Sentences with phrase «nostrums about»

Not exact matches

Nor did I find it helpful to be asked if I had tried or if I knew about someone's favorite anticancer nostrum, from beverages to alternative healers.

For the fact is that I have such a relationship to the question about God, a truth to which St. Augustine gave classical expression in the words: «Tu nos fecisti ad te, et cor nostrum inquietum est, donec requiescat in te.»

Some assign responsibility for this disconnect to zealous reformers who are more interested in peddling their nostrums than in evaluating them, or to vested interests that aggressively protect the status quo instead of welcoming evidence about alternatives.

I'm frustrated by how often efforts to challenge familiar nostrums are casually dismissed with a litany of reflexive attacks — «this is an attack on schooling,» «this is only about urban schools,» «this is all part of a privatization conspiracy» — without regard to substance or specifics.

In her revealing book PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine, psychiatrist Sally Satel complains bitterly about the faulty (or nonexistent) research underlying the nostrums and home remedies that contemporary SHAM artists preach.

Together with its subsidiary Iberia Express and its franchise partner Iberia Regional / Air Nostrum, it operates about 600 flights each day with a fleet of some 135 aircraft.

Along with its budget unit Iberia Express and its franchise partner Iberia Regional Air Nostrum, it operates some 600 flights a day to about 50 destinations in Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, with a fleet of 134 aircraft.

California Abstract Expressionist Jay Meuser, who typically painted in the non-objective style, wrote about his painting Mare Nostrum, «It is far better to capture the glorious spirit of the sea than to paint all of its tiny ripples.»

He talked about his artwork entitled the Mare Nostrum, and he believed in the importance of presenting the whole image and «glorious spirit of the sea» instead of focusing more on every single aspect that makes up the subject.

We are as entitled to be as sceptical about Feynman's nostrums as about anyone's.