As a result, says the report, the government faces an "indigestible menu of short-term policy choices".

BBC: Food price rises 'to hit UK hard'

And it is being sold with a heavy dose of sugar-coated earnestness that many non-Americans may find indigestible.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

Bank One and First Union, to take two empires built by voraciously acquisitive bosses, have found mergers rather indigestible.

ECONOMIST: Beneath that healthy exterior

All this Mr Starr relates in an erudite but lively style that happily stops this long book from becoming indigestible.

ECONOMIST: The California dream

The idea that Turks, who began arriving nearly 50 years ago, are an indigestible minority is belied by countless success stories.

ECONOMIST: Minorities in Germany

Jantz pulled out a 12 by 12 piece of indigestible black plastic.

CNN: Japanese tsunami debris makes its way into Hawaiian birds

The solution, as controlled by the director Martin Campbell, is to put the narrative on a low-carb diet: no fatty subplots, no indigestible villains, a minimum of frills.

NEWYORKER: Casino Royale

William Shawn at the New Yorker wanted him to write densely factual pieces on regional geology, archaeology and botany, so the book contains many almost indigestible encyclopedic patches.

ECONOMIST: Travels in the desert

The problem with traditional print journalism, he says, is it often comes in a form that's indigestible to the typical Web reader, who might be surfing between meetings at work or on his smartphone.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The New York Times ridiculed the movie as an "indigestible Christmas pudding from the British whimsy factory responsible for such reasonably palatable confections as Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones's Diary".

BBC: Martine McCutcheon found fame in EastEnders