(1) "When you assign budgets thinner than your employee-issue loo roll there's little option but for Daily Star editors to build a newspaper from cut-and-paste jobs off the Daily Mail website, all tied together with gormless press releases.
(2) is the clifftop of bare acceptability beyond which tweeting like a child tips into the rolling, sticky spume of gormless, cuff-clenching twee.
(3) He may look just as gormless, but it's in a totally different way.
(4) A by no means exhaustive list of his political interventions includes: health – he forced ministers to listen to his gormless support for homeopathic treatments and every other variety of charlatanism and quackery; defence – he protested against cuts in the armed forces; justice – he complained about ordinary people’s access to law, or as he put it: “I dread the very real and growing prospect of an American-style personal injury culture”; political correctness – he opposes equality as I suppose a true royal must; GM foods – he thinks they’re dangerous, regardless of evidence; modern architecture – he’s against; and eco-towns – he’s for, as long as he has a say in their design.
(5) That the gormless believed a straight lie was all the proof it needed.
(6) These photos – if you look past the gormless Wayfarer-wearing Joey Essex-alike pouring champagne off the roof in the foreground – might reveal the location of several hidden assets.
(7) Just ask the gormless Sarah, who – bless – didn’t think a CV would help her find work and missed a meeting with her work coach back in March.
(8) Plus, he is a film star playing a film star, a gormless, 1950s version of himself, in a film that is partly about the surreal production-line nature of Hollywood’s golden age.
(9) It was a mess of pointless statistics and gormless campaigny stunts, like the one where Heston put a giant breakfast on the floor near a train station and chased commuters around until they ate it.
(10) Reaction around the globe was much the same: half the world shook their heads in sadness, their spirits crushed, as they considered the loss of El Diego's talent and the narratives that never would be; the other hopped around from foot to foot with big gormless grins on their faces as though their lottery numbers had just come up.
(11) It's a gormless action film about bloodthirsty revenge.
(12) But Malaysia's fancifully named " hibiscus revolution " has potential, at least, to inflict a winter of discontent on the gormless government of prime minister Najib Razak.
(13) Already Jared Kushner, husband to Ivanka, has reportedly ousted the head of the transition, the hapless and gormless New Jersey governor, Chris Christie.
(14) People go on and on about Columbo and how what made him so clever was that he acted gormless.
(15) But the Saatchi team refined it further, depicting a gormless-looking Miliband peeping out of Salmond’s top pocket.
(16) When you assign budgets thinner than your employee-issue loo roll there's little option but for Daily Star editors to build a newspaper from cut-and-paste-jobs off the Daily Mail website, all tied together with gormless press releases.
(17) If you truly can’t bear to watch the latest car crash in a Liberal election campaign that’s already rated women candidates for their “ sex appeal ” above their ability to discern “refugee intake” from a “traffic refuge island” and involved the gormless sexualisation of young female netball players , I’ll do my best to describe it again without gagging.
(18) The Great British Menu is easily just as gormless as MasterChef.
(19) The utter capitulation of London’s planning system in the face of serious money is detectable right there in that infantile, random collection of improbable sex toys poking gormlessly into the privatised air.
Remedy
Definition:
(n.) That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for the gout.
(n.) That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; -- followed by for or against, formerly by to.
(n.) The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong.
(n.) To apply a remedy to; to relieve; to cure; to heal; to repair; to redress; to correct; to counteract.
Example Sentences:
(1) This questionnaire asked about the patients' own diagnosis of symptoms, previous remedies and their source.
(2) This case study described the success of a technique labeled Multiple Oral Rereading (MOR) in the remediation of a case of acquired alexia in an adult male.
(3) The Conservatives are offering the gay community no new measures to remedy the remaining vestiges of homophobia and transphobia .
(4) A recent UN study ranked Brazil 116th out of 143 countries in terms of the proportion of women in the national legislature and efforts to remedy this with a quota system – such as those adopted by neighbouring Argentina and Bolivia – have made little headway, despite Suplicy's heavy campaigning.
(5) These effects are due to residual silanols on the surface of the column material and may be remedied by adding suitable amines or quaternary ammonium ions to the eluent as anti-tailing agents.
(6) The austerity programmes administered by western governments in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis were, of course, intended as a remedy, a tough but necessary course of treatment to relieve the symptoms of debts and deficits and to cure recession.
(7) Future research should emphasize the assessment of remedial interventions.
(8) While interest in herbal therapy is clearly increasing in Western countries, there are few available data about hepatotoxicity of herbal remedies.
(9) The rich ethnopharmacological descriptions in the ancient books of herbal remedy and those scattered in the folklore medicine contribute the possibility of this approach.
(10) Many of the factors that make jobs difficult can be remedied without extensive cost to the employer.
(11) Early diagnosis, particularly at the time of operation, and remedial treatment reduce mortality.
(12) Organic and ionic solutes proved to be equally effective in inducing the osmotic remedial response.
(13) Poor crossing undermined Liverpool in the first leg, Klopp had claimed, but the flaw was remedied quickly in the return.
(14) Subsequent to baseline, participants used written checklists that identified potential in-home hazards but did not prompt behaviors necessary for hazard remediation.
(15) Continued escalation of claims frequency, however, and average paid-claim costs mean that other remedies will have to be sought if the professional liability problem is to be solved.
(16) Among the 630 mothers studied, it was observed that a majority of mothers (92%) would take remedial action for diarrhoea when the stool frequency was 3 or more per 12-hour period.
(17) Forty mutants are osmotic remedial; 17 of these, and no others, are also temperature-sensitive.
(18) The experiments have implications for the nonaversive remediation of self-injury in individuals who are restrained, as well as for the development and maintenance of self-injury in natural settings.
(19) A remedial effect other than osmotic protection of these effectors and an adaptive regulatory mechanism for PE formation are suggested.
(20) Those of most importance involve interaction with guanethidine-type agents and tricyclic antidepressants, amphetamine-type anorexiants or phenolpropanolamine-type common cold remedies; combined use of potassium retaining diuretics with potassium supplements; and incautious use of diuretics with cardiac glycosides.