Sentences with word «blandness»

We took a look at it, complaining about the pacing, monetization systems, and general blandness of the experience.

The former Duke of York's HQ has been transformed into a study in blandness.

did anyone have a problem with blandness in the veggies?

Ever since the postmodern backlash, abstraction has to answer for blandness already — and sometimes it can not, sometimes it can.

Apparently, «Cars 2» was just a brief detour into blandness for Pixar, and the magical «Brave» proves it.

, everyone is equally blunted by blandness.

Pros: A new Sonic platformer for series fans, better than Episode 1 Cons: Technical issues, general blandness in level design

Overall, the RDX could attract a wide range of customers, as blandness can also be viewed as universal appeal.

After the reviews about blandness, I used veggie stock instead of water.

Not a fan, agree w / the other folks on blandness.

That's true to the comics — Marvel villains do go on — but the relative blandness of the cosmos is not.

I looked around the room, noticing the intentional blandness of it, clearly to avoid distractions I was looking for.

In a world where interior mediocrity is mass produced, and design blandness comes neatly flatpacked, The Curious Department strives to embrace the eccentricity of clutter, clashes and the uncommon, with a splash of opulence and dash of art deco.

The overall blandness of the career mode, online connectivity issues, and sharp learning curve burned me out well before it probably should have and left me with a strong case of buyer's remorse.

This mild 1984 comedy about a mermaid (Daryl Hannah) who falls in love with a New York City yuppie (Tom Hanks) isn't at all hard to take (John Candy, in a supporting role, is hilarious and original, and Hannah has a pleasant naive charm), but its appeal is based almost entirely on regression — a thematic regression to infancy (now endemic to the American cinema) and a stylistic regression to the most lulling kind of TV blandness.

With his 90s - boyband hairstyle and an emotional range that runs from «a bit sad» to «really quite cross», he tends to disappear into blandness when he's not chucking his shield around.

Often, Reply just feels like you're role - playing as Google Assistant, responding to random opinions, statements, and questions with utter blandness.

However, that exterior blandness masked a burning centre, and for some reason that became clear to me only later, Cornelius Engelbrecht revealed to me the secret obsession that lay beneath his orderly, controlled design.

Director Denis Villeneuve blends the solemnness of Tarkovsky and the studied blandness of Kubrick, with the same lack of dynamism he demonstrated in Arrival.

The CEOs of our banks exude a comforting Canadian blandness.

Inside, the offices are a cross between the usual high - tech swanky blandness and a busy workshop.

Early in his return to Apple, he recognized that gorgeous design was a differentiator for Apple in a computer industry gripped by the successful blandness of Dell, Microsoft, and Intel.

In his own way, this CEO who at first appears to epitomize blandness is about as colorful as they come.

It is simultaneously removed in the theologia crucis and deus absconditus of Luther's theology and in the uncertain mooring, unworldly lighting and aesthetic blandness of Cranach's painting.

For most schools, however, it seems that the drift into secular blandness continues, maintaining «Catholic identity» mainly for recruitment and fund - raising purposes.

Some other not - so - lucky marketers still seem to think consumers will show the love online despite brand blandness — not true.

«And tribal Third World cultures embrace spicier foods, as opposed to the traditional ketchup - like blandness preferred by Western cultures.»

The white blandness of rice, the fattiness of meats, the soft delicacy of fresh vegetables, all are brought into balance by the vividness and vibrance, the tang and tartness and crunch of kimchi.

Whatever beans you use, just remember blandness is Enemy # 1 when it comes to burritos.

We at Droolin» Devil are commited to erradicating blandness from your culinary endeavours.

He's been reserved in media settings to the point of blandness throughout the Finals.

These numbers do not suggest blandness to opposing cornerbacks.

But beauty won't save the pinyon jay nor will blandness work against its cousin when climate change raises temperatures and alters bird habitats in the southwestern United States, according to research sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey.

In Talbott's view, the result is a middle - brow, corporate blandness that does far less for original scientific discovery than its splendid advertising would have us believe.

- Added chili paste - Doubled garlic - Topped with lots of cilantro The added complexity and citrus are both necessary to cut the creamy blandness of the almond butter.

This notion of indistinguishable blandness will be revisited later in our discussion of the Basic Bitch.)

It's not exactly pip - pip cheerioing and whatnot, but this film is still mighty British, complete with a dry approach to things that is often very charmingly witty, but holds a tendency to leave the atmosphere to get a bit limp, with kick limitations that cause pacing to suffer and leave some disengaging blandness to ensue.

Hydrophobia Prophecy suffers from more than a fear of water: It's also afflicted with acute blandness, brain dead AI, and chronic backtracking.

Howard has successfully made an okay, watchable movie, kept from greatness only by his undying artistic blandness.

A lesser entry in the LeCarré Cinematic Universe, though Damian Lewis and Stellan Skarsgård rescue it from complete blandness.

This 1979 movie adaptation of the cult TV series is blandness raised to an epic scale.

Morose, Dull, Uninspiring, Middle of the road, Non-offensive blandness.

Mr. Cattaneo restricts himself to the smiling blandness that has become the stock in trade of British comedies made for export, turning in a film that is forced, familiar and thoroughly condescending.

Or are they over-layered with subtext, apart from an obvious tendency towards tailored blandness.

Kate Beckinsale made a strange choice to take the role of Sandler's long suffering wife, and disappoints if only for the absolute blandness of her performance.

Denise Richards plays a femme fatale with her usual blandness.

In between the mindnumbing blandness of countless Living Dead knockoffs, my ongoing inability to understand the inexplicable popularity of The Walking Dead, and a pronounced boredom with this genre's tropes, I had more or less decided not to bother with zombie movies (or TV shows!)

Lacking a Bruce Willis or a Mel Gibson, Shyamalan makes do with the sort of blandness delivered in the «50s by the no - namers playing air force generals and government scientists faced with giant tarantulas or space aliens.