No matter, it will serve as a useful antidote to what they will try and inculcate you with at school, that's its chief virtue.

It is therefore a useful antidote to the many books and articles that depict Russia's development as a general, if erratic, success story.

That is a useful antidote to their self-propaganda," Admiral Blair added.

The documentary is a useful antidote to "March of the Penguins," the sentimental anthropomorphic documentary that became the year's biggest surprise hit.

A young Romani hero is a useful antidote to a rigid social class system.

Its buffering functions provide a useful antidote to the problems associated with negative emotions and ill health due to stress.

With all respect to your very busy schedule, it would be a useful antidote to some of the overly emotional responses we have seen today.

But in those areas where he is expert - the persistence of superstition is the most important - his book provides a useful antidote to the nonsense that surrounds us.

This made his work a useful antidote to the front page headlines of the Sunday newspaper.

For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as "environmental determinism," the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote.