There were people everywhere on the streets, a Virginia race day multiplied a hundredfold, as though the whole of the world had gathered there, gathered to heave between the workshops and fur dealerships and druggists, to walk the stone-chipped streets, to inhale the acrid air.
Peels (piths removed) went into two containers, to unburden themselves of essential oils in a two-week bath of either VG or PG. The VG batch came out much lighter and had an acrid, shoe-rubber taste for reasons unknown, while the PG batch was usable but unsatisfying.
When Gizmodo spoke with the DPH in December, a toxicology expert explained that the symptoms people were reporting—including dizziness, nausea, headaches, and nosebleeds—were the result of acute exposure to mercaptans: acrid, sulfurous compounds that are added to natural gas precisely so that leaks can be detected.
Foley, at his best a slinky genre stylist with a tobacco-acrid edge Indeed, a sex-free, PG-13 version of "Freed" could be cut without shedding a second of narrative coherence... Manuela Lazic, Indiewire: In cinema as in sex, a dose of self-awareness can do wonders.
And it's not just the visuals of burning buildings or destroyed cars but the scent of acrid smoke, the airplanes and helicopters in the sky and the language of firefighting, of aerial assaults and boots on the ground, that are so reminiscent of how military officers plan war.
Climate change is on everybody&aposs mind as Australia&aposs bushfire seasons grow more intense, but the acrid haze over Sydney is not just thanks to a changing climate – it&aposs also driven in part by a pair of atmospheric events which are also responsible for the drought.
News Analysis SINGAPORE — President Trump's eager embrace of Kim Jong-un of North Korea this week, on the heels of an acrid falling-out with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, raised an obvious, if confounding, question: Why would an American president offend allies and cozy up to adversaries?
The richest contribution of this edition might be in its juxtaposition of the notebooks with "The Lover," and how it enriches our understanding of Duras's best, most beloved work — that acrid novel of sexual transaction so often and unfortunately read as a grand love story of crossing class and color lines.
There are the local volunteers, filling every role imaginable, whether selling acrid coffee and home-baked cakes to the fans, acting as field-side announcers, recording official statistics or hanging Greenland flags and advertising banners from the fencing erected to keep sled dogs and snowmobiles off the field during winter.
Destruction is largely hidden behind carefully-zoned blocks of neighborhood developments and outdoor shopping malls cluttered with high-end storefronts and coffee shops, but the permeating scent of a never-ending campfire lingers, growing acrid with odors of melting metal, home cleaning chemicals, and electricity wires as you draw nearer to the scene.
He is so frequently sloshed — Trudy, in her third trimester, makes it a point to drink for two — that he can, by the tender age of 30-odd weeks, distinguish the grassy, acrid high of a New Zealand sauvignon from the tobacco-and-leather lull of the Pomerol coursing through the placental veins.
In a Democratic debate that was more peaceful than acrid, the candidates transitioned from making biting opening statements to standing in unison in support of legalizing marijuana, supporting alternative energy sources such as wind turbines, paying for the entire school funding formula, investing in the state's failing infrastructure and countering President Trump.
In this achingly poor section of the Brazilian city of Recife, where a water channel has become an acrid open sewer, and clusters of men stand around smoking marijuana while young girls sniff glue from soda bottles, the couple is struggling to raise a baby with disabilities caused by the Zika virus.
With their streets roped off and backyards now charred and blackened, dazed Thousand Oaks residents order coffee at a Starbucks filled with firefighters, pump gas at any station that's still open, and readjust their white face masks to try to keep out the acrid air that has coated their community for the past few days.
Istanbul had worse public transport, worse water quality and worse pollution than shambolic Cairo; the cheap lignite used for home heating clouded its winter skies in a perpetual acrid fug, and the soupy waters of the Golden Horn, a sea inlet that bisects the European side of the city, were too polluted to sustain fish.
So I go out and I buy eggplant, Parmesan, and tomato sauce, and I literally sliced the eggplant and put it in the tomato sauce and cheese over it and... I mean, I didn't sweat the eggplant, I didn't fry the eggplant, and it turned out to be the most bitter, acrid, most disgusting thing.
It should not be forgotten that this game was held here, and not in Argentina, because two weeks ago, the bus carrying Boca to River's Estadio Monumental was attacked by a handful of River fans, shattering its windows, sending shards of glass at Boca's players, exposing them to the acrid tang of pepper spray.
In one of the most acrid exchanges of the evening, Ted Cruz recited a litany of Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, whom Trump had supported not so long ago, and Cruz used that list to assert that Trump would surely appoint a liberal judge, not a conservative one, to any open seat on the Supreme Court.
The politics of the moment, particularly during a bitter, acrid presidential election, can be so corrosive, and the focus on the immediate advantage to one set of persons or issues so intense, that we can easily lose sight and sense of what this nation means and what kind of people we are—and hope to be.
A sniff at the acrid, dust-laden air of Kathmandu (with a whiff of untreated sewage from the mountain streams that converge in its centre), or a glance at traffic gnarled in a moonscape of potholes, or a tally of citizens still living in temporary shelters more than two years after the earthquake in 2015 that killed nearly 9,000 people, all substantiate an impression of strikingly inept government.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads SEOUL — The first thing that registers, as I enter the gallery on the opening night of Disappearance, is a strong smell of makgulli (tangy, cream-colored alcohol beverage made from fermented rice, undistilled and minimally filtered): more accurately, the acrid odor of makgulli, exuding, not straight from a bottle, but from the pores of its consumers, mixed with the carrying smell of distinctly Korean dishes.
Some of us saw horror unfold from our bedroom windows, and breathed in that acrid, burning air, while most, at a safe distance, watched on TV. Today, there are those who believe they own its memory, just as they own the idea of America, of liberty and of patriotism, while a few of them actually do own the country, to all intents and purposes, their wealth propped up by the thinnest facade of populism.
Before long, Albini would find his tribe alongside other weird Chicago punk acts, bringing in Naked Raygun members Santiago Durango and Jeff Pezzatti, as well as Pat Byrne to play live drums over Roland's beats (this is the only release where this occurred), effectively turning Big Black into an actual band on 1984's Bulldozer EP. At live shows, Big Black would open their sets by setting off a brick of firecrackers, filling clubs with the acrid smell of sulfur before launching into their show.

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