antiseptic

A long-silent voice from a distant past — eerie and reverberating — awakens in the climate-controlled, antiseptic chambers of a Paris museum.

We know that fighting epidemics requires clean water, antiseptic materials, and vaccinations.

Hochman sat in front of an antiseptic white background, well-lit in a pressed dark suit and close-trimmed coif.

I file all this under “well-intentioned and legally expedient,” but it was too antiseptic to satiate a growing need for collective frameworks to make sense and seek purpose in an increasingly complicated world.

Beyond the sparsely appointed lobby is a warren of fluorescent-lighted hallways and antiseptic rooms that bring to mind a high school chemistry class.