Has all this material been so bland or so often revisited it wasn't worth a few strokes of the pencil? |
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At its worst it lapses into bland mid tempo pop that a band as gifted as this really shouldn't be churning out. |
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My girlfriend had vegetarian fajitas that were perfectly spiced to give a kick to a rather bland selection of vegetables. |
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Just remember to rehydrate, force some bland food down and drink some more alcohol as quickly as possible. |
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It was a clean-cut, agreeable dish albeit a touch bland for more adventurous palates. |
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In addition to the lemon juice, you can use a dash of vinegar to pep up bland leaves. |
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It had to be special to add a spark of emotion to his normally bland personality. |
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Her voice was bland, filled with as much emotion as the oatmeal my mother gave me for my meals. |
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I hope he does something about the public image of his party and, more importantly, his dull, bland self. |
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The simple repetition of bland reassurance that fails to address patients' fears is ineffective. |
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With that peculiar bland expression adorning her features, she seemed so lost in her own thoughts. |
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While the chemistry between the two leads is rather bland, there is no denying their emotion. |
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He asked, instead, his same dead, flat, bland monotone staying in his voice. |
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He grinned but said nothing as his features faded into a bland monotonous look. |
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I generally loathe modern country, which is simply bland pop-oriented music with a hayseed singing. |
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I started with a duck salad that consisted of a fan of labial magret, a hunch of little gem and three boiled, bland mini carrots. |
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Not long after that I discovered yoga and taught myself how to do it from a bland pocket book called, Yoga For Americans. |
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After a few days, even the best instant coffee is much more bland and tasteless. |
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A diverting entertainment nonetheless, this is one book not to judge by its blocky lime-green cover or its bland layout. |
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It includes some of the most emotionally creative and technically brilliant music alongside the bland and inane. |
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On their own they are fairly bland but meaty, so they work well with strong flavours. |
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Instead, we were presented with bland technical data, neat, sanitised diagrams and understated text. |
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Is it the erasure of all difference into bland undifferentiated homogeneity? |
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Two lime wedges were a welcome addition to a large, undressed fillet of cod, which was bland due to overcooking. |
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Now they aspire to emulate bland American actors whose defining stylistic features are shiny hair and nice, white teeth. |
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Ramsay Gardens' facade is a random, unlikely mixture of bold baronial turrets and bland English cottage-styles. |
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So ignore commentators' advice to be more politically correct, more cautious, more bland. |
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The album's arrangements are uniformly awful, and its melodies are elevator music bland. |
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She preferred ones with pompons or clashing colors, but lately she had been restricted to the same bland dress robe she always wore. |
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Though he was considered a chaperone to the young prince, Rupert did not particularly enjoy that bland label. |
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Although the dynamic of this relationship is fairly bland, the characterization of the killer is more inspired. |
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Sure a lot of it is tepid, bland and overproduced, but hey, so's a lot of British music these days. |
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Navy blue furniture and various sports team posters decorated the otherwise bland, creamy walls. |
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It would be all too easy to launch into an assault on Kelly and Co. for being bland, middle-of-the-road and turgid. |
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My chica had veggie fajitas that were loaded with oil but perfectly spiced to give a kick to a rather bland selection of vegetables. |
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The Chinese have an ordinary homely dish made of fish head stewed with tofu, which is bland and believed to be healthy. |
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He is a bland, pallid individual who seems to have nothing but the interests and passions of his dead relatives to guide him through life. |
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Once possessing a powerful rebel yell and some melodic chops, this aging punk rocker offers up a bland collection of songs. |
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In 2002, pop music is widely perceived to be manufactured, bland and glossy. |
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Midland City Central was in the business district end of the city centre, full of faceless anonymous buildings and equally bland people. |
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He performs Sly with his usual care and dogged efficiency, but he never gets under the skin of the part, and the results are very bland. |
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The portion was small, the sauce bland and sickly-sweet, and the vegetables not fresh but either frozen or tinned. |
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The media, of course, treats these incidents as an amusing sideshow, a bit of spice in an otherwise bland political soup. |
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Such ingenuity and self-confidence should be applauded at a time when Hollywood churns out bland twentysomething pap at vast cost. |
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The current station is far from perfect, but at least it has character, which this bland, uninspired new design fails to achieve. |
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He stars as a sound engineer in a happy but bland marriage to an emotionally fragile woman with psychic abilities. |
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This part of the movie is quite dull, mostly because of the bland one-dimensionality of the characters. |
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Colors seem to be unnaturally muted, so that the entire movie has a soft, bland look to it. |
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We started dancing, but rapidly became bored with the bland, unimaginative hip-hop that was being played. |
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That bland description understates the drama and stakes of the investigation. |
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The movie is so tame, so bland and so uninspired, it just feels like a wasted opportunity. |
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I had a good taste of the hotpot and agreed with Ann it was rather glutinous and bland. |
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Ependymomas and choroid plexus papillomas generally appear cytologically benign or bland. |
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Their bland prettiness makes them more enticing as shark chum than as characters, but then a funny thing happens once they're at sea. |
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This bland 30-second spot stood out in the cluttered huckster's marketplace of morning television because of all the elements that were missing. |
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Brenda is a fantastic singer, but not really a pop star, and Maria is nice but a little bit bland. |
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He might seem interesting on the outside, but he is utterly, utterly bland and unexciting. |
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The game by itself, is sort of bland and unexciting because of the lack of variety. |
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The current station is far from perfect, but at least it has character, which this bland, uninspired new design signally fails to achieve. |
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While the phyllo pastry was nice and crisp, the dish itself was just a little bland. |
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It's all bland, unoriginal pap that will only appeal to the nostalgia-seekers of the original BSB generation. |
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Beyond these couple of top tunes you see, the music fades into that bland indifferent realm of the average pop song. |
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Hoardings, which dot the main thoroughfares, used to look bland and unromantic. |
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Ian listened for a few seconds, his bland smile twisting slowly into an exaggerated grimace. |
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How can the future's predominant realisation of electronic music be so bland? |
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She was not wearing a bland suit with a loose-fitting skirt and short boxy jacket with a pair of sensible pumps. |
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The delicate balance between the lively sweet caramel and the bland supporting wafer is a perfect combination for elevenses or 4pm Darjeeling. |
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This bland collection of vapid songs and empty sentiments sounds exactly as you would expect. |
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It is not a trait that endears Allen to neoconservatives, who regard him as intellectually vapid and ideologically bland. |
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Too much fertilizer can cause bland, soft fruit that is more susceptible to brown rot. |
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Hertfordshire South West was dull as ditchwater, Bedford was fairly bland and Suffolk South was a safe seat of the most tedious kind. |
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If you can eat solid food without vomiting, stick to bland foods such as crackers and noodles. |
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I was satisfied with my eye fillet of beef, but my husband declared his pork tenderloin bland and disappointing. |
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Attorneys and judges in this bland, wood-paneled space all wear capacious robes patterned on the gowns of medieval European clerics. |
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The bland fibrous stroma is infiltrated by mature lymphocytes and plasma cells. |
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The contemporary music scene was the stronghold of disco and stadium rock, the two bland ends of a narrow spectrum. |
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His emotional range extends from the bland to the sanctimonious and this hollowness has attracted a huge morning audience. |
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On the whole, food is, in general, bland but the use of various hot and spicy pickles and chutneys with the rice adds flavour and piquancy. |
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So many South African wines, particularly the big brands, are insipid, bland offerings, despite this great diversity. |
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The patties are familiar to New Yorkers who order bland commercial versions sold at numerous pizzerias. |
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His was a personable, companionable, bland brand of humour based on the long-running gag that Hope was an inveterate coward. |
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Flash fried cuddle fish was tough and not great with a bland stretchy taste. |
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Although their music can be a bit bland at times, they really put on a fantastic floor show. |
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They have made the big names look bland and left them languishing in the purlieus of the department store. |
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As much as anything, that often seemed to be the result of a distaste for bland British and American rock music. |
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Unfortunately the blini was buried under a huge, bland, flavourless, sickly mound of mayonnaise that added nothing to the plate. |
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If done wrong it can be as bland as a slice of white bread with the crusts cut off. |
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The fact is, this is a distinctive vehicle in a very bland, anonymous and nondescript market. |
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The reforms Japan has undertaken to revive economic growth fall somewhere between bland and modest. |
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As it stands, the film is just slightly above mundane and should provide audiences with some decent, if bland, frights. |
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He was not even much of a writer, with a bland and unremarkable style of putting pen to paper. |
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I often find Cinsaut to be a little bland on its own, but it is nicely blended here with Pinotage to form a really smooth wine. |
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The dancing tends to be bland in its dynamics, unspontaneous, and diminished in energy. |
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Rigid chairs and bland decor did not encourage us to linger over coffee, mugged or otherwise. |
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Thus they can press an oil that is more fragrant and flavorful than the bland oil pressed from sweet almonds. |
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The great compulsory voting experiment is unravelling and all that he can offer is bland reassurance that an untried system will cope. |
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The graphics are a little bland, the landscapes being rather unvaried snow, desert, or grasslands. |
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If I compare it to the symphonies, concerti, and chamber music, it seems rather bland to me, but why deny people their fun? |
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Personally, I found the disc pretty boring and bland, but I guess it's not really my style, being kind of proggy and sludgy. |
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It follows two disaffected teenagers through the bland, soulless landscape of their suburban California existence. |
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The least elegant was the vichyssoise, which had the bland, somewhat gummy consistency of whipped avocados. |
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Most are pleasant and bland, some may have attractive richness and spiciness. |
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Once a cutting-edge alternative to stale imports and bland domestic beers, Sam Adams now is just another craft beer on a cluttered shelf. |
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The musician in me won't let me tune out the abrasively bland songs coming out of the speaker above my head. |
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Let's not confuse World music with bland wallpaper forcing listeners to entertain themselves. |
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And the textbooks are often insipid and bland, presenting a world which has no realities that children experience. |
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Hate has its place, though, and it's just a shame that after such an attention-grabbing introduction the music is so insipid and bland. |
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Worst of all, when you try to make a light chowder, you end up sacrificing flavor and heartiness, and the soup becomes watery and bland. |
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Bored with his career and bland, conservative nature, Miriam has already filed for divorce. |
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The bland butteriness of the potato is a perfect vehicle for the truffle aroma and texture. |
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Some behind-the-scenes footage is included, though it's rather quick and bland. |
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Although many speakers struck bland notes individually, together these became a crescendo of shared concern. |
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The company's code crunchers might be boring and bland, but they are also disciplined and driven. |
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As a result, cultural choice is increasingly restricted, and a bland sameness, deadly and soporific, threatens the cultural landscape. |
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The lacklustre script gives the actors nothing to do and the villain is decidedly bland. |
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It's worth finding a decorator whose decor and furnishings will be chic yet neutral, without looking bland. |
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His family now lived in a typically bland modern suburb, but his heart lay with the little island where he grew up. |
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Critics were perplexed by this seemingly perfect specimen, and swiftly termed her bland and banal. |
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Gee, I hope all those explosions make up for the battalions of bland, sexless ciphers filling the screen. |
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Peterhof stands out like a jewel among the bland communist structures found in greater St. Petersburg. |
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Disgusted with the bland, palliative Lutheranism of his day, he stresses duty, self-sacrifice, and total commitment. |
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The character he ends up creating is charming but bland, like the film itself, despite the technical wizardry involved in its creation. |
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The chef has made it more sour and sweet to meet the taste of Southern people and the dish is actually fairly bland. |
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She found the pancake bland and tasteless and, having sampled a corner, I had to agree. |
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According to him, broiler or farm chicken is as good as vegetables, but tasteless and bland, however well they may be prepared. |
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When doctors recommend lowering the salt in your diet, it doesn't mean your food has to be tasteless and bland. |
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Lettuce has got to be one of the most tasteless bland things it is possible to eat. |
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People often complain that tomatoes sold in supermarkets are bland and tasteless compared with those fresh from the vine. |
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Presentation is bland and the lack of graphic detail just doesn't do justice to the obvious savageness of the creatures. |
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If you feel in need of some protein, choose bland, rather than oily, fish, and chicken in preference to red meat. |
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You'll have to excuse my rather bland choice of words in the initial sentence. |
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I love the fact that en masse it seems so bland, yet in miniature each snowflake is a work of art. |
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This is exactly the kind of tired, worn-out, bland thinking we love to reward in this town. |
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Beneath a nest of angel hair phyllo shreds is a layer of bizarre, bland melted cheese in a pool of honey syrup. |
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Despite the trattoria's views of the Tiber and its thoroughly Roman menu, every dish seemed stalely reheated and bland. |
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No one likes the elevator music, but they must endure the sheer bland badness being piped into their ears. |
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Some of the recollections are bland while others are scintillatingly naughty. |
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The short pastry is good and the sauce emulsified, but filling is bland invalid food and the ham is elusive. |
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Even the relentless march of performance progress has lost its edge, with the increasing bland commercialisation of the enthusiast market. |
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After one particularly bland interview, a reporter waspishly criticized the starlet. |
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It is a bland dish and may be accompanied by salted fish or other strongly flavoured food to provide contrast. |
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It questions the bland aphorisms of beauty and raises the difficult issues of purity and exclusivity. |
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I admire and respect them both, and they seem nice guys, but boring and bland. |
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Shame he seems to have to rely on wheedlingly bland ballads to keep him on the radio though. |
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Bur rather than settle down and start producing a bland composite, he retains his enthusiasm and keenness to experiment. |
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It is disappointing to see that his design was modified beyond recognition, so that the houses are as bland as every other state house. |
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For Voltaire, a catastrophe of such indiscriminate vastness was incontrovertible evidence against the bland optimism of popular theodicy. |
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We have a habit in this country of transforming even the simplest culinary import into a bland, bulky version of its former self. |
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Its paleness escapes looking bland thanks to contrasting inlays of ebony, walnut and amboyna, a wood distinguished by bird's eye curls. |
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If you can face it, bland foods such as toast or crackers may relieve feelings of nausea. |
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When you feel better, try small amounts of bland foods, such as toast, applesauce or bananas. |
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Indian paneer cheese is similar to Asian tofu in that it has a bland flavour in itself, but it absorbs the flavours of other ingredients well. |
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The nuclei were often elongated and cytologically bland with occasional stellate cells and loose myxoid background. |
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The arc of this group's path in America has been one from zealousness to bland, corporate moderateness. |
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After being steamed on water with light soybean oil, spring onion and ginger, the fish is bland and delicate. |
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The house looked bland and there was nothing in the garden except molehills. |
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One of the weaknesses of much pre-Classic music is the prevalence of bland diatonic harmony. |
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Even films that purport to be bland or apolitical are political in their intentions. |
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The slices of duck were too small and a little on the tough side, and the pear chutney was bland. |
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She served them with curried pineapple, a nice touch as the arancini was good, but a bit bland. |
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Giving has an emotional component, after all, and most of the new charity sites still feel a bit bland and bloodless. |
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The only problem is we never care if these two bland mouth breathers ever get together. |
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Efforts to ascertain concrete information are met with bland replies and you come away none the wiser. |
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Muenster cheese made in the U.S. is a very bland cheese which has no real resemblance to Muenster made in France and Germany. |
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Even the most devoted of undergraduates recognise that tutorials can be bland and uninspiring just as they can be challenging and stimulating. |
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Nick was less impressed with his cod loin, complaining it was too small while the sauce was bland and lukewarm. |
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Instead of left and right, we just don't like the bland, blah-blah, pointless, and point-of-view-less media we're getting. |
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Its visuals are disappointingly mediocre, featuring bland and utterly uninspired track designs. |
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If you don't use some essence of a stereotype, the characters are bland and you can't find the conflict. |
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I feel sorry for today's youth being spoon-fed safe bland manufactured pop devoid of emotion. |
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They can already sense how bland and uninteresting their relationship will be, how the years will yawn away and stretch to eternity. |
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Fragile moments of poignant emotion are coupled with bland and lifeless battle scenes. |
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While this helps in the credibility department, it makes the trial somewhat bland and characterless. |
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These characters are so bland and dumb it's hard enough to remember their names let alone believe or care about them. |
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Chinese medicine has long advocated bland, unprocessed food for a long, healthy life. |
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The dish was too bland, lacking flavour, and the aloe seemed not entirely fresh. |
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Supermarkets offer the same cosmetically perfect bland foods, from apples to bread to cheese. |
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Favor simple, bland foods and cool drinks, and avoid alcohol and drinks with caffeine. |
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These companies seemed to believe that what drinkers wanted to drink was bland beer that was fizzy and tasteless. |
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Apart from the potatoes whose saffron flavour was deep and delicious, this dish was so bland it made me wonder if I had lost my sense of taste. |
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You can replace these by drinking plenty of bland liquids such as water and soda water. |
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I'm not hugely hopeful as my other babies didn't seem to think much of the bland rice cereal. |
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Serve a soft, bland diet that does not require a lot of chewing and encourage your child to drink plenty of fluids. |
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She is a cake maker with a fine decorative sense but her cakes are bland and tasteless. |
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Diced tuna is too soft and bland to leave any impression on your tongue or your mind unless served with wasabi cream. |
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After a week of eating the bland food in our mess, meals like these really hit the spot. |
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So if prepared foods are actually bland and nutritionally barren, what do they have going for them? |
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In another contrast to the perfect fish, the bed of too-hard beans with their thin, bland tomato sauce was disappointing. |
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He gave his friend an unintelligibly bland look, and trotted off into the distance with no comment. |
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I found his voice bland, without any colouring or nuance, and some of his pronunciations were downright odd. |
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His eyes, although bland, were laced with an emotion that she could not place. |
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He spoke in a voice so calm and bland, it stuck in the air like an emotionless reverberation. |
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This even extends to some of the marquee stars, as Mary Jane looks particularly bland with flattened features. |
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Not one person could be seen on Independence Avenue, where rows of bland neoclassical federal buildings have been shuttered. |
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They tasted bland and their dressing was an unappetising grey gloop. |
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He always makes a point to talk about how much fun he has playing a genuinely different venue after endless weeks of bland civic centers and generic outdoor sheds. |
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On the hotter side, jalfrezi dishes are beautifully spiced, and for those with truly oversensitive tastebuds, the korma is mild without being bland. |
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They're either bland, unmemorable pop or bland, unsuccessful rip-offs of Mumford Sons. |
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Stale is an understatement for the dry and musty-tasting honey-saffron tea cake, hidden beneath a garden scene, all done in gaudily coloured but bland fondant icing. |
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Some melodies may be too bland for those who dig their rock with more pop. |
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In spite of their image as bland, geriatric pols, the party elders gave the LDP a sense political heft. |
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Every poor England performance sees Eriksson giving bland, uncharismatic and frankly boring interviews, which merely justify his selections or decisions. |
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He pushes his defamiliarization of the banal, the bland and the kitsch to a new extreme this time, allowing full reign to an excessive attention to patterns. |
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Yet, as he travels from airport to morgue, waiting room to railway carriage, these bland modern spaces seem to tease out of him at last a rueful sense of guilt and blame. |
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Don't be put off by the bland face-brick entrance for inside is all white-leather booths, curved corners, corkboard walls and cool, carpeted standing space. |
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I presume the aim is to provide an atmosphere that is inoffensively opulent, timeless and bland, so that nothing distracts you from thinking about the sensation in your mouth. |
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His bland take on the icon is nothing like his maniacal turns in American Psycho or The Fighter. |
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The first few songs are bland and uninspiring public space music. |
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It was bland but well worth the price and easily seasoned to taste with some hoisin sauce, hot red pepper paste and Sriracha hot chili sauce, which are on every table. |
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Its styling is bland, the engines lacklustre and interiors depressing. |
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Russ rolled his eyes as he forked some bland food into his mouth. |
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Although I found the coconut chutney too bitter, the accompanying warm sumbhar sauce pepped up a combination that was in danger of being a little bland. |
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He has all the sexual magnetism of a boiled potato, and it is hard to believe that such a bland fellow could throw the likes of her into such a swivet. |
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Either they can afford to chase the faddy food fashions and pay a fortune or they just have a bland unhealthy diet, because they don't know any better. |
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I don't mean to offend, but you seem to be fanboying over the console by saying that its competitors won't excel to what it offers and by calling them bland. |
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The peripheral characters are given similarly bland treatment. |
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It wasn't to be a bland stew of traditions but something strong and spicy. |
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While not exactly bland or nondescript, these scores seem to indicate that few rebels, experimenters, or fantasts are writing music in Scandinavia today. |
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Remember, this was at the height of the comedy boom, when every TV channel had a stand up show, all of it bland and sanitized for your protection. |
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The food was bland and unappealing, with no flavour she could tolerate. |
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This does not mean that his account is bland and colourless, but he is striving for scholarly objectivity and clarity as far as that is possible under the circumstances. |
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A likelier explanation is that people whose diet is rather bland and unvarying crave something to pep it up, and chillies provide flavour and excitement at low cost. |
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In royal blue velvet mini bloomers she looked anything but bland. |
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The resultant fare was fresh enough, but the dressing was bland and thin. |
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Neutral colours can look too bland and dark colours too sombre. |
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From then on, the album becomes fairly bland and generic soft rock. |
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The large, nutlike seeds found between the scales of the cones are no delicacy, being starchy and bland, but provide a useful food to many peoples. |
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One wonders how doctors reacted to the transformation of restaurants from outlets for bland, healthful fare to centres of gastronomy and gluttony. |
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All the other non-specialist presenters are so bland they melt into one. |
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Oh hey, a bland, derivative, double-denim clad garage rock band! |
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The poor boring, bland singer has to follow a dynamic superstar. |
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While I noticed a few more bland textures in multiplayer than I did in the campaign, the two are remarkably close. |
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I guess I'd rather have a bit of a reputation than be bland and boring. |
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The kids, besides looking like brothers, were bland and uninteresting. |
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Blinding lights found twelve boys immediately jumping out of six brown-painted metal bunk beds onto a bland gray uncarpeted tile floor with an almost military precision. |
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The Director rushes through the set pieces, drenching the sets in viscous gloop and blood as the bland supporting cast falls victim to the dual extra-terrestrial threat. |
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This is a relatively dry track featuring two very bland commentators. |
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They have been berated for being bland, boring, meandering and, most mystifying of all, not playing trance or whatever this week's essential dancefloor mutation is. |
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I hope their bland, tasteless products never pass my lips ever again. |
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It said that it had merely offered bland anodyne advice that it would offer to anybody who asked for it, and said that what happened next was certainly nothing to do with it. |
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In their universe all is bland, bloodless, bleached of character. |
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This approach in Chinese cinema, however, was entirely absent from the films screened in Sydney, which were bland and artistically commonplace works. |
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For years this has resulted in bland programme schedules largely filled with historical dramas, folk music performances, military displays and heavily censored news shows. |
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The completely unmoving, unconvincing romance between a wooden Hayden Christensen and an uncharacteristically bland Natalie Portman is only the most obvious clumsiness. |
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The confit of duck with salad and haricots blancs was cooked to perfection, although I found the plain beans rather bland and the side salad too salty. |
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Hauser is about as bland as they come, robotically experiencing happiness, pain, and anger without ever messing his dyed hair or wrinkling his smoothed face. |
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Don't expect to get excited by the functional, yet bland interior. |
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They say they are interested in eliciting strong reactions to their work but, as people, the deepest emotion they seem willing to display is this kind of bland amusement. |
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Tuna is a bland fish and benefits from a marinade to infuse flavour. |
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The miscegenation Ball was an exception in its otherwise bland, though proficient, catalog. |
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The bland blue-fin-tuna carpaccio seemed to have been previously frozen, and my salad of thinly sliced Muscovy duck tasted properly gamy but dry as shoe leather. |
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The TV critics largely sided with Conan, now with TBS, because they deem Leno to be a bland and stodgy comic. |
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Recipe From bland to brilliant, this will redefine and reinvigorate the way you think about vegetable broth. |
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They are uniform and polygonal with a bland, oval or round nucleus. |
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Yet where others might find nothing but bland boogaloo, Young finds pearls from Ray Barretto, Stanley Turrentine, Freddie Hubbard and Nina Simone. |
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And what sorts of bland mediocrities will end up on the courts? |
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More dull, bland, insipid and uninspiring commercial radio is on its way! |
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But it's such an infuriatingly bland blend of pop-psychology, unironic platitudes and meandering rock, I wouldn't stop at politely sweeping it under the rug. |
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The walls and floors were of stone, and the room was bland and cheerless. |
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But beyond their meek and bland exterior the Smalls inhabit another world. |
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So no excuses for last minute gifts that are bland, boring and dull. |
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His lips quirked slightly, showing his amusement at her bland humor. |
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During the strike the editorial broadcasts were bland and non-controversial, but after 12 May they were to be continued in a far more politicized form. |
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Siegal's dream is to reinvent a mobile house, retaining the concepts of affordability and flexibility but shaking up the bland design notions that now dominate the genre. |
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The understated, brick exterior now stands out amongst the bland residential high-rises that have sprouted in the River North area in recent years. |
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By contrast, the large figure paintings that he executed for the charterhouses of Granada and El Paular, near Segovia, are comparatively bland and conventional. |
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Though her initial fears that Warners would turn her into just another bland popstrel proved unfounded, Carthy did have her own insecurities to overcome. |
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Instead, the American list is filled with bubblegum pop, angst-laden gangster rap and bland soul without much spirit. |
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The diplomat's bland statement did nothing to calm the situation. |
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The young leaves are edible raw or cooked as a somewhat bland leaf vegetable. |
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There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits. |
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As we putter along in our little crapmobile, I can hear Mom's thoughts as clearly as the newscaster's bland voice. |
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On the front of the Royal Society Babbage had no impact, with the bland election of the Duke of Sussex to succeed Gilbert the same year. |
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Vaughn trots out his familiar blend of in-your-face blokeishness and tactless charm while Witherspoon brings new meaning to the word bland. |
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Instead of the bland, beautiful brigade of fame seekers, this lonely hearts line-up is as raggedy as a haystack and as doe-eyed as a cow. |
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Perhaps the brand of bland backslapping plied by the motley crew of ex-jockeys and yes-men on other channels is more to his liking? |
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A sense that the air, a sighting of muddy river, or that outcrop of rock so implacably bland in the light of midday, is undertowed by memory. |
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Neither haute cuisine nor dodgy curry, it's a bland blend of cloying predictability. |
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The writers are dishing up more of the same with this bland suburban sitcom. |
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His deadpan style reminds students of every bland, boring, but inwardly crazy, professor whose classes were sufferingly tolerated. |
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Neither haute cuisine nor dodgy kebab, it's a mostly bland blend of the cloying and the predictable. |
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Robinson appears bland from Buttermere, smooth rounded slopes curving up from the valley floor. |
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Mom-and-pop diners and cafes are disappearing from American main streets, being replaced by bland corporate giants and insipid franchises. |
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Holmes was beady-eyed and bland and is wrongly characterised as a know-all junky high on drugs. |
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Salt and chilli beancurd is perfect, crisp exterior giving way to a soft, milkily bland interior. |
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Initial suspicions pointed at both food and water, narrowing down after a while to fritz, a popular, bland, processed meat. |
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On microscopy, all sections contained interweaving fascicles of bland spindled cells with well-circumscribed margins. |
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Adjacent to the malignant cells were a few well-demarcated nodules of small, bland, polyhedral squamoid cells with focal duct formation. |
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The producers do their best to edit bland events into comic minibites, but those mostly look lame and forced. |
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The league table doesn't lie, say the spewers of bland cliches. |
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The MPAA emerges from Dick's film as a system stacked against the maverick auteur, hostile to the creative process, and conducive to bland homogeneity. |
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The bland cashew is a fitting substitute for higher priced almonds to extend the nut texture. In baking, however, almonds are more suitable for cake decoration than cashews. |
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It ought to have been obvious to anyone with an ear that mainstream pop has very little to do with originality and everything to do with bland, soundalike, predigested pap. |
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Winter purslane, which is also known as miner's lettuce or claytonia is, by contrast, slightly succulent, cool and a little bland but mixes well with the spicy vegetables. |
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Our politicians are identikits, our pop stars are bland, if a football manager wants to make jokes in the predictable arena of the post-match interview, let him. |
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Look past bland gamefic and Superman comics for a change, and you might see that conflicted characers are much more common than you like to admit. |
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The prolonged, climactic coloratura mad scene for Lucia in Donizetti's 1835 bel canto opera Lucia di Lammermoor is based on what in the novel were just a few bland sentences. |
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A whey protein hydrolysate that is bland and non-bitter is ideal for adding to beverages and powdered mixes without detrimentally affecting the flavour of the end product. |
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With a bland touch and tortoiselike patience, he recorded arrangements of one or more bodies in drowsy repose surrounded by rugs, blankets and furniture. |
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She believes in the diversity of towns, capitalising on their uniqueness rather than the 'clone town' trend towards bland uniformity blighting our townscapes. |
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