milquetoast

With Trump causing further chaos to world economies, Canadians were seeking a particularly Canadian fix: a milquetoast man in a suit who knows how the economy works and will likely do nothing revolutionary in the next few years.

The film around her is itself built on a fault line of contradictions — it’s at once tepid and sledgehammer-insistent, a slab of decadent milquetoast.

News outlets ended up with articles bogged down in parsing federal law, carefully defining what exactly counts as an altercation, and quoting milquetoast official statements like “There was an incident and a report was filed.”

Sen. Maria Cantwell, had a similarly milquetoast response to the verdict, reciting it as a faraway thing that had just happened.

This is just a milquetoast “Trans 101” about how to be an ally,’” Sancheznieto explains.