Pablum used in a sentence

Pablum in a sentence as a noun

It'll be better than this pablum PR puff.

I'll take G'Kar sparring with Londo any day over the pablum on TV now.

Why, yes, I would like a double helping of pablum! Thank you for offering.

This is moralistic pablum. You can buy a flat screen TV for $100 at Wal-Mart.

All the same pablum about not having to follow rules, make life a game, follow your heart, stick it to the man, and so on. Enough already.

Myself, I'm not going to pablum-feed you guys a over-simplified short form version of what I think I just read. Read it for yourself.

Oh and that thing about sports as a way of thinking about software is not only a stretch, my experience makes it sound like pablum.

I'm 31 and love me some internet pablum but I don't want to see it everywhere. Sometimes the internet really is serious business, right?

Continuing the pablum, you feed us a line about how fishing licenses are evil. I'm sorry, but we've had dozens of large world fisheries be over-fished to extinction.

But we're in a situation where 90% of news is everyday pablum, 9% is AFD BS, and 1% is the creation of GMail, changing the Internet forever.

Hence these sorts of confrontational, pablum entries that bizarrely make the front page of HN. I don't get it. If these were usenet posts they would never, in a million years, see any attention.

Instead, we get pablum such as "they hate us for our freedom", even while we drone strike, destroy, and ****. Remarkably, the theory that you repeated fits with this pablum as it puts virtually no emphasis on our actions, save for a passing mention or two.

But such an approach devolves into pop pablum. I believe most other ideas here would be unnecessary if the meaning of the up/down arrows could be resolved either socially or algorithmically.

This story is fairly content-free, and the source being that man-year worker's adoring wife, wrapping up a pleasant family history definitely squeaks of pablum. But the basic premise is believable.

I'm sorry, but the kid has already launched himself into orbit, he's not going to come back to earth for the sake of two or three years of choking down generic, all-purpose pablum at the local high school.

In fact, the very idea that the watered-down free pablum provided on the web is a substitute for knowledge is frightening. Similar to the notion that sound bytes are a suitable replacement for indepth reporting, which we used to hear criticised but now seems to be accepted.

But this is HN, not a political discussion forum, most of the 'frighteningly ambitious ideas' to grace these pages are to do with pushing out more ads or other such pablum. PG isn't a philanthropist and YC isn't a charitable foundation; HN is naturally aligned with those objectives.

That's not being fair, that's regurgitating corporate pablum. Similarly to how every scandal in congress is blamed on a low ranking staffers whenever possible, corporate scandals are blamed on subcontracters whenever possible.

Here we're getting back around to a better excuse for studying history: If it really is unavoidable, and history is somehow part of us that we cannot destroy, then maybe we need to fill that hunger with a nice pablum like the US civics curriculum. It's a harm minimization strategy, like giving opiate addicts a supply of quality morphine so they don't stick whatever they find on the street into their veins.

It's not your run-of-the-mill tech article about "depression" being a temporary sadness brought on by work-related stress, the founder's lifestyle, or any of that typical pablum. It's the personal story of someone who is clinically depressed, has been hospitalized for that depression, and wants to make understanding of depression -- actual depression, not strawman-depression -- more widespread and accepted.