any particular morality has its dross, those elements which are no more than a defense of limited social interests and class values

Otherwise, last words are dross, like the defunct human body.

The voice set in the writing overwhelmed me, enthralled me even more than when we talked face to face: it was completely cleansed of the dross of speech, of the confusion of the oral

According to scientific chauvinism, astrology is the dross left over by the slow transformation of superstition into astrophysics

Certainly it needs to be rigorously reworked and the dross jettisoned

Secrecy is the dross they are mixed with.

Works were the snares of pride and the best works were mingled with the dross of sin;

Even within poems packed with dross, he’ll find his way to something, to a moment you won’t forget.

A perverse alchemy is at work: the gold that may be found in their unexamined lives is transmuted into the dross of banal being.