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"bland statement" is a phrase or statement that lacks excitement, interest, or creativity. It is often dull, plain, and unremarkable.
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At least at the level of my German, I am reduced to
bland statements of facts, and the use of words like «nice»..
«I'm just doing my job and watching the theater of New York City politics,» Cuomo said, a variation of his rather
bland statement on the race from earlier in the week.
Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Public Advocate Letitia James, both allies of de Blasio,
offered bland statements saying they hoped for the smooth functioning of government.
To say this is true of Hamilton Island would perhaps be an
unfairly bland statement for three unique reasons: its status as part of the Whitsunday archipelago, its tropical climate and its position right off Queensland's Great Barrier Reef — perhaps the world's greatest natural wonder.
Carol M. Browner, the White House coordinator of energy and climate policy, issued a
surprisingly bland statement last week when two top House Democrats unveiled a far - reaching plan to cap greenhouse gases and move the nation toward an economy less dependent on carbon - rich fuels like coal and oil.
You could believe all this, but next time you think «a fool said in his heart there is no god», remember how many religions you don't believe, and how making
those bland statements is not likely to sway many of us who think critically about evidence.
I don't pretend for one moment to know the conditions surrounding the West Ham situation but when someone comes on and makes
a bland statement like «if you rented a house would you expect to pay toward the purchase and upkeep of said property» as if it means something, it reminds me greatly of people who also think they know which forward AW should have bought in the transfer window!!
Kremlinologists pored over the words, detecting signs of tepidity in, for example, Mandelson's failure to lavish praise on Brown — confining himself to
a bland statement that Hoon and Hewitt were not in the government and that «the prime minister continues to have the support of his colleagues».
If that's what the APS was trying to do with
this bland statement, they failed.
The confusion between an accomplishment and a responsibility is the difference between generating excitement by selling what you can do, and making
a bland statement that elicits the question «So what?»