Santan Dave

A very bland eleven-year-old, playing computer games. I went to a local primary school but I wasn't anything special or anything insanely interesting. I didn't have a crazy personality. I was somewhat book smart, but I wasn't hanging off the teacher, nor was I messing up in class. I wasn't doing much to disrupt anything. I was just there, existing.

British Musician

Jeff Daniels

And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.

American Actor

Sheena Iyengar

I could wear makeup today, and one person would say it looks bland, another would say it looks fake, and another might tell me I look really natural. Everyone is convinced their opinion is the truth, and that's what I struggle against.

American Educator

P. J. O'Rourke

Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.

American Comedian

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.

American Politician

George Cukor

People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that's the price they pay for being originals.

American Producer

Mario Testino

A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.

Peruvian Photographer

Sophie Hannah

My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few bland, normal people.

British Poet

Jimi Hendrix

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

American Musician

Eartha Kitt

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

American Actress

Use 'bland' to describe food that lacks strong flavor, especially when you expected it to be tastier.

Weak Flavor

'Bland' often suggests that a dish could be improved with more seasoning or herbs.

Lack of Seasoning

In dietary contexts, 'bland' describes food recommended for certain health conditions.

Dietary Usage

When referring to expressions, 'bland' suggests the person is deliberately not showing emotion.

Subtle Emotions

'Bland' can convey a lack of enthusiasm or opinion in someone's reaction.

Neutral Response

Someone might be described as 'bland' to suggest they are hiding their true feelings.

Hiding Feelings

Use 'bland' for something that fails to capture attention or interest.

Limited Engagement

'Bland' implies that something is generic or lacks distinctive qualities.

Lacks Distinctiveness

Saying something is 'bland' can be a polite way to avoid saying it's outright bad.

Avoiding Negative

 time I paid 25 cents because I thought the task was a bit harder and unfortunately when I first received the answers and here you see six of the answers I was a bit disappointed because I think you'll agree they all summarized some aspect of Ted by to me that kind of felt felt a bit bland or they just had a

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 made this stuff more appealing than the bland things that people were serving at home. At the same time, masses of women were entering the workforce, and cooking simply wasn't important enough for men to share the burden. So now, you've got your pizza nights, you've got your microwave nights,

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 Imagine any other singer from that era over it singing the same old lyrics. It runs a risk of being completely bland. I mean, there was no doubt that Amy and I and Salaam all had this love for this gospel, soul and blues and jazz that was evident listening to the musical arrangements.

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 this blandly amorphous generic world view not only would we see the entire range of the human imagination reduced to a more narrow modality of thought, but that we would wake from a dream one day having forgotten there were even other possibilities.

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 And when you think about that, ask Are they condemned to live in the same bland cities we built in the 20th century, or can we offer them something better? And to answer that question, you have to unpack how we got here in the first place.

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 And we have a lot of problems to choose from. We've got the bad-smelling clothes or bland food. And we've got the disease, pollution, war. And so this is my to not just catalog the microscopic life around us,

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 they ever hear from any of their network that gunshots have been heard or there's any conflict the guys responds so quickly cows have just come to bland habitant and the lands are very scan the lands of

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 lost nothing in translation this intersection had been bland and anonymous now it had a sense of place I walked underneath it for the first time

Taking imagination...

 and had lost nothing in translation. This intersection had been bland and anonymous. Now it had a sense of place. I walked underneath it