" Jacob Rees-Mogg, a lawmaker who had previously written off Cameron's demands as thin gruel, said: "The thin gruel has been further watered down.
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I mean, jeez, Netflix is offering tinsel-dusted gruel on its platform and mocking people who consume said gruel every single day (for 18 days).
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In other words ... he probably won't slop gruel on trays.
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The O.C.C. turns the boxes into a thick, brown gruel.
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The "R" in GRUEL will help you complete this entry.
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It's not even worth making a "thin gruel" joke about.
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But the rest of the legislative agenda will be thin gruel.
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This is your gruel that you have to eat every day.
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Instead of steak, however, they're offering up a bowl of gruel.
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I was not allowed any coffee along with my sad breakfast gruel.
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It was the best kind of peasant gruel: lusty, cheap, and nourishing.
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Polenta's humble origins lay in basic, savory gruel for the poorer classes.
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Yet, the fact remains that the lukewarm gruel is the better choice.
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Meals are gruel, which the nurses cart around in large enamel pails.
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It looks like gruel, but it tastes like sweet, artery-clogging liquid gold.
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The takes would have been fed to us like gruel at an orphanage.
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For now, this is the thin gruel on offer as a character arc.
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They're a totally reasonable basketball team, but who is lining up for this gruel?
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Some subsist on the thin gruel of political cartoon shows and online impeachment petitions.
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Food was a ration of bread once a day, sometimes supplemented by thin gruel.
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The argument is that it's thin gruel from a senator who supports Trump's nominees.
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Jimmy was hooked up to an IV and given plenty of easy-to-eat gruel.
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The government stops some of the soup from being cooked, resulting in a thin gruel.
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To devout Catholics, it seems that the religious gruel served to today's kids is thin.
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This was food fit for any discerning Thai palate, not just gruel for the ill.
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I need $50,000 to buy bunkbeds, gruel, and matching Nikes for all my cult members.
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Grant it, there are a few Bacos Bacon Bits sprinkled on top of the gruel.
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If you live in New York, enjoy the gruel-grey sky and the smell of smoke.
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And in this controlled gentleness, there's sophistication — making the prison gruel seem like sous-vide steak.
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To me it amounts to an admission that what they've presented so far is pretty thin gruel.
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"This is the most comprehensive stress test you can put a spacecraft through here on Earth," Gruel said.
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"Anyone who comes to Berlin, or lives here, they recognize he belongs to traditional Berlin," Mr. Gruel said.
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Give us a thousand Emmanuel Macrons, and we will spoon down our centrist gruel with something resembling genuine gratitude.
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The cocoon arrives in the jail cell as a stowaway, an unexpected lump in a bowl of prison gruel.
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"I'm looking forward to some tomato soup!" he said, rubbing his palms together like an urchin queuing for gruel.
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Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the opposition Labour Party, whose surprisingly strong election performance damaged May, called the speech "thin gruel".
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We have no choice but to respect the lives of the athletes who gruel night after night to entertain us.
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Democrats may not win many votes with thin-gruel, poll-tested gun control proposals, but they aren't going to lose any.
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Democrats may not win many votes with thin gruel, poll-tested gun control proposals, but they aren't going to lose any.
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What if you were to, say, add a full pound of buttery lobster meat to your vat of tatery wonder gruel?
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So the gruel slid back out again, dribbling down his badly shaved chin and he not doing anything to stop it.
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"Thin Gruel" ran the leader headline in the Times, while the Spectator deemed the EU to have "called the prime minister's bluff".
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But the idea that a recipient is somehow culpable for the later-disclosed criminal activity of a donor seems rather thin gruel.
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At the upscale wine bar and restaurant Lutter & Wegner, the manager, Sasha-Michael Gruel, smiled at Mr. Bleck as he came in.
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He can expect much bashing from the Eurosceptic press and from backbench Tories for watering down what they already saw as pretty thin gruel.
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Most rational human beings, when faced with a bowl of lint sprinkled with lemon juice versus a bowl of lukewarm gruel, would reject both.
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The politics of having your cake and eating it have long since given way to the politics of choosing between gruel or bread and water.
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Fegan's was a Dickensian institution of the sort that no longer exists: hundreds of boys, all with their own number; Bible classes every day, gruel.
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And she is so underwhelmed by the hard-won diet of bannocks and gruel, she partakes of contraband sweets purchased at a nearby convenience store.
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Confined to a prison in the Republic of Mordovia, she was fed gruel, lost 40 pounds and endured temperatures that plunged to 40 below zero.
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"I personally enjoy leaving out a meal of oat gruel and herring for her on 6 January, and having some myself in her honor," she says.
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Velpeau was just as astonished by what he likened to a thick gruel, leading him to conclude that his dead patient's blood was full of pus.
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So what if I've just spent an hour collating and prepping the ingredients and another two-and-a-half hours swirling some gruel around a pan?
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Facebook has now gone the Party one better: feeds will likewise be full of equally crappy, thin-gruel content, but the Proles will be producing it themselves.
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The robotic…Read more Read"Now that's a Mars rover," David Gruel, the Mars 2020 assembly, test, and launch operations manager at JPL, said in the release.
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If you hope for a little more, especially in light of just how terrible Saudi Arabia is for at least half its population, this was thin gruel.
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Instead, until she is almost 7, Guo must live with her destitute grandparents in a fishing hamlet where sustenance comes from strips of kelp and watery gruel.
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"He has seen so often how soup kitchens serve up gruel essentially," says Father Paul Dressler, the guardian — "coach" is the analogy he likes — at Capuchin College.
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" He added: "It was important for Trump to hear Putin: After all, back in Washington, he is fed informational gruel that is mixed up in the fake.
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At one point, he said, Mr. Mandela and Mr. Sisulu were put on a meager ration of rice gruel as punishment for supposedly not working hard enough.
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I know it sounds like pretty thin gruel, but those kinds of modest growth expectations may indeed be enough to get us another leg higher, into record territory.
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Dan: Anyone who said "At least we'll get better art in the age of Trump" should be required to slurp up this vapid gruel though their eye sockets.
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India's rupee did suffer its biggest fall of the year after the second cut in interest rates in short sucession but other than that it was thin gruel.
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"First we blast it with sound to make sure nothing vibrates loose," said David Gruel, the Mars 2020 assembly, test and launch operations manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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She'd feed him until he cooed and maybe sometimes they would run out of gruel and she would watch his hunger grow, watch his eyes turn small and sad.
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Part of the obsession was driven by xenophobia: Nativists feared that the sudden influx of immigrants from southern and Eastern Europe would make thin gruel of hearty American stock.
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"This must be pretty bitter gruel for him to swallow in order to try to bring the courts into a kind of militant observance of the highest party leadership."
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Unfortunately, I'm no cook — my halfhearted attempts at preparing dinner all inevitably end up affectionately being referred to as "gruel" by my husband, who is a much better cook.
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In that year's manifesto, aside from Brexit the Conservatives offered only a thin gruel of punishing reforms of things like social care and little in the way of extra spending.
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Nicolas Cage has been surviving on professional gruel for so long now that it seems churlish to ponder performances that, much like the movies around them, have bordered on cartoonish.
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The other dishes on the three-course menu include a corn appetizer (with jalapeño, cheese and lime) and "gruel" for dessert, which is a white chocolate-coconut pudding with almond crumble.
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Hmm. Weird. Perhaps that's because identity politics is a thin gruel to be offered by the Democratic party establishment, corporatists, and media elites in lieu of actually delivering anything of consequence.
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"We mainly had gruel to eat, and they would let us eat rice once a month," Seang Tharuon told Reuters as she bought drinks from Srey Heng's stall outside the stadium.
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And you see it all from the point of view of the servants, and it's two old people sitting at a table eating gruel, and the flowers are all bunches of newspaper.
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But the tax plan President Trump and his Congressional allies have cooked up is a lopsided meal: thick, juicy tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, dry thin gruel for working families.
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To signal that Zhou loved the people, he is shown working late while his aides fret about his health, and refusing a bowl of gruel because there are Chinese without enough to eat.
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Now she spends much of her time worrying about food, scouring Gaza&aposs vegetable markets for end-of-day discounts or walking miles for a pot of free gruel from a soup kitchen.
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If nothing else, it seems as if Porzingis's injury will prod Hornacek into giving the scant few promising youngsters he has a little more floor time, but this is all very thin gruel.
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If the special counsel delivered a weak gruel, after all the time, money, newsprint and digital space lavished on it, people would demand to know why he hadn't pulled the plug long ago.
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Her best work was inspired by a regime of gruel and black bread, of beatings and freezing cold in isolation cells, where she would huddle in her thin useless dress against the icy pipes.
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It took only a few online videos of Jim demonstrating the yield of his buckets by mixing up entire bathtubs of gruel before my curiosity was piqued enough to order some to try myself.
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However, while the endless feeds of content gruel are slowly giving each and everyone one of us societally terminal levels of ADD, there are occasional bright patches in our daily crawl through the internet jungle.
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As a once vital and exciting crop of glam bands in the early 80s got watered down into gruel by the end of the decade, a disparate bunch of bands rose to fill the void.
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The sordid conditions of its condemned—stowed away for decades, eight men to a 120-square-foot cell, sustained on filthy gruel and constantly recontaminating one another with disease—are the least of its horrors.
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By Friday, America's sports-watching public was subsisting on a thin gruel of hope in the form of auto racing and potentially the Masters in a few weeks, with an additional, occasional diversion sprinkled in.
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Except, of course, for all the thin gruel serving as the foundation for the story that more met the "screw-it-just-publish-it" standards of BuzzFeed than those of the esteemed paper of record.
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Johnson criticized Pelosi and the House on ABC's "This Week" saying the Democrats' impeachment case is "pretty thin gruel" and that it should not be the responsibility of Senate Democrats to make the House's case.
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For gallery visitors who find today's dominant Conceptualism to be thin gruel, these kind of refreshing throwbacks define Provincetown — as does the sense that art here is less a vocation than a devoutly held lifelong calling.
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The historical record of Wordsworth's relationship with food also seems to yield thin gruel, much as Shapiro has painstakingly prepared it, devoting several pages to the briefest mention of black pudding in one of Wordsworth's journals.
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And it's also a workout; at the right time, brain sated, a reader tends to become starved for the sensory, bodily, three-dimensional experience of mortality, nature, textures, and sounds—and flees the thin gruel of text.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron stood firm on Wednesday against eurosceptic members of his own party who criticized a plan to keep Britain in the European Union as a watered down "thin gruel" of broken promises.
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Cornyn added that Trump didn't specifically use the words "thin gruel," but that he was characterizing his interpretation from their time together after a campaign rally where Trump touted his plan to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
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Its workers cut the house's hexagonal shingles from the corrugated tin of the barn's roof and fashioned white window frames and a porch from its interior, which was painted with a seemingly plasterlike gruel of lime and milk.
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It continues to publish anti-government material but Ferrer says the movement's numbers are down about 50 percent in the last three years to around 3,000 people due to harassment and detentions that make membership a gruel ling experience.
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Isaacs strains to make a workable plot out of this thin gruel, but once she's in the groove she has us chasing Corie all over the map, charmed by this motormouth sleuth's snappy wit and awed by her courage.
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Depp remains wholeheartedly the focus of this fifth Pirates film, and saying the character's loopy novelty has faded is like complaining that there are maggots in the below-decks gruel: You knew what you were getting when you came aboard.
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Either way, it seems as good a time as any to take a run at Amanda Cohen's cool new recipe for cauliflower stew, which manages to offer a number of contrasting textures and flavors to what otherwise may be thin gruel.
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The writer uses fantastically gritty and descriptive language to help the reader visualize, smell and feel the preparation of the haggis: yanking veins from lungs; picking lumps of meaty gruel from her fingernails; the glorious stench of the sheep's stomach.
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"The Trump administration's repeated calls for a free and open Indo-Pacific have fallen flat in various capitals, which many see as very thin gruel, begging the issue of how the U.S. intends to remain relevant to the regional future."
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Ocon said his time at Mercedes had been gruel ling, doing a crazy amount of traveling and going from simulator work at the Brackley factory to carrying out duties at the racetracks around the world, but the education was worth it.
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So without the benefit of a second-sleep, I scuffled bleary-eyed into my kitchen, where I helped myself to a bowl of the previous day's breakfast gruel, which had congealed and caked to the corner of my stock pot like shellac.
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In 2010, a jail inmate sued the county alleging he was fed rancid "Nutraloaf"—a gruel-like concoction—that made him so sick he lost 14 pounds in 19 days (the insurance company representing Nutraloaf settled, over the objections of Clarke's department).
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Consider the following, picked at random from Lear's "A Book of Nonsense" (1846): There was an Old Person of Ewell, Who chiefly subsisted on gruel; But to make it more nice He inserted some mice, Which refreshed that Old Person of Ewell.
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I found her recipe for gruel ("good for ailing folks," the card notes) and a recipe in my grandmother's hand for buttermilk rolls, as well as two different copies of the cream-cheese poundcake invented by Miss Tommie, my grandmother's best friend.
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Four expatriate pilots told Reuters the downsides include a long hiring process; short, 3-year contracts, with no union protection; gruel ling flight rosters handed to pilots at late notice; and a system geared towards penalizing pilots for mistakes rather than using these to learn safety lessons.
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You may have seen it floating around Facebook last week among the hundreds of thousands of posts from disgusting NFL fans shitting their sweatpants about a black player forgetting to say please and thank you during their weekly excuse to slowly kill themselves with cheese-infused fried man-gruel.
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It sported a fresh coat of paint; flush toilets instead of a hole in the floor; a food menu with items like shish kebab rather than the usual gruel; real soccer balls in the exercise yard; and TV sets in the cells — presumably to watch World Cup matches.
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"You need lots of onions sautéed in pork schmaltz, then you add the kale and bacon and cover it with water," revealed Mr. Gruel, who left the region 22 years ago to settle in the hills of Hesse, and regularly makes the five-hour drive home to join friends for the kale hike.
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The Desserts At Docking Bay 7 Food And Cargo Most of the food at the higher end restaurant (there is no table service joint in space, it would seem) is delicious, but between the lighting at the restaurant and the nature of rectangular chicken patties and nearly purple blueberry cornbread puffs, nearly impossible to capture without making it look like space gruel.
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Moreover, Mr. Luciano's physical and emotional state when he reported for work that morning must have been precarious, another omen that might have been divined from two other ads on The Times' front page that morning: one, for a wheat gruel that promised to restore the "wasted tissue" of patients who withstood influenza, and a second for a lozenge to ward it off.
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Types of holy orders, the breviary, the differences between saints and martyrs — these topics are an unusual addition to the canon of graphic novels for young readers, but Margaret's wry descriptions of everything from hand signs used during the nuns' silent meals, to types of needles and stitches used in their embroidery, to holy relics and even a recipe for really terrible gruel, fascinate.
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Named for the "People's Chamber," the lower house of parliament in the G.D.R., Volkskammer tries to revive East Germany on a daily basis by cooking up gruel for the odd local with a case of "ostalgie" — nostalgia for the old East — and curious tourists willing to punish their palates with hearty slop like Falscher Hase, or counterfeit rabbit: a dense, gravy-smothered meatloaf hiding a hard-boiled egg and cured pork knuckle with kraut.
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This improvised avgolemono rice, as we're calling it — in which you don't use the whites of the egg, and you cook the rice pasta-style — started out as a respectably accurate magiritsa, the traditional Greek Easter soup that is kind of like a rice gruel made with dill and a broth of boiled lamb parts (the heart, the intestines, the liver, even the lungs) that are taken from the lambs that will be roasted for Easter.
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