And yet rock audiences are docile to a fault, rewarding even the most uninspired sets with polite applause.
The performers, seen against Tony Walton's atypically uninspired sets, proceed stiffly: they consistently get laughs for their characters' oddities, but they seem not so much to possess those traits as to present them.
The group ended their uninspired set without receiving much reaction at all or saying any departing words.
And that's even despite some major headlining disappointments, with Sam Smith bowing out before the start because of a vocal cord injury that required surgery, further weakening a list of headlining acts on the main stages that included the predictable Zac Brown Band and an uninspired Beck set that was in dire need of Jeff Beck to light a fire under the festival's closing performer.
Dave Verheul, the chef and co-owner of Melbourne's the Town Mouse, was so uninspired by the crockery he saw when setting up his Carlton restaurant that he started to make his own.
The set it pretty uninspired – so maybe LG is saving its real firepower for the actual show.
Appropriately, the story is as uninspired as the mall it's set in, while the perky love interest and the sneering rival are as generic as any chainstore.
Flatly lighted by Roman Klima and set against a black background, the uninspired gold-and-blue hotel room lacks character and, worse, is positioned too far upstage to allow the actors to commune easily with their audience.
Uninspired by the admittedly uninspiring premise of "yuppies buying yuppies coffees," he set up a script that checks the card's balance and alerts him whenever it hits a given amount.
Especially during a first half of uninspired slugging, there was generally little threat to either goalkeeper, set pieces causing a bit of scrambling, but no worthwhile attempts.
