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

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