| 单词 | blandly |
| 例句 | Along with a photograph of an extremely nondescript British heir and his equally nondescript blond fiancée smiling blandly. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Thank you,” she said blandly, and put it in the little pocket on the back of her rucksack before leaving. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s only me, Sir, come to return a book,” she said blandly, as she entered. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z In a discipline in which athletes bored newsmen to death with cliches and blandly politic statements, Pollard was a singularly fresh interview, articulate, irreverent, and self-deprecating. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe you shouldn’t try writing with your left hand,” Raizel said blandly. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The next day I was summoned to the head office, where the commander blandly informed me that the case had been investigated and dis-missed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When she was done she held it tightly in her lap and looked blandly at her mother. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z "Well, I'm not sure you can do that, Mr. Stevenson. I think you might have a conflict there," he said, and then his voice shifted from argumentative to blandly matter-of-fact. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “The typical black bear-inflicted injury,” he writes blandly, “is minor and usually involves only a few scratches or light bites.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They declared blandly that the bill was unnecessary because cooperation and consultation were “usual.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Five members of the heretical sect of Quakers have been arrested,” he says, smiling blandly, “and more arrests are anticipated.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Bogert polished the nails of one pudgy hand with the other and said blandly, “I dare say. I know a little in the line.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He met her gaze blandly, innocent and open. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z "You don't want to overwork yourself, young feller," he said blandly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A paragraph which blandly stated the results of the autopsy appeared in the back of the Hampden Examiner. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Restrain her, please,” the duke said, blandly, calmly—as if she were no more than a hysterical servant. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I am not permitted to give out personal information,” he replies blandly, as he jabs at the screen in front of him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z One showed Benton hanging upside down from a swing set as his mother sat nearby, her face blandly gazing toward him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “And I really do, so I was not lying either, at least not about that,” Heqet said blandly, offering the wedge to the Ancient instead. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z That lukewarm escape endorsement may have been blandly worded because Shin’s father did not completely trust his son, either. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The cops were looking at me blandly as if to say, “Is that all?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He looked hopefully at Bogert, who was still blandly neat and whose inner tension was perhaps betrayed only by the trace of glister at his temples. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z This was the time of hygiene lectures, and of practicing blanket-baths on life-size models—Mrs. Mackintosh, Lady Chase, and baby George whose blandly impaired physique allowed him to double as a baby girl. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was one anodyne sentence that caught her attention now—not for what it said, but for what it blandly tried to conceal. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a mean voice, just blandly matter-of-fact. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I keep my cloak clutched tightly around me and try to move past her, keeping a blandly happy expression on my face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I’m not going to do anything,” he replied blandly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The play, titled after an ancient Roman training area, gestures blandly and indistinctly at themes of mankind’s history across two very long acts at NYU Skirball. Review: In ‘Field of Mars,’ a March Toward Oblivion 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Officially hosted by an American organisation, the blandly titled Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace was in fact a Soviet initiative and, potentially, a propaganda coup. Ian McEwan on Sweet Tooth – Guardian book club 2013-07-13T09:29:00Z Yet Nolan has nothing to say about these relationships; he takes their substance blandly for granted. “Interstellar” Is a Flowery Greeting Card 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The song was covered blandly by Pat Boone as "Ain't That a Shame" and rocked out years later by Cheap Trick. Rock 'n' Roll Legend Fats Domino Dies at 89 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z “Ocean’s Kingdom,” first performed in September, is as plodding as ever: four movements of static choreography by Mr. Martins, along with blandly sweeping music and a convoluted libretto by Mr. McCartney. Dance Review: ?Ocean?s Kingdom? at New York City Ballet - Review 2012-01-21T00:29:19Z The setting was a blandly furnished room in the once storied New Yorker Hotel on the edge of Hell’s Kitchen. Beyond ‘Queer’ Fashion 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Other notions, like the slick, blandly sweet pork jerky, dropped off in a waxed paper envelope, are more chew toy than human treat. Momofuku CCDC review: For the shrimp buns and servers, the wait is worth it 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z The trauma of the dressing-room mirror greatly benefited the Health Spa, as it was blandly named, which saw as many as 400 clients a day. The Eternal Treadmill of Fitness Trends: From Hot Pants to Hot Mess 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z It’s not that the other performances in “Graduation” are bad—in fact, they’re blandly and professionally good—but they’re repressed performances that, in their narrowness, evoke, above all, Mungiu’s own proudly earnest illusion of reality. The Moralizing Pseudo-Realism of Cristian Mungiu’s “Graduation” 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Just as blandly ominous were Arlene Sierra’s music and Lucy Thurber’s libretto for “Faustine,” a feminist retelling of the Faust story. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z I realize why she is dressing so blandly, to look more presidential and so her clothing is not an issue. How Hillary Clinton Ended the Clothing Conversation 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z These gimmicks, however, do not mask the thin, superficial writing, which relies on blandly sentimental monologues and an assortment of patriotic war-flick clichés. ‘Foxhole’ Review: A History of Violence 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z And it feels politically disingenuous, like yet another blandly perverse attempt to envision inhabitants of the world's dominant military power as scrappy underdogs, valiantly fighting for freedom against technologically superior foes. Close encounters of a tired kind 2011-06-19T21:20:00Z Judas, actually, is not a giant role, but it is a crucial one, too blandly played here by Gabriel Furman. Review: For ‘Judas Iscariot,’ a Courtroom Drama of Epic Proportions 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The Enemy’s various disguises include an unseen, nosy woman in a bathroom stall and Dr. White of the blandly named, sinister Better New York Foundation. Review | N.K. Jemisin’s fantasy tale ‘The City We Became’ shows the resilience of New York 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z The sour cream and yogurt with which I dressed it was blandly white until a dismembered dandelion perked it up. For cooks, flowers aren’t just a tabletop decoration — they’re an ingredient 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z A hockey mom, explains the New Oxford American Dictionary rather blandly, is "a mother who devotes a great deal of time and effort to supporting her children's participation in ice hockey". Hockey moms and bromance pimp dictionary's definitions 2010-09-20T14:40:00Z But the evening, despite its wide range of sources, was nearly free of anxiety, or most any mood other than blandly elegiac uplift. So Much Traveling, With No Clear Destination 2011-02-11T16:57:37Z The film is so blandly directed one might think it was made by Ron Howard. "Where the Crawdads Sing" is a stupefyingly bad adaptation of spoon-fed melodrama 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Roosevelt's successors included Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, who seemed unmoved by those same Americans as they presided blandly over economic misfortunes, culminating in the Great Depression. 'To Make Men Free' is a timely tale of the ever-changing GOP 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z He selected material primarily from the pages of respectable scientific journals and eschewed Fort’s dramatic taste in titles, instead referring to his research blandly as the Sourcebook Project. He saw the scientific promise in the paranormal, but now his legacy could be lost 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The most complicated piece is a working fountain, framed by polished stone to signify Euro-classical refinement, that burbles blandly in the center of the gallery. In the galleries: Gunpowder and teddy bears 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The main story suffers most from this problem: Outside of their arias, Orpheus and Eurydice are blandly written and thus performed. Review: The Metamorphosis of ‘Hadestown,’ From Cool to Gorgeous 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The film that The New York Times called “flat and mechanical” with a title character who was “blandly appealing.” A Message From the Gods: Keep ‘Lightning Thief’ Fans Happy 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The play within the novel has the blandly lurid plot of a certain period of children’s literature: Mister Monkey is an orphan, his parents killed by poachers. High Praise for a Novel About an Awful Children’s Musical 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Excellent fresh pea vines were lightly blanched then gently sautéed, but frozen peas and carrots undermined blandly sauced ma po tofu. Baked goods take center stage at Regent Bakery & Café on Capitol Hill 2012-08-02T20:10:04Z As my parents remained intransigent, in their blandly baleful, parentlike way, I had to resort to more exotic ways of slaking my thirst. A Ship Sinks, and a Boy Is Enthralled 2013-08-21T16:31:12Z Raniere’s lectures had the energy of a TED Talk, his women’s groups adopted the blandly feminist sheen of “Lean In” and his enforcement of extreme diets echoed the Silicon Valley obsession with “biohacking.” Nxivm Had a Cult Leader Made for the Internet 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Jack Handey will begin a sentence in a blandly benign narrator tone, then take a sudden wrong turn, landing who knows where: “One bad thing about ice skating is you’re always knocking over little kids.” 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The infinitesimally mild satire of the hotel’s blandly and dogmatically romantic pop culture is matched by the movie’s ultimate benediction of—surprise, surprise—the redemptive power of true love. The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z It's a fascinating behind-the-scenes view, right down to the delivery man who blandly deposits a bag of takeout backstage. 'Crazy Horse': an enticing behind-the-scenes look at Paris cabaret 2012-02-09T21:57:07Z It’s a familiar concern for Ms. Granik, who’s drawn to American outsiders — intentional and unintentional exiles alike — living in what are often blandly called poor and marginalized communities. Review: ‘Leave No Trace’ Is a Very American Story About Survival 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Especially since the rest of “Drowning,” missing its video ending on Thursday because of a technical error, is blandly inscrutable. Dance Review: Rosie Herrera Dance Theater and Doug Varone at Joyce Theater 2013-01-16T17:37:51Z These worries have been set to blandly generic music by Mr. Lippa. | 'The Addams Family': Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth on Broadway 2010-04-09T02:29:00Z By the time the SAG Awards rolled round, E! hosts had come upon a blandly marketable term for this activism-themed display: “girl power.” Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z You may add the broth to the noodles or not; I found them better without, as the broth sapped some of the noodles’ character and made them more blandly Cantonese. Hungry City: Sky Cafe in Elmhurst, Queens 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Ten years on, Libeskind's splintered vortex of shards has been replaced by a blandly corporate obelisk by SOM, predicted to be the most expensive office building in the world, at $3.8bn. Will One World Trade Center really be the tallest building in the west? 2013-05-02T10:32:00Z Among those are the New York setting, a potential wonderland of glamour, filth and imagination that is rendered as blandly as if the movie had been shot on a back-lot set. Review: ‘The Secret Life of Pets’ Amuses, but Misses Opportunities 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Duke sings on half of the tracks on “Déjà Vu,” in a style blandly geared toward Quiet Storm radio programming. Critics? Choice: CDs by Blake Shelton, Mike Posner, George Duke 2010-08-08T22:33:00Z Margo is too blandly goody-good for my taste, but she meets plenty of sharply defined individuals who educate her about what it means to be socially marginalized. The Impossible Case of a Japanese Locked-Room Mystery 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z But opacity, ambiguity, and the risk of slipping off-message are all carefully and blandly avoided by the movie’s lack of aesthetic self-questioning. The Mild Controversies of “Dear White People” 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z But in general, these brief fantasias meander into blandly showy runs. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Nobody says a word about my salvation, except for Jon, who at one point generically and somewhat blandly says, “We have to tell you you’re going to hell.” My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” 2013-03-24T11:00:00Z In place of knowledgeable contributors are irritating music and blandly repetitive interviews as we follow Hevesh from convention appearances to meetings with ecstatic fans and collaborative projects with fellow topplers. ‘Lily Topples the World’ Review: What Goes Up 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The category’s other three nominees – James Bay, Sam Hunt, and Tori Kelly – are the usual Grammy fare, a mix of slickly commercial and blandly earnest. Meghan Trainor must be stopped: The Grammys inexplicably nominated her for Best New Artist 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Though the late-night gig doesn’t matter as much now that his campaign is over, something about Buttigieg remains fascinating, if blandly so. Review | Buttigieg charms his way to another good grade while guest-hosting Kimmel’s show 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z But mostly they bop around acting like blandly innocent Jersey Girls, generic teenagers getting ready for a sock hop, or even Mouseketeers. | 'Baby It?s You!': Girl Group Tale Is Reharmonized 2011-04-28T02:30:28Z But this bare-bones synopsis of the movie hardly gets at its peculiar blend of blandly palliative wish-fulfillment and exuberant, nearly possessed fervor. The Sanitized Christianity of “War Room” 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z And as it unspools, quirky Bob temporarily morphs into a blandly generic action figure. For Fans of Ivan, the Answer to ‘What About Bob?’ 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z The ballads, on the other hand, are predictably and blandly uplifting: “Be the hero” of your story, we’re urged, practically before the stories have even started. Broadway’s Big Fish: Small Potatoes 2013-10-10T09:45:50Z At first glance, a lot of it feels blandly quasi-Minimalist, an impression reinforced by Ms. Raza’s stated premise that the exercise of logic, as embodied in geometry, is meant to bind the work. The Guggenheim Is Going Global. Kind Of. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Faced with yet another uproar — actually, two of them within 24 hours — the cable network has blandly, mildly offered . . . well, very little in response. Why can’t Fox apologize? It won’t back down even amid Pirro, Carlson controversies 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z With a claque like that it is easy to see why her self-esteem floats blandly along,” Sulzberger concluded. ‘Price of Fame,’ a Biography of Clare Boothe Luce 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Enter the ultimate in blandly named bureaucratic bodies — the Government Accountability Board — which has the important job of overseeing Wisconsin's elections and determining whether recall elections can proceed. Boring Wisconsin recall webcam draws big audience 2012-01-20T13:04:00Z Ultimately, this dual role allows Scott to do what he does best: play a blandly handsome everydude while also showing the pain and shame and passion underlying that pose. In ‘Severance,’ Adam Scott Gets to Work 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Would-be rescuers are dismembered, ships pass blandly in the distance, the life-saving buoy crumbles in Nancy’s hand. Why The Shallows is better than The Birds 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Instead, the thick spectacles, immaculate blue blazer, neat military moustache, and persistently unjudgmental and blandly phrased questions, plus a commentary in alliterative tabloidese, gave him a career that outlasted those of many of his rivals. Alan Whicker, globetrotting TV presenter, dies aged 87 2013-07-12T14:56:37Z If “Created Equal” is trying to promote the conservative cause, it does so gently, and blandly. ‘Created Equal’ Review: A Justice of Few Words Finds His Voice 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z But her book was questing and inquisitive while Mr. Lubow’s hums blandly along. Review: Arthur Lubow’s Diane Arbus Biography Recalls an Underworld Voyager 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z But Reynolds is so blandly amiable, so deeply Canadian, that the hallmark of a male movie star — the musk of danger — is something he doesn't radiate; he only simulates it. Green Lantern: Not So Super-Hero 2011-06-16T15:55:00Z When the book begins, the neighborhood is as blandly gentrified as today’s Williamsburg waterfront, its Caribbean residents long ago pushed out by the “watercress-and-wasabi set.” Lionel Shriver Imagines America’s Collapse 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z “Dallas & Robo” is more blandly contemporary and, through two episodes available for review, less well defined. On Paid YouTube, Sci-Fi Comedy and the Grown-Up Karate Kid 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z The best performance is Josh Pais as Ira, the band’s blandly venal manager. Review: In ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll,’ Denis Leary Is an Aging Rocker 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z A serviceable but not stylish filmmaker, Adler shoots office spaces and restaurants in a blandly shadowy style redolent of peak TV. ‘The Operative’ Review: High on Espionage, Low on Surprise 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, as they try to dispose of the body they’ve stuffed in the trunk, she talks blandly about grocery shopping and swimming pools. ‘Sun Don’t Shine’: Tale of lovers on the run sizzles 2013-04-25T20:45:46Z With “Negrogothic, a Manifesto, the Aesthetics of M. Lamar,” the composer M. Lamar offers a bracing alternative to the dispiriting traffic in blandly competent art clogging the New York gallery system these days. M. Lamar: ‘Negrogothic, a Manifesto, the Aesthetics of M. Lamar’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z This combination of elements leads Mike to describe Margie as a master of passive aggression when she shows up, uninvited, at his blandly expensive-looking office. | 'Good People': Been Back to the Old Neighborhood? 2011-03-04T03:09:46Z It is astonishing to watch Hendrik Verwoerd, who in the 1950s was the principal architect of racial separatism, blandly describing apartheid as "a policy of good neighbourliness". Playwright Athol Fugard: a man of obstinacy and courage 2012-06-03T17:45:01Z That eccentricity might not be apparent on record, where Gardot's blandly pretty ballads are accompanied by very sober acoustic guitar and hand percussion. Melody Gardot – review 2013-04-03T17:55:09Z But Hamlet is a play as well as a role and Simm would do even better if Paul Miller's production were something more than blandly efficient and offered a much more clearly defined Elsinore. Review: Hamlet 2010-09-23T11:41:00Z Why does a writer who, on one page, excoriates Joseph Conrad for cliché, for the sin of “in the twinkling of an eye,” so blandly deploy “bright-eyed and bushy-tailed” — and worse? Martin Amis Offers the ‘Inside Story’ of His Relationships With Three Famous Writers 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Both it and the red pepper version taste blandly sweet. Supermarket sushi: taste test 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Although they are sometimes smoothly woven into the plotline, these blandly generic love songs can also be a drag on the production’s energy. Review: ‘On Your Feet!’ Rides the Rhythm of the Estefans 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z There never seemed to be perfect agreement between Mr. Buchbinder and the conductorless Orpheus players, particularly about tempos, and neither pianist nor orchestra often veered from a blandly middle-of-the-road speed or volume. Music in Review 2011-03-21T22:54:38Z In Liman’s overly literal view, Cage comes off blandly unaffected by his miraculous experience; the marvel of multiple lives is reduced to a variety of basic training.—R.B. Movies 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Where Elisabeth is querulous and nervous, Ousmane is stoic and calm, and her anxiety increases when the police, at first blandly unhelpful, begin to investigate their children's lives intensely. Film review: London River 2010-07-08T21:40:00Z The work is intended to convey a series of stormy and enchanted musical voyages, but none of them seemed to be worth the extravagant, blandly conceived expenditure of orchestral energy. BBCSO/Litton – review 2013-01-14T17:50:21Z The little rectangles of text explaining each entry, hanging from small poles resting on the floor, are hard to read and then — when you are able to do so — blandly written. A grassroots, handmade Venice Architecture Biennale from Alejandro Aravena 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Pitt blandly plays a handsome "UN investigator" who is dramatically called in when a mysterious human rabies whooshes all over the world, turning everyone into crazed, violent zombies. World War Z – review 2013-06-20T20:15:01Z Through six episodes it’s blandly mediocre, though it starts to perk up a little in Episodes 5 and 6. Review: Netflix Tries to Channel Its Chi With ‘Marvel’s Iron Fist’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Xiomara Reyes finds perhaps her best role as the Cowgirl: often a blandly superficial performer in more conventionally balletic roles, here she’s endearingly touching and lively. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at City Center 2012-10-17T22:19:58Z It’s also one of his worst plays: intellectually thin, overly familiar, blandly generic. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z But what happens when the condiment of the cool kids gets foisted through the golden arches and blandly deemed “awesome sauce”? What does the fanaticism it inspires say about our cultural values? McDonald’s comes for sriracha: Assimilation, customization and the fast-food American Dream 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Jared Matthews is a blandly pleasant Lensky, lively and lyrical though without vulnerability. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater in ‘Onegin,’ at Metropolitan Opera House 2012-06-05T21:29:30Z Here, that unclassifiable quality has been blunted and contained, and Salander made into another blandly tough chick. ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ Review: Lisbeth Salander, Blunted in Tooth and Claw 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z But Rock, who of course attracts Cyrano, too, is blandly uninteresting beyond his musculature. FringeNYC: Plays That Are Bold, Daring and Full of Lust 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z “It’s not a feeling you can run from, ’cause we love who we love,” Smith and Sheeran sing, blandly sloganeering. Sam Smith Seeks Self-Acceptance and Catharsis, and a Sound to Match 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z In Liman’s overly literal view, Cage comes off as blandly unaffected by his miraculous experience; the marvel of multiple lives is reduced to a variety of basic training.—R.B. Movies 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z He created pictures that at first seem blandly anecdotal, generic, even contentless. Art Review: David Goldblatt?s South Africa Photos at Jewish Museum 2010-07-01T21:52:00Z The teenagers might have been up to “mischief,” as one of the movie’s interviewees blandly puts it, but they were effectively sacrificed on the altar of public opinion. Movie Review: The Documentary ‘The Central Park Five’ 2012-11-21T23:45:09Z “In the City of Killing” draws on “stereotypes of feminized Jewish males hopelessly softened by the humiliations of the diaspora” and of “the superstitions of blandly passive religiosity.” Before the Holocaust, Jewish Suffering Had One Name: Kishinev 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Much may be familiar to fans, and the players do carry the day; the sports journalists who blandly recite commentary could learn from the athletes’ earthy style. Movie Review: Alex Gibney’s ‘Last Gladiators’ Looks at Hockey’s Tough Guys 2013-01-31T22:42:44Z The lobster is plump and sweetly fresh, but I detect only a whisper of ginger; the dumpling, thicker than I remember it, proves rich but blandly so. Review | At Fiola, less could be even more 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Both operas, though particularly “Champion,” are more blandly jazzy than they are vivid jazz. Review: ‘Champion,’ at the Met Opera, Spars With History 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z She had opened the door to her blandly luxurious suite in a terrycloth bathrobe. Houda Benyamina, the French Filmmaker Who Brought the Banlieues to Hollywood 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z And she sometimes relies on blandly broad historical statements for use as spackle, e.g.: How to Describe America’s Character Through Its Favorite How-To Books 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z The film’s director, Gerard Johnstone, told me that in one of his last passes at the script, he inserted the line to add some levity to what he worried was a blandly functional scene. In ‘M3gan,’ a Detective’s Guilty Laugh Speaks Volumes About Him (and Us) 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z All of them supplied a revolutionary new-world spirit to classical music, putting expression and passion for progress above blandly comforting old-world beauty. Robert Mann: A musical revolutionary on par with Cage, Bernstein, Callas and Gould 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z A dozen small bronze mirrors, blandly framed but precisely arranged, wink from the walls. A user's guide to art-speak 2013-01-27T19:00:02Z Both “shiksa”s are pejorative, but in different ways and of different intensities: one personifies forbidden pleasure, sharply reflecting the guilt and frustration of the tempted; the other is blandly derogatory, almost below concern. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z While the deep red of the dancer's tunics is striking against the choristers' purple robes, starker, stranger costumes would highlight the otherworldly quality of the music – as would less blandly uniform lighting. Richard Alston Dance Company ? review 2012-02-10T18:15:47Z The spaces they inhabit tend to be grandly but blandly appointed, whether in the plush beige carpeting of Logan Roy’s opulent Fifth Avenue apartment or the clinical minimalism of Kendall’s downtown loft. Let’s Talk About the Clothes on “Succession” 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z And the name he gave his character was meant to be blandly nondescript. Exhibition Review: ‘Exquisitely Evil,’ Bond Villains at International Spy Museum 2012-11-15T23:35:07Z There's a reference to Carrie, which is so blandly non-specific and sanitised that it might not even count as a reference at all. Monsters University – review 2013-07-11T20:45:00Z "So I just happen to be looking for the prettiest girl in the audience," he announced, blandly, at one point. Justin Bieber; Carly Rae Jepsen – review 2013-03-10T00:05:31Z Not everyone in that clan is as regal as Eleanor or as blandly agreeable as her son. Review: ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Is a Party With a First-Rate Guest List 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z This record is so blandly agreeable and sunny that it seems almost like self-parody that its first track should be called Sunshine. Court Yard Hounds: Amelita – review 2013-07-13T23:05:21Z Never once in about 3½ total hours of “The Comey Rule” can one completely buy into Daniels’s performance, for reasons as trivial as a haircut and as valid, yet blandly amorphous, as demeanor. Review | Showtime’s ‘The Comey Rule’ is like replaying a nightmare while we’re still having it 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Corrs-lite? — embraces traditional Irish instrumentation in a blandly effective manner, sounding more like a completed item on a checklist than a commitment to the sound. Review: Ed Sheeran’s Secret Weapon on ‘Divide’? Being Unabashedly Uncool 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Its pieces zoom through the air like candy-colored shrapnel, whizzing by before the memory can tag them and making the blandly familiar sound enticingly exotic. Review: Hit Songs to Sin By in a Smashing ‘Moulin Rouge!’ 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Wittels joined Parks and Recreation at the beginning of season two, bringing his quirky sensibility to what was then an almost blandly traditional sitcom. ‘Harris Wittels was the funniest person I ever met’ – Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman and Aziz Ansari on a lost comic genius 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Soon-Yi is discussed very gingerly, cursorily; there's a montage of the tabloid front pages, and Allen blandly says that people are entitled to whatever opinion they like. Woody Allen: A Documentary – review 2012-06-07T20:30:01Z The typical production style is blandly nostalgic escapism rather than vibrancy or relevance. Critic’s Notebook: How Hollywood Films Are Killing Opera 2012-08-16T21:49:50Z Even to non-Danish speakers, this proved far more riveting than listening to the same poems repeated blandly in German translation. Young Immigrant in Denmark Lashes Out in Verse 2014-04-02T17:00:39Z He’s a blandly cheery white guy, originally from Long Island, but living in Dallas for so long by now that he says “y’all.” Review: In ‘Plano,’ Two Multiplying Husbands Outnumber Three Sisters 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Zimmerman’s blandly fantastical “Eurydice” staging efficiently depicts the action — the elevator down to hell; the shower that makes the dead forget their lives; the looming, pocked walls of the underworld — but lacks magic and sparkle. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Eurydice’ Tries to Raise the Dead 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Betty looks like Grace Kelly, but she seems blandly prosaic — except when she picks up a BB gun and shoots the neighbor’s pigeons, a cigarette dangling from her perfectly curved lips. Television: Changes for Fourth Season of ?Mad Men? 2010-07-16T19:01:00Z He seems to disappear into the role, his face almost unrecognisable from one picture to the next: getting older and then younger-looking – blandly indistinctive at one turn, with sharp, penetrating features the next. Irrfan Khan: 'I object to the term Bollywood' 2013-07-25T18:00:00Z Through much of the movie, even the humans talk to each other blandly, without much tone or emotion — as they might talk to a machine, or as a machine might talk to them. “2001: A Space Odyssey” still has insight on future decades later 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z The best thing you can do, Stanley," Mr Smeeth blandly advises, "is to drop these silly tricks. JB Priestley: adventures of the 'tradesman of letters' 2012-11-09T22:55:06Z That’s why its blandly reductive simplicity is all the more unfortunate. “Patriots Day,” a Police Procedural for the Age of Surveillance 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Throughout this steady stream of encounters, you’re struck by how attractive the performers are, but also by how blandly tough they remain: It’s like watching pretty paint dry. Dance Review: Por Instantes at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-06-15T22:19:33Z It was the only score with a blandly formal title. Music: June in Buffalo Celebrates 35th Anniversary 2010-06-04T21:58:00Z What if she was a woman who morbidly gazed into the window of a coffee shop and mentally inserted herself into the lives of its blandly attractive customers? Stunts! Bumps! Fake Trumps! 25 pop-culture myths too weird to be true 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Developers may tout murals, sculpture parks and artist residencies as evidence of artsiness, but these often feature art that is blandly attractive — and not the sort of work that challenges the status quo. Rent hikes and evictions — is this the last stand for artists in the Arts District? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z But if the movie doesn’t offer a blandly happy ending, it affirms that a story has begun that only Palace can truly tell. ‘The African Desperate’ Expands the Movies’ Narrow View of the Art World 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z But there’s a sweetness about her too, as if she and Jenkins understand intuitively that Wonder Woman can’t just be blandly awesome. Can We Build a Better Blockbuster? Wonder Woman Points a Way Forward 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z But the remake nonetheless gains an outsized resonance, one that reaches far beyond their blandly glossy audiovisual identity, by way of its echo of current political crises and scandals. “Superfly,” Reviewed: A Classic Remade for a Gun-Mad Age 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Back home, I pored over donor questionnaires at the local sperm bank, trying to keep straight who liked video games and who preferred billiards, but it all mixed blandly together for me. Seeking a Father for My Child (Relationship Optional) 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The blandly emotive choreography, seen in brief flashes is not worthy of a prima ballerina, much less an apprentice. A Ballet Scandal Gets the ‘Special Victims Unit’ Treatment 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z It might also help that the blandly catchy pop and hip-hop songs are a cut above the music on other similar shows. Television Review: ?The Wannabes? on Starz Kids & Family - Review 2011-09-04T23:30:56Z Mr. Kinnear, with his twitchy blue eyes, blandly handsome features and unparalleled ability to tiptoe on the boundary between charm and sleaze, is almost too well suited to this kind of character. Movie Review: ?Thin Ice,? With Greg Kinnear and Billy Crudup 2012-02-17T00:20:13Z After Hal and Josie’s meet-cute, they see sights blandly, philosophize blandly, blandly tiptoe around the notion of romance, and criticize each other — yes, blandly, but with an occasional touch of “salty” language. ‘A Chance Encounter’ Review: Bland Days In Taormina 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Trying to grant the wishes of a blandly likable white kid with divorced parents, he lumbers through, shouting his lines, mugging and even burping for laughs. N.B.A. Pros on the Big Screen: Can These Stars Act? 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z Three year later, New Kids on the Block would become the first contemporary pop group to perform at the event, and the show remained blandly middle-of-the-road until Michael Jackson’s powerhouse performance in 1993. How Hip-Hop Inched Its Way to the Super Bowl Halftime Stage 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The singers gesticulate widely and stalk around blandly, occasionally striking antiquated poses. ‘Il Trovatore’ and ‘Fierrabras’ at Salzburg Festival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z “Porgy” — which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Sunday after two years, its performances still exhilarating but its staging still blandly naturalistic — keeps raising questions over its three hours. Review: ‘Porgy and Bess’ Returns to a New Opera Landscape 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Noah’s screen time was our and blandly melancholic. ‘The Affair’ Season 3, Episode 6: Noah Goes Home 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z Paradoxically, Ayer’s bluntly literal style treats the movie’s thematic twists as blandly as its ornamental ones. The Styleless Fakery of “Suicide Squad” 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Combining country, soul, R&B, bluegrass, funk, folk and the blues into a grab bag blandly titled California rock, The Eagles offer a bit of something for everybody. Review: The Eagles put on a bucket list kind of night at Climate Pledge Arena 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z His apparent ambition: to span the whole 20th century in blandly adequate novels so fat that they’re hard to hoist. Books of The Times: War, Revolution and a King Who Says ?By Jove? 2010-09-23T21:30:00Z Yoncheva spends much of the time blandly moping around, small-scale on this soaring canvas. Two Operas, Two Sopranos, Two Very Different Impacts 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z Here, as in life, the most blandly familiar spaces — the back seat of a cab, a cluttered office, a living room — serve as unadorned stages for ordinary, existence-defining encounters. ‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’ Review: What We Talk About 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Frances is neither blandly agreeable nor adorably quirky. Movie Review: ‘Frances Ha,’ With Greta Gerwig 2013-05-16T21:27:33Z But Barbie has remained at the center of the conversation around toys and body image, while Ken has mostly stayed aloof and blandly handsome. Please, no GamerGate Kens: Revamped Barbies deserve newer, better male partners, too 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z A blandly villainous emissary from the government descends, forcing the ensemble to adapt Soviet-style socialist realism. ‘Cold War’ Review: Love Without Borders 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Brammall is blandly handsome and on the comfy side of fit, with a knack for playing exasperation in both comic and dramatic situations. This Man Doesn’t Star in Every Australian TV Show. It Just Seems That Way. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z What emerged was a kind of archaeological survey of late-1970s German interior decoration — ornaments, pot plants, beds, tables, fireplaces, all the more fascinating for being so blandly unremarkable. Passport Photos and Online Porn: The Dizzying World of Thomas Ruff 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z “Magazine columnist” is how CNN blandly described her in one headline. Perspective | The bracing truth and sadness in E. Jean Carroll’s advice columns 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Lisa dreams of creating art of some kind, but at her weekly poetry class her work is dismissed as blandly derivative. Maggie Gyllenhaal: 'There have to be consequences for disrespecting women sexually' 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z The crime syndicate is a giant corporation operating a legitimate business blandly named National Projects and protected by dishonest public officials and by skillful public relations. Sam Fuller and Fritz Lang: Audacious Auteurs of Noir 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z It is a solo piece in which her character, a former schoolteacher blandly known as Mrs. Johnson, tries to justify her behavior to herself — and to us. Between ‘Transparent’ Seasons, Judith Light Isn’t Playing Nice 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The planet is overpopulated, undernourished, and ruled by a blandly fascistic government that's concerned with stopping citizens from bogarting the few remaining resources. Civilization gets a prehistoric reboot in "Terra Nova" 2011-09-27T01:45:00Z They must feel they have to do something to differentiate themselves from the other actors, most of whom are interchangeable, blandly attractive 20- and 30-somethings. The underappreciated excellence of LL Cool J 2011-03-22T13:23:00Z Ms. French lets Pat’s online voice begin blandly, then turn devastating. Books of The Times: ‘Broken Harbor’ by Tana French 2012-07-18T20:18:22Z It is just blandly competent network drama meant to offend no one and will inspire just as many people. American Gothic: Boston serial killer drama is a case of slash 'n' slow burn 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The new $700-million USC Village is finally open — and it’s a Goth bonbon stuffed with a creamy center of the blandly bureaucratic. Essential Arts & Culture: USC's retro Village debuts, Dudamel vs. Maduro, the Berkshire Museum's art sale 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Jeffrey Schwarz’s documentary portrait “Tab Hunter Confidential” is as mild-mannered and blandly likable as its subject, the blond screen heartthrob who in the 1950s embodied the quintessential pretty boy next door. Review: ‘Tab Hunter Confidential,’ About a Heartthrob 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z “To kill is an extreme way of making someone yours,” he blandly writes. A Prize-Winning Blend of Fact and Fiction Makes Itself at Home in the Minds of Killers 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The look of cerebral authority is highly specific — in this country, credibility looks like a white man in a dark suit — but it is also blandly inflexible. The ‘Credibility Bookcase’ Is the Quarantine’s Hottest Accessory 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z She says what’s on her mind, even when it’s not particularly nice or helpful in keeping the conversation on a blandly even keel. Barbara Walters’s Farewell and Legacy 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z It's blandly competent but never interesting; a movie without a spark. 'Alex Cross' is a grim but silly thriller 2012-10-17T21:32:04Z The architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, writing in The Times, said she liked his version of the World Trade Center better than the “blandly undistinguished 110 stories” of the real thing. Art Is Fleeting, but Red Grooms Is Forever 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Rather than stick with their guns, they instead followed up with “Fly,” a blandly inspirational number that leans on cliché. Kacey Musgraves and Other ‘Tomatoes’ Give Country Its Bite 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z More likely, though, he’ll host the show from a blandly sunny la la land, one that refers only back to itself. Why Jimmy Fallon’s Stunts Won’t Work at the Golden Globes 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Everything else hovered blandly in the gap between plush and tat. Clive James: Lady Gaga’s Star-Spangled Banner had oomph – then she added a woo-hoo-hoo 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z I can’t recommend “The Old Way” — so blandly written and listlessly directed — on the strength of its individual merits. ‘The Old Way’ Review: Mild Mild West 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Melodies are too often of that aimless, blandly zigzag variety favored by composers who don’t want to sound harshly atonal or tunefully accessible. Music Review: ‘Oscar,’ at Santa Fe Opera, With David Daniels, Countertenor 2013-08-01T21:53:47Z It’s a film that instead of blandly asking, “Why can’t we just get along” explains bluntly why we don’t. Why Vice should win the best picture Oscar 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z But while the baritone Christopher Purves sounds firm, he is far too blandly affable as the misanthropic yet magnetic Disney. Music Review: ‘The Perfect American,’ by Philip Glass, at Teatro Real 2013-02-01T16:17:23Z The director, Luke Cormican, keeps the action in a mild register that feels blandly televisual, hitting episodic beats that have no memorable emphasis. ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules’ Review: Oh, Brother 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z But from there, Unbreakable’s example started to fade, as DC’s output kept growing bigger and more blandly grim while the ascendant Marvel Cinematic Universe went for a lighter tone and shinier plastic aesthetic. Unbreakable at 20: the film that finally took superheroes seriously 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z The book’s title, “Continuous Creation,” drawn by the editor from one of the new poems, is blandly indistinct for the author of “The Rabbiter’s Bounty” and “Killing the Black Dog.” One Last Book From an Outback Poet Who Was Part Hero, Part Pariah 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Bad screenplay structure, unsnappy "snappy" dialogue, bland characters blandly played, flat, tedious direction. 'One for the Money': Paging Dr. Izzie for a career transplant 2012-01-27T18:25:05Z It's the blandly didactic product of priggish, literal, two-dimensional thinking. David Mitchell 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z Their dangerous antidemocratic mission was blandly outlined as a plan to “take control of the government in a way unseen in presidential history.” Hiding in plain sight: Trump goes public with his revenge plot 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Somehow avoiding the nature-film trap of being blandly picturesque, these images convey a sublime transcendence that binds us more deeply to a story of identity. Review: 'Lakota Nation vs. United States' sets the record straight on decades of land theft 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z “Mother of God,” says Maggie Smith flintily, when her character is confronted with something of which she disapproves — which is most things — in Irish director Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s blandly buttery “The Miracle Club.” Review: 'The Miracle Club' gathers a powerhouse cast to feast on a thick slice of Irish ham 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z But although “Prisoner’s Daughter” gets a necessary emotional lift from its strong lead performances, the blandly by-the-numbers redemptive family drama falls short of representing a return to early form for the “Thirteen” director. Review: Stars manage strong performances in generic melodrama 'Prisoner's Daughter' 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z In Korean, Jeju’s ordeal is blandly referred to as “4:3” — the April 1948 date of the initial Communist attack that set off the violent campaign to come. On South Korean island paradise, residents ponder U.S. role in long-ago tragedy 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Those may sound like blandly agreeable clichés of Journalism 101, but in this hyperpolarized era, independent journalism and the sometimes counterintuitive values that animate it have become a radical pursuit. The Case for Journalistic Independence 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z And where the exercise of one’s imagination can be dismissed as a blandly unimaginative, even conformist gesture? Review: Kelly Reichardt's first comedy is a wincingly funny portrait of an artist at work 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z And a patriotic medley that follows, featuring “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” and “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” is as blandly perfunctory as a middling college halftime show. Review | Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Bad Cinderella’ gets the title it deserves 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Writer-director Zach Braff’s affecting, if blandly titled, family drama, “A Good Person,” takes a largely convincing and compelling look at such big topics as grief, drug addiction, parental bonds, redemption and fate. Review: Florence Pugh is heartbreaking in Zach Braff's less-than-subtle 'A Good Person' 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z In his 2022 book on contemporary monetary policy, Mr. Bernanke described the experiment blandly as “large-scale purchases of longer-term securities,” aimed specifically at restoring the moribund housing market. Will the Fed Keep Tightening as Banks Fail? 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Xi, China’s most powerful leader in decades, tries to appear to be above problems and usually makes blandly positive public comments. China accuses Washington of trying to block its development 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z It’s similar to our weather: It may seem blandly constant, but if you think that’s all there is to it, you’re not looking close enough. Los Angeles Is a Fantastic Walking City. No, Really. 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z When no-drama Judge Clifton Newman, in whose office the bomb was allegedly planted, blandly told the packed courtroom that everyone would need to evacuate, he didn’t bother to mention why. Opinion | Murdaugh murder trial desperately needs a closing surprise 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z Just blandly ticking through federal funding for education would not be enough. Kamala Harris Is Trying to Define Her Vice Presidency. Even Her Allies Are Tired of Waiting. 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The middle classes, stuck in between and having the most to lose, are prone to being the most risk-averse; it’s why middlebrow tastes are considered “respectable” yet blandly conventional. What hip-hop bling reveals about American status anxiety 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The affidavit blandly describes America First, an ardently pro-Trump group, as motivated by "a belief that they are defending against the demographic and cultural changes in America." MAGA and the "incels": Latest Jan. 6 arrests show how fascists target insecure young men 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z I was concerned that, like so many new performance spaces built in the last half-century, the new Patterson would be blandly luxurious, deferring more to art donors than to art. The Times’s Theater Critic Reviews Stratford’s New Theater 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z But maybe by then, Google will reintroduce a small Pixel that doesn’t skimp on hardware features and doesn’t so blandly take after its larger siblings. Google’s Pixel 5 was the last of its kind 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z The Indian leader said blandly that he regretted the war, but never mentioned who started it. India has become a U.S. partner in countering China — a limited partner, that is 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z She became known for stamping out expressions of dissent at City Hall, with the political horse trading occurring in private, which made for blandly accordant council meetings, said Urbaniak, the political scientist. At 101, and after 36 years as mayor, ‘Hurricane Hazel’ is still a force in Canada 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z “If you want to talk to the former president about his views or his message, you can have him on your show,” Cotton blandly told host George Stephanopoulos. ‘Mitt unplugged’: Romney, the Republican Party’s conscience, is telling it like it is 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Britain and the United States are doing the same, setting up something called, deliberately blandly and neutrally, the International Donors Coordination Center. NATO Countries Pour Weapons Into Ukraine, Risking Conflict With Russia 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z So when my boyfriend asked me about the first bite, I could only reply, blandly, but lovingly: It’s a patty. The Beef Patty Is Jamaica in the Palm of Your Hand 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Smile blandly after she delivers one of those diatribes, and then turn the smile toward the witnesses. Perspective | Miss Manners: My stepmother-in-law won’t stop correcting my manners in public 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The passes had been produced in error, but such blandly uniform identification brought joking suspicion that Moskvina was talking to spies, not sportswriters. At 80, Tamara Moskvina Is Still Going for the Standing Ovation 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z The IOC has rather blandly described it as “an unfortunate circumstance”. Winter Olympics day two: Men’s downhill; Jamie Anderson in snowboard slopestyle – live! 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z The country was then at what the National Interagency Fire Center blandly calls Preparedness Level 5, meaning red alert, all the country’s wildfire resources maxed out. This Isn’t the California I Married 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z Yet this rising awareness can also flatten a constellation of medical and social phenomena into one blandly ubiquitous buzzword. How Social Media Turned ‘Prioritizing Mental Health’ Into a Trap 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Some are good; most are studio cash grabs, blandly engineered and mechanically foisted on a public assumed to be none too bright or demanding. Review: ‘The Souvenir Part II’ is the year’s best sequel — and one of the year’s best movies 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z He painted President Dwight D. Eisenhower as a blandly avuncular, distracted, golf-obsessed leader. Mort Sahl, whose political comedy set the bar for future humorists, dies at 94 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Indeed, what story there is in “Ma Belle, My Beauty” turns out to be blandly conventional, despite its unconventional contours. Review | This polyamorous romance, set in the South of France, captures the pleasures of late summer 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z And it’s not just words: The Biden administration is aggressively pushing border enforcement southward, enlisting Mexican, Guatemalan and Honduran authorities to militarize their own southern borders and to increase what’s blandly known as “interior enforcement.” The root cause of Central American migration? The United States 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z But most mornings and evenings, I received a message that was blandly reassuring: "Everything appears to be 'normal' in your relative's home during the past 12 hours." Could my mum’s toaster help me care for her? 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z Public officials such as DeWine are desperate to crush the coronavirus pandemic and get their economies wide open, but they’re faced with what is known blandly and simplistically as vaccine hesitancy. The million-dollar jab and other giveaways reveal a desperate push to vaccinate America 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z But what happens in front of this striking backdrop is too blandly familiar — and not nearly hellish enough. Review: In horror films and thrillers, location, location, location often isn't enough 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Lepore suggested using “blandly descriptive” phrases like “The attack on the U.S. Capitol,” or “The Sixth of January.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A vandalized statue in the Capitol sums up the dark day of Jan. 6 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z The only question worth pursuing is where allegiances lie, a quandary that bedevils the blandly heroic Piller, a man whose only crumb of characterization is that he’s a “Dutch Jew in a Canadian uniform.” Review: 'The Last Vermeer' squanders Guy Pearce and high-stakes art forgery 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Q: My guest bathroom is incredibly dated, especially the blandly beige shower enclosure. DIY tips for creating an enclosed shower that shines | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z The typical approach, especially for an incumbent president, is to rise above, to speak blandly of “my opponent” without deigning to name names. Opinion | Trump’s convention was repulsive and dishonest. I fear it was also effective. 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z He championed every partisan act his DOJ has taken on the president’s behalf, blandly claiming they reflected the faithful application of the rule of law. Column: William Barr is a danger to democracy. He channels what the president wants 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z “He gave me the distilled version,” Francis said of the translator, explaining that this is often the case when the world hears blandly of war and suffering in Libya. Pope denounces unimaginable “hell” of Libyan migrant camps 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Mark Evan Jackson, the blandly demonic Shawn on “The Good Place,” performs similar duties here, to similar effect, as an overreaching federal agent. The five TV shows we can't get enough of this week 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z The blandly technocratic discussions masked the human drama caused by the travel disruptions. Europe prepares to reopen to foreign travelers, but Americans don’t even figure into the discussion 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z For 40 years, Mike DeWine rose steadily if blandly up the ladder of Ohio politics, finally landing his dream job as governor. Ohio’s G.O.P. Governor Splits From Trump, and Rises in Popularity 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z In the spring of 2001, O’Neill jolted markets again when during Wall Street’s worst week in 11 years, he blandly declared, “Markets go up and markets go down.” Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill dies at age 84 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z The man’s wife and adult children, who were his caretakers, suggested blandly that he died of natural causes. Piled Bodies, Overflowing Morgues: Inside America’s Autopsy Crisis 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z But the N.B.A. kerfuffle exposed a larger phenomenon: China’s market had become so crucial to American institutions that they were blandly accepting demands for censorship and submission. The Future of America’s Contest with China 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z With its blandly abstract set and kitschy L.E.D. lighting, the staging did little to flesh out Andersen’s world. Opera Against the Patriarchy 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Everyone’s yelling and most of the bits of humor along the way are too blandly inserted. Review: ‘Rise of Skywalker’ is a sour end to a grand saga 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z In the fall of 2012, Ken Liu received an intriguing offer from a Chinese company with a blandly bureaucratic name: China Educational Publications Import and Export Corporation, Ltd. How Chinese Sci-Fi Conquered America 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s blandly efficient MOR – “Christian Contemporary Music” – differentiated from drivetime radio staples only by the fact that the subject of her passion isn’t a man, but Him Upstairs. Bowie's gnome and Dr Dre's hospital: musicians' embarrassing early songs 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z But Thursday, he blandly countered Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s threat of “all-out war” against any retaliation with the assurance that his goal was “achieving peace and peaceful resolution.” Opinion | The escalating crisis with Iran is Trump’s self-inflicted wound 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Joel is a blandly nice guy who was apparently blindsided by his role in a Silicon Valley fraud scheme. Empathy, Inc. is a virtual reality thriller for an age of tech cynicism 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z “He’s an unusual president, our president is,” he said blandly in an interview for “CBS Sunday Morning,” adding elliptically, “just the rabid nature of politics today, we’ve got to be careful.” Analysis: Conservatives criticize Trump, but softly, in code 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Lopez captures an era in which marriage equality has been secured while gay signifiers have been blandly absorbed by the mainstream. How Matthew Lopez Transformed “Howards End” Into an Epic Play About Gay Life 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z These are ideas so widely accepted in mainstream academia that it should be blandly uncontroversial to repeat them. The Internet Is a Cesspool of Racist Pseudoscience 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z The answer: blandly and minimally, with relentless pivots back to issues. Gardner had good news for Colorado. But Trump had tweets. 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z To this day, the criticism he attracts as The Daily Show’s host is that he’s insufficiently political – too blandly upbeat, not fuelled by Stewart-grade levels of righteous anger. Trevor Noah on Trump: ‘I’m just trying to raise questions’ 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z The scorecard also refers blandly to a reconsideration of “the Mandatory Underwriting Provisions of the small dollar rule.” CFPB celebrates record of consumer protection — except for the whole watchdog thing 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z The director, F. Gary Gray, and the screenwriters, Matt Holloway and Art Marcum, are all new to the series, which you might guess from the movie’s blandly anonymous stylistic imprint. Review: Tessa Thompson aside, 'Men in Black: International' is a globe-trotting mediocrity 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Writers Matt Holloway and Art Marcum seem too concerned with making sure that everyone likes these characters at every moment, and that means keeping them blandly competent and charming, with minimal faults and mistakes. Men In Black: International is safe, bland, utterly sincere fun 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z These data weren’t just plucked out of nowhere, or blandly presented in a chart. Teaching the teachers how to teach kids about climate science 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z Instead, the backers of women’s suffrage silently counted votes and stuck blandly to praising female competence. Opinion | What took so long for women to win the right to vote? Racism is one reason. 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z My boyfriend does all the cooking, and I actually eat pretty blandly most of the time. Lisa Hanawalt and Patricia Escárcega talk food, mentors, and ‘Tuca & Bertie’ 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z The PP/DS component looks as blandly institutional as the rest of SAP. The Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z The savage serial killer, executed in Florida in 1989, was a born storyteller himself, and he leveraged his blandly handsome looks and moderate intelligence into an exaggerated image of magnetic brilliance. Opinion | Audiences love villains. They should stop loving Ted Bundy. 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Kauniainen’s blandly named Adult Education Center, a tall building on the edge of town, did not sound promising. It’s Cold, Dark and Lacks Parking. But Is This Finnish Town the World’s Happiest? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Whereas some celebrities blandly dabble in issues, often to their own benefit, she seems to be putting her money where her mouth is. Pamela Anderson's political activism is no flash in the pan 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z “In North America,” the company blandly explains, “Native American ancestry tends to be five or more generations back, so that little DNA evidence of this heritage remains.” The DNA industry and the disappearing Indian 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z But apart from James’ rabid devotion to his personal cause, individuals’ motivations for warfare remain largely unexplored, leaving most characters as blandly impenetrable and interchangeable, differentiated mostly by the length of their ragged beards. Outlaw King is an empty bid for Netflix’s filmmaking legitimacy 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Instead, those who champion entomophagy are trying to smuggle bugs past our defenses, often ground into a blandly inoffensive, uniform powder. Why Aren’t We Eating More Insects? 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Arepa Zone's blandly decorated storefront near Thomas Circle doesn't have much in the way of atmosphere, beyond a few TVs and speakers playing pop music. The happy hour destination you probably never thought of: Fast-casual restaurants 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The Democrats’ 2018 equivalent, blandly called “For the People,” offers what the New York Times calls “a relatively anodyne agenda—lowering health care and prescription drug costs, increasing worker pay, cleaning up corruption.” Opinion | Dems Seek the House by Running for Mayor 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z In other words, they’re not just examples of popcorn movies but, like popcorn itself, blandly satisfying yet forgettable. Review | ‘The Meg’ is ‘Jaws’ on steroids. But bigger is not necessarily better. 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z What textbooks blandly label the Great Migration—the movement of millions of African Americans in the 20th century from the rural South to Northern cities—is recalled more viscerally by the people who lived it. Meet the 31 People Who Are Changing the South 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z When his blandly written book “Looking Backward” appeared, in 1888, it created a now puzzling craze both in his native America and in England. What Can We Learn from Utopians of the Past? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z But there was no sign of any substantial progress by Monday evening, when the two spoke vaguely about their discussions and blandly praised the politics of dialogue. The Trump-Putin statesman show soon turns knockabout 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z There are few surprises delivered in “Skyscraper,” an entertaining if middlebrow thriller whose very name — blandly descriptive, generic — seems to advertise its fungibility. Review | In ‘Skyscraper,’ The Rock jumps off a crane into a burning building. Hey, it’s summer. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Like his blandly conventional appearance, his wide-ranging allusions to European literature upended the idea that Brazil was a place of mystical forests or man-eating serpents. He’s One of Brazil’s Greatest Writers. Why Isn’t Machado de Assis More Widely Read? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Some neighborhood names are blandly — if usefully — descriptive: Downtown, Uptown. Perspective | Laundry, Hog and Moonshine alleys: When the District’s narrow thoroughfares bore colorful names 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Still others are blandly ruminative, as in Ave’s bleak image of an Olympic gold medal champion transposed into a wintry landscape. In Iranian art show at LACMA, the past wrestles with the present 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z A self-styled Cherokee cowboy turned lariat-twirling vaudevillian, he told jokes, most of them political, in between rope tricks, blandly assuring his listeners that “all I know is what I read in the papers.” ‘The Will Rogers Follies’ Review: Return of the Singing Cowboy 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Three weeks before the 2016 election, New York lawyer Michael Cohen filed paperwork in Delaware, known as a welcoming host for shell companies, to create the blandly named entity Essential Consultants LLC. Michael Cohen turned his access to Trump into big money — and now big trouble 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z There is something gratifyingly lurid and blandly predictable about Trump and Trump-adjacent Republicans allegedly cheating with Playboy models. Playboy models are having a political moment in Trump's America | Jill Filipovic 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Its logo is clean, and its selection of products is blandly chic: velvet throw pillows, geometric planters, leather MacBook accessory pouches. Letter of Recommendation: AliExpress 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Even the guacamole was blandly super-creamy, in desperate need of salt and lime. How’s the food at Bellevue’s new Lincoln South Food Hall? 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Bowing to the same rule, most generals offer blandly stirring replies. Why US Marines are deployed to Australia’s far north 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Toutiao denied it was snooping but conceded, blandly, that the story revealed a growing public “awareness of privacy”. In China, consumers are becoming more anxious about data privacy 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z In its blandly crowd-pleasing aspect, there was something almost service-minded about the performance that made you think of a plumber or a lifeguard. Mike Love on his new album and that time the Beach Boys played a prison 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z The consultant examines me and then blandly comments: "I don't think that's anything to worry about." The year my cancer changed everything 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z There are scruffier models where the cars have been blandly renovated but the antique controls remain, and imperfectly maintained ones that shudder and jerk as the elevator man flips the lever. Riding a Time Capsule to Apartment 8G 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Though Marston, played by Evans as a bit of a blandly benevolent doofus, is theoretically the center of the story, it’s really Hall’s movie. “Professor Marston & the Wonder Women” review: a different sort of superhero origin story 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The ultimate effects of the storm blandly named Harvey are yet to be fully understood. Opinion | Hurricane Harvey’s warning to all 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z By Monday afternoon the list included over 200 neighborhoods, many with blandly idyllic names – Pecan Grove, Avalon, Majestic Point. In Houston's Fort Bend County, a furniture showroom becomes an unlikely refuge from the storm 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Parker takes perhaps the most extreme position, blandly announcing "as a work of art that's the way it is." Insightful 'Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey' sheds light on 'Midnight Express' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z “Active shooter” goes back at least a century and was once blandly literal: It referred to sportspeople who shot guns. Perspective | ‘Active shooter’ used to refer to sportsmen. Now you cringe when you hear it. 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z At worst, the encounter may be blandly described as “a full and frank exchange.” Opinion | Can the pope save Trump? 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Pletcher, in brief remarks, found no issue with Always Dreaming’s location and said blandly, “All three horses are training exceptionally well.” Kentucky Derby post positions: One-eyed horse literally won’t see the rest of the field 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Human rights activists angrily denounced the White House readout of Trump’s call, which noted blandly that Duterte was “fighting very hard to rid” his country of drugs. Passing 100-day mark, Trump offers mixed signals on healthcare, taxes and North Korea 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Ivanka Trump smiled blandly, as if she didn’t mind who else joined that game. The Global Effort to Flatter Ivanka 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z “Folks here are excited now for fresh leadership presenting a substantive message about local economic development and talking about core values,” he offered blandly in a recent interview. Trump and Republicans face a major test in Georgia congressional race 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z But the overworked structure minimizes genre kicks, opting instead for blandly touchy-feely business involving Ann’s emotional journey. Survivalist drama 'Here Alone' swaps adventure for less satisfying touchy-feelies 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z He took the truck through Herndon Homes, before they were knocked down, and rolled daily among the new apartments — clean, brick, rectilinear, blandly handsome — where Techwood Homes used to be. Rolling Stores, Vestige of Old Atlanta, Struggle to Keep Up With Change 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z After a visit with Mr. Castro, Mr. Leahy blandly observed that the dictator “wants reform to continue, he wants the movement forwards to continue” despite President Trump’s uncertain attitude toward the island’s government. Opinion | A brave act in Cuba deserves American support 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Regarding a call scheduled the next day with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump said blandly that he would “see what happens.” Opinion | The Trump bubble bursts in Moscow’s markets 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Even the very youngest of audiences will be one step ahead of these intrepid sleuths, given the snail’s pace at which this blandly antiseptic, broadcast TV-funded production proceeds. Anachronistic kids' caper 'The Adventure Club' takes bland to the next level 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z ABC Fox Montana had reported that business filings listed a mountain resort home where Spencer’s mother, Sherry, lives as the main address for Spencer’s blandly named white nationalist organization, the National Policy Institute. How Richard Spencer's hometown weathered a neo-Nazi 'troll storm' 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z “We almost got run over by horses,” one partygoer said blandly, drifting off toward the gin. A Political Jolt at a Literary Festival, but Courtesy Wins Out 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Outside the lands legally known as “Indian Country,” “membership” and “enrollment” are such blandly bureaucratic words that it’s easy to lose sight of how much they matter there. Who Decides Who Counts as Native American? 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z They are read by a prison censor, so Mr. Akay writes as blandly as the prison stew. How a Top International Judge Was Trampled by Turkey’s Purge 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z White House press aides learned blandly to insist that Reagan’s misstatements, if technically inaccurate, were essentially true. Will Trump Be Reaganesque in All the Wrong Ways? 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z He is 40, with the receding hairline and blandly gentle affect of a family dentist. The Lives They Lived 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z He was blandly handsome, with big, circular eyes, a ready grin, and a shiny mound of dark hair, always parted down the left side. Postscript: Craig Sager, 1951-2016 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z The announcement, which came on a Friday afternoon in a blandly titled email, was the final step in Mr. Obama’s efforts to transform the relationship with a once reclusive government. Obama Lifts Some Sanctions Against Myanmar 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z When we turn off the pictures from Aleppo and look in the mirror, do we see the blandly wicked features of the Labour leader gazing back at us? Who on the left or right will stand up to evil in Syria? | Nick Cohen 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Its very nature is local rather than blandly international. Grey pride: why brutalist architecture is back in style 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z What starts off with quirky promise soon falls into a maudlin, blandly predictable rut with a heavy reliance on voice-overs, but those aren’t the film’s biggest issues. Eddie Murphy brings the drama in predictable 'Mr. Church' 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s Twitter feed blandly praised the NCAA’s decision: The NCAA finally took a worthy stand against discrimination 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The much larger change, the study found, lies in the replacement of traditional wage and salary jobs with what Krueger and Katz blandly call “alternative work arrangements.” A new era of labor scarcity? 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z For this final meeting between the leaders of the world’s two most powerful nations, the White House notes blandly that they will “discuss a wide-range of global, regional, and bilateral issues.” Where Obama’s Asia ‘Rebalance’ Went Wrong 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Yet what has, by default, come to be known rather blandly as the Great Flood of 2016 also brought many touches of the familiar. A Summer of Grim Surprises in Louisiana 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z But while a fictionalized account of Lee’s career certainly held some sex, drugs & rock ’n’ roll potential, the blandly pedestrian film “Spaceman” seldom delivers despite an engagingly game lead performance by Josh Duhamel. Earthbound 'Spaceman' biopic fails to capture the essence of baseball's Bill Lee 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z In social situations, prosopagnosics often smiled blandly and behaved as if they had previously encountered everyone they met, rather than risk offending acquaintances. The Detectives Who Never Forget a Face 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Nothing could be done, the attorney blandly informed them. Fighting terrorism — and the urge to ignore our basic American principles 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z “The Secret Life of Pets” is like how I imagine dog food tastes: blandly palatable, but apparently containing some mysterious ingredient with an appeal that lies beyond my species. ‘The Secret Life of Pets’: Animated film’s humor is, like a dog whistle, subjective 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Blake Lively ably, if blandly, plays the heroine Nancy in this visually arresting meld of Robert Redford’s shipwreck solo in “All is Lost” and the mass terror in “Jaws.” Family Filmgoer reviews ‘The BFG,’ ‘Finding Dory’ and more 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z But when asked Monday about his views on the Taliban, Mateen refused to answer definitively, saying first “I don’t want to talk about that,” and then blandly condemning the extremist group. Orlando Shooter Omar Mateen's Father: 'I Don't Forgive Him' 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z As zoos sought to improve the health of their resident apes, the enclosures often assumed a blandly sterile configuration, devoid of risky foliage or toys. After Harambe’s Death, Debating Whether Gorillas and Great Apes Belong in Zoos 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z To Foster’s way of thinking, the people in those houses, watching “EastEnders” over their blandly globalized dinners of pizza, pad thai, and aloo gobi, were living nowhere in particular. The Man Who Became a Goat 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z He blandly said a few days later that he opposes all forms of violence. Clinton-Sanders: Maybe That’s the Ticket 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Economically, it replaces a blandly relentless laissez-faire program with aggrieved attacks on incompetent élites—sometimes in the name of tax cuts, sometimes in support of trade protectionism, universal health care, and rebuilding crumbling infrastructure. Transgender Rights and the End of the New South 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z It is an astonishing fact about our intellectual and moral culture that in informed and enlightened circles it can be called, blandly, “the liberation of Iraq”. Who rules the world? America is no longer the obvious answer 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z It’s a lazy movie that fades from memory the instant the credits start to roll; a blandly pretty cog in a studio wheel. ‘Mother’s Day’: Do your mom a favor and skip this comedy 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z But I couldn’t help thinking: Could Ninja Squirrel really be as blandly inoffensive as it sounds? We took 10 bottles of hot sauce to Pok Pok. Thank you, Hillary Clinton 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z She met quietly with Andrew Marshall, an octogenarian strategist at the Pentagon who labored for decades in the blandly named Office of Net Assessment, earning the nickname Yoda for his Delphic insights. How Hillary Clinton Became a Hawk 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Two weeks after that speech, however, Clinton blandly affixed his signature to the bill retaining the 100-to-1 sentencing disparity, a disparity that had brought about the lopsided incarceration of black people. Don't deny the devastating legacy of Bill Clinton's crime bill | Thomas Frank 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z She indulged in fashion — not politically vetted, blandly uninspired, Jane Doe fashion but the truly dazzling variety. The quiet defiance behind Nancy Reagan’s high-glamour fashion 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z He blandly told a crowded press conference that the military might well remain in power for “10, 15, 20 or even 25 years.” The Serious History Behind the Oscar-Winning Animated Short 'Bear Story' 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z But while he did fight back, he also kept a steady demeanor for much of the debate, at times looking blandly ahead as if ignoring the criticisms. Desperate towel-snapping as GOP candidates try to take down Trump 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Yet for all of the Grammys' ratings success, LL Cool J has calmly, some would say blandly, guided the proceedings in a pop music world swimming with larger-than-life characters. Grammys 2016: LL Cool J, again? Five fresh hosts for next year 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z His wife, Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio, is the daughter of Colombian immigrants, did a stint as a Miami Dolphins cheerleader, and seems to have perfected the art of the blandly convivial interview. It Might Not Be So Easy to Rally Around Rubio 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Donvan and Zucker take a generally disengaged position on this matter, blandly approving the acknowledgment of “the dignity of individuals who are different by virtue of fitting the label in some way.” What Is Autism? 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Yet the choice reflects both Time’s unerring commitment to worshiping the powerful and to choosing the blandly inspiring over the truly interesting. The blinding irrelevance of Time magazine: Why Angela Merkel as “Person of the Year” just proves its love affair with power 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The paper described the entire phenomenon blandly as “an enhancement in the escape rate of ions to space,” but the historical implications of that were clear. Here's What Killed Mars 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Sleepy from a long flight to the UK, he broods horizontally in an easy chair; during our hour, he can lapse into being blandly jaded. Vince Staples: 'I started gangbanging because I wanted to kill people’ 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Yet in interviews, many Palestinians refer to their own deadly knife attacks blandly as “operations,” and in mass funerals they celebrate the dead as martyrs. What drives the Palestinians who attack Jews with kitchen knives? 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Its proposal blandly notes that it was “intended to introduce additional flexibility into administrative proceedings” — ignoring questions about the fairness of the process. A Small Step in Changing S.E.C. Administrative Proceedings 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Too many companies try to be blandly inoffensive in a failed attempt to be “mainstream” and appeal to “everyone.” 5 Marketing Lessons From Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The analogy is particularly apt because the crux of the scene is that Renault, a moment after blandly asserting he’s shocked by gambling, is handed his winnings. Amazon's brutal work culture will stay: bottom lines matter more than people | Mike Daisey 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z A government mouthpiece, the Global New Light of Myanmar, blandly called this all “part of a normal course of business for a registered political party”. Pistols and purges 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Turkish and US officials say, blandly, that the telephone conversation between the two men on Wednesday ended with agreement to “stem the flow of foreign fighters and secure Turkey’s border with Syria”. US deal with Turkey over Isis may go beyond simple use of an airbase 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z To which Brevoort responded blandly, “What does one have to do with the other, really?” Marvel's hip-hop tribute embraces black metaphors but excludes black people 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z At one point he even claims blandly that a bigger Heathrow means “higher levels of life satisfaction, mental health and happiness”. This Heathrow report got Cameron off the hook. But it won’t be the last word | Simon Jenkins 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z I answered as blandly as possible, saying I thought he was passionate about his cause. Me and Abu Taubah - BBC News 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z I tried to strike a blandly upbeat tone in my letters. Snail Mail and the Safety of Distance 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z She also spoke blandly but intelligently about inequality and education. Mystery machine 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z As a candidate, Walker has a history of being blandly genial and preternaturally vague. Scott Walker: Bold in Office, Meek on the Trail 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z So as recently as last week, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch could blandly assert to The New York Times that “Obamacare is going to bankrupt the country.” Republicans Trapped By Their Obamacare Errors 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Several rooms of Steve’s house are blandly furnished by Marion Williams, the set designer, to contrast sharply with a vivid background of swirling blues and greens and colorful figures that represent Claudia’s storybook illustrations. A Review of ‘Guadalupe in the Guest Room’ in Red Bank 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Instead, he blandly praised the cease-fire agreement made in Minsk, Belarus, and advocated finding a way to repair Russia’s broken relationship with the European Union. Hungary Keeps Visit by Putin Low-Key as It Seeks to Repair Relations With West 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z It’s an inventively airy, quick-footed orchestral arrangement, and Fleming’s vocals are blandly capable without overdoing it. 60 Versions of Leonard Cohen’s 'Hallelujah,' Ranked The answer is Love remains a plaintiff in the Supreme Court, but his case was subsumed by the more blandly named Bourke v. High court sets the table on gay-marriage arguments 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z To his credit, he did not retreat into the comfort of the blandly formulaic answer. As Passes Miss the Mark, Peyton Manning’s Future Begins to Waver 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Television viewers do not hate-watch Modern Family or The Big Bang Theory, two blandly humorous but popular programs that drifted into irrelevance a few seasons ago. Why Do Viewers—And Critics—Love to Hate ‘The Newsroom’? Perhaps he had shot the president, the Report blandly suggested, because of his “inability to enter into meaningful relationships with people.” The real JFK mystery, 50 years later: Why the infamous murder must be reinvestigated 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Businesses say the GMO issue is so emotionally charged that consumers will be scared away even by blandly worded labels. GMO Labeling: How to End the Fight 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Lampier said he was told to describe the work in blandly bureaucratic terms: “Nothing of significance.” The Secret U.S. Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z That’s the name, bequeathed by the people, for what officials blandly call the South Lake Union Streetcar. Streetcar ridership, revenue still off track 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z This is why so many found it jarring that President Obama blandly condemned the beheading of American journalist James Foley just minutes before hopping into a golf cart. President Obama’s remarkable dispassion Instead, he blandly defended his prosecutors, and even testified before the Senate that prosecuting Swartz was “a good use of prosecutorial discretion.” Holder’s Disappointing Tech Legacy 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z There are no surprises here, only blandly reassuring homilies. ‘Hector and the Search for Happiness’ movie review : Organizers say the event - dubbed, rather blandly, the International Pro-Wrestling Festival in Pyongyang - will be broadcast over the Internet, aired on Japanese network television and also shown on North Korean state-run TV. Ex-NFL lineman tops bill for Pyongyang fight night 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Instead, it blandly stated that “any costs incurred or lost sales caused by future product recalls could materially adversely affect our business.” Justice Dept. Takes Hard Look at G.M.'s Handling of Issues 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z A blandly named website can conceal all manner of deadly mischief. Chili’s Burns Anti-Vaxxers: That’s What Happens When You Kill and Maim Kids 2014-04-07T16:58:16Z Supermarkets swear that we expect a blandly consistent product, identical all year round. Food source: Should we feel guilty? 2014-02-14T16:40:32Z Leonard answered reporters’ questions in the jammed locker room Thursday night professionally but blandly, the Duncan way. On Basketball: A Shout-Out to the Spurs’ Quiet and Class 2013-06-07T15:10:10Z So were crisp and fresh fried oysters with smoked char roe, as long as I didn’t focus too much on a bitter and blandly sweet citrus purée. Restaurant Review: The Beatrice Inn in the West Village 2013-05-21T21:07:13Z While he concentrated on prolonging his playing days, he wouldn't allow himself to think of anything else; not even something blandly relaxing. Ledley King: life after football 2013-04-13T20:54:12Z A separate statement from the five heads of state blandly hailed the development bank plan as "feasible and viable". BRICS "Big Five" find it hard to run as a herd 2013-03-27T16:43:08Z Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. Surprise Visitors Are Unwelcome At The NSA's Unfinished Utah Spy Center (Especially When They Take Photos) 2013-03-04T17:21:50Z To check your email is to find the New York Times blandly defending academic freedom at your university while reaffirming its support for Israel; that’s how it goes. Austerity education kills free speech 2013-02-08T17:00:00Z It will join all the others delivered by politically cautious presidents and their blandly eloquent speech writers. At inauguration, Obama misses the moment 2013-01-21T19:40:00Z A few days before all of this, Redknapp was blandly denying that he had any irons in the fire. Global Soccer: Queens Park Takes a Huge Risk for a Huge Payoff 2013-01-15T12:17:20Z It’s not enough just to blandly promise to do better. Surviving a Social Media Crisis 2012-12-17T16:49:19Z Even his lesser works were a counterpoint to reductive notions of Modernist architecture as blandly functional. Oscar Niemeyer, Modernist Architect of Brasília, Dies at 104 2012-12-06T03:00:32Z “We are going through a period of transition,” he told me blandly in accentless English. The Egyptian Billionaire’s Fears 2012-12-05T09:45:00Z He co-chairs the President’s Jobs Council and limits his public political gripes to such subjects as tax policy, the problems of which he blandly blames on gridlock in Washington, DC. Schumpeter: The silence of the suits 2012-10-11T15:07:28Z But the truth is likely to lie somewhere disappointingly and blandly in between – as exemplified by her views on Abu Hamza. Revealed: what the Queen really thinks about the big issues 2012-09-29T23:04:31Z His recent slogans, “winning the future” and “forward” are blandly literal and literally bland. Who Is the Better Communicator: Romney or Obama? 2012-08-14T12:00:14Z The man looked somewhat surprised to find himself in such a place where no road was, but blandly said he thought it was a short cut. From the archive, 11 July 1955: Reflections from a cab rank 2012-07-11T06:30:00Z "Gentlemen," he said blandly, "it is the sort of day on which one is glad to be alive;" and he turned about, with a dandified air, to find a vacant spot for his brand-new topper. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z "You enlightened her ignorance, I presume?" he inquired blandly. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z "Might we not occasionally borrow from our neighbors with advantage?" asked Stapylton, blandly. Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z The doctor blandly took out his massive watch, and laid his fingers on the young man's pulse. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z The patient appearing to be startled at the magnitude of this sum, Dr. Macaire blandly says, as he bows him out, "We give two cents for returned bottles." Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z He detested and scorned these royal personages, who so blandly patronized him, or were sometimes so rough in their condescending familiarity. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z "That reminds me," the lawyer resumed, blandly unconscious of the crisis, and of the other's anger. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z "You are certainly some years older than the lady," said Dill, blandly. Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z "And how is my respected patient?" asked he, blandly. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z The preacher blandly advises him not to put himself in a passion, and proceeds to descant upon the Whole Duty of Woman, as understood in Japan. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z "Perhaps," replied Humboldt blandly, "the King invites the philosophers to meet me, and the other persons to please your Majesty!" Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z “We’re heading toward a very big moment, where big decisions are going to have to be made about the future of our country,” he said blandly. Obama vs. Boehner: Who Killed the Debt Deal? 2012-03-28T15:37:31Z "Simply to illustrate my meaning," replied the cleric blandly; "if you had not felt it, it would have been a miracle." Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:33.730Z "I have not done much, but I have accomplished something," said he, blandly. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z "Had I not better go to the Hall at once," he said blandly, "and send a carriage for my lady?" Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z The shine of the lamp fell blandly on his narrow head. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z Who, for instance, has not smiled blandly over that famous transposition, which aptly converts "Horatio Nelson" into Honor est � Nilo? Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z "Better hang them out of hand," responded the Earl blandly. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z He smiled so blandly, and looked so sweetly under it all, as though it was a kind of moral shampooing, from which he would come out all the fresher and more vigorous. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z Firstly," Coke continued blandly, "that I count the money I bring home--at irregular intervals. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z Titian's "Bella" looked down at me blandly with her reddened eyelids. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z "But—you've got a wife already," he whispered back, at a shrewd guess, as he sat up again, smiling blandly. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z “On the contrary, I should enjoy it very much indeed,” I interposed; “although, of course, I don’t wish to go if you think that your friend would object,” I added blandly. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z "Yes," repeated Dill, blandly, after him, "wants to get away; desires to change the air." Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z The man had got a clean shave and his face patched up, and apparently had a very satisfactory meal inside of him, for he was blandly cheerful and complacent. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z I don’t know about that,” muttered X-Ray, giving Phil a wink, and then looking blandly toward the unconscious Ethan who did not dream that he was concerned in the matter in the least. Phil Bradley's Snow-shoe Trail The Mountain Boys in the Canada Wilds 2012-02-27T03:00:13.497Z He reached the level below, still smiling blandly, and, letting go the rail, shuffled forward, slowly but steadily enough, his slippers flapping at his heels with ludicrous effect. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z "You were speaking of Miss Dorothy Meredith, weren't you?" inquired The Thinking Machine blandly. The Chase of the Golden Plate 2012-02-27T03:00:13.060Z "I beg your pardon," interposed Dill, blandly, "but you 've taken up my card by mistake." Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z "Gentlemen," said Sir William, blandly, "you all are aware that since last December the Atlantic Ocean is become but a vast pot of cold tea." Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z "I think his lordship will see you, sir," he murmured blandly; and he disappeared. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z He almost blushed, indeed, under the duchess's blandly discerning smile. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Mr. Van Britt took it quietly, as he did most things, sitting with his hands in his pockets and smiling blandly where Hornack had exploded in wrathful profanity. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z "I am proud enough to believe that you will not refuse me the honor of your company; for though an innkeeper, I write myself gentleman," said Barrington, blandly, though not without emotion. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z Whenever I attempted to set a time for departure he blandly assented, and presently projected some irresistibly attractive excursion for that very date. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z "I don't agree----" "Say what you like, my dear sir!" the Sergeant rejoined blandly, but with a gleam of amusement in his eyes. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z "That's as far as my present knowledge goes," the lawyer finished blandly. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z And Dundee could make himself blandly genial or even invisible when Black Muslims appeared at a fight or training site to declaim dogma or merely stake their claim on Ali. An Appraisal: Angelo Dundee Was Boxing?s Quintessential ?Confidence Man? 2012-02-03T02:24:14Z "Is the dear lady at home?" asked he, blandly. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z "I was trying to sell your mother a binder," Nevis answered blandly. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z "Then I fail to see----" "Exactly," Miss Sibson interposed blandly, indeed too blandly. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z But, out of the corner of one eye, he observed that Mr. Jobling was wearing a blandly contented smile. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z "Ornate, I agree, but as true a piece of steel as ever I saw," replied my lord blandly, balancing the rapier on one finger. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z "I made no accusation whatever," Miranda blandly remarked, and seemed very well pleased. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z "I have no recollection that I suggested that, or indeed anything whatsoever," he returned blandly. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z "Gentlemen, on your feet, if you please," he cried blandly. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z A more blandly flavored diet is likely to be less palling and more constantly inviting. Quantity Cookery Menu Planning and Cooking for Large Numbers 2012-01-20T03:00:15.687Z "You mistake again," Walter went on blandly, for he was himself again now. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z More blandly, some cops nowadays call them Trooper caps. City Room: One Thing Hasn't Changed: Banks Have the Money 2012-01-06T00:43:28Z When the whole thing was unravelled, the adversary would begin to see that what he was so blandly giving away was simply what he couldn't get and keep. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z The Sergeant waited, and after a time, still smiling blandly, bowed and stood back. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z "I'm afraid there's some mistake," he said blandly. Loaded Dice 2012-01-04T03:00:36.343Z "Excuse me," said the Chancellor blandly, "but I must assure your Majesty——" "Leave the room, Prince," said the Empress, with an impatient gesture. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z And blandly, and with a sly sleepy smile, this insinuating person withdrew. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z If every unhappy sports year is unhappy in its own way, 2011 was blandly but relentlessly mediocre for Washingtonians. D.C. sports 2011: Worst. Year. Ever. 2011-12-30T16:48:00Z And he pointed again, and still more blandly, to the door. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z For answer he shrugged his shoulders, smiled blandly, and shook his head slowly. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z But the dial blandly informed him that it wanted a few minutes to noon. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Oft he blandly whispers me, 'Soon, my bird, I'll set you free.' The Odes of Anacreon 2011-12-08T03:00:29.763Z Once again, investors will be looking for specifics from the two leaders, not the kind of blandly worded communiqué that has often followed conclaves of this kind. In Europe, a Week of Big Meetings on the Debt Crisis 2011-12-05T01:17:28Z "Do you mean," the Sergeant asked blandly, "at the next election, Mr. Vaughan?" Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Moreover, he spoke them blandly, yet with such a subdued air that he might have been talking in his sleep. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Ten Eyck answered, blandly: "I was making the highly original remark that it's not the initial expense—" "—But the up-keep that costs," Willie finished for him. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z "My dear George," said the Beau very blandly. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z On the contrary, leaning a little forward, he smiled at his uncle blandly. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z He grasped the rail with both hands and waited, smiling blandly. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z He is also an American; a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, and from first to last he seems blandly unconscious of his villainy. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z I had never been so blandly just lifted across. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z What he showed during his speech was something blandly dubbed “Expanded Premium Ad.” Facebook's New Advertising Model: You 2011-11-16T23:00:02Z Therefore, we accepted rather blandly the charge of the house and grounds while the engineer took a vacation. Life's Minor Collisions 2011-11-03T02:00:17.547Z "I guess he did, dear boy," said Belle, blandly, "and by the way, we saw you, going in to supper somewhere with a girl with a Vogue face and an open-air back!" The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z I did not expect to succeed, and my tone was, it seems to me, blandly resigned and even rather grateful than otherwise that such a serious honor had not been thrust upon me. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z His sister-in-law fell into his trap, as she sat staring at him blandly. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z Some restaurants display statuettes of chefs in poofy toques who look blandly continental. United Tastes: Bosnian Food, From the Homeland, Now Mainstreamed 2011-09-27T22:58:51Z Or else," he added blandly, "you yourself will have to start something. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z Bimble smiled blandly, but he was studying the Phantom’s face out of the corner of an eye. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z Macaulay wrote from India that the sculptor and his friends "ought to be in Bedlam"; his antagonist, Croker, inquired blandly "what a Whig Dissenter knew of high art." The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 2011-09-21T02:00:33.023Z "The letter of acceptance for my royal master already bears Her Majesty's signature," here interposed the Cardinal blandly. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z The megarocket, blandly named the Space Launch System, embodies the space agency’s enduring desire to aim far and dream big. NASA Unveils New Rocket Design 2011-09-15T06:08:07Z "Used them quite all, I see!" he remarked blandly. The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy 2011-09-18T02:00:22.467Z He was smiling blandly, but the Phantom thought he detected an uneasy gleam behind the spectacles. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z She raised her heavenly blue eyes and gazed blandly into the girl’s fierce dark ones, taking Minnie’s limp hand into hers. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z But he merely shrugged his shoulders and said blandly— "You are very expert at the game of chess, my lord, so they tell me." The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z After I had benignly eyed her sleeping progeny for the space of half a minute, I remarked blandly, and with a soft smile, “Pretty baby, ma’am.” Medical Life in the Navy 2011-09-08T02:00:20.387Z “And what can I do for you, this evening, Mrs. Brown?” he asked, blandly, speaking to the new arrival while he handed Jess her basket without a word. The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize 2011-09-05T02:00:21.083Z “Never mind,” said the doctor blandly, nodding his head to keep Mrs. Pipchin back. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z Bowing, he said blandly: "I never argue a point with a woman." The Ranch Girls and Their Heart's Desire 2011-08-31T02:01:23.303Z "I but await Your Majesty's command!" rejoined His Eminence blandly. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z It flashed up the mosquito bar into shimmering vapour; blandly it began a pointing-out of details, the inexorable details of his life's vulgarity. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z "But where is dear Nina?" the duchess blandly inquired. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z "Is it not worth while to believe," blandly urges a Christian writer, "if it is true, as it is true, that they who deny will suffer everlasting torments?" My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z And the old gentleman wagged his head in a blandly humorous manner, and made a little golden music with his bunch of seals. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:33.793Z "Oh, not at all," said Pauline, as blandly as her feelings would permit.... The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z I asked blandly, cutting short, as I could see, an extract from the report. The Other Fellow 2011-08-23T02:00:31.420Z "It's only me, sir, come to return a book," she said blandly, as she entered. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z When I saw a "typical" tourist attempting a hike while toting a radio or blandly surveying the scenery, I realized how different I was… and how thankful I was concerning the former statement. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z “All right, Pep,” said Jolly blandly, pocketing the papers. The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z Elizabeth, blandly complacent, did not notice her companion’s peculiar expression. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z Mr. Hajek listened quietly and blandly, and then he said, "On St. Mary's day the tribute is due; if there were any arrears I should be constrained to levy them forcibly." For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z His flabby sides swell with fullness of enjoyment, his blinking eyes grow dreamy and the corners of his blandly expressionless mouth almost curve upward with an elusive smile. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z "You have an order from the Captain-General, is it not so?" he enquired blandly. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z So when X, your worst sample approaches, meet him blandly at your door, and ask him civilly to leave his dog outside. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z As blandly and courteously as he wished me good morning, he would have conducted me to the gallows, had instruction to that effect reached him. The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy 2011-07-22T02:00:15.747Z And as for the field we have taken back----" "Your fields are no business of mine," said the officer, as blandly as before, "and you may continue King of Zulawce yet awhile, my good friend. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z Making the best of it, with all the careless grace I could muster I blandly assured them that it didn’t matter. The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland 2011-07-20T02:00:17.027Z Otherwise he could not have so blandly denied knowledge of the flaxen-haired man who talked German. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z “Then we will join the ladies,” he said, blandly; and the Chinese servants drew aside the light muslin curtains which hung in graceful folds over the arched door. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z Oh! to know a shark is browsing, Boldly, blandly, on my boots! Verse and Worse 2011-07-12T02:00:34.607Z His fate is sealed, and she advances towards him, blandly exclaiming: John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z His was the kiss-the-hem-of-the-lady’s-garment style of love, and he once terribly alarmed Julia by gracefully reclining at her feet, with one arm resting upon a footstool, and gazing blandly in her face. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z "My dear," said Hathaway blandly, "I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, but I've been somewhat occupied—somewhat." Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life 2011-07-07T02:00:27.303Z “Undoubtedly,” assented Fordham, blandly, preparing to beat a retreat from the table under cover of his reply, for the dessert had already gone round, and the room was emptying fast. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z |
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