So this seems to be nothing more than to add a little foreign glamour to a bland shoe-sale sign.
But all that clatter may also drown out the taste of your food, making it more bland.
THE risk, director Kevin Macdonald admitted, was that the project might end up like an old Coke ad, enervatingly bland in its we-are-the-worldiness and smotherly brotherly love.
This bland phrase amounts to a revolution.
The ambient lights were low and soothing, the music bland, the employees, like Enzo, treading water.
Mr Putin chose energy security as a summit theme, and on this, too, there was a bland statement.
These 15 weird &wonderful shopping bag designs take the concept of “love handles” to a whole new level while consigning the basic, bland, brown bag to the boredom bin.
Palmer was underwhelming and a little bland in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."
Dance bands, many influenced by classical harmonies and instrumentation, already existed, but most were elegant and bland.
I tried to convey the two types of light the production employed: the bland yellow light of the American basement, and the light of theater, performance, and rock and roll.
He said this with his face expanding in a bland smile.
We've all experienced tourst traps. Those heavily advertised attractions that turn out to be bland misrepresentations of the places we're supposed to be seeing.
The sight of that bland,impregnably righteous face has been enough to make their blood run cold.
As a result news coverage tends to be bland.
The billion dollar success of plastic pop, clumsy metal and predictable, playa style rap has left little to rave about, and caused parents to shake their heads in disgust, stupefied at the bland or even bad taste of their very own kids.
My idea is not to knock traditional foods, but some do go bland over time.
In the early 20th century, ulcers were thought to be caused by stress and excess stomach acid, and sufferers were told to rest and eat bland food.
This will tend to produce either bland, have-a-nice-day standardisation of, more usually, various idiolects-private versions of the language---that work only in specific contexts.
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