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"blandness" Definitions
  1. the fact of having little colour, excitement or interest
  2. the fact of not having a strong or interesting taste

152 Sentences With "blandness"

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The city mocked the blandness of the suburbs, then it became the blandness.
They all wore jeans and plaid shirts of varying blandness.
But in a pie, it doubles the starch and blandness.
The bigger danger than hokiness or blandness is simple cancellation.
It was a bureaucrat's office, its blandness intentional and methodical.
I give it a 5 for its unoriginality and its blandness.
And maybe that reaction is due, again, to the film's blandness.
It constructs the kind of blandness that is uplifting in itself.
It's a welcome respite from the blandness of most entertainment junkets.
"There's a blandness, or a generic quality, to classics," says Gage.
But inside the hall everything is calm to the point of blandness.
My only real quarrel is with the blandness of the bizarre stuff.
Rhye's mild blandness aims additionally to replicate dizzy, awestruck, spellbound erotic bliss.
Since being back, I've wondered countless times if the fundamental blandness the city seems to exude (though of course it's an energetic blandness) is a function of its safety and cleanness, or if I've simply become bland and boring.
The blandness of everything was in startling contrast to what I had known.
Why is it that our code-less time has prompted so much blandness?
For anyone who associates documentaries with televisual blandness, the films here argue otherwise.
But it is that very blandness that gave them the power of versatility.
They're so assured in their marvelous blandness that the likely answer is nowhere.
I don't mind the blandness of the Rollie egg when I'm so drunk.
British food culture, long maligned for its blandness, has changed in recent years.
There's no harm in it, but this is an exercise in agreeable blandness.
They, like everyone else in this series, have a "Stepford Wives" blandness to them.
Indeed, it is often crafted with perfection in mind, which can result in blandness.
Marriott, meanwhile, suffered not necessarily from bad taste but a sort of baseline blandness.
But the slickness of his presentation often distracted from the blandness of his substance.
For one, they are acting out, as Ford argued, against the blandness of their surroundings.
The key to most pre-sleep effective shows is a kind of friendly, kind-hearted blandness.
With the marquee candidates clobbering each other in the press, Mr. Bentley's grandfatherly blandness was refreshing.
I have a bowl of rice Chex and the blandness of it really hits the spot.
Beer flows cheaply, but I see little else to cheer in their deliberate blandness (Bagehot, December 24th).
Yet while the Elizabeth line may be a triumph of engineering, the initial photographs suggest architectural blandness.
It's a promise against cliche and solipsism and blandness; it's a tilted head and an open window.
Netflix is good at recreating an existing film and television world, with all the blandness that implies.
I never get it when people say there's a blandness to hotels like it's a bad thing.
Those cars are popular, and thus homogeny and blandness are a good thing from a practicality standpoint.
This was a watered-down Kool-Aid interpretation, with the blandness of an on-duty mall cop.
Painstakingly subtle, with every note calculated perfectly, Soy Yo demonstrates how delicacy and nuance often produce blandness.
Right now, as far as films go, Hulu is for the most part a repository of blandness.
And the blandness of a cheese-stuffed lobster quesadilla might have been mitigated by the presence of jalapeños.
Bland rather than about blandness, the album nonetheless charms in its feel-good calm and its textural array.
And these hulking great beasts looked wonderful on PS2, and PS3, contrasted against the blandness of what surrounded them.
So why did Hyundai tap Reynolds, known more for his blandness than beauty, to be its desirable leading man?
And when Pence himself became ensnared in Trump's "Hamilton" drama, his response was notable only for its professional blandness.
"There's an interesting blandness to him in the same way that Jimmy Stewart might've been considered bland," Stone said.
The Bolívars may no longer be a youth orchestra, but they play with the fervent blandness of child prodigies.
Guiltily, I dream of that ice-cream shop, its sweet blandness, and that other life we might have had.
I, too, did not finish my Koryo Burger—but this was largely due to chewy blandness rather than revulsion.
When you open a viral Google Doc, the blandness of a word processor takes on an entirely different tone.
Within our current framework, the Judicial Crisis Network's ads strike me as slick but entirely conventional in their blandness.
Still, you may detect an occasional tear — so small it barely lets light through — in the glossy expositional blandness.
As a result, the ministers' joint statement, normally a study in blandness, became an unlikely focus of controversy here.
Yet Greenwell's writing stands out from that of his "all over" contemporaries, whose language sometimes slides into blandness or cliché.
By replacing its nougat with a crunchy Kit Kat, the prolific doctor is saving this Three Musketeer's bar from blandness.
For example, Toyota textured the hard plastic doors with diamond-shaped cuts to break up the blandness of the material.
And there's a disconnect between the insistence on the theater world's wokeness and the blandness and inoffensiveness of the show.
At the center of the neighborhood looms a gigantic honeycomb structure, a metal panopticon called, with perfect blandness, the Vessel.
I imagine that, as men age, there's a sort of gravitational pull toward the comfort provided by blandness and reliability.
Jones, whose blandness in the role might be read as Zen-like in another, better series, is miscast as Danny Rand.
Often, Reply just feels like you're role-playing as Google Assistant, responding to random opinions, statements, and questions with utter blandness.
The by-product is aesthetic blandness, easily repackaged and shifted around global cities by architecture firms that specialize in corporate headquarters.
The current fashion among electro-R&B outfits is to simulate a mild blandness as a stand-in for emotional ache.
He seems to cultivate this blandness of affect to convey that he deals in facts, eschews drama, and tells the truth.
To Ms. Fernandez, rice was "the shaper of other foods," its soothing blandness allowing other dishes to be stronger in contrast.
Ozark's stubborn blandness raises the question of just why the antihero trope continues to be so appealing to creators and networks.
The thing about this smoked turkey breast is that it defeats the Achilles' heel of pretty much every turkey every cooked: blandness.
So much of what we see on our screens and hear on our stereos is processed to the point of genial blandness.
The reveal is that that suburban blandness is its own specific sort of menace, privilege that must be protected at all costs.
They were O.K., but all of them had the telltale blandness of milk, which tends to muffle flavors instead of brightening them.
Turkey's general blandness does make it a perfect protein for Thanksgiving, which has come to celebrate overeating just as much as gratefulness.
Chief Justice John Roberts appeared to set a new standard for blandness 11 years ago that Gorsuch now seems to have surpassed.
Except that Byrde, a Chicago financial planner played by Jason Bateman with the aggressive blandness of an airline gate agent, is already bad.
The blandness of the sandwich itself makes the sauce so overpowering it is as if I am glugging it straight from the bottle.
To Mrs Merkel's acolytes her blandness shows a refreshing distaste for yah-boo politics from a leader who refuses to pander to her base.
Clinton's successful execution of this strategy has been, fittingly, the product of traits that she's often criticized for: her caution, her overpreparation, her blandness.
The egg, oil, and vinegar emulsion is a symbol not only for blandness but for whiteness and all its attendant cultural appropriation and entitlement.
Maybe, but there's something about the fluorescent blandness of the place they both work that makes their spark feel all the more worth nourishing.
He was not a threat to do anything or say anything, to take advantage in some way of their faith in his apparent blandness.
At the same time, nobody denied that the design was distinctive, an interruption in a sea of midtown blandness to which MoMA's facade contributes.
The celery and carrots had a nice crunch that went well with the noodles, but all the ingredients amounted a big bowl of blandness.
Both witchcraft and club culture are about rebellion: a fingers-up to over-glossy blandness and a route through which to embrace your inner freak.
Either way, the attempt to equate the utter blandness of Face ID with something exciting is ultimately unsuccessful (if understandable — it's an advertisement, after all).
We can predict Main's outrage because we've been shown another of the firm's ads, which, we are told, is bland because the partners demanded blandness.
Conway's promise on Thursday morning to "sharpen the message" and "win the argument everyday," while hinting at debate prep details, were biting for their blandness.
But the Sports House, which was inaugurated on Friday for the fans of Russian Olympic athletes, makes up for the blandness of their neutral uniforms.
The building's blandness, I learned, is no accident: Colors are best viewed in a neutral environment in which their essence can be more easily seen.
With a putty-pale sheet of lightly oiled dough stretched over the top of the bowl, it resembles an uncooked potpie, a broadcast of blandness.
This by no means applies universally, but there is a tendency toward blandness and lack in the texture department, which you really want to avoid.
Be it the blandness of affluence or the pain of personal difficulty, there has always been an element of aspiration and fantasy to popular culture.
She's a contradictory, polarizing figure, but that's part of why her fans love her, and what sets her apart from the blandness of most daytime television.
Beth, being the daughter of the universe's most prized and feared mad genius, has only occasionally seemed to find Jerry's thorough blandness attractive in any way.
Some of the neighborhood names, like Plantation North, hinted at the tumult of Southern history, though most — Edgewater, Carriage Park — strove for a more ahistoric blandness.
Tim Kaine, when he was first introduced as Hillary Clinton's running mate in July, earned nicknames such as "Human Sweater Vest" and "America's Stepdad" for his blandness.
It would be hard to top "The New One" when it comes to a willful blandness that feels not so much tossed off as cannily thought through.
Another new Met artist, the baritone Artur Rucinski, sang Sharpless with an easy, mellow tone, if also a blandness that made too little of this crucial, conflicted character.
If only the same could be said of Ms. Lang's tepid choreography, which is frequently performed by ballet companies, and illustrates how quickly simplicity can slide into blandness.
This could be a nihilistic shrug on Corbet's part, a surrender to the spectacle, except that Celeste — with her robot moves and blandness — brings her fans pleasure, meaning.
Last year, the two announced that they were getting divorced, and neither the blandness nor the brevity of the announcement prevented an explosion of investigative (or imaginative) reporting.
Known by many national security officials by his nickname, "Kupperware," for his blandness, Mr. Kupperman, 68, was appointed in January as deputy national security adviser under Mr. Bolton.
I think it was because of my real blandness, my mediocrity that I thought, bloody hell, I have to I have to sort of buckle down and study.
You only laugh at, like, half of their almost-jokes on Twitter about dogs and texting, and you don't think they deserve a cookie for recognizing their own blandness.
Though neither has been publicly asked to step in for future Star Wars films (yet), this is a good indicator of what could be next for the franchise: blandness.
Nearly every mediocre public figure hoping to launch from blandness to greatness has made an appearance on this milquetoast morning news show, whether as a guest or a correspondent.
Given the current state of Hollywood blockbusters, one might be forgiven for assuming that a certain amount of poll-tested blandness is necessary in order to achieve mass appeal.
Pop has three options: it can back down into predictable blandness; it can descend into an escapist, sweat-drenched dance party, or it can stand up and say something.
"She learned to cloak her purpose in a veil of blandness," said Constanze Stelzenmüller, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who has observed Ms. Merkel as a journalist.
As usual, profanity and crudeness are banned from the routines, but don't expect blandness: This is the group's season finale, and all that Mother's Day sweetness was last weekend.
A recent article in Wired pointed out that evidence of Walker's magnificent monotony is nowhere more apparent than in the void of blandness that is the politician's Instagram account.
Milk Bar desserts on the shelves of America's suburban grocery stores, she said, are her gift to children looking for creative inspiration in a sea of mass-market blandness.
Hibiscus Grilled Chicken British Nigerian chef Lopè Ariyo likes to use dried hibiscus leaves, which lend a sumac-like aroma and pink stain to the blandness of skinless chicken breasts.
Though they may not be able to do anything about competition from the NFL that may crop up, after this year's blandness, anything new is bound to bring in views.
The coffee is great and the baristas are knowledgeable, but there's a certain blandness to South Lake Union that even reclaimed wood and two-minute single-source pour-overs can't entirely get rid of.
I also think there's a contingent of Oscar voters who not only don't care about the film's tricky politics but are happy to see Bohemian Rhapsody's blandness as a selling point in its favor.
But seltzer continues to be a drink favored in office refrigerators for its better-for-you blandness and ability to be shorthand for an identity (are you a pamplemousse person or a peach-pear?).
"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 76% (season 2)What critics said: "The degree to which 'Ozark' slams on the breaks is disconcerting; the downshift in pacing creates an antsy viewing experience that transitions into blandness.
He's been cast in a similar way in dramatic roles — he played against his inherent blandness in a recurring role as a serial killer on "Criminal Minds" — but it's a lot more fun here.
Appreciating fine dark chocolate can be something like appreciating extremely peaty scotch, and someone who grew up eating Hershey bars might prefer — not unreasonably — a taste that an expert would criticize for its blandness.
There is broad agreement among Republicans close to Mr. Trump that Mr. Pence is the lowest-risk option still under consideration — a conventional selection whose greatest weakness might be the blandness of his political profile.
Britto had apparently been in deep mourning since Jeb Bush dropped out of the race, but his assistants say he's been reinvigorated by the challenge of adopting his bright, graphic style to fit Cruz's blandness.
A casserole remained on the steam table, and Errol cut himself a piece—cheese, sausage, and tomato, which he gobbled down, despite its blandness—and followed it with glass after glass of sweet iced tea.
The French Dip, a dish I loved in childhood as much for its blandness as anything (meat, cheese, and bread), was reinvigorated thanks to well-seared prime rib and the addition of whisper-thin fried onions.
There's a blandness, however, in Daniel's struggles to move on with his life as well as Tia's story, as her run against a veteran city power broker (Glynn Turman) is complicated by issues from her past.
At a time when many of the nation's biggest acts err on the side of blandness, it is worth recalling how an artist of Ms Bush's sheer strangeness became one of the outstanding stars of the day.
And the filmmakers integrate hoary narrative clichés in a way that stops just short of blandness: a tackboard of helpful backstory-providing newspaper clippings, for instance, includes one distinctly contemporary "here's what you need to know" headline.
If you weren't being "called" to stay, I could see why you'd want to leave: The incessant chanting, the blandness of the free food, the monotony of the place, and all the rules got old pretty quickly.
This sense of remove and the buildings' blandness lends the images their intriguing dissonance: There's a visual irony in the fact that these uninviting, soulless structures are where millions of people go each weekend to nourish their souls.
She said she first encountered cauliflower served whole in France, where a few classic dishes like chou-fleur à la polonaise present the whole vegetable, usually steamed or poached into blandness, and decorated with a rich, chunky sauce.
Photo: Sandra Mu (Getty Images)Say what you will about store-brand milk's crummy marketing history and relative blandness—at least it's rarely loaded with germs that'll send you running to the toilet, or even worse, to the hospital.
You know the drill by now—sky high rents and club closures, social cleansing and burger bars, the Bake Off and an overwhelming sensation of being slowly, very slowly, suffocated by the cloying and crushing blandness of it all.
Google+ started off promisingly, especially for people like myself who were (and still are) desperate for an alternative to Facebook's blue blandness, but its interface wasn't especially user-friendly and its founding concept of bundling people into Circles felt strangely sociopathic.
Like a friend who tells you she's stopped reading the news as part of her "self-care practice," the app has filtered "the world's moments" through a self-perpetuating escapist fantasy that promotes blandness, niceness, and selfishness without apology or regret.
Established in 1895 and first awarded in 1901 to honor those who "have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind," the new font combines the unassuming blandness of sans serif with the utilitarian perfunctoriness of the much-beloved and universally deployed Helvetica font.
Yet, thanks to lead Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s unrelenting blandness — his only real interests are red wine, going to sleep early, and the phrase "I love that" — The Bachelor never felt as creepy or mired in sexism as it very easily could have.
After years of working in interior design, The Inside co-founder and CEO Christiane Lemieux (formerly the executive creative director of Wayfair) explained to Business Insider that she'd noticed an recurring problem in the industry, characterized by the blandness of affordable options.
It's a term that describes, with perfect blandness, a job that used to be tough to get but, until fairly recently, all sorts of men managed to do, from the silent era of men like Douglas Fairbanks to the advent of Channing Tatum.
Razer prides itself on selling products made "for gamers, by gamers," and it believes the above combination of desirable internal components will offset the blandness of the Razer Phone's looks, the bigness of its speaker-housing bezels, and the absence of its headphone jack.
That blandness extends to most of the characters, whom Past Myfanwy helpfully explains to us with a character chart that lays out everyone's basic archetype: there's ice queen PR agent, the sweetly capable assistant, the apparently sinister but ultimately well-meaning second-in-command, and so on.
Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour (MCA Nashville) Kacey Musgraves has always been fascinated by blandness — as a social force, a source of conventional ideas and ways of going about things, but also as an aesthetic, a pose to inhabit, toward some end or for its own sake.
My fear now, however, is that having had Corruption expose this many drawbacks to this design means that by the time I'm one again in command of a squad of heavily-armed animal commandos, I won't be able to unsee some of the blandness under the surface.
A few bright spots just couldn't make up for a night full of confusing bits, flat jokes, desperate attempts to create viral hashtags, and the vast majority of performances coming and going so forgettably that they almost immediately floated away into the ether of blandness past.
That's what Ms. Merkel, now 64, has done for 13 years, listening more to the "inner compass" of her Lutheran faith rather than any ideology, against which she was inoculated by her years behind the Iron Curtain; preferring blandness and ambiguity to stridency, caution to expediency.
Since the mid 1990s, San Francisco has been remodeled as an upper middle class Shangri-La for white suburbanites who, in equal parts, hate the uninspiring blandness and FOMO of living outside a major city, and who are also deathly terrified of inner-city crime, poverty, and bad schools.
The Rook is based loosely on a novel of the same title by Daniel O'Malley, but while I haven't read the book and can't confirm, the Hollywood Reporter argues that the Starz show has ditched most of O'Malley's "fits of grotesque whimsy" in favor of the blandness we find onscreen.
Tommy Atkins himself submitted his eponymous mango to the Florida Mango Forum repeatedly in the 1950s, and though the fruit was summarily rejected for its blandness and tough, fibrous flesh, it grew well, and so farmers and industrialists subsequently planted it and other high-yielding Florida varieties throughout the Americas.
He isn't alone in his blandness — while Evangeline Lilly gets a lot more room to take an active hand in this film than she did in Ant-Man, and her opening fight scene in particular is thrilling, her character is still a bland straight-man type compared to the other heroes.
Technological innovation, the embrace of convenience and Americans' enduring quest for health and self-improvement combine to shift common diets (goodbye, bacon-and-egg breakfasts) to "modern" foods (hello, dry cereal) while masking the blandness of those meals if not with flavor then at least with choice (Limited Edition Lucky Charms!).
Reasonable, cautious and wholesome to the point of blandness, Mr. Hunt is the opposite of Mr. Johnson, whose charisma and bumbling, confected persona have made him the clear favorite in the contest, despite an early setback when the police were summoned to the home of his girlfriend after a loud argument.
To counter that blandness, local authorities sometimes decorate traffic circles, but some of their choices have come under fire as aesthetically questionable, like a giant yellow arm adorned with careening autos, which burned last year after Yellow Vest protesters set fire to the camp they had set up in its shadow.
In terms of cultural offensiveness, their music lands somewhere between the condescending blandness of white rappers like Iggy Azalea or Lil Debbie — ICP winning points only because they don't affect a blaccent — and the sound your stomach makes after you eat gas station meatloaf, a preamble to a far worse fate in, oh, let's say 45 minutes.
The album presents a list of classic American archetypes that Clark twists around in unpredictable ways as she finds new shades of subversive meaning in familiar vernacular expressions, taking pleasure in the mild poker face that has replaced aggression as the new female stereotype in Nashville, and suggesting that the blandness implied by this role might just be a put-on.
Mr. Free's Curtiz is comically harried and frustrated, not the severe autocrat Curtiz actually was; Erin Treadway's Mayo Methot, Humphrey Bogart's alcoholic wife at the time, is more a nuisance than deeply troubled; Zac Hoogendyk — alternating in one scene as Ingrid Bergman's first husband, the future surgeon Petter Lindstrom, and her second, the director Roberto Rossellini — toggles between blandness and caricature.
Her music glossy, twangy, encased in shiny resin, her voice distinctively modest and lucid, like your neighbor just down the street, Clark is as much a middlebrow queen as Kacey Musgraves, whose Pageant Material last year jolted the formal stasis of modern country, and by extension good old-fashioned traditional American values, and by further extension the cutesy feelgood blandness that occupies so throbbing a place in the national heart, by setting those elements against explicitly progressive or at least liberal content in a clever dialectical synthesis.

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