Condemnations of Taliban attacks on politicians' opponents have been mealy mouthed when they have been made at all.
The mealy bug and other afflictions cost about 16% of the cotton crop, which in turn hurt the textile industry.
They get their kicks by comparing whether they share the gene that makes urine stink after eating asparagus, or the one that determines whether earwax is mealy or oily.
Two basic kinds of pollinia exist: one has soft, mealy packets bound together to a viscin core by viscin threads and is called sectile; the other kind ranges from soft, mealy pollinia, through more compact masses, to hard, waxlike pollinia; the latter usually have some mealy pollen with viscin strands that attach the pollinia to each other or to a viscidium.
Its somewhat dry and mealy flesh, which can be easily separated from the seed after boiling in salted water, is fermented into a beverage.
By alternately using the freezing temperatures of the nocturnal winter and the hot sunshine of the daily tropical summer, Andean peoples developed preserves of freeze-dried meat, fish, and mealy tubers (charki, chuñu) that kept indefinitely and weighed much less than the original food.
It has large fruits containing a mealy substance that can be used for making bread and fermented drinks.
The blue-green leaves are variable in size and shape but are often white and mealy beneath.
Insistence on respectability, at the expense of candour, had led Carlyle to observe acridly, "How delicate, how decent is English biography, bless its mealy mouth!" and to pillory its productions as "vacuum-biographies".
"The Standard's was all right, The Independent was a bit mealy mouthed".
Unfazed by the mealy tomato, I hit up McDonald 'sfor a yogurt parfait and cup of coffee.
