But it contributes to the palliating, as opposed to challenging, quality of her humor.

Treatment by opposites, on the other hand, works by palliating and suppressing symptoms.

Pleasing for its very weirdness, the sketch also has a genuinely satirical flavor, its target being the kind of self-involved young person whose voracious consumerism needs continuous palliating.

Even in patients with disseminated tumor, locoregional forms of therapy may play an important role in palliating symptoms of the primary tumor or of ectopic hormone production.

And, to cap it all, such means as existed of palliating the situation in humans terms - above all, the Church - had been stripped both of their resources and, in many cases, their very capacity to operate.

"The Fourth Wall" is a cleverly experimental and modestly self-deprecating play; Mr. Gurney is not proposing himself as the antidote to the American theater's shrinking ambition, its lily-livered concession to the primacy of Hollywood or its palliating, finance-driven, television-influenced fare.