Russo presumes heavily on the charms of this genial simpleton — the elder Mr. Lynch's dull-witted naïveté wouldn't be mistaken for quiet mindfulness — even while indicting him for his almost willful blindness and offsetting him in the character of his wife, Lucy's mother.
For instance, one law allows him to name regional political leaders who would have separate budgets, which could help him offset possible victories by opposition candidates in state and municipal elections scheduled for November.
Donald has considered side collaborations with colleagues, which might help him offset the dearth of publications from his own lab, but Donald's PI forbids it.
That allowed him to offset the new deficits with the previous surpluses.
The photographs offset the image of him as a mad, reckless, self-destructive hippy.
Nor does he have the network smarts around him to offset blunders.
The Knicks can win with Anthony, but they have to surround him with playmakers to offset his ball-dominating ways and find him a suitable co-star.
Park biologists treated him with topical medications and Vitamin K injections to offset the poisoning, and released him back into the park.
His widely acknowledged intellect is offset by imperiousness that makes him hard to work with, some of his opponents say.
For weeks, Mr. Kerry has been invoking "values" in an effort to offset Republican efforts to paint him as too liberal.
