Words like "circumspect," "reticent" and "determinedly bland" only hint at the effort he has made to reveal nothing of himself in the seven years he has coached the Bears.
The method she invented is sometimes called "extended vocal technique," but this bland phrase hardly hints at the striking, extraterrestrial vocabulary of sighs, squeals and glottal acrobatics that Ms. Monk has been refining for decades.
Castle got the ad presumably because the ambulance chasers felt he was a figure we could trust, but frankly there is not a great deal in his rather bland commentary that hints at the kind of sophisticate who might guide one through a legal minefield.
For hearing, there's an eye doctor (Philippe Volter) who is going deaf; for taste, there's a cake-maker Mary-Louise Parkerr) whose gorgeous but bland cakes only hint at her deeper emotional blockage.
The parole officer's entries about Thomas Trantino's new female companion were bland, with no hint that the officer knew of her convictions and prison sentences since the mid-1990's for forgery in Florida and bank robbery in Newark, as well as parole violations for drug abuse.
The arroz con pollo -- combining chicken breast with tomato-accented rice (not the menu-mentioned saffron rice) -- was bland, lacking even a hint of excitement.
Though delicious when homemade and served on a chilly night -- especially, for some reason, a Sunday night -- they are tame and a little bit bland, and they do not hint at the splendor of some English favorites.
His wife was wearing a shiny jacket, and he had the bland, affectionate smile, with its hint of suppressed tumult, that's familiar from the campaign; more Mr. Magoo than Cincinnatus.
"Whip Topping" was bland; but "Rich's Whip Topping" hinted effortlessly at an experience that was thick, indulgent, faintly golden and utterly unwarlike.A quart of troubleUtterly uncreamlike, too, cried the dairy trade, and raced to court to stop him.
