By the milquetoast standards of morning TV, this constitutes thinking outside the box.

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Despite having generally milquetoast reputations, each member of Congress has a variety of factors that impact how and why they vote.

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Voltaire, he insists, was a milquetoast careerist, too concerned with his own reputation and his comfortable life to say anything truly unsettling.

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In a dissent from what he called a "milquetoast report, " attorney Richard Emery wrote that he sees no difference between judges getting police leniency for having the plate or for identifying themselves to an officer.

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Three middle-age blowhards (a supercilious retired soldier, a dull canon and the puffed-up owner of a river bathhouse) vie for the affections of a comely magician's assistant, who seems open to dalliances despite a relationship with her milquetoast employer (wonderfully underplayed by Mr. Menzel).

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But Matthew Broderick, as her husband, a Caspar Milquetoast with a flap of hair falling over his forehead, never seems to get into the movie at all, and, somewhere in the middle, the rusty gothic-horror mechanics underneath the comedy bring everything to a grinding halt.

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