What is "blandness"

Usage examples of "blandness".

If Merv and Cathy had some kind of past, it seemed from the blandness of her reaction that Tilly knew nothing about it.

There was over his face such a settled look of blandness that it seemed no metoposcopy could ever decide his true character.

Soon the drunken tides of summer will blow chunks over the multiplexes, disgorging a stew of unappetizing green sobber in which float wads of Travoltaesque blandness and other uncured slabs of American ham, enough video-game violence and wiseass dialog and CGI monsters to satisfy a billion morons.

Infantry captain, possibly the way his appearance managed to combine wholesome square-jawed blandness with an impression of knife-edged efficiency, suggested to Bandur that there was more to Tyche than met the eye.

There was nothing in the blandness of his handsome face to suggest that he was angry, but his eyes were dark and cold.

Adram saw it was Disar, the head of their Command division, and got to his feet, quickly schooling his features from annoyance at the interruption to blandness.

In Going, Going, Gone, Womack gives us another supremely idiosyncratic narrative voice, but the effect is much the opposite: Bullitt celebrates the endlessly generative power of language, reveling in every opportunity to substitute colorful metaphor for straight-on blandness.

If the thoughtful eye found a certain blandness in the scene, that was the way Gatesville liked it.

And similarly, the deadpan blandness with which Dean in the role of Matt Helm tosses off dumb one-liners in the face of imminent death nullifies all the old claims for tragic dignity, or for high seriousness in art.