Word: panaceas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...well handled, however, it should accomplish its purpose. It is not a panacea for all the ills of dullness and drudgery. It is more of a tonic to stimulate thought and the growth of new ideas...
...nature of the present Parliament foreordains a protracted period of political unrest until another general election comes to act as a panacea...
...idea of a panacea for things culminates in Shaw's ideas of marriage as shown in "Man and Superman". Here we have the highly intelligent woman who seeks and-finds the man most suited to be her husband. Every person was to select the right mate and in this way society's ills would be cured. Plato proposed that the upper class should rule and that this class should be encouraged to have many children, and thus to raise the standard of the race. That is Shaw's idea. He wants the world to be placed on the plane...
...these find a brave echo here. Even to so materialistic a theme as "Criticism in American-Periodicals", can such principles be applied-the principles of clear-sighted and unshaken adherence to faith and judgement. Nor are these principles held in the light of a sort of rule-of-thumb panacea, to be applied indiscriminately and with the joy of recent discovery; but rather as the proven standards of better men and better ages which we have for the time being allowed to lapse into oblivion...
Alfred W. McCann, dietetic expert, foe of evolution, writing for Mr. Munsey's (New York) Sun and Globe, issued a timely warning to diabetics who are hailing insulin as a panacea for their disease. When Mr. McCann talks about food his opinions are worth listening to, for they are based on the body of proved knowledge of nutrition built up on the past 20 years by such authorities as Lusk, Mendel, Benedict, McCollum and others...