When we freeze them, which is art's old job, they tend to look blank, unexplaining, ready to move on.
He's funny about why, unlike their baseball and basketball brethren, football coaches tend to be blank slates.
But except for the weirdly epicene Cob, the characters fail to transcend generic types, and their expressions tend to be blank.
Yet when I've asked Londoners about local civic politics or issues they care about, they tend to look blank and then go: "Um, the wrong type of bus," dog mess," "holes in the road," and of course, "crime".
People who are afraid tend to go blank.
I mean, if there's figures I tend to go blank.
Ask experts to name good, "authentic" Mexican restaurants in Europe, though, and they tend to draw a blank after a handful of names.
Alisa Simmons (second from left): When people look at me, they tend to fill in the blank with what they're comfortable with and often assume I'm Asian.
Still, the difference between a literary novel and a genre-oriented one is not usually of much consequence to readers — nor is it particularly apparent to most writers, who tend to see the same blank page no matter what kind of book they sit down to work on.
Try to catch the spots where you tend to fill in the blank with "um" or "uh".
