He has mastered Benjamin Franklin's honesty as the "best policy": a practiced insincerity, an instant sunniness that, though evidently inauthentic, provides a bland bass note that keeps everyone calm.
"Russian food is really bland," he noted.
"Miss America represents what women are supposed to be: inoffensive, bland, apolitical," noted organizer Robin Morgan in a 1968 press release.
Though some critics praised the album and felt that Libertad gave the band an identity of their own, outside of the Guns N' Roses and Stone Temple Pilots comparisons, others described the album as "bland" and noted that the band have still to gel with them "play[ing] to their strengths instead of finding a collective sound".
The bass line trundles along on D, C and F, an innocuous enough set of notes, bland even, so we are fully unprepared for any outbursts.
In her view, all the things that people feared would be brought about by communism – including, the novel notes, "bland uniformity, cloned cities, secret prisoners and omnipresent surveillance" – are being "brought about by capitalism, and nobody recognises it.
Tim Jones of IGN found Metroid II a refreshing departure from the norm, and praised its replay value, while 1UP.com's Jeremy Parish felt that the game's visuals were bland and monotonous, noting that the music was not up to par with what the series is known for.
It took twice as long as it should have, and then issued a bland and non-committal note of light hand-wringing.
The last is that even the ordinarily bland section labeled "A Note on the Type" is funny, written in 1997 as the work of "a freelance typographic blurbist" by Bruce McCall.
