For decades, European drivers saw Japanese cars as reliable and robust perhaps, yet bland and lacking in personality.
It's comfortingly thick, but undeniably, and perhaps deliberately bland – and after baking for 40 minutes in an 180C oven, the pre-cooked fish is, dare I say it, a bit rubbery.
Most of us probably see either site as ignorant and perhaps quite bland -- another bunch of tech-savvy hucksters making a buck at the expense of others.
represent perhaps the blandest pair of veep candidates in a generation.
Elvis, although sneering, seems bland; perhaps his counterpart in the Las Vegas Tussaud's has more attitude.
Once I've added dry spices, it starts to smell remarkably like a takeaway, though the final flavour is, perhaps deliberately, fairly bland.
Experts are divided as to the juice's prospects; www.bevnet.com, a Web site devoted to all things beverage, called it "perhaps the most bland juice known to man".
He, at least so far, is certainly no Saga or Lund or Andri; and his relationship with fraud squad Alf is, as of yet, a bit bland: perhaps it just needs a little longer to pickle.
To the modern taste, he was perhaps a little bland, with just a touch of "SirHumphrey" mannerisms, but none who worked with him ever doubted his professionalism or the patience and kindness he showed to less well-equipped mortals.
