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blandness

[ UK /blˈændnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫændnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner
  2. the trait of exhibiting no personal embarrassment or concern
    the blandness of his confession enraged the judge
  3. lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property

How To Use blandness In A Sentence

  • Oddly, we have reached the stage where there might still be a singular vision, but too often it is being micro-managed at executive level to the point of blandness and is often hobbled by an unhealthy mix at executive-committee stage of half-understood notions of political correctness tied to an essential distrust of viewers 'intelligence. Can British TV produce drama as good as Mad Men?
  • The two-piece brass section added a full and funky sound that helped detract from the sameness and blandness of many of Mayer's songs.
  • Surprisingly, Albee points to the new-play development programs found in theatres across North America (involving dramaturges, readings, workshops) as a source of the blandness of so much of the drama of the past 20 years.
  • Instead, he underplays and it's a joy to watch him assume just the right mask of deferential blandness to manage his Colonel.
  • It was not remotely greasy and any tendency towards blandness was countered by the saltiness of the feta, while the orange butter sauce saved the whole dish from becoming too dry.
  • There is no effort to hide the blandness and utter dispiritedness of that future.
  • Instead, the blandness of the Hollywood versions merely underlines the oddness, individuality and appeal of the originals.
  • The poor must be grateful for gimcrack blandness. Times, Sunday Times
  • A check-the-boxes approach to creativity is more likely to result in blandness and failure. Disney’s Iger Shows Up The Street
  • The husband's determination to mastery, which lay deep below all blandness and beseechingness, had risen permanently to the surface now, and seemed to alter his face, as a face is altered by a hidden muscular tension with which a man is secretly throttling or stamping out the life from something feeble, yet dangerous. Romola
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