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...The two lead characters seem so bland that you struggle to understand what they see in each other....
...Inside the house, the register stays wilfully bland, until it doesn’t. Words are stretched to the far reaches of their meaning. This interview, the agents stress, is “voluntary”....
...Putin opens with a bland statement in Russian before zeroing in approvingly on Stephen King, HSBC’s chief economist, and his newly published book, When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence....
...Nowadays, everything is so bland and over-considered. An unforgettable place I’ve travelled to in the past year is the desert area around Lake Los Angeles, where we shot our latest campaign....
...As to the abilities of the new owners, led by an unknown businessman called Dominic Chappell, he offered only bland assurances....
...For the interiors, Denz recruited a woman who you might imagine to clash with Lalique’s concept of show-don’t-tell glamour, Tina Green, the Monaco-dwelling wife of Topshop billionaire Sir Philip Green....
...“We want flexibility without having to think, ‘Oh, if Ikea doesn’t produce this, then we can’t have it,’” Tina Edmundson, Marriott’s global officer for luxury and lifestyle brands, tells me....
...When I came to work as a customer service assistant at Snaresbrook Tube station last summer, the room to the side of the westbound platform was completely bland....
...Especially if we wrote using pen names made from breakfast puns like Blake Pudding, Tina Beans and Malcolm Eggs....
...The BBC is basically bland but often slips over to the left – you always know which way it’s going to go.” Opinionated broadcasting may come quite soon....
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