gruel

Where I lose patience, though, is when a director assumes the audience doesn’t have a collective brain cell among them and attempts to get away with serving action fans a ration of gruel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

It became something closer to porridge, or gruel, which delighted me.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

By historical standards that’s pretty thin gruel, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says it even might overstate job creation.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025

“The market had expected a confident story of further margin development and was instead served a thin gruel as far as 2030 guidance was concerned.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

He had been served a watery corn soup, the same tasteless gruel he had eaten every day of his life.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

Agriculture softened our ancestors’ diets with processed gruels, stews and yogurts, and this fare led to gradually shrinking lower jaws to produce today’s overcrowded mouths.”

From Fox News ● Mar. 18, 2019

Few had ever received Red Cross packages; their guards, almost to a man, had engaged in graft which cut prison fare to watery soups, half-spoiled vegetables, and chalky gruels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gelatin, soft eggs, soft toast, fine cereal gruels, well-cooked rice, well-baked white potatoes, tender rare beefsteak or lamb chops, the breast of chicken, sweetbreads, and brains are recommended.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit

Milk and cream, soups and milk gruels, as well as all dishes made with milk or cream, add materially to the fat-forming quality of the diet.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit

Milk gruels, made with milk and some cereal such as farina, barley flour, fine cornmeal, arrowroot, strained oatmeal, etc., are at times more easily swallowed than the unthickened liquids.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit