The lyrics put up a good fight, but you have to hand it to the score: a cauldron of harmonic mush, with barely a hint of spice or a note of surprise.
"You could conceivably mush a dog team 150 miles to the Pacific Ocean from our front yard and not see another soul on the entire trip!"
All of the buttons had a nice tactile response to each press that was free of mush, making it a pleasure to fire off weapons at the other karts in our race.
ENGADGET: Sony PlayStation Move Racing Wheel hands-on (video)
It's great that African guitarists are finally connecting, but it would be a shame if the edgy originality of their local styles gets softened into a kind of pan-African mush.
But then the finest ingredients can turn to overcooked mush in the hands of a cackhanded chef.
The writer, Michael Arndt, and the husband-and-wife directing team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, narrowly avoid the family-comedy pitfalls of whimsy and mush, but Arndt has a good ear for domestic irritations and the acting is just tough enough to keep us off balance.
It's not that it's an indistinct mush of sound: Each song has a clear beginning and end.
Italian polenta is the most cosmopolitan form of mush and is best when made with a slightly coarse meal with grains about the size of table salt.
Whether gum-chewers will want to trade in their trusted brand of sticky mush for an unknown player, however, is a question that won't be washed away easily.
Climbing into a small tin boat, my guide and I rolled out onto Mush Lake.
Or you can go for its real splendor and make mush, which is what you get when you mix a ground grain with a liquid.
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