meagerness

Past payments and land allotments to Indigenous Californians were considered by many to be insulting in their meagerness.

With that out of the way, Ewan finishes by torching Logan’s legacy, saying his brother fed “a certain kind of meagerness in men.”

It marked the first major gun safety legislation passed by Congress in nearly 30 years, and its meagerness spoke to the fecklessness of the moment.

This language about meagerness and failure seems to have an inoculating effect.

The meagerness of Larry’s inner world becomes the novel’s own, and readers are offered a banquet of crass judgment and dubious wisdom.