There is perhaps no better example of the milquetoast NFL's front facing apparatus than the milquetoast NFL commissioner dodging a question by pleading ignorance.
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Nancy Pelosi put out a milquetoast condemnation of Maxine Waters.
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This is certainly a more milquetoast form of defending itself.
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"Given the President's comments, that a very milquetoast response," House said.
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Based on the research, this milquetoast approach just won't be enough.
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There is something a little milquetoast and benign about that phrase.
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The concept was milquetoast, and the campaign tanked and ended early.
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The Step Up series brought dance battling into the milquetoast American mainstream.
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Joy, it must be remembered, is nothing like happiness, its milquetoast cousin.
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That means running progressives who can energize the base, not milquetoast moderates.
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As far as disassociations go, this was as milquetoast as they come.
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While we don't want robot overlords, neither do we want milquetoast robot drivers.
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He made as enthusiastically milquetoast a pro-Trump argument as he could have.
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Hughes as a nervy milquetoast whose problems stem from the erotically-charged dominance
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But even these milquetoast measures have faced intense backlash from within McCarthy's party.
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This elite centrism, in practice, amounts to a kind of milquetoast nationalist libertarianism.
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But his delivery stands out, especially in comparison to some milquetoast technocratic Democrats.
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Clinton is hammering her opponent over his previous milquetoast support for gun control measures.
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Both Biden and Amy Klobuchar received a milquetoast welcome from the Bernie cheering section.
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But compared to the usual milquetoast behavior of Congress, the spectacle was almost revolutionary.
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That's all the more reason to encourage a milquetoast moderate like Schultz to run.
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Bill (Chris Gethard) is a milquetoast with shaky self-esteem except when he's performing.
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From the start, Jaffe avoids the gooey, milquetoast center of insipid contemporary political sentiment.
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The American people abandoned standard milquetoast Beltway conservatism and politics as usual last year.
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Still, the milquetoast Trump case includes calling LGBT civil liberties a "distraction" from real issues.
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And at that point, candidates aren't winning based on their charming personalities and milquetoast politics.
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When milquetoast establishment Republicans had moments of clarity on Putin's expansionism, they were roundly mocked.
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"The responses are a little milquetoast compared to what conservatives usually get," the aide said.
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The denials by Amazon and Apple weren't of the traditional corporate, word salad, milquetoast variety.
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Given everything else June has been dealing with, however, the flashbacks feel a little milquetoast.
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But that just meant he was a fighter — not a glad-hander or a milquetoast.
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Various politicians demanded she apologize and have condemned her remarks, including a milquetoast statement by Rep.
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First, let's talk about what we're talking about: The milquetoast "racial slurs" doesn't quite cut it.
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He was indeed the kind, humble, milquetoast man that so many colleagues deemed him to be.
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King believed complacency and milquetoast protestations were more effective in promoting white supremacy than outright bigotry.
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For those reasons, the agreement presented to Trump was no milquetoast, meet-you-half-way bargain.
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Some of the goals seem kind of milquetoast, like 80-percent renewable energy usage by 2024.
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This university administration needs to start standing for something other than appeasement, retreat, and milquetoast nonsense.
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Nominating a milquetoast, ostensibly "safe" candidate may feel like the right decision in such a crucial election.
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Sadly, we did not leave milquetoast PR statements and broken promises in the past where they belong.
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Even with this milquetoast approach from a relative backbencher, Ryan won about a third of the caucus.
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In it, Mr. Davis said, Mr. Manilow complained that he was turning into a milquetoast Andy Williams.
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And Robyn, thank goodness, is a vast improvement on the milquetoast heroines of the "Magic Mike" franchise.
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Democrats should demand a more aggressive reform agenda than the milquetoast bromides we've been treated to so far.
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The House speaker, Paul Ryan, sent a spokeswoman out to issue a milquetoast defense of the special counsel.
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There are plenty of cheery, milquetoast tweets promoting Gutsy Women, the book she co-wrote with her daughter.
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The way we try to persuade the other side is by essentially becoming milquetoast Democrats, or Republican light.
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If it's true that sedans are being killed, warmed-over milquetoast options like the Volkswagen Passat are prime suspects.
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The challenges of the Deep South, in contrast to milquetoast acceptance elsewhere, can forge a deep commitment to change.
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I thought of my character as a milquetoast antique collector and told him I thought I'd channel Robert Cummings.
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Be smart: Every indicator is going off that this will not be a friendly election to milquetoast or moderation.
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Later came a Judge Kavanaugh who bore little resemblance to the milquetoast man on Fox News three nights earlier.
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Their responses to Mr. Trump's video, cataloged here by my colleague Astead Herndon, ranged from fierce to more milquetoast.
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"I have milquetoast policies that I can massage their way through a contemptuous Congress" is not a motivational message.
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Like a really milquetoast, you know, like, we'll be fine, which all signs are pointing to, idk about that.
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But Theo — a milquetoast, middle-class middleman — isn't entirely what he seems: His name and history are a lie.
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Most car reviews are penned after a few hundred miles in the car, which can often lead to milquetoast conclusions.
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To succeed the Lib Dems must embrace liberalism wholeheartedly and abandon our milquetoast attempts at being Tony Blair's doveish heir.
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I can barely remember a single redeeming quality about any of them because they are all so bland and milquetoast.
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As my peers drooled over the milquetoast Backstreet Boys, Usher presented a confident alternative that both scared and aroused me.
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"You can't just go around being rude to people!" protests Matt (Tom Basden), his milquetoast boss and brother-in-law.
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"You can't compete with the MAGA hat-wearing crew if you are a milquetoast candidate like Michael Bloomberg," she added.
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The American Idol winner seemingly plays it safe musically because she feels she's taking her chances with milquetoast political statements instead.
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The White House's bungled comments have escalated tensions in Congress, and milquetoast Republican reactions are already becoming fodder for Democratic attacks.
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His milquetoast approach to diversity and his technocratic affect would alienate both progressive voters and that much-vaunted white working class.
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Though he was maligned as a milquetoast patsy, Alan Colmes's run as the original Fox News liberal looks better in retrospect.
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Needless to say, the series about a milquetoast chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-dealer helped grow tourism in the Land of Enchantment.
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The liberal milquetoast inability to talk tough about anything hamstrings our police force and emboldens criminals who no longer fear reprisals.
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" The ad, posted to YouTube on Tuesday, shows attractive young people holding milquetoast signs with nonspecific pleas like "Join the conversation.
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After all, Sally does return from her rave-set hang out with Emma convinced she loves her milquetoast fiancé in some way.
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She fell into Paradise hubris, confident that her relationship with Colton — a milquetoast, will-o-the-wisp of a man — was fine.
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Most strikingly, she doesn't issue a milquetoast call for unity and change, or demonize some amorphous threat to American families and prosperity.
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Nothing Streep said was wrong, but we're beyond the point where milquetoast celebrity slacktivism will come off as profound or even interesting.
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Ruth (Alison Brie) is a serious-minded actress stuck in a rut of reading for, and failing to get, milquetoast secretary roles.
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But she also cast herself as a dramatic break from what many progressives have complained are milquetoast recruits for key House races.
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Such swings between absurdity and horror turned "Twin Peaks" into an instant hit for ABC in an otherwise milquetoast prime-time landscape.
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The video of that exchange — "You're supporting white supremacy" is one of the more milquetoast quotes — must be seen to be believed.
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We have the reputation of being a moderating, milquetoast place, full of bland casseroles, and passive-aggressive assurances that we are fine.
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" I personally thought the film would be a milquetoast version of Gone Girl, while The New York Times called it a "preposterous movie.
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It's the highest chart debut for a rapper since Eminem's milquetoast self-help anthem "Not Afraid" in 2010 (shouts to Boi-1da, though).
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And in response, some high-profile members of the NBA have done little more than play dumb and make milquetoast statements about democracy.
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But in order to solve the problem, it's going to take more than just milquetoast trap-neuter-release policies in a few cities.
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You register the obvious jokes in each character — the rah-rah gym teachers, the eager disseminator of cheer and calm, the seething milquetoast.
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Days after being hit with criticism from the left over what some called a milquetoast denouncement of a prospective war with Iran, Sen.
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They will tell the same tired jokes, recite the same bromides about the national character, and harp on the same milquetoast policy proposals.
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The spoof twitter feeds, which normally abstracts fan feedback with a couple milquetoast tweets, would suddenly spool into an unmanageable thread of hate speech.
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He isn't calling out Trump for milquetoast sins like losing touch with the working class, or setting his legislative priorities in the wrong order.
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Instead of a real discussion about power hierarchies, we're served milquetoast Martin Luther King Jr. quotes and Instagram-ready parables about equality and freedom.
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One of them is "Scarlet Street" (21965), in which Edward G. Robinson's milquetoast character falls hard for a heartless streetwalker played by Joan Bennett.
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Later in the spring, there was that Pepsi commercial, which featured a rather milquetoast protest/march/street party full of attractive, racially diverse millennials.
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Gillum edged out former representative Gwen Graham, whom he depicted as a millionaire milquetoast moderate who could not be trusted to govern as a progressive.
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It is precisely this sort of milquetoast moral myopia that irks a conscientious visitor: yes, we have revisited the scholar and statesman, but so what?
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In 2011 she signed up for a stint on what turned out to be a comically short presidential campaign for the milquetoast Republican Tim Pawlenty.
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In neighboring Florida, Democrats had managed to lose five consecutive governor's races by nominating milquetoast white centrists, even as the state voted twice for Obama.
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McKinnon as Ginsburg appeared alongside milquetoast Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost to drop some signature Ginsburns and bust some moves at the expense of Kavanaugh.
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Microsoft's chief legal officer wrote a milquetoast response to Trump's election, despite Trump's chief strategist attacking tech companies like Microsoft for having Asian-American CEOs.
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The White House's bungled lines on the Russia investigations have escalated tensions in Congress, and Republican milquetoast reactions are already becoming fodder for Democratic attacks.
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The real meat of "AFTR" is when Garrett arrives, and the show gives the most milquetoast address of his racist and sexist "likes" on social media.
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This is the rare instance where the charismatic, WWE-wrestling-meets-reality-TV-buffoon Trump and his predecessor to the GOP throne, milquetoast Mitt Romney, meet.
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Deplatformed Infowars host Alex Jones and the Senate's most milquetoast Senator, Marco Rubio, got into it today after Jones confronted Rubio in front of the press.
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But their reluctance left Ossoff running on a milquetoast message, allowing Republicans to drive the narrative that he would be a Pelosi lackey on Capitol Hill.
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If Watkins is out, Woods would be the most experienced receiver left behind, but he's mostly been a milquetoast disappointment in his three-year NFL career.
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The extent to which all of the film's antics will work for you depends on your tolerance for Mr. Osborne's well-worn aging hipster milquetoast persona.
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Wolfe's main complaint was that the magazine was constrained by the bounds of what he considered milquetoast gentility and what Hersey would have considered human decency.
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Though the script called for the then-milquetoast Carol to get eaten alive during the attack, it was ultimately decided that T-Dog needed the ax.
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Bloomberg always seemed like a theoretical candidate—someone who appealed to an imaginary, bipartisan swath of the population who would only vote for a milquetoast establishment politician.
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While he live-tweets through a speech which manages to be simultaneously horrifying and milquetoast, Trump happened to tap into an area Bone has some expertise in.
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Sharp Edge was more radical, and intended to counter r/LeftWithoutEdge's "inoffensive, milquetoast brand of socialist," ziq, one of subreddit's members, told me in a direct message.
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Members of the state's progressive base, inflamed by the election of Trump and frustrated with the party's milquetoast response, have set their sights on taking Cuomo down.
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"Don't let corporate media convince you that simply because you're not crazy about the milquetoast neo-liberal sister Hillary that something is wrong with you," he said.
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The plot concerns a milquetoast son, Big Brayden (Sky Elobar), and his domineering father, Big Ronnie (Michael St. Michaels), who revels in flatulence in their squalid home.
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In addition to her meta-cameo, she's also represented by the character Vivian (Adelind Horan) whose fictional exhibition is the subject of the real photographer's milquetoast critiques.
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Decontextualized from its natural habitat, its moderately entertaining belly pats turned into milquetoast content by some dude named Vladimir with a YouTube channel and a PayPal account.
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Ms. Morgan plays Annette, an unrealized Type A writer living with the milquetoast Elliot (Jorma Taccone), a writer-director on a "Game of Thrones"-like TV show.
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Moreover, there's little reason to believe the silent majority of Americans are just waiting to be won over by one or the other party embracing milquetoast centrism.
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At that age, I could no more relate to the milquetoast individuals in other French textbooks than I could to, say, someone going through a midlife crisis.
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Both are force-sensitive, both become Jedi, both are milquetoast white males, and both know what it takes to be the leads of adventure-filled video games.
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In a field of many other milquetoast moderates — including the front-runner Joe Biden — why has Mayor Pete been singled out for special skewering by young radicals?
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But even if you think Bloomberg's milquetoast campaign ads aren't a problem, then what can anyone say in defense of his campaign's apparent incompetence in other areas?
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Cuomo likes to boast about how many times he's sparred with the president on Twitter — but actually walking the walk and enacting progressive policies, not milquetoast, halfway compromises.
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The Senate's resolution, which passed 211-22018, was concurrent with a storm of activism across the internet — this time with far more urgency than last year's milquetoast protests.
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With Virginia being treated as a bellwether for 2018, the worry was that Northam's missteps and milquetoast politics would hand Republicans a major victory heading into the midterms.
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The diesel isn't as charming or fun as the wonderful F-Pace 35t R-sport, but it's still more fun than just about any other milquetoast luxury crossover.
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Because N.B.A. salary rules also restrict maximum payouts, favor veterans and strictly slot rookie contracts, many milquetoast players are paid above what their open market value would be.
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The lone woman in their belligerent midst is the 1987 Oscar nominee Anne Archer ("Fatal Attraction") playing an attractive if strangely milquetoast version of Ms. Fonda herself. (Ms.
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The response grew more vocal over the past week, largely in response to blowback from employees, users and the tech press who grew increasingly frustrated with milquetoast responses.
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Their tax law is the political definition of milquetoast — the public doesn't care about it at all, and Democrats don't even find it that useful as a cudgel.
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And without ever entirely abandoning Seymour's initial deadpan mien or milquetoast voice, Groff charts a precise evolution of a man becoming drunk on the prospect of world renown.
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She was fresh off a nationally televised, unusually milquetoast appearance at a CNN town hall on gun control and so, back among unquestioning allies, returned to the script.
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But by framing itself as another milquetoast social app designed for flaunting idyllic vacations and family reunions, the ad completely ignores what makes Snapchat appealing in the first place.
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It's easy enough to prefer insult comedy to milquetoast liberalism, the latter being too timid to go to blows with the right, but Chapo directs its barbs rather democratically.
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Compare all of the above actions to Obama's milquetoast policy on Russia and outright appeasement on issues such as the "red line" that Russia blew right past in Syria.
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Nearly every mediocre public figure hoping to launch from blandness to greatness has made an appearance on this milquetoast morning news show, whether as a guest or a correspondent.
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Gingrich's speech, despite warning that Clinton might literally destroy the country, felt pretty milquetoast compared with the rhetoric about throwing her in jail that's dominated the convention thus far.
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It is also an often amusing look at the contemporary mating mores of this fair city, with Mr. Poulson's portrayal of a nonchalantly sleazy womanizing hipster milquetoast particularly resonant.
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The Academy Awards have come in for no shortage of criticism over the last decade that they are too white, too insular and too devoted to milquetoast crowd-pleasers.
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Reynolds stars as a milquetoast bank teller who realizes one day that his life is an artificial construct and he's a random background player in some massive online game.
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Still, given Jeanne's uncompromising ownership of her profane desires and independence from her milquetoast husband, it was miles more progressive than anything coming out of the West in 1972.
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Students were also directed towards YouTube channels of right-wing think tank and non-university Prager U, as well as Arthur voice actor-turned-milquetoast pundit-turned-meme Stephen Crowder.
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The mothers outfitted themselves not in the pinstripe pantsuits I was used to my own mother wearing, but in satisfyingly boring and unflattering calf-length floral skirts and milquetoast cardigans.
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The plot hinges on the governor swapping his son's failing grade with that of an overachieving female classmate, kicking off a long string of action sequences and a milquetoast romance.
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But with the Castile's shooting, they just posted a milquetoast Facebook status a day and a half later that didn't mention Castile's name or take a stance on his murder.
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I am not showing you this photo because Tom Gorzelanny did anything inspiring on the mound that day; he let in four earned runs in 5 1/3 milquetoast innings.
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By some reckonings, Gorsuch is the conventional, milquetoast option that Trump is exercising before he indulges a wilder streak and goes for someone more provocative if another vacancy opens up.
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By filibustering the milquetoast Gorsuch despite the high probability and repeatedly expressed intention of the Republicans to go nuclear, the Democrats have destroyed any leverage they had over the next nominee.
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He wants the public to think that the United States has finally "done something" about the evil Assad's use of chemical weapons, thereby making him seem tougher than his milquetoast predecessor.
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Americans may occasionally look abroad for salvation from the cavalcade of milquetoast TV sitcoms that still thrive in Friends' wake—but the UK can't stop getting enough of the real thing.
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" Facebook issued a milquetoast statement in response: "There is no place for hate speech or content that promotes violence on Facebook, and we work hard to keep it off our platform.
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But if I can persuade just one of you to bypass its milquetoast masochism and watch the stratospherically superior "9 1/2 Weeks" instead, then I will have done my job.
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Incredibly, at least according to Trump, America's seemingly benign and milquetoast northern neighbor was an economic predator taking advantage of its naïve neighbor; America was the victim and Canada the villain.
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But grown-up Carl is awfully bland — whether because being a narrator is a thankless task, or because his off-the-wall family made him want to become as milquetoast as possible.
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Instead, they have been near useless, tweeting their concerns about individual nominees, discussing the procedural tactics they will use to delay confirmations, or offering their milquetoast displeasure on the cable news networks.
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It stands to reason: Mr. Robot exists solely through internal dialogue with Elliot, occasionally taking the lead and "talking" to other characters when Elliot's own milquetoast persona proves inadequately forceful or foxy.
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It was, at best, a milquetoast representation of boyhood which more belonged to those old ABC Family one-hour specials that always had some moral agenda told through a cliched teen melodrama.
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That unfortunate is Sally (Catherine Shepherd) a marketing executive living a life of quiet dissatisfaction with David (Alex Macqueen), her boyfriend of 10 years and a simpering milquetoast, heavy on the milque.
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Mark (whose corporate job is never fully described, making it hard to care deeply about his shifting financial fortunes) comes across as a dull milquetoast one minute, a conniving manipulator the next.
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The sudden re-emergence of that person, buried under the milquetoast facade, is a shock to his system, and perhaps the reason he collapses to the floor once he returns to work.
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Other than the same predictable distress calls for U.S. assistance, local economic revitalization initiatives are largely counter-productive austerity measures or milquetoast ideas overwhelmed by the din of the debt restructuring drama.
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In this case we are in mid-1960s London, where a milquetoast teenager named Peter Noone (the appropriately affable, sweet-voiced Jonny Amies) is conquering the charts with his band, Herman's Hermits.
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Deciding against doing a Stefon movie, he started to stretch his range: Kristen Wiig's depressive brother in the glum Sundance darling The Skeleton Twins, the milquetoast romantic hero opposite Amy Schumer in Trainwreck.
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We all know just how critical protest is to true democracy, but being able to eat your protest afterwards would turn even the most milquetoast of citizens into a bona fide Che Guevara.
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Call of Duty: WW2 isn't interested in anyone's experience beyond its slightly milquetoast collection of anachronisms, all of whom seem to have an odd passion for defending the honor of the German people.
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At the beginning of her career, in Baltimore, Oprah cohosted the wholesome People Are Talking, a human-interest daytime show, which featured cute, milquetoast stories about quintuplets and the power of brotherly love.
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Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele ratchet up the absurdity to play milquetoast cousins in search of their too-cool-for-school pet kitten — name: Keanu — after it's snatched during a home burglary.
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When the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) unveiled some potential new stickers this week, they were widely mocked for sporting the kind of milquetoast BS slogans that carried Hillary Clinton to an early retirement.
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Whether the contracts dictate it or it's simply the path of least resistance, teams in San Diego's situation usually weigh down a healthy chunk of its lineup with milquetoast veterans or dead-end flotsam.
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The party should similarly focus on youth turnout, and that means paying more attention to the policies of Senator Bernie Sanders: free public college tuition (not Andrew Cuomo's milquetoast alternative), and student debt forgiveness.
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What you do have is a neoliberal and liberal center that is so weak and feeble, so cowardly and milquetoast, that they don't have the enthusiasm or the energy that the right wing has.
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But its milquetoast take on politics feels like a bad match for an era when so many families have found themselves irreparably divided over issues the show could engage with but chooses to ignore.
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Mass Effect seemed like the safest bet of them all, but Andromeda is nothing more than a milquetoast effort that — whether this is true or not — feels inescapably boxed in by its own troubled past.
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Mass Effect seemed like the safest bet of them all, but Andromeda is nothing more than a milquetoast effort that — whether this is true or not — feels inescapably boxed in by its own troubled past.
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In what will likely be the premiere's most discussed segment, her team went out to New Hampshire to follow Jeb Bush, and came away with a Werner Herzog-style documentary about the candidate's milquetoast futility.
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If the past few years have shown anything, it's that disillusioned Americans are looking for bold promises, aggressive rhetoric, and vitality, not milquetoast centrists who spend a bunch of time inveighing against the national debt.
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But for all the attempted sensory overload, the wall text and captions are jarringly milquetoast, acquiescing to the kind of both-sides-ism that heavily aided the collapse of consensus truths in the first place.
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In the game, Detective Pikachu is a salty-seeming private eye (the titles bill him as "cocky, chatty, lovable") who scampers around the city solving mysteries with a milquetoast-looking human companion, a boy named Tim.
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Then-Education Secretary Arne Duncan, a tireless supporter of an education reform program that had seen resistance from public school teachers and their unions, eventually released a milquetoast statement that neatly stepped around picking a side.
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The recent additions to the packed Democratic field could be better described as "a bay of milquetoast men running for president," Lee Banville, a political analyst at the University of Montana, recently told Vox's Ella Nilsen.
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" Perhaps Sanders's most radical choice for the committee is civil rights activist Cornel West, a Princeton professor who has called Barack Obama America's "first 'niggerized' president" afraid to tackle white supremacy and Clinton a "milquetoast neoliberal.
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" In 2017, an Elite Daily writer conducted an experiment in which she put 12 dating app clichés in her profile, which included her dog named Taco, and messaged potential dates with milquetoast questions like "Pizza or tacos?
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Taron Egerton (Eggsy from Kingsman: The Secret Service) does a good job with conveying this movie's idea of Eddie Edwards: a milquetoast but loveable young man who bites his lip and is almost perpetually ready to cry.
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Muting the attitude of "Bodak Yellow" and transforming it into a milquetoast pop song is a funny joke, I guess, but it also unintentionally underscores why Cyrus' aesthetic transformation hasn't quite turned into sales or critical acclaim.
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About halfway through the interview, things rapidly escalate from unbearably milquetoast to "please smite me God, and put an end to the deep, deep discomfort racking my bones" when Scott and Jenner start talking about doing it.
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The reason I bring this up isn't to wish for an alternative world where Battlestate better recognized the benefits of a milquetoast statement, but to examine what's been revealed by the fact they didn't choose that path.
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The act, a brainchild of the Left and passed with the support of milquetoast Republicans in 1990, was a dangerous act of virtue signaling that actually made our schools some of the softest targets in the country.
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Despite that, this incident still manages to stand out because what essentially happened was one of the largest retail chains in the US chickened out on a sentiment so milquetoast it is only mildly controversial among congressional Democrats.
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When someone you know is in the depths of the morass known as brain cancer in general — and glioblastoma in particular — the worst thing you can do is to send milquetoast, meaningless sentiments to people in the trenches.
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"If Jon Ossoff wins despite his milquetoast policy proposals and his Republican-lite campaign, it will be because the resistance wanted to defeat Trump," said Charles Chamberlain, executive director of the progressive political action committee Democracy for America.
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An endorsement of milquetoast vigilantism that's not nearly as knotty as it presumes to be, the French thriller "My Son" is so reserved in its storytelling and vague in its details that all it elicits is a yawn.
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Described by the New York Times as a mix of "uplifting rock and zippy soul tempered with wistful country," Buttigieg's campaign soundtrack is milquetoast and more than a little corny—but, to be fair, so is the man himself.
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From Bridget's irony-tainted point of view, Frances's parents Annie (Lily Mojekwu) and Maya (Charin Alvarez) are a couple of well-off, milquetoast liberals — the kind with a "Hate Has No Home Here" sticker affixed to their front door.
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Cass's bracing tone reads like (among other things) an attempt to fix reform conservatism's political problem, as it manifested itself in 2016 — a problem of lukewarmness, of milquetoast wonkery, that Trumpism's more sweeping promises simply steamrolled in political debate.
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A month later, on May 7, the anti-immigrant French presidential candidate Marine le Pen — whom Mr. Tarrant described as "milquetoast" because she called for the deportation of only illegal immigrants — was defeated by the liberal President Emmanuel Macron.
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Socioculturally, I guess I could see Joker slotting somewhere behind V for Vendetta as a milquetoast source of inspiration for would-be social anarchists, but I also think its messaging is too unclear to really be effective at inspiring anyone.
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It's part of the reason we have some of the lowest voter turnout in the Western world, and a big part of the reason we continue to reward milquetoast embarrassments like James Corden and Frederick Douglass revisionists like Sean Spicer.
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MORE's bland, milquetoast amorality on world affairs, and his practiced refusal to condemn evil, Trump's words are a breath of fresh air and, God willing, portend a new American foreign policy based on the American principles of holding murderers accountable.
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When my hands-on demo with Anthem wrapped, Austin and I shook the hands of everyone in the room, and performed the awkward professionalism dance where people ask what you think, but you share some milquetoast version of one's real impressions.
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And even the national GOP hasn't been as full-throated in their condemnation of Moore as one would expect: Republicans have mostly restricted themselves to the milquetoast acknowledgement that he should withdraw from the race if the allegations are true.
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" So Simmons has spent the past month putting together an awards show that does just that, replacing milquetoast categories like sound mixing and production design with punched-up substitutes such as "best bad muh fucka" and "best helpful white person.
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It's a weirdly dark swerve from the light, milquetoast tone of the film, forcing Archie to narrowly escape death twice—first when his brake line is cut, and finally when he has to ditch a bomb concealed in a gift box.
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While Peter Weber, a 28-year-old pilot, ultimately left the show dating foster parent recruiter Madison Prewett, he was only able to get there after serving as one of the more milquetoast and toxic leading men in recent franchise memory.
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Jock Jeffcoat's fish-out-of-water visit to the Rhoades' apartment for a home-cooked meal (provided by Bobby's personal chef, naturally), and the quest of milquetoast investor Ben Kim (Daniel K. Isaac, adorably awkward) to up his alpha-male quotient.
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A history of the ACLU's transformation from a radical labor organization that viewed equality of material conditions as a necessary precondition to any universal right of expression into a bastion of "milquetoast progressivism" is a captivating and well-told piece of context.
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When you're not running against a brazen ghoul who cosplays as the Penguin 24/7, name-checking bands like Minor Threat and Metallica as a middle-aged man does a lot less to cover for your milquetoast policy positions, it turns out.
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And the 1989-esque fiasco was avoided thanks to a safe, milquetoast opening: an homage to Queen that adequately referenced the success and award-potential of Bohemian Rhapsody, followed by a fun—but similarly safe—opening by comedy vets Fey, Rudolph, and Poehler.
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Without the DNC providing a public explanation for why it refuses to let candidates participate in a climate debate, voters are left with milquetoast platitudes and a party apparatus that has accepted tens of thousands of dollars in donations from fossil fuel executives.
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I'd insert a boilerplate rant about how SNL's milquetoast, broad, obvious satire is nowhere near television's best, but the show is mostly just getting nominated for getting under Donald Trump's skin, so I won't pretend the nominations speak to the show's quality.
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If Breaking Bad showed us what entitled toxic masculinity looked like when it ran rampant in the life of the most milquetoast protagonist imaginable, Better Call Saul is about a slower, sadder thing: a man who learns that having feelings is for suckers.
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But what he's not going to get is my primary vote or that of most millennial or Generation Z voters — those of us who have to live in this country and on this planet decades beyond Mr. Biden and his inadequate, milquetoast platform.
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Trust in the media has plummeted to the point that we have gone from George H.W. Bush's milquetoast and ultimately ineffective "Annoy the media, re-elect Bush" to Trump's daily war on the press being a very effective, if troubling, strategy. 3.
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The episode — which opens with the Black-ish logo in the style of Hamilton's, a nod to the episode's Broadway inspiration — leads with the Johnson family watching two of the kids in a milquetoast school play, a common experience for many suburban parents.
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With the help of a squinty Alec Baldwin and long-time Trump friend Lorne Michaels reportedly working behind the scenes to keep those Trump zingers toothless in the run-up to the election, SNL quickly cemented itself as the premiere destination for milquetoast political satire.
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There is another option, and it's that while "Winterfell" was a bit milquetoast, the rest of the episode titles are a bit more revealing — too revealing for fans to see lest they get the ending to one of the most zeitgeisty shows in the world totally spoiled.
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Ms. Trump's self-professed commitment to corporate gender parity (about as milquetoast as feminism gets, but in Trump's America, radicalism is relative) was trotted out incessantly during the campaign, especially as an antidote to her father's self-professed commitment to nonconsensually sticking his hands on women's genitals.
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Instead, audiences got the frustratingly milquetoast sci-fi tale of Jim (Chris Pratt), an engineer who accidentally wakes up nearly a century too early during an interstellar journey to a far-off planet and becomes obsessed with a pretty writer named Aurora (Lawrence), who's still in hibernation.
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The moderate candidates pitch a path to victory to win back white people in the Midwest by being just milquetoast enough not to offend them and to cause them no guilt or consternation about having supported a racist, sexist, transphobe who lies about everything and honors nothing.
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But then there is the idea of Brett Kavanaugh — a placeholder rather than a person, a stand-in for an idea prevalent among many conservatives that every conservative, even the most milquetoast, will ultimately be the victim of vicious liberal attacks based entirely on partisan politics.
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There are no screeners available for critics, and with the actors under strict orders from Lynch not to spill anything at all, their segment of the panel was mostly limited to milquetoast anecdotes about how shooting Twin Peaks felt like shooting one big movie with old friends.
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Milquetoast-turned-penitent Lancel follows, as though craving death's revelations, another knifey street urchin into the leaking stockpile of Hulk-green wildfire that soon ignites, destroying Mace, Loras, and Margaery Tyrell, the High Sparrow and his followers, Kevan Lannister, and an unknown score of innocent jurors and spectators.
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Enjoying this calls for the usual severe suspension of disbelief, which is facilitated by some plot devices: Very few people know about the baby's death (even though Dorothy is a local celebrity); Sean doesn't want to upset Dorothy because he loves her and because he's a passive-aggressive milquetoast.
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The blowback to Clinton's handling of the 2008 accusations against former aide Burns Strider after a woman he worked with accused him of harassment that included inappropriate touching, kissing her forehead and sending her suggestive emails and her initially milquetoast response have been strong, even from longtime Clinton supporters.
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Norbert Zelenka, the soothsayer of Frost's title, could be a character out of one of those old Ealing Studios comedies in which Alec Guinness played all of the parts: a milquetoast who transforms himself into a player, prodded by a band of dotty but well-meaning elderly ladies.
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A wave is not enough if the DCCC and the DNC continue their scorched earth campaign against progressive primary challengers as they did against Laura Moser in Texas last month, putting their thumb on the scales to ensure that only their favored, milquetoast candidates make it through to the general election.
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This means Crowe gets to play a rather mild-mannered, milquetoast British man who's got lots of knowledge and is good at delivering exposition, until he starts to turn into his horrific alter ego Mr. Hyde (which happens about every five minutes — it's a wonder he's been given a major management position).
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The powers that be are not especially focused on giving attendant fans anything but a hangover and a large credit card bill; a medley of milquetoast musical snippets will be sandwiched by a game of totally unpredictable quality for those of us who can't afford to attend, or are too wise to.
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In the days leading up to Tuesday, a book by Donna Brazile, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, reignited the enmity between Clinton's backers and supporters of Bernie Sanders, and that became one of several reasons to wonder if progressives would fail to turn out for Northam, a milquetoast moderate.
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"There's a growing cottage industry of reexamining pop culture from the past several decades for clues to Trump's ascendency, but this clip from one of the most raunchy and raucous comedy franchises of the pre-9/11 era — one centered on the ascendency of milquetoast incompetence within institutions of power — is particularly depressing," he said.
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Instead, it plunges viewers into depths of human behavior: Lindsay and Edgar kidnap Gretchen and Jimmy for a bachelor/bachelorette bonanza; Gretchen gets drunk and fights with Jimmy over whether or not they want children; Paul (Allan McLeod), Lindsay's long-suffering, milquetoast ex-husband, confesses that he has impregnated her sister Becca (Janet Varney).
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In their story of a hilariously milquetoast modern vampire coven, co-creators Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) and Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok) served up a comedic formula rooted equally in reverence and irreverence: love for 150-plus years of vampire mythos mingling with a cheeky fondness for horror tropes, Twilight, and awkward roommate situations.
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So it's worth pointing out: There is simply no precedent for what Oregon Republicans are doing, treating walk-outs as routine, using them to prevent passage of what is a fairly milquetoast set of carbon policies (less stringent than in many other states) and even to set the pace of work in the legislature.
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In contrast, many Democratic priorities have been rejected entirely, even the most milquetoast efforts: The Obama administration's modest gun control and climate change bills, the nomination of the moderate federal judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court and the public option at the center of Barack Obama's original health care reform package all failed.
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Photo: Getty ImagesIn the lead up to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China this month—a major changing of the guard which will see widespread retirements among senior leaders—the country's censors have been cracking down on everything from an unnerving sex doll-sharing company to even milquetoast criticism of the government in the media.
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But when economic growth is milquetoast and the reality is that inflation is too low, not too high (with the risk of outright deflation in the event of a recessionary shock), there is no reason whatsoever for the monetary and fiscal authorities to act independently — as if they were oil and water — in pursuit of the common public good.
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As Rasputin sold quackery to the Romanovs, so Britain's PM has peddled a fantasy, milquetoast Brexit that tries to reconcile the fringe "no-dealers" in her own party, for whom compromise with Brussels on issues like freedom of movement is treasonous, and with those who never wanted to leave in the first place, many of whom want a second referendum.
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A recent commentary in the journal Nature argues that prior predictions of that worst-case scenario, known as RCP8.5, might be too extreme: A more likely worst case, should countries' current milquetoast attempts to curb emissions continue, would be warming of around three degrees Celsius by 2100 rather than five, but that could eventually reach four or five degrees sometime in the next century.
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The party has promised to keep Britain in the EU. Johnson would take the country out of the bloc without a withdrawal agreement if he cannot renegotiate the exit deal (EU representatives have said the agreement is not up for renegotiation) and the Labour Party has taken a position so milquetoast and vague that not even veteran political journalists pretend to know where the party stands.
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With such sizable, advertiser-tantalizing audiences at stake, networks aimed to cultivate a sunny air of big-tent fun and milquetoast diversion, as suggested by the cornball promos ABC, CBS and NBC used to market their offerings: "Twin Peaks" crashed the party like a goth at a debutante's ball: (This didn't stop ABC from adding the show to the next season's promo, with predictably awkward results.) With its swollen melodrama and serial structure, "Twin Peaks" arguably had more in common with nighttime soaps than with anything else on prime time, though such shows were then falling out of fashion.
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Tim KaineTimothy (Tim) Michael KaineA lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Warren's pledge to avoid first nuclear strike sparks intense pushback Almost three-quarters say minimum age to buy tobacco should be 21: Gallup MORE is a well-meaning but milquetoast selection for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's vice president; a too-safe choice intended to prevent rocking the boat in an election cycle that has forced the American people to choose between seasickness and jumping entirely overboard.
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