FEW pieces of legislation sound more anodyne than the Taiwan Travel Act.
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Those articles, it has to be said, are more anodyne than earth-shattering.
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The VMAs are more anodyne than ever, and matter less than they ever have.
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Gradually, however, this "Shrew" settles down by turning Shakespeare's story into something much more anodyne.
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But is there really any safer, more anodyne message to spread on election day than encouraging voters?
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Athletes and other celebrities have spoken at conventions, although their talks are often more anodyne than rabble-rousing.
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But in practice, that likely means the stuff we share is more anodyne (our great vacation, our amazing lunch).
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She's become a more anodyne version of herself, all the sweet and soft parts with too little of the spiky ones.
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By Monday afternoon he was tweeting about more anodyne things, such as his favorite video games and things to do in Stockholm.
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The speeches, some delivered by civil rights heroes and Hollywood celebrities, are both more polished and more anodyne than the Republican ones.
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It would have been so easy to post the documents with a more anodyne description, like the one given to Fred Trump.
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What we found was, well, sort of exactly what we thought we might: festival line ups are getting more anodyne than ever.
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Thus, back in 2010, Parks and Recreation created Galentine's Day, which takes place the day before Valentine's Day, on the more-anodyne February 13.
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The piece is agreeably compelling, though the steadily pulsating music, softly rock-related, makes the movement feel more anodyne than it deserves to be.
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The king's official consort was accused of trying to upstage the queen and "undermining the nation," according to the Royal Thai Government Gazette, which normally records more anodyne matters.
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One of the authors, Cha Seok Bong, had published three papers on more anodyne matters out of a place called the February 8 Vinalon Plant, based in remote Hamhung.
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For a long time in the postwar U.S. there was almost a 'cleaning up' of children's books, and people got used to a more anodyne, easy to swallow subject matter.
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Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that the performances — including that of Ms. McGovern, who lately played a mother of similar vintage but more anodyne personality on "Downton Abbey" — are often overstated.
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He didn't issue a more anodyne statement — something that, for example, echoed Flynn's reasons for resigning and promised a swift and thorough search for the next person who will hold the job.
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Where the "second generation" of their Andalusian opposite numbers the Gipsy Kings proved even more anodyne than the first, this aggregation hasn't lost a wink or a flourish even though its eldest generation has died off.
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He is unabashed about his support for traditional liberal causes, including abortion rights, but in television ads, he often emphasizes more anodyne positions, like fighting wasteful spending in Washington and creating more tech jobs at home.
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She said it was replaced in the governor's office with "Abdication of Dom Pedro," a more anodyne painting depicting the decision of the first ruler of the Empire of Brazil to step down in 1831 and return to Europe.
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A more anodyne post offered a ham-handed attempt to find common ground between China and the United States, pointing to the basketball player Yao Ming, pandas and American students making dumplings as examples of the countries' close relationship.
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The nastier you insist Nate is and the more anodyne his pitching is in contrast to your bogus boasting, the more it underscores the failure to give the audience anything that's actually nasty, or worth the hashtag, or even interesting.
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Just like that, it becomes one more part of the whole tableaux—a question to be fielded at the same podiums that video games reproduce so you can feel just like a real athlete and answer the same questions, only more anodyne.
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But where Airbnb offers a veritable hodgepodge of rooms and homes — some are people's homes, some are vacation places, some never had and never will have a private occupant, and across all those the range of quality varies wildly — Domio offers predictability and consistency with its (possibly more anodyne) inventory.
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While "Bad and Boujee," which Mr. Glover, the star and creator of "Atlanta" on FX, unexpectedly called "the best song … ever" onstage, had been building in clubs and online since its August release, it had only recently reached radio and was far from the near-omnipresence of other more anodyne (and, notably, whiter) streaming smashes.
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The stories that are really hurt by spoilers are those with major reveals — but a lot of the time, simply knowing there's a reveal is a big spoiler in and of itself, so studios, marketing departments, and critics really try to keep the idea that there's a reveal at all from viewers, selling a much more anodyne story than what's actually on screen.
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The only place where climbers can defecate without worrying about contaminating the mountain is Base Camp. At approximately 18,000 feet, Base Camp sees the most activity of all camps on Everest because climbers acclimate and rest there. In the late-1990s, expeditions began using toilets that they fashioned from blue plastic 50-gallon barrels fitted with a toilet seat and enclosed. The problem of human waste is compounded by the presence of more anodyne waste: spent oxygen tanks, abandoned tents, empty cans and bottles.
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Violence against Palestinian > civilians, on the other hand, is described far more explicitly. Israeli > occupying forces are condemned for the "breaking of bones" of Palestinians, > the tear-gassing of girls' schools and the firing on hospitals in which a > specific number of women were said to be giving birth. Another trend noted > in General Assembly Resolutions is a progressively more anodyne tone towards > Israel throughout the period examined. This is reflected in a decreasing > tendency of resolutions to specify Israeli culpability in policies and > practices reviewed by the General Assembly; compare, for example, General > Assembly resolution 47/70 (1992) with 58/21 (2003).
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With end-of-year exams looming, Oz issue No.5 was postponed until the Christmas break. When eventually issued, it included a scathing satire on the ongoing police harassment of gay people. "The Stiff Arm of the Law" (which became a regular feature on police misconduct) featured a parody of a police report in which incriminating sections of a supposed account of an officer's real actions in a gay-bashing incident were crossed out and replaced with far more anodyne language, e.g. in the line "I was at Philip St Station in my homo hunting togs", the words "homo hunting togs" were crossed out and replaced with the handwritten words "plain clothes", "this little bastard" with "a youth", and "I myself punched him several times" was amended to read "I was punched several times", and so on.
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