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“It all becomes a big lying loop. Or at least a big, unnourishing, inadequate one.”

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2017

With the fat of the original script carved away, then much of the meat, you’re left with a two-hour opera that’s like a skeleton: elegant, chilly, a bit otherworldly, ultimately unnourishing.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2017

The built-upon site covered 850 acres, the plants growing darkly green over silted canals and yellowish green over unnourishing brick and rubble.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here and there, too, are observations with a little meaning, amusing thoughts, with a few ill-assorted conclusions to leaven the unnourishing loaf.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the aliment of this poor babe was thin, unnourishing; the return to its little baby-tricks, and efforts to engage attention, bitter ceaseless objurgation.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles