When the noise didn't stop he went outside to see what was happening and found Mr Bland writhing in agony. |
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Elizabeth Bland, who runs furniture and upholstery shop Homemaker, said she would not be interested in the scheme. |
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Jimmy Spencer hit a snap shot over the bar from 25 yards and he later shot wide when put through by Martin Bland. |
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Hoyle headed across goal and Matthew Bland headed home only to be adjudged offside. |
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Matthew Bland dissected the Padiham defence with a through ball but Hoyle was crowded out as he went to shoot. |
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Bland interrupts his thoughts momentarily, but while she rattles on boringly, his mind again drifts back to memories of Caddy. |
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Matthew Bland was commanding in midfield and threatened the Hemsworth goal with a fierce drive which was just tipped over. |
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When Bland was swindled by a partner in a brush factory which he had bought, his long-suffering, uncomplaining, heroine of a wife had to support the family by her writing. |
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Bland is simply a preparation of whey, but owing to the quality of the grass or to the climate becomes here a truly palatable and nourishing potation. |
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He was a Navy veteran of World War II, serving as an armed guard on the Liberty Ships SS Theodoric Bland and SS Pawnee Rock. |
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He went to sleep, lying there under a wing of his plane, and presently Bland himself drifted off into dreams. |
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He was not even much of a writer, with a bland and unremarkable style of putting pen to paper. |
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Let's not confuse World music with bland wallpaper forcing listeners to entertain themselves. |
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Chinese medicine has long advocated bland, unprocessed food for a long, healthy life. |
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He stars as a sound engineer in a happy but bland marriage to an emotionally fragile woman with psychic abilities. |
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This part of the movie is quite dull, mostly because of the bland one-dimensionality of the characters. |
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Colors seem to be unnaturally muted, so that the entire movie has a soft, bland look to it. |
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We started dancing, but rapidly became bored with the bland, unimaginative hip-hop that was being played. |
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That bland description understates the drama and stakes of the investigation. |
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The movie is so tame, so bland and so uninspired, it just feels like a wasted opportunity. |
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Its visuals are disappointingly mediocre, featuring bland and utterly uninspired track designs. |
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If you don't use some essence of a stereotype, the characters are bland and you can't find the conflict. |
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I feel sorry for today's youth being spoon-fed safe bland manufactured pop devoid of emotion. |
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They can already sense how bland and uninteresting their relationship will be, how the years will yawn away and stretch to eternity. |
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Fragile moments of poignant emotion are coupled with bland and lifeless battle scenes. |
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While this helps in the credibility department, it makes the trial somewhat bland and characterless. |
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These characters are so bland and dumb it's hard enough to remember their names let alone believe or care about them. |
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Supermarkets offer the same cosmetically perfect bland foods, from apples to bread to cheese. |
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Favor simple, bland foods and cool drinks, and avoid alcohol and drinks with caffeine. |
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These companies seemed to believe that what drinkers wanted to drink was bland beer that was fizzy and tasteless. |
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Apart from the potatoes whose saffron flavour was deep and delicious, this dish was so bland it made me wonder if I had lost my sense of taste. |
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You can replace these by drinking plenty of bland liquids such as water and soda water. |
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I'm not hugely hopeful as my other babies didn't seem to think much of the bland rice cereal. |
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Serve a soft, bland diet that does not require a lot of chewing and encourage your child to drink plenty of fluids. |
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She is a cake maker with a fine decorative sense but her cakes are bland and tasteless. |
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Diced tuna is too soft and bland to leave any impression on your tongue or your mind unless served with wasabi cream. |
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After a week of eating the bland food in our mess, meals like these really hit the spot. |
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So if prepared foods are actually bland and nutritionally barren, what do they have going for them? |
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In another contrast to the perfect fish, the bed of too-hard beans with their thin, bland tomato sauce was disappointing. |
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He gave his friend an unintelligibly bland look, and trotted off into the distance with no comment. |
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I found his voice bland, without any colouring or nuance, and some of his pronunciations were downright odd. |
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His eyes, although bland, were laced with an emotion that she could not place. |
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He spoke in a voice so calm and bland, it stuck in the air like an emotionless reverberation. |
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This even extends to some of the marquee stars, as Mary Jane looks particularly bland with flattened features. |
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It had to be special to add a spark of emotion to his normally bland personality. |
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Her voice was bland, filled with as much emotion as the oatmeal my mother gave me for my meals. |
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I hope he does something about the public image of his party and, more importantly, his dull, bland self. |
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The simple repetition of bland reassurance that fails to address patients' fears is ineffective. |
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With that peculiar bland expression adorning her features, she seemed so lost in her own thoughts. |
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While the chemistry between the two leads is rather bland, there is no denying their emotion. |
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He asked, instead, his same dead, flat, bland monotone staying in his voice. |
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He grinned but said nothing as his features faded into a bland monotonous look. |
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A diverting entertainment nonetheless, this is one book not to judge by its blocky lime-green cover or its bland layout. |
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Brenda is a fantastic singer, but not really a pop star, and Maria is nice but a little bit bland. |
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Giving has an emotional component, after all, and most of the new charity sites still feel a bit bland and bloodless. |
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The only problem is we never care if these two bland mouth breathers ever get together. |
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Muenster cheese made in the U.S. is a very bland cheese which has no real resemblance to Muenster made in France and Germany. |
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Instead, we were presented with bland technical data, neat, sanitised diagrams and understated text. |
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Is it the erasure of all difference into bland undifferentiated homogeneity? |
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Two lime wedges were a welcome addition to a large, undressed fillet of cod, which was bland due to overcooking. |
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He might seem interesting on the outside, but he is utterly, utterly bland and unexciting. |
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The game by itself, is sort of bland and unexciting because of the lack of variety. |
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The current station is far from perfect, but at least it has character, which this bland, uninspired new design signally fails to achieve. |
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It's all bland, unoriginal pap that will only appeal to the nostalgia-seekers of the original BSB generation. |
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The dish was too bland, lacking flavour, and the aloe seemed not entirely fresh. |
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Hoardings, which dot the main thoroughfares, used to look bland and unromantic. |
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I often find Cinsaut to be a little bland on its own, but it is nicely blended here with Pinotage to form a really smooth wine. |
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As it stands, the film is just slightly above mundane and should provide audiences with some decent, if bland, frights. |
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The dancing tends to be bland in its dynamics, unspontaneous, and diminished in energy. |
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She was not wearing a bland suit with a loose-fitting skirt and short boxy jacket with a pair of sensible pumps. |
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The great compulsory voting experiment is unravelling and all that he can offer is bland reassurance that an untried system will cope. |
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The graphics are a little bland, the landscapes being rather unvaried snow, desert, or grasslands. |
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It follows two disaffected teenagers through the bland, soulless landscape of their suburban California existence. |
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This bland collection of vapid songs and empty sentiments sounds exactly as you would expect. |
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It is not a trait that endears Allen to neoconservatives, who regard him as intellectually vapid and ideologically bland. |
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Too much fertilizer can cause bland, soft fruit that is more susceptible to brown rot. |
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Critics were perplexed by this seemingly perfect specimen, and swiftly termed her bland and banal. |
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The least elegant was the vichyssoise, which had the bland, somewhat gummy consistency of whipped avocados. |
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Most are pleasant and bland, some may have attractive richness and spiciness. |
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If you can eat solid food without vomiting, stick to bland foods such as crackers and noodles. |
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The bland butteriness of the potato is a perfect vehicle for the truffle aroma and texture. |
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Despite the trattoria's views of the Tiber and its thoroughly Roman menu, every dish seemed stalely reheated and bland. |
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It is disappointing to see that his design was modified beyond recognition, so that the houses are as bland as every other state house. |
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Attorneys and judges in this bland, wood-paneled space all wear capacious robes patterned on the gowns of medieval European clerics. |
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The nuclei were often elongated and cytologically bland with occasional stellate cells and loose myxoid background. |
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After being steamed on water with light soybean oil, spring onion and ginger, the fish is bland and delicate. |
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One of the weaknesses of much pre-Classic music is the prevalence of bland diatonic harmony. |
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Even the most devoted of undergraduates recognise that tutorials can be bland and uninspiring just as they can be challenging and stimulating. |
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I generally loathe modern country, which is simply bland pop-oriented music with a hayseed singing. |
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So ignore commentators' advice to be more politically correct, more cautious, more bland. |
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The bland fibrous stroma is infiltrated by mature lymphocytes and plasma cells. |
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On their own they are fairly bland but meaty, so they work well with strong flavours. |
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The contemporary music scene was the stronghold of disco and stadium rock, the two bland ends of a narrow spectrum. |
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Now they aspire to emulate bland American actors whose defining stylistic features are shiny hair and nice, white teeth. |
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Though he was considered a chaperone to the young prince, Rupert did not particularly enjoy that bland label. |
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Although the dynamic of this relationship is fairly bland, the characterization of the killer is more inspired. |
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Sure a lot of it is tepid, bland and overproduced, but hey, so's a lot of British music these days. |
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His family now lived in a typically bland modern suburb, but his heart lay with the little island where he grew up. |
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The musician in me won't let me tune out the abrasively bland songs coming out of the speaker above my head. |
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After one particularly bland interview, a reporter waspishly criticized the starlet. |
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It is a bland dish and may be accompanied by salted fish or other strongly flavoured food to provide contrast. |
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It questions the bland aphorisms of beauty and raises the difficult issues of purity and exclusivity. |
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Worst of all, when you try to make a light chowder, you end up sacrificing flavor and heartiness, and the soup becomes watery and bland. |
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Peterhof stands out like a jewel among the bland communist structures found in greater St. Petersburg. |
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In addition to the lemon juice, you can use a dash of vinegar to pep up bland leaves. |
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I admire and respect them both, and they seem nice guys, but boring and bland. |
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Shame he seems to have to rely on wheedlingly bland ballads to keep him on the radio though. |
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Bur rather than settle down and start producing a bland composite, he retains his enthusiasm and keenness to experiment. |
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Has all this material been so bland or so often revisited it wasn't worth a few strokes of the pencil? |
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My girlfriend had vegetarian fajitas that were perfectly spiced to give a kick to a rather bland selection of vegetables. |
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It was a clean-cut, agreeable dish albeit a touch bland for more adventurous palates. |
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The character he ends up creating is charming but bland, like the film itself, despite the technical wizardry involved in its creation. |
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If you feel in need of some protein, choose bland, rather than oily, fish, and chicken in preference to red meat. |
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You'll have to excuse my rather bland choice of words in the initial sentence. |
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I love the fact that en masse it seems so bland, yet in miniature each snowflake is a work of art. |
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This is exactly the kind of tired, worn-out, bland thinking we love to reward in this town. |
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Beneath a nest of angel hair phyllo shreds is a layer of bizarre, bland melted cheese in a pool of honey syrup. |
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We have a habit in this country of transforming even the simplest culinary import into a bland, bulky version of its former self. |
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Its paleness escapes looking bland thanks to contrasting inlays of ebony, walnut and amboyna, a wood distinguished by bird's eye curls. |
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The fact is, this is a distinctive vehicle in a very bland, anonymous and nondescript market. |
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The reforms Japan has undertaken to revive economic growth fall somewhere between bland and modest. |
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Even films that purport to be bland or apolitical are political in their intentions. |
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Rigid chairs and bland decor did not encourage us to linger over coffee, mugged or otherwise. |
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She served them with curried pineapple, a nice touch as the arancini was good, but a bit bland. |
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Efforts to ascertain concrete information are met with bland replies and you come away none the wiser. |
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Nick was less impressed with his cod loin, complaining it was too small while the sauce was bland and lukewarm. |
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Disgusted with the bland, palliative Lutheranism of his day, he stresses duty, self-sacrifice, and total commitment. |
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I started with a duck salad that consisted of a fan of labial magret, a hunch of little gem and three boiled, bland mini carrots. |
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The chef has made it more sour and sweet to meet the taste of Southern people and the dish is actually fairly bland. |
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She found the pancake bland and tasteless and, having sampled a corner, I had to agree. |
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After a few days, even the best instant coffee is much more bland and tasteless. |
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According to him, broiler or farm chicken is as good as vegetables, but tasteless and bland, however well they may be prepared. |
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When doctors recommend lowering the salt in your diet, it doesn't mean your food has to be tasteless and bland. |
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Lettuce has got to be one of the most tasteless bland things it is possible to eat. |
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People often complain that tomatoes sold in supermarkets are bland and tasteless compared with those fresh from the vine. |
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Presentation is bland and the lack of graphic detail just doesn't do justice to the obvious savageness of the creatures. |
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It includes some of the most emotionally creative and technically brilliant music alongside the bland and inane. |
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No one likes the elevator music, but they must endure the sheer bland badness being piped into their ears. |
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Some of the recollections are bland while others are scintillatingly naughty. |
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Even the relentless march of performance progress has lost its edge, with the increasing bland commercialisation of the enthusiast market. |
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For Voltaire, a catastrophe of such indiscriminate vastness was incontrovertible evidence against the bland optimism of popular theodicy. |
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Ramsay Gardens' facade is a random, unlikely mixture of bold baronial turrets and bland English cottage-styles. |
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The album's arrangements are uniformly awful, and its melodies are elevator music bland. |
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If you can face it, bland foods such as toast or crackers may relieve feelings of nausea. |
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When you feel better, try small amounts of bland foods, such as toast, applesauce or bananas. |
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Indian paneer cheese is similar to Asian tofu in that it has a bland flavour in itself, but it absorbs the flavours of other ingredients well. |
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Navy blue furniture and various sports team posters decorated the otherwise bland, creamy walls. |
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Gee, I hope all those explosions make up for the battalions of bland, sexless ciphers filling the screen. |
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It would be all too easy to launch into an assault on Kelly and Co. for being bland, middle-of-the-road and turgid. |
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At its worst it lapses into bland mid tempo pop that a band as gifted as this really shouldn't be churning out. |
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The short pastry is good and the sauce emulsified, but filling is bland invalid food and the ham is elusive. |
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He performs Sly with his usual care and dogged efficiency, but he never gets under the skin of the part, and the results are very bland. |
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The arc of this group's path in America has been one from zealousness to bland, corporate moderateness. |
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The house looked bland and there was nothing in the garden except molehills. |
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The portion was small, the sauce bland and sickly-sweet, and the vegetables not fresh but either frozen or tinned. |
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The slices of duck were too small and a little on the tough side, and the pear chutney was bland. |
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The media, of course, treats these incidents as an amusing sideshow, a bit of spice in an otherwise bland political soup. |
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Instead of left and right, we just don't like the bland, blah-blah, pointless, and point-of-view-less media we're getting. |
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The current station is far from perfect, but at least it has character, which this bland, uninspired new design fails to achieve. |
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All the other non-specialist presenters are so bland they melt into one. |
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I guess I'd rather have a bit of a reputation than be bland and boring. |
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They have been berated for being bland, boring, meandering and, most mystifying of all, not playing trance or whatever this week's essential dancefloor mutation is. |
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The resultant fare was fresh enough, but the dressing was bland and thin. |
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They are uniform and polygonal with a bland, oval or round nucleus. |
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I hope their bland, tasteless products never pass my lips ever again. |
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Yet where others might find nothing but bland boogaloo, Young finds pearls from Ray Barretto, Stanley Turrentine, Freddie Hubbard and Nina Simone. |
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More dull, bland, insipid and uninspiring commercial radio is on its way! |
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The understated, brick exterior now stands out amongst the bland residential high-rises that have sprouted in the River North area in recent years. |
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But it's such an infuriatingly bland blend of pop-psychology, unironic platitudes and meandering rock, I wouldn't stop at politely sweeping it under the rug. |
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The completely unmoving, unconvincing romance between a wooden Hayden Christensen and an uncharacteristically bland Natalie Portman is only the most obvious clumsiness. |
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But beyond their meek and bland exterior the Smalls inhabit another world. |
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And what sorts of bland mediocrities will end up on the courts? |
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Recipe From bland to brilliant, this will redefine and reinvigorate the way you think about vegetable broth. |
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Tuna is a bland fish and benefits from a marinade to infuse flavour. |
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The poor boring, bland singer has to follow a dynamic superstar. |
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The TV critics largely sided with Conan, now with TBS, because they deem Leno to be a bland and stodgy comic. |
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The walls and floors were of stone, and the room was bland and cheerless. |
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The food was bland and unappealing, with no flavour she could tolerate. |
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While I noticed a few more bland textures in multiplayer than I did in the campaign, the two are remarkably close. |
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In their universe all is bland, bloodless, bleached of character. |
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Neutral colours can look too bland and dark colours too sombre. |
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This is a relatively dry track featuring two very bland commentators. |
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From then on, the album becomes fairly bland and generic soft rock. |
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A likelier explanation is that people whose diet is rather bland and unvarying crave something to pep it up, and chillies provide flavour and excitement at low cost. |
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His bland take on the icon is nothing like his maniacal turns in American Psycho or The Fighter. |
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Not one person could be seen on Independence Avenue, where rows of bland neoclassical federal buildings have been shuttered. |
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By contrast, the large figure paintings that he executed for the charterhouses of Granada and El Paular, near Segovia, are comparatively bland and conventional. |
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Hauser is about as bland as they come, robotically experiencing happiness, pain, and anger without ever messing his dyed hair or wrinkling his smoothed face. |
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Blinding lights found twelve boys immediately jumping out of six brown-painted metal bunk beds onto a bland gray uncarpeted tile floor with an almost military precision. |
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The kids, besides looking like brothers, were bland and uninteresting. |
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His lips quirked slightly, showing his amusement at her bland humor. |
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The first few songs are bland and uninspiring public space music. |
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Every poor England performance sees Eriksson giving bland, uncharismatic and frankly boring interviews, which merely justify his selections or decisions. |
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Siegal's dream is to reinvent a mobile house, retaining the concepts of affordability and flexibility but shaking up the bland design notions that now dominate the genre. |
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It said that it had merely offered bland anodyne advice that it would offer to anybody who asked for it, and said that what happened next was certainly nothing to do with it. |
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Its styling is bland, the engines lacklustre and interiors depressing. |
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During the strike the editorial broadcasts were bland and non-controversial, but after 12 May they were to be continued in a far more politicized form. |
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The miscegenation Ball was an exception in its otherwise bland, though proficient, catalog. |
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On the hotter side, jalfrezi dishes are beautifully spiced, and for those with truly oversensitive tastebuds, the korma is mild without being bland. |
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They're either bland, unmemorable pop or bland, unsuccessful rip-offs of Mumford Sons. |
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Remember, this was at the height of the comedy boom, when every TV channel had a stand up show, all of it bland and sanitized for your protection. |
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In spite of their image as bland, geriatric pols, the party elders gave the LDP a sense political heft. |
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In royal blue velvet mini bloomers she looked anything but bland. |
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The bland blue-fin-tuna carpaccio seemed to have been previously frozen, and my salad of thinly sliced Muscovy duck tasted properly gamy but dry as shoe leather. |
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Yet, as he travels from airport to morgue, waiting room to railway carriage, these bland modern spaces seem to tease out of him at last a rueful sense of guilt and blame. |
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The peripheral characters are given similarly bland treatment. |
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It wasn't to be a bland stew of traditions but something strong and spicy. |
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On microscopy, all sections contained interweaving fascicles of bland spindled cells with well-circumscribed margins. |
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There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits. |
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A sense that the air, a sighting of muddy river, or that outcrop of rock so implacably bland in the light of midday, is undertowed by memory. |
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Perhaps the brand of bland backslapping plied by the motley crew of ex-jockeys and yes-men on other channels is more to his liking? |
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Instead of the bland, beautiful brigade of fame seekers, this lonely hearts line-up is as raggedy as a haystack and as doe-eyed as a cow. |
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Robinson appears bland from Buttermere, smooth rounded slopes curving up from the valley floor. |
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Neither haute cuisine nor dodgy kebab, it's a mostly bland blend of the cloying and the predictable. |
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Neither haute cuisine nor dodgy curry, it's a bland blend of cloying predictability. |
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Mom-and-pop diners and cafes are disappearing from American main streets, being replaced by bland corporate giants and insipid franchises. |
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Instead, the American list is filled with bubblegum pop, angst-laden gangster rap and bland soul without much spirit. |
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The producers do their best to edit bland events into comic minibites, but those mostly look lame and forced. |
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On the front of the Royal Society Babbage had no impact, with the bland election of the Duke of Sussex to succeed Gilbert the same year. |
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Holmes was beady-eyed and bland and is wrongly characterised as a know-all junky high on drugs. |
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Salt and chilli beancurd is perfect, crisp exterior giving way to a soft, milkily bland interior. |
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Vaughn trots out his familiar blend of in-your-face blokeishness and tactless charm while Witherspoon brings new meaning to the word bland. |
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The writers are dishing up more of the same with this bland suburban sitcom. |
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As we putter along in our little crapmobile, I can hear Mom's thoughts as clearly as the newscaster's bland voice. |
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The diplomat's bland statement did nothing to calm the situation. |
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Adjacent to the malignant cells were a few well-demarcated nodules of small, bland, polyhedral squamoid cells with focal duct formation. |
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His deadpan style reminds students of every bland, boring, but inwardly crazy, professor whose classes were sufferingly tolerated. |
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The young leaves are edible raw or cooked as a somewhat bland leaf vegetable. |
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She believes in the diversity of towns, capitalising on their uniqueness rather than the 'clone town' trend towards bland uniformity blighting our townscapes. |
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The bland cashew is a fitting substitute for higher priced almonds to extend the nut texture. In baking, however, almonds are more suitable for cake decoration than cashews. |
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A whey protein hydrolysate that is bland and non-bitter is ideal for adding to beverages and powdered mixes without detrimentally affecting the flavour of the end product. |
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Winter purslane, which is also known as miner's lettuce or claytonia is, by contrast, slightly succulent, cool and a little bland but mixes well with the spicy vegetables. |
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Our politicians are identikits, our pop stars are bland, if a football manager wants to make jokes in the predictable arena of the post-match interview, let him. |
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It ought to have been obvious to anyone with an ear that mainstream pop has very little to do with originality and everything to do with bland, soundalike, predigested pap. |
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Look past bland gamefic and Superman comics for a change, and you might see that conflicted characers are much more common than you like to admit. |
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It was bland at best, and I surmised that the lack of flavor in an uncooked kidney bean was normal, and that when cooked, the beans would be quite palatable and nutritious. |
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The prolonged, climactic coloratura mad scene for Lucia in Donizetti's 1835 bel canto opera Lucia di Lammermoor is based on what in the novel were just a few bland sentences. |
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In general, surimi is light in color, bland in odor, low in fat, and extremely functional due to the unique gelling properties of the myofibrillar proteins. |
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With a bland touch and tortoiselike patience, he recorded arrangements of one or more bodies in drowsy repose surrounded by rugs, blankets and furniture. |
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Another diagnostic challenge is that bland and tumor thrombi can coexist. |
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The league table doesn't lie, say the spewers of bland cliches. |
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And no, we don't mean bland, boring and ascetic rabbit food. |
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The MPAA emerges from Dick's film as a system stacked against the maverick auteur, hostile to the creative process, and conducive to bland homogeneity. |
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