low-octane

It sounded pretentious to me, the sort of low-octane posing that fakers try to pass off as art, as if playing a bunch of tapes of other people required the same amount of effort it took to sit down for a couple of years and write a novel.

High John Saw the Holy Number Con Chapman 2011

When we fail to get enough sleep and work for hours at a time without any breaks, we begin to rely more on caffeine, sugar, and other low-octane, short acting stimulants to keep us going during the day.

Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010

When we fail to get enough sleep and work for hours at a time without any breaks, we begin to rely more on caffeine, sugar, and other low-octane, short acting stimulants to keep us going during the day.

Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010

When we fail to get enough sleep and work for hours at a time without any breaks, we begin to rely more on caffeine, sugar, and other low-octane, short acting stimulants to keep us going during the day.

The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working Tony Schwartz 2010

When whole grains are processed and refined, they become fast-burning, simple carbohydrates and low-octane fuel.

ChiRunning Danny Dreyer 2009

If your body isnt being supported by a good diet, its like buying a Ferrari and putting low-octane gas in the tank.

ChiRunning Danny Dreyer 2009

Here's Kitaj's: "" What's always been unsaid about London's cultural world is a constant, low-octane anti-Semitism. ''

Welcome To The Hotel California 2008

Rather, it's been the revelation that contemporary art is just another branch of the entertainment industry, in which the art world's comparatively low-octane celebrities (quick: which name do you recognize, Brice Marden or Matt Damon?) have to hustle like hell for public attention.

These Days, It's The 'Old Of The Shock' 2008

Then there are “octane boosters,” things that are added to gasoline specifically to bring up the octane rating, despite your having put a lot of other low-octane trash into the fuel.

Knock Knock James Killus 2008

Catalytic reforming is an important process used to convert low-octane naphthas into high-octane gasoline blending components called reformates.

Cracking 2008