Nelson, the blandest of politicians, has taken a narrow lead.
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The blandest design of all is the one that got built.
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"That was the blandest fried thing I've ever tasted," he said But wait.
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We got an aloof European Carl Andre fan and the blandest white feminist imaginable.
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It was like the worst Far Cry game imaginable, in the blandest urban environment.
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Of all the NBA's marquee medals, Most Improved Player is the most subjective, and the blandest.
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CEST A Samsung spokesperson got back to us with what is possibly the blandest response ever.
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After the blandest tagine and kebabs of the trip, we walked straight into the Mediterranean Sea.
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Overall, OK. Michael Bennet Bennet's keeping things safe with some of the blandest, most boring merch around.
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TasteAnd surprisingly, the blandest tasting of all — I'd liken it almonds that were roasted and never salted.
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Seriously, it was like oatmeal and grits fighting over the title of blandest breakfast staple for ninety minutes.
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The magazine tries to make Trump's ideology seem centrist and unobjectionable by recasting it in the blandest possible terms.
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As a solve, I read the next 120 pages of It in the blandest, least-threatening place on Earth: a Starbucks.
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Why, then, does Agents of Mayhem introduce you to this concept with the three blandest characters the game has to offer?
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He's mostly served as a skeptical, logic-driven counterweight to Hannah, but he's also the blandest character of the main cast.
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An operating company has come into being, ex nihilo, with the blandest of names—NewTV—and a valuation north of $1 billion.
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Andrew Wyatt from The Lens wrote, "The remake resembles the blandest of Lifetime Originals dressed up with cut-rate J-horror flourishes."
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Instead, the series is set to explore the origin of arguably the blandest character in Cuckoo's Nest: the evil asylum head, Nurse Ratched.
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The episode is at its blandest during some deeply unnecessary action sequences, which evoke a family comedy more than a Black Mirror episode.
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Instead, in an effort to make the material more accessible, the writers of this Dark Tower have regurgitated the blandest of YA plots.
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But in an alternate universe, one where Patrick Patterson isn't one of the league's blandest rotation players, what does this team look like?
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It was the blandest of the five, which was disappointing because of how much Burger King prides itself on flame-grilling its meat.
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Their schemes involve a battle for control over Piety and Absalom's slacker son Jonah (Arty Froushan) who is easily the show's blandest character.
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Rating Lots of good actors sit in front of a locked-down camera and deliver some of the blandest work of their career.
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I was also surprised by these mascots considering Private Internet Access (PIA) is the blandest name you could think of when creating a VPN.
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Plaques, the blandest, most everyday form of sharing historic knowledge, can be an interesting format in which to present information that's usually lost or kept secret.
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Turkey isn't exactly the sexiest food to look at the morning after it has been carved, but with a little creativity you can revive even the blandest bird.
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" While the trip hop beat is refreshingly new for her, the lyrics are t-shirt feminism at its blandest: "nasty women" references and a refrain of "don't fuck with my freedom.
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Delegates rejected efforts to add even the blandest platform language on gays, such as acknowledging that they are targets of the Islamic State or that the Republican Party condemns discrimination of gays.
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By 2021, Trump could be working in real estate full-time again, the blandest of Democrats could be in control of government, and pundits could be heralding the revenge of the norms.
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The director Tina Satter turned this exercise in theater vérité, in which the blandest conversational clichés come loaded with unspecified menace, into a Kafka-like nightmare with a tension level worthy of Hitchcock.
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However, Edge of Tomorrow is the blandest of bland titles when it comes to a science fiction film, especially when you consider that the book it's based on is called All You Need Is Kill.
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"ME!" also garnered a lukewarm reception from critics who called it generic and bland, although as Swift's defenders are quick to point out, her lead single is traditionally the blandest and least representative song of the album.
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On the other hand, Duncan was always at his most interesting when he was a little creepy, and the show's insistence on giving him a blameless hero's exit means that he's leaving as the blandest version of himself.
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Billed as the world's biggest singing competition with a global television audience of 903 million, Eurovision was lifted this year by a guest appearance by Madonna and enough glitz, plumes of fire and special effects to invigorate even the blandest Europop.
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Because in gussying up a thing born of pure practical genius, we've obscured the true purpose of the potato chip—which is to be the blandest, streamlined-est, most transparent way to deliver unadulterated salt and fat into your mouth.
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Easily one of the blandest video game characters ever to have made it through a Capcom brainstorm, Redfield's the guy who eats eight square meals a day, prepares his chicken breasts and broccoli at home and brings his food into work in little Tupperware boxes.
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. For an awards ceremony that has consistently prided itself on awarding only the blandest artists and presenting the driest, most sober banter, last night's Brits arrived with a certain level of trepidation that very nearly felt like excitement.
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If you haven't heard this show, it can turn even the blandest talk radio into a fantasy wonderland—it was almost innocent in a way that has been lost to maniacs on YouTube ranting about racist conspiracies and how putting things into the water can turn frogs gay.
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It comes across as the safest and blandest sort of performed "antagonism," and it looks especially feeble in the shadow of Laure Prouvost, whose pavilion centers on a thrilling video of Frenchmen, migrants and animals all on the move together, forming a new community as they charge southeast from Paris to Venice.
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But she also feels for women like Manuel's mother, Brigit ("My knees are broken with praying for you"), and the father of a murdered girl who describes her in the blandest of terms on the witness stand because he can't bring himself to share his memories of the "real daughter" the public knows only as a mangled corpse.
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She also points out that the marketing is "about" women's bodies without getting into any of the details — it's about fertility without showing a body that's been through childbirth — and that it is clearly for a specific group of women who can afford very expensive things and are used to a style of marketing that asserts their self-sufficiency and intelligent decision-making, the blandest tenants of 21st century corporate feminism.
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Or maybe, just maybe, that's how you engineer interesting stories for television and movies: Different people, different perspectives (you know ... strangers have their lives taped ... to find out what happens ... when people stop being polite ... and start getting real.) Here's how not to do it, though: 32 consecutive seasons of the blandest, most forgettable mannequins and womannequins that middling America has to offer, people about as appealing and memorable as a drunken revolving sushi bar meal at closing time.
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A reredos is an altar screen which holds multiple portraits of saints. They have both decorative and practical purposes: while luxurious, they have the effect of drawing an observer's eye towards the most important—but often blandest—feature of the church, the altar.
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Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw of Zero Punctuation ranked it fifth on his list of the Blandest Games of 2017. The game was nominated for "Performance in a Comedy, Supporting" with Eliza Schneider as Agent Rama, and for "Writing in a Comedy" at the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards.
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Shayne of Flopstar Reviews felt that the video featured "the blandest white people party of all time" with scenes "of white people at a picnic getting turnt on soda pop and waving their arms to pop/rock." The video was nominated for "World's Best Video" at the 2014 World Music Awards.
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Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian gave the album three stars out of five, saying that a "soulful, lover-man tenor, which was made for sweaty R&B; action" had been "squandered on middle-of-the-road ballads", but concluding that "Leontiou's saving grace is a depressive edge that roughs up even the blandest tracks".
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Nintendo Powers Steve Thomason gave it a 4.0/10, criticizing its presentation and difficulty saying, "This [four-player brawler] lacks any sort of interesting hook, suffers from horrendous frame-rate issues, and sports some of the blandest backgrounds imaginable... You'll breeze through one level unscathed, then feel like you hit a brick wall the next".
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Monica Castillo writing in The Village Voice said it was "convoluted drama" and had " tepid routines". David Noh of Film Journal International thought it "could well rank as the blandest movie musical ever made." On the positive side Sandie Angulo Chen of Common Sense Media gave it three stars, saying the story was "both familiar and heartwarming".
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Q gave it 2 out of 5 stars and called it "her blandest record yet: it drifts from nondescript disco-pop and cloying R&B; to woefully ersatz glam stomp".Columnist. "Review: The Sellout". Q: 132. July 2010. However, The Boston Globes James Reed commended its production and wrote that it "sands off the edges that have been key to Gray’s appeal".
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In Game Informers Reader's Choice Best of 2017 Awards, fewer readers voted for the game for "Best Co-Op Multiplayer". The website also awarded the game for "Best Graphics", "Best Audio" and "Biggest Disappointment" in their 2017 Shooter of the Year Awards. Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw of Zero Punctuation ranked the game at No. 1 on his list of the Five Blandest Games of 2017.
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Grand grew up in the town of Lemont, Illinois, which he has "lovingly described as one of the 'blandest suburbs outside of Chicago'." Grand started writing music when he was 11 years old. After graduating from Lemont High School, Grand attended Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, for a year. He then returned to Chicago to enroll at the University of Illinois and later left to focus on his musical career.
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Before the release of With the Lights Out, a promotional EP entitled Selections from With the Lights Out was sent out to radio stations, featuring the songs "White Lace and Strange", "Blandest", "Lithium", "Heart-Shaped Box" and "You Know You're Right" from the box set. "Lithium" was also released as an exclusive iTunes downloadable single on November 22, 2004.Rasmus Holmen. "[NFC: The Internet Nirvana Fan Club]". Nirvanaclub.com.
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" Jim Schembri of 3AW praised Watts' "impressive performance" but remarked that the film "could actually have done with another half-hour putting more meat onto the bones of these underdeveloped chapters of her story. " Dominic Corry of flicks.co.nz called the film "bad in the blandest way possible" and lamented that "Watts is let down by the Mills & Boon-level script". Fionnuala Halligan of Screen Daily also criticised the writing, saying that Watts' "brave performance should not be under-estimated given the poverty of the dialogue and the pressure of the part.
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Jim Sterling, while analysing games often derided as "walking simulators", said that Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is a model of what not to do in this genre, such as by not shifting the tone of the game as it progresses, and by making the back-story more interesting than the game itself. He unfavorably compared it to Gone Home and The Stanley Parable. Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw of The Escapist called it the 4th blandest game of 2015, saying that it deserves the title of "walking simulator", and for how little it did to evolve the interactive story genre, comparing it unfavorably to The Stanley Parable as well.
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Writing for The Guardian, poet and novelist Michael Rosen found The English Roses to be heavier on the moralistic side rather than being ironic, which he felt was the norm for children's books. In the same article, author Francesca Simon felt the book "has no characters, no story and there is no tension, which is a problem." Both criticized Fulvimari's illustrations with Rosen describing them as "odious pictures". Emily Nussbaum of New York magazine found Binah's character was "the blandest, most passive good-girl on Earth, the opposite of Madonna" and felt that by writing the book, the singer was in a way admonishing her older provocative self.
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One of the best known sketches featured the cast "going out for an English" after a few lassis. They continually mispronounce the waiter's name, order the blandest thing on the menu (apart from one of them, who opts for the stronger option of a steak and kidney pie) and ask for 24 plates of chips. The sketch parodies English people "going out for an Indian" after drinking heavily, being rude to the waiter, demanding the spiciest thing available on the menu for show and ordering far too many papadums. This sketch was voted the 6th Greatest Comedy Sketch on a Channel 4 list show.
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Ken Hanke of the Mountain Xpress described the technical aspects of the film as "competent", but action locations as "blandest, least interesting settings imaginable". He continued, "I don’t know when I’ve ever seen a less interesting or more dramatically neutered movie," commenting specifically on many overlong simple action sequences which could have been easily trimmed. In a roundup of the best and worst films of 2008, Andrew Jefchak of the Grand Rapids Press labeled the film the "Worst inspirational feature ... which takes an important message about life and turns it into boring drivel through simplistic dialogue, terrible acting and unimaginative direction."Jefchak, Andrew (December 26, 2008).
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Shortly afterwards, Jim is sent on a solitary stakeout for a week in a remote woodland location, during which his senses start to re-emerge, primarily his sight and hearing. After his return to the city, his enhanced senses fully emerge, leaving him feeling disoriented, "stressed out" and drugged. He can see, hear, and smell things that no other person could, he can only handle the blandest of foods, and any barely-coarse materials leave him wishing to claw his skin off. He checks himself into a hospital, where he meets Blair Sandburg posing as Doctor McCoy (as it says on the stolen lab coat he wears) or Doctor McKay (as he pronounces it).
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The album met with generally mixed reviews from critics and it wasn't as successful as their debut album. It also received mixed reactions from fans on its release. Spin gave the album a 6/10, calling the tracks "both their best and blandest yet." Reviewer Barry Walters added, "The middle of the road was always their destiny, it seems, and they arrive with blatantly pleasant but character-free ditties." FMV Magazine's Dan Jenko commented that the second half of the album was a lot stronger than the first, saying that "It's frustrating that once again The Kooks’ obvious potential has seemingly not been fulfilled, but unlike their second effort, Konk, the record does have some redeeming qualities".
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During the break between the first and second test, New Zealand played in a four day practice match against an South Australia eleven at Adelaide Oval. Despite winning the toss, the South Australia were bowled out for 158 with Doull claiming six wickets. In response, they declared on 6/276 with Damion Reevees being the pick of the bowlers with 4/62 with leg-spinner Peter McIntyre not bowling after chipping his right forefinger while batting. After the New Zealand innings was closed during Day 3, South Australia reached 9/260 with James Brayshaw top scoring with 94 in the innings which took four hours in what The Age called it the 'blandest 247' at the end of Day 3.
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Yet they succeed in unframing our structured visual perception of reality and moving us out of that perception box, if we look closely enough embracing a meditative patience." Artnews magazine commented that Lohner and Carlson were "able to produce extremely meditative scenes, often using the blandest subject matter, such as a flock of geese or sheep aimlessly milling about in high-definition and high-key color." It further said that in some of the works, "there is the sense of a landscape brought to life, as the motions of sky and water are captured in tiny increments." The review called the 1990 work Manhattan Yellow Sky with Steam "a mesmerizing urban-scape, with yellowed wisps of vapor dancing among towering smokestacks.
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Anna Pickard of The Guardian described the programme as "an hour of commissioning genius", despite Stuart Heritage of the same publication arguing that "just the title is enough to put you off". In a separate article, Heritage voiced his belief that the programme saw Cole "discussing her life in the blandest possible terms while wearing a variety of impractical dresses". Rick Fulton of the Daily Record was complimentary of the programme as he compared the dance routine that accompanied "Parachute" to a routine from the programme Strictly Come Dancing. Alexandra Burke, who featured in the programme, praised Cole by complimenting her hairstyle and by stating that her performance had "gone up another level". Sian Brewis of the Leicester Mercury was critical of the programme; she claimed that it was an "hour-long plug for Chezza's [Cole’s nickname] album", branded Willoughby's questions "vacuous" and compared Cole's costumes to that worn by characters of Street Fighter II. Rachel Holmes, writing in The Guardian, was also critical of Cole's choice of attire and argued that the programme was uninformative.
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