homeopathic dose

It is a kind of homeopathy, you see, but not in homeopathic doses."

What you might call a homeopathic dose, but somehow the idea puts me off.'

This year, at the beginning of the season, when world cereal prices were high, the Commission only granted export contracts in homeopathic doses.

In theory, a homeopathic dose enhances the body's normal healing and self-regulatory processes.

Luckily penicillin became available and was found to be highly effective in what we would consider today to be almost homeopathic doses.

"I was able to choose music I thought perhaps they might like and began in small, homeopathic doses until they built up a tolerance.

It's horror in homeopathic doses."

The only imaginable reason for a traveler to read such stories at 30,000 feet would be to inoculate a troubled mind with a homeopathic dose of angst.

Rather, he said, he prefers to minimize his exposure to technology most of the time and then absorb the full shock of it "in large, homeopathic doses."

Trevor saw a shiver run up Zach's spine, watched his throat work and his dark-fringed lashes flutter as the homeopathic dose of caffeine took effect.

I think listening to agreeable debates with pleasant Members of the European Parliament is an example of the homeopathic doses which Commissioners would sometimes find most welcome.

Irony is the means by which the huge lumbering machinery designing and marketing goods around us not only disarms resistance to consumerism but actually grows stronger with homeopathic doses of it.

The only criticism Kassirer had was that the findings of reduced hay fever symptoms from the homeopathic dose were what he called a "soft outcome," because the symptom evaluations were subjective.

For another, the purveyors of kitsch borrowed freely from art, and art took its revenge and borrowed from kitsch -in limited homeopathic doses, as a kind of vaccine.

A piece marvels at the popularity of plane-disaster novels ( Airframe , Mayday ) in airport bookstores, theorizing that fictional air terror must "inoculate a troubled mind with a homeopathic dose of angst."

But he was running true to form and giving it to me in homeopathic doses and I wasn't going to think about it now: there were more pressing considerations and while the engine was warming I looked them over.

She wrote to her friend Elizabeth J. Neal that she moved both the audience and herself to tears, saying "I infused into my speech an Homeopathic dose of woman's rights, as I take good care to do in many private conversations."

Then there are the fascinating background landscapes of some rennaisance religious and secular paintings, and for sheer brio Rubens's huge paintings of Marie de Medici (a special gallery in the Louvre) - to be taken in homeopathic doses once a year.

In reply John Vance stated The constituents of the honourable member for Westmeath would not be satisfied with the homeopathic dose of "home rule" embodied in the present bill and his own opinion was that "home rule" in Ireland would prove to be "Rome rule".

As time passed on, the homeopathic doses of alcohol gradually showed their effect upon the men by a certain deterioration of character, willpower and effectiveness, and years before they should have done so they passed out [he means died, not collapsed in inebriation] mainly as the result of difficulties with the liver, kidneys and stomach.

Every day or two I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.