‘Unacceptable’ Food Packages for Poorer Children Prompt Outcry in U.K.

Photos of the packages, which critics called meager and overpriced, circulated widely on social media, prompting the government to reinstate vouchers for parents to buy food, themselves.

This is a very ellementary, almost jejune text. It is strictly for the non-mathematical & even non-logical! Meager signs of life in the economy sparked another rally on Wall Street yesterday, but new data showed that markets have a long way to go to replace the vast wealth lost by Americans in recent months.

Hard sweet wisdom.

That "hard sweet wisdom" - the literary critical phrase that once seemed strong - after experience feels jejune. She describes the defenseless, disoriented look that is the face of grief, then returns to the classroom memory:

meagre UK AND AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH, US meager adjective (of amounts or numbers) very small or not enough: a meagre salary The prisoners existed on a meagre diet of rice and fish. jejune adj.

Not interesting; dull: “and there pour forth jejune words and useless empty phrases” (Anthony Trollope).
Lacking maturity; childish: surprised by their jejune responses to our problems.
Lacking in nutrition: a jejune diet.

[From Latin iēiūnus, meager, dry, fasting.]

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