pottage
Example Sentences
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In effect, for a mess of pottage, a public school sold an inflated but permanent artistic legacy to a private citizen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2022
Yet there’s no glue — not a whiff of life or a single substantial, grounding directorial idea — that makes this pottage work scene to scene.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2017
You could call it a culture, but it was more of a participatory elegy for our own preempted lives, surrendered in advance for a pottage of depersonalized amusements.
From Forbes ● Oct. 16, 2014
He’s Esau, consumed by the desire to trade back his mess of pottage for his birthright.
From Time ● Aug. 20, 2012
I had tried to sell my birthright for a mess of pottage.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
