Sentences with phrase «into blandness»

At times the recordings settle into the blandness of chummy PR talk; you're reminded of Giuliani's 1998 taxicab campaign, where the likes of Joe Torre and Rosie O'Donnell instructed you to buckle up.

It was localised into blandness, it sat on the surface of the picture and it worked as icing on the cake of form: «Look what a pretty patch I am.»

This isn't a game that will have been focus - tested into blandness.

Comic strips In the third part of Michael Cavna's series on boundaries on the funny pages, Rina Piccolo (Tina's Groove) and Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) discuss the constraints they work under and why newspaper comics have descended into blandness.

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

Instead of frying potato chips for the greasy aftermath or baking them into blandness, Turpin and Belling would pop potato bits to maintain the natural flavor while keeping the potato's healthy attributes.

Not exact matches

I needed that flavor burst after my two inadvertent dabbles into the world of blandness.

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.

There's precious little fat on the script; it's a lean, mean antifascist machine, and Lawrence is at once winsome and spectacularly engaging as Katniss (so much so that all her male costars pale into near - blandness in comparison).

Graphically it's no winner, either: «As the game slowly drops into LV - 426, we didn't find ourselves in awe of the overbearing planet, but instead found ourselves taken aback by the blandness with which Gearbox has interpreted the world.»

House has in fact already entered the everyday visual currency that shapes the way we see the world, just as much as the famous Carl Andre bricks, or Boy George or Punk - all once the subject of horrified outrage, and all quickly co-opted into mainstream sensibility, to be recycled as knowing, sly jokes, to appear as the inspiration for the imagery of advertising, to be used as seasonings to the blandness of everyday life.

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