Panacaea

In a context of financial constraint, faced with the inefficiency of large organizations, the failure of large projects and white elephants, some see in this sector a panacaea or an alternative development model, the image of the success of the market against the State or the beauty of the small.

In fact, the claims made by many early manufacturers went beyond mere comfort; they essentially promised to be panacaeas for all your rear-end afflictions.

I find that while the move towards global justice is in many ways heartening, we ought not believe that it is a panacaea.

The recapitulation of the developments at Aulis is momentarily interrupted, at the point of Agamemnon's hopeless decision, to evoke a false picture of security in Zeus, and to underscore the enigma of the universal order, while at the same time holding out such make-believe panacaeas as sophrosyne and the like.