If McGavick can't even get me excited about him being Senator, he is toast. toast as in "milquetoast". From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Senate Race Needs One More Ingredient] Reference
A milquetoast is a weak, ineffectual or bland person. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Obviously a "bipartisan" (aka milquetoast) bill isn't going to work. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Edging Into More Active Role On Crisis] Reference
The word "milquetoast" comes from a comic character. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Book Legends Revealed History | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
This isn't necessarily the same kind of "milquetoast" behavior that caused Kerry and Gore to almost-but-not-quite make it. From Wordnik.com. [CT-05: Murphy Rebuffs DCCC Calls For Negative Ads: "I Want To Sleep At Night"] Reference
I kinda like the phrase milquetoast anarchist. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
She's certainly the firebrand that milquetoast Reid isn't. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Implores Her Supporters To Work "As Hard For Barack Obama As You Have For Me"] Reference
(I'm told it turned out to be "pretty milquetoast stuff."). From Wordnik.com. [At Fitzgerald's Request, Obama Team Delays Release Of Blago Review] Reference
You seriously think Jefferson was that much of a milquetoast?. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Right Activists Disrupt Hindu Chaplain In The Senate] Reference
They hate mean stuff like that ... a milquetoast lot, they are. From Wordnik.com. [GOP Rep. Introduces Resolution Commending Rush For Support Of Troops] Reference
Miers is not quite a milquetoast as she sometimes appears to be. From Wordnik.com. [Mild About Harriet] Reference
Obama never ventured beyond the milquetoast, "We'll look into it.". From Wordnik.com. [Beau Friedlander: Air America Poll: 90% Want Bush Crimes Investigation] Reference
BOOMS: But it was so milquetoast and so vanilla that -- that the whole. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: What's So Funny About Politics? - December 20, 2000] Reference
I was waiting for that milquetoast approach I saw too much of 4 years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Bill: "Barack Obama Is The Man For This Job"] Reference
Instead, the State Department issued a milquetoast statement on the talks. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Carlsen: Breakdown of Honduras Mediation Means Stronger Pressures for U.S. to Act] Reference
STERN: Well again, I mean, Ryan Seacrest to me, that career is milquetoast. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2006] Reference
The much-trailed criticism of protectionismturns out to befairly milquetoast. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Bobby Hull, no milquetoast himself, thinks that's nuts; they ought to let his son score. From Wordnik.com. [The Puck Starts Here] Reference
He'll; said something milquetoast and sort of bland, but he has to get down to governing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2009] Reference
This is pretty much just standard (& milquetoast, imho) denial & switching of the subject. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Ad Responding To Ayers Spot Now Running In Virginia, Too] Reference
Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas is the only blah act on the bill, but milquetoast they are. From Wordnik.com. ['The T.A.M.I. Show': A Groundbreaking '60s Concert] Reference
Memes are being defined and set in motion right now, and Obama's just being very milquetoast. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Sunday Roundup] Reference
Novick would have given Smith fits, but Merkley is such a milquetoast I don't have much hope. From Wordnik.com. [GOP Senator Runs Anti-War Ad After Obama's Speech] Reference
Though, I must say Obama's, shall we call them, comparisons, are completely vapid milquetoast. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary To Obama: Don't You Dare Draw "Clear Contrast" With Me] Reference
This is quite a significant change from that earlier rather milquetoast attempt at immigration reform. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2005] Reference
It called the "Pledge to America" a, quote, "series of compromises and milquetoast rhetorical flourishes.". From Wordnik.com. [House Republicans Unveil 'Pledge To America'] Reference
There's a commission that the candidates control that sets these things up, and it has become milquetoast. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2004] Reference
Kerry the milquetoast nominee used the medium to raise four times as much as Dean the screaming firebrand. From Wordnik.com. [Ron Paul's $5M a Wake Up Call] Reference
Now he says (some sort of milquetoast "compromise" statement), which for the life of me I cannot understand. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: With Friends Like These...] Reference
For added amusement, one of the players in the Poker Million has just been described as looking like a milquetoast. From Wordnik.com. [sirilyan Diary Entry] Reference
The Astra indeed delivered those, but was let down by a milquetoast and not-so-efficient drivetrain and cryptic controls. From Wordnik.com. [2008 in review – A year of surprises and letdowns] Reference
I think that the Republicans have been absolutely milquetoast with regard to standing for a lot of principles they're supposedly about. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2008] Reference
Well, last year, the President got called a liar by some milquetoast from South Carolina on a night he wanted the "bickering" to be over. From Wordnik.com. [TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads] Reference
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