pabulum

Example Sentences

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Hidden Valley Renaissance is the ranch dressing of Italian Revival architecture — mostly pabulum, sort of has taste, taken for granted and consumed accordingly.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2022

The Peabody Awards praised it for “offering the perfect counter to the enduring prevalence of toxic masculinity,” and the show’s Twitter account, which spouted pabulum about the decency of the human spirit, became extremely popular.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2021

A dozen years later, Epstein describes himself as “allergic” to business school slang, to the kind of pabulum espoused in leadership books.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2016

Sadly, a head-scratching lack of extras, only including a paltry six-minutes worth of promotional pabulum, relegates the great effort to a rental or on-demand viewing.

From Washington Times • Feb. 18, 2016

Before one has arrived at a discriminating age, he cannot sit down to every sort of literary pabulum regardless of consequences.

From Confessions of a Neurasthenic by Marrs, William Taylor