Sentence examples for a kind of bland from inspiring English sources

But "this image of Katz as a kind of bland, New Yorker-magazine style painter is completely wrong," said Mr. Storr.

What was really striking about Green's don't-come-to-Jesus moment was its equable complacency — not fierce, argumentative anger, but a kind of bland, blank, bored congenial scorn.

What was really striking about Green's don't-come-to-Jesus moment was its equable complacency not fierce, argumentative anger, but a kind of bland, blank, bored congenial scorn.

But this exhibition of works from 1956 to 1973 shows the artist drifting into a kind of bland Color Field painting (Johnson).

Episodically United have looked cohesive and purposeful; home and away against Bayer Leverkuesen, the first half against Arsenal, the first 20 minutes at home against Real Sociedad, but then the return of a kind of bland nothingness.

Instead of using the history to strengthen a sense of shared identity or to encourage righteous anger or to illuminate principles, the museum generalized it into a kind of bland therapeutic activism, until the historical specifics dissolved.

With its lack of pretension, the city is often seen by outsiders as a kind of Pleasantville — a bland, happy place with an exceptional amount of sunshine.

"Do you own a valid driving licence?" "What kind of bland, insipid question is that?" "It's a good question, isn't it?

If nothing else, the fight is an entertaining diversion from the kind of bland bureaucratic infighting that usually characterizes these kinds of disputes.

"Jerry had an issue, clean government, which seemed kind of bland," Quinn said.

Following his death in 2005, more than 6 in 10 said so. "He just seemed kind of bland," Dorothy Lascuola, 66, a frequent churchgoer from Butler, Pa., said of Pope Benedict XVI in a follow-up interview.