All too often, that's a cop-out way for an editor to fill their column space, and it reads like self-serving pablum. |
At worst, in a prior era, his op-ed might have been considered boilerplate post-national-tragedy pablum. |
Only the most thin-skinned and histrionic of Malaysia Airlines' customers could conceivably claim to be offended by this pablum. |
By serving up this pablum, Hall does the opposite: despite her passionate good intentions, she condescends to King and to the audience. |
Americans have grown accustomed to cynically dismissing campaign promises peddled by politicians on the stump as pure pablum. |
It is pure political pablum, to buy votes not to in any way move forward the political life of Canada. |