Sentences with word «pablum»

People over 60 are as sexual and complicated as their grandchildren, and there ought to be more movies about them, but only an audience as constipated as these characters could mistake this lukewarm stream of pablum for a hard nugget of truth.

D + It would be unfair to Milk to say that Gus Van Sant returns to its realm of soft - peddled liberal pablum with Promised Land.

I always thought the politically - correct questions approved by Human Resources were ridiculously plebeian and prone to producing pablum for responses.

The filmmakers throw in some usual Hollywood pablum about the dangers of vigilante justice and the seductions of absolute power, but those flimsy messages fly in the face of the rest of the film.

Today some of our children, whom we have fed pablum in our liberal churches, are finding new life in evangelical and Pentecostal movements.

Field spoke about an hour after White House chief science adviser delivered the same pablum the administration has been dribbling out its entire tenure.

Does Zuckerberg's reticence only affect the public appearance of the firm — is it just content - free pablum that we've been raised to expect as American consumers?

One thing missing is to have someone on the team thinking like a reporter, without it you get marketing pablum content.

Consequently, the usual political pablum doesn't apply.

It would be unfair to Milk to say that Gus Van Sant returns to its realm of soft - peddled liberal pablum with Promised Land.

He or I or any indie author could do as Pinter advocates and keep writing until we produce Pablum acceptable enough to the Royals.

Inoffensive remakes, spinoffs, superhero movies and other pablum get released weekly, so go see one of those instead.

«Jesus unites us» makes about as much sense to me as: «Buddha unites us» «Mother Nature unites us» «Krishna Unites us» «Our Humanity unites us» and all the rest of such pablum.

Jan 04,2016... Anyone who has ever tried to spoon Pablum into a stubborn infant can hardly help but feel that the b...

Typical pablum, right?

Then his eyes crackle with energy and he displays a penetrating clarity (not to mention a refreshing absence of CEO pablum).

What a bunch of mewling, exculpatory pablum.

Sorry RJ, if you just want pablum only hear what promotes your fantasy then you're more than welcome to spend your time on the forums of CARM.

They turn on the TV to their favorite pablum, MSNBC.

But if religions come up with pablum which stops their members from hating and shunning others, then I am all for it.

She is breastfed and eats oatmeal pablum with some pears or prunes.

I think that might just apply in this case: children develop resistance to bad biologicals in part by being exposed to them, so maybe all those bologna and cheese sandwiches I took to school as a kid helped keep me from having to be spoon - fed a diet of sterile Pablum the rest of my life, eh?

Also pablum (oat cereal) tastes pretty sugary too.

Gilmore Girls is a genuine gem in the making, a family - friendly hour burdened by neither trite cliche nor precocious pablum.

The play within a play motif is used here to great advantage as an aging actor famous for pablum seeks to redeem his self - worth by mounting a prestigious piece on Broadway, that place where legions of the acting community believe is Shangri - La.

The tale has the consistency of baby pablum — it's nutritious and easy on the gums — but there's enough beauty and pictorial wit here from opening to end credits, enough feeling for the art and for the freedom of animation, that you may not care.

The 1978 remake, by contrast, took on post-Watergate anti-government sentiment and «Me Decade» self - help pablum.

You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.

One does not grow one's intellect by reading namby pamby pablum.

What saddens me the most is that such inconsequential pablum is so very popular in America.

«I am honored to receive this appointment,» said Warden, according to the state's pablum news release.

This is really just for reference — don't mind the usual fund manager pablum, relative performance means sweet FA, my bank manager's really only interested in my absolute performance..!

I wonder if Nintendo will face class - action lawsuits from a North American population so addicted to laziness and broadcast media pablum that a few corpses will actually be more shocking than an entire population of pale - skinned, carpal - crippled, diabetics with soaring blood - pressure and cheetos - orange stained fingers?

The bigger picture is that Canadians will continue to be fed the same old pablum.

Then comes Pablum that ubiquitous baby food (some of which is still bound to be in cracks and crannies in the rooms where my children learned to feed themselves), also an invention from the early part of the last century.