Sentences with word «pabulum»

The financial media and its purveyors of pabulum could only see this move by the Greeks in its impact upon the equity markets — and marginally the global bond markets.

-- Also, AP's Seth Borenstein delivered his usual pabulum on global warming, complete with extensive quotes from Corell.

Cuomo's declaration for governor is expected to be short on clichés and long on newsmaking specifics, addressing the state's widespread financial, economic, and corruption problems without resorting to what one Democratic activist called «the normal political pabulum.»

6) National: U.S. prisons have radically scaled back in - person visits and the availability of books in favor of «video visitation» run by private, for - profit corporations, and commercially pre-packaged pabulum reading material.

See: Laughable: UN Report: «Damage being caused by climate change... is no longer a matter of debate» — «The science has become more irrevocable than ever» — Sept. 24, 2009 — Also, AP's Seth Borenstein delivered his usual pabulum on global warming, complete with extensive quotes from Corell.

Thanks to the vagaries of Netflix's recommendation algorithm, it doesn't take more than a few steps to go from family - friendly kiddie pabulum like The Smurfs 2 to a left - field oddity like The Trotsky, a 2009 Canadian comedy that re-imagines Rushmore as a tongue - in - cheek Marxist crowd - pleaser.

Thank you for another GREAT year of contributions to make this BLOG a voice of reason in an effort to undermine the accepted NARRATIVE of conventional media investment pabulum.

With all the RCC's riches being horded and their hierarchies living in lives of humble luxuries, I'm sorry but I can not rightly commend such religious liars who would rather pilfer and lay sieges upon the emotionally despondent and financially poor... Give all that you have obtained by years of pilferage and give it back to your flocking poor oh pabulum pope... Only then will Christ Jesus find mercies upon your religion's unholiest vespers...

Evangelical Phill Butler, for example, has criticized a large percentage of paid - time programs as «not much more than a glossy pabulum — spiritualized entertainment with little of the tough stuff of discipleship in it.»

What we get is nice, prepared pabulum.

Democrats said at a news conference after the short session ended today that Republican rejected language in a proposed resolution, but then sent back their own edited version of the measure which largely included pabulum - like language promoting health and good eating habits.

If you're sick of the commercial pabulum and ready to discover new and fresh artists, dive into this list to explore ten of the best sites for legal and free mp3 downloads... and trendy sellout dating websites.

Wright took all the geek and film - fanatic good will he built up with Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead, not to mention his inspired TV series Spaced, and turned it into action pabulum that wanted us to root for a petulant, amoral, immature anti-hero.

A vehement critical backlash however, deemed its substandard literary qualities more offensive than its erotic content, its low - cultural value merely providing pabulum for the gendered masses.

After a nearly virtuoso opening, it reduces passages of the painter's life into multiple montages of pop pabulum.

by Walter Chaw No end - of - year sweepstakes would be complete without the requisite bushel of awards - baiting pabulum, rich with a nice, thick vein of glossy pandering.

In its mediocre way, it reminds of last year's homosexuality sitcom All Over the Guy, proving that true equality, sadly, lies in the democratization of all niche films into the same sort of pre-digested pabulum white males have been making for decades.

Paul Pender's debut script should be taught in screenwriting seminars as an example of uninspired pabulum «inspired» by true events that will inevitably be made into features by actors starting their own production companies.

They have the patina of authority but usually produce pabulum.

The standards they had in place before the Common Core were simply awful: Disconnected, discombobulated pabulum of feel - good sentiments, half - baked ideas, ed school jargon, and politically correct nonsense.

It's a bad thing that the market assumes that if your book has serious romantic emotions in it, it's pulp genre, Harlequin formulaic pabulum (sorry, Harlequin).

However, the simple reading does not bring anything good either to the writer or to the reader, it is just useless; that is why it is recommended to insert some ideas, which will make the reader consider a little at the topic of your informal essay writing, give some mental pabulum.

Weinberg is joined in comments by several others who seem to understand this as a simplistic explication — the kind of EZ - success promotional pabulum that some author services regularly produce.

Weaning Pups: Anxious that the pups get enough to eat, Manny reads online to give them frequent feedings of milk and pabulum starting at 4 weeks.

I'm still skeptical about how many tours (and there are so many in Rome) give you a real feeling for the city, how many take you beyond the standard tourist pabulum, but after my enjoyable and educational night with Ettore, I'll hold off on burning any tour guides at the stake.

I had a hard time getting excited about the Drawing Center as a cultural magnet — or for the likely pabulum that a Freedom Center would present without it.

This begins to read as an episode of an ongoing racial conflict (another work on display, Vegans Send Newly Acquired Moundmeat to the Tofu Converter, 2004, reveals the creatures» sacred pabulum to be made out of their darker rivals), but the story devolves with a gorgeously absurd narrative absentmindedness.

Drum snarks, «This gives pabulum a bad name.

A thankless task, delivering such pabulum, for actors that been put to better use elsewhere.

Still, when the announcement does come, it'll reportedly be in a speech that's heavy with specifics on how Cuomo proposes to deal with New York's endemic political corruption, without resort to «the normal political pabulum.»

So I figure Ganassi will want to knock out this interview as quickly as possible, and I'm not expecting to get anything out of him other than the usual pabulum.

Their aim is to prepare for the coming conflagration against arch big - bad Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), though their crowning triumph is as a metaphor for how ill - served are our children by a steady diet of pabulum, platitude, and Pollyannaism.

His work, both this pabulum book, and his «scholarly» papers have been soundly refuted by folks who do understand biology.

And I certainly get how you could listen to the pabulum shoveled out in your average high school biology class and think «That's a load of feces, and no more reasonable (or scientific) than my beliefs.»

Seuss was very politically minded, hating all forms of discrimination, and couldn't stand the pabulum fed to kids as kiddie - lit.

Audiences will be hankering to lynch somebody for unleashing this disjointed mix of pabulum, low - quality trash, and unimaginative fantasy on the public.

It's pabulum, albeit pabulum with a pedigree.

She argued long and loud — or as loudly as you can over the internet — about how reading what had already been published was like reading pabulum and would only cause harm to any aspiring author.

«Instead they get fed this pabulum of cultural something - or - other that puts everyone to sleep.»