But unpopularity is gruel for politicians (and actors), and he is likely to feel chastened.
Better we all eat gruel rather than allow some to eat steak while others settle for hamburger.
We were like 21st century Oliver Twists, poised to be kicked out of the workhouse if we asked for more gruel.
Comment: Granted some of this, like Proposal 10, is thin gruel.
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In general, however, fans of hardcore puzzlers will find little to challenge them, and action game fans will find Long Road Ahead thin gruel.
But this is relatively thin gruel compared with the recent past.
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In areas where adults are reduced to eating just one meal a day, babies are fed little more than flavored cassava root or a thin gruel.
Partly because, since the election, the press has had to subsist on a dispiriting gruel of reviews, white papers and bills, leaked only in so far as the government wanted them leaked and, in truth, making dull news.
For all the architectural crimes Soviet rule inflicted on the city depressing gruel textured tower blocks among them the glittering fist of the great Timur (aka Tamerlane), who raised Samarkand again after Genghis Khan had lain it to waste in 1220, is still discernible.
And, given the fear-mongering Internet stories at this time last year about global warming destroying rice crops, that leaves us little to eat except liver, gruel, and whatever else global warming alarmists believe are the most unpalatable foods for human consumption.
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