Word: bland
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...little excess is called for. We need to feel a touch of genuine desperation in this slum or of craziness in the behavior of its inhabitants. Some how the Duddy Kravitz ambience has been infused with the spirit of Walton's Mountain, and the result is a bland respectability−safe, pleasant, without reverberation...
...Everything seems to be more dramatic and vivid when you're risking your life. They would rather experience life deeply than have a bland life that lasts long," he said...
...gone commercial the way Dylan did. But it was clear why they never made it when his band led off the show: their solo set left the audience wondering if they sounded more like a pallid imitation of the New Riders of the Purple Sage or a bland version of the Youngbloods...
LANG'S WRITING is uneven too. She produces poems impatiently, without turning around to locate and pare away the bland passages. Perhaps her negligence results from the attitude that "Poetry can never be much more than a commentary, At best a breathless summation, for what words, What words existed before their source...
...human?" and "I pluck out the eye that offends me" is so overdone it falls completely flat. Ralph Martin, as Hasty, the tutor, doesn't help matters any by giving a generally lackluster performance that makes his sudden access of emotion in this sequence seem violently out of place. Bland and mechanical throughout most of the play, Martin's tutor is hardly human enough to merit either our pity or contempt...