Americans have grown accustomed to cynically dismissing campaign promises peddled by politicians on the stump as pure pablum. |
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Only the most thin-skinned and histrionic of Malaysia Airlines' customers could conceivably claim to be offended by this pablum. |
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He does not bother to sheath his protectionist urges in pablum about competitiveness, preferring prosecutorial accusation of trade infringement. |
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By serving up this pablum, Hall does the opposite: despite her passionate good intentions, she condescends to King and to the audience. |
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It is pure political pablum, to buy votes not to in any way move forward the political life of Canada. |
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At worst, in a prior era, his op-ed might have been considered boilerplate post-national-tragedy pablum. |
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The second looks at cultural contexts for American politics, including religious, sports-oriented, Facebook, and other pablum. |
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All too often, that's a cop-out way for an editor to fill their column space, and it reads like self-serving pablum. |
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In reality, it was theological pablum, and many clergy recognized it as such. |
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They replace simple principles such as protecting wildlife species with complex, difficult-to-define ecological pablum. |
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Perhaps that's because he doesn't belittle his audience by dumbing down the material or feeding them dogmatic pablum. |
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No. They are meaningless because the government's agenda is like pablum and the legislative initiatives that are brought to the House have no resemblance to the concerns of Canadians. |
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In the last election, the Prime Minister went to every province and every city and he gave us a steady dose of pablum that there would be no recession and no deficit and that anyone who suggested otherwise was ridiculous. |
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This recoil from crowd-pleasing pablum continued through the sixties. |
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Sometimes thickening milk with pablum will help. |
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