(a.) Mild; soft; gentle; smooth and soothing in manner; suave; as, a bland temper; bland persuasion; a bland sycophant.
(a.) Having soft and soothing qualities; not drastic or irritating; not stimulating; as, a bland oil; a bland diet.
Example Sentences:
(1) For further education, this would be my priority: a substantial increase in funding and an end to tinkering with the form of qualifications and bland repetition of the “parity of esteem” trope.
(2) Reoperation was more frequent after valve replacement with bioprostheses (6.7% per patient year) than after valvuloplasty (4.3% per patient year) and after mechanical valve replacement (1.5% per patient year; P less than 0.02), and was necessitated mainly by residual or recurrent valve dysfunction after valvuloplasty, bland or infected periprosthetic leaks in mechanical valves and degradation of bioprostheses.
(3) "Everyone calls him the Socialist Worker Padre," one bland senior cleric told me with a sly and dismissive laugh.
(4) ABNORMALITIES OF THE CERVICAL EPITHELIUM ARE SET OUT IN TWO MAIN GROUPS: bland lesions which are regarded as unrelated to malignancy, and malign lesions which are considered as potential precursors of invasive carcinoma.
(5) Embolization with avitene, PVA and ethanol induced a more bland histological reaction than the one observed with IBCA.
(6) Sir Christopher Bland, the former BBC chairman, told the BBC News channel the allegations were "very serious" but warned against jumping to conclusions about Rippon stepping aside.
(7) Among pro-independence people there are widespread concerns that if the SNP moves too quickly on a referendum it will cast the choice in the often bland New Labour-ish terms it uses for everyday politics – and thus deprive Scotland of a crucial opportunity to discuss its future, as well as threatening their chances of winning.
(8) But blandness in public should not be mistaken for blandness of character, and there are signs that she is beginning to emerge from the passive role she has been playing.
(9) Most examples measure less than or equal to 0.5 cm and are composed of a partially encapsulated mass of bland Schwann cells and innumerable tiny axons arranged in interlacing fascicles.
(10) His neutralisation strategy has amounted to little more than bland statements of support and efforts to keep the NHS out of the news.
(11) He is a regular panellist on comedy news quizzes, and reaches for Wodehouse in depicting 70s foreign secretary Lord Home "playing Lord Emsworth to Heath's Empress of Blandings".
(12) Pathologic examination of the orbital breast metastases revealed two types: an adenocarcinomatous pattern with nests of pleomorphic malignant appearing cells and a histiocytoid variant with bland, large cells similar to histiocytes.
(13) Unfortunately, the commercials are so bland and empty that they’re almost certainly doomed to failure.
(14) Much of the time he sounds bland, monotonal, bobbing gently along.
(15) The frequency of major events during follow-up (thromboembolism, anticoagulant related hemorrhage, bland perivalvular leak and prosthetic valve endocarditis) were similar, but the frequency of primary tissue valve failure was markedly different for the two valves (1.1% per patient-year for Ionescu-Shiley valves and 5.9% for the Hancock valve).
(16) A bland vasculopathic process resulting from metabolic or immunologic disturbances appears to be the best explanation for this new syndrome, which has previously been recognized only in Japan.
(17) The anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (Bland-White-Garland Syndrome) is a rare congenital malformation reported to occur in 0.25-0.5% of all congenital cardiac anomalies.
(18) He recommends not a bland and stimulus-free environment, but one whose elements are unobtrusive and unambiguous.
(19) David Bell will be online this afternoon at 4.15pm to answer your points at www.EducationGuardian.co.uk Changing faces of Ofsted Stewart Sutherland 1992-1994 Sutherland was criticised for a slow start and bland inspections.
(20) Two deceptively benign-appearing, unclassifiable but very similar fibromyxoid sarcomas characterized histologically by bland, innocuous-appearing fibroblastic cells and a swirling, whorled growth pattern are presented.
Underwhelming
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Clearly underwhelmed, Pochettino's haste to board Southampton's flight south was such that he swerved post-match media duties.
(2) There could be no complaints, however, when he and the again underwhelming Moses were withdrawn at half-time and the changes sparked an immediate improvement.
(3) Taylor, a sixty-something man with a neatly trimmed beard and a palpable pride in his business, has made "a couple of small sales" so far today, but footfall in the town is pretty underwhelming, and, in the market, almost non-existent.
(4) That cameo seemed horribly emblematic of a thoroughly underwhelming opening half which ended unadorned by a single shot on target, but almost imperceptibly something was shifting, and Klopp’s demeanour slowly shifted from jovially laid-back to scratchy and irritable.
(5) Levy has noted that the club are just two points worse off than they were at the corresponding point of last season but it is a measure of Tottenham's progress over recent years – they have finished in the top five every season since 2009-10 – that the currentcampaign has come to feel underwhelming.
(6) Your even more underwhelming UK holiday photos Read more Greg Dewhurst, a meteorologist at the Met Office, said Britain would start to feel the burn on Monday, with temperatures peaking on Wednesday in the high 20s and almost breaking 30C in some places.
(7) The Sun report that Bournemouth are also interested in signing the 22-year-old midfielder whose time in Rome has been underwhelming to say the least.
(8) So we’ve decided to call it The Grand Tour .” Ex-Top Gear trio Clarkson, Hammond and May to launch DriveTribe website Read more May said he was underwhelmed by the name.
(9) While we do expect some significant strength in the top two to three spots in 2015,” he wrote, “we are not convinced that the overall slate is going to drive performance that is significantly better than what we have generally seen over the past four years.” He also fears that the rise in superhero blockbusters is going to lead to disaster for some studios, in the same way that a wider pool of animated films has led to some casualties, with underwhelming receipts for Penguins of Madagascar and Mr Peabody & Sherman most recently.
(10) Yesterday, David Cameron pushed things along , acknowledging that boosting Holyrood’s status would reopen big questions for England, and making reference to last year’s report by the McKay commission – a plan that offered a somewhat underwhelming vision of “compromise rather than conflict”, but set out a future in which: “Decisions taken in the Commons which have a separate and distinct effect for England (or England-and-Wales)” would largely “be taken only with the consent of a majority of MPs sitting for constituencies in England (or England-and-Wales).” As is usually the case with such texts, most of it was couched in terms of deadened officialspeak.
(11) Some authorities, and several newspaper leader writers, have claimed him as our Galileo or our Einstein; others have been notably underwhelmed.
(12) Although he previously spent time away from the south coast during another,underwhelming, loan stint at Hull, Ramírez - who suffered a nasty injury against Brighton - remains a Southampton player.
(13) Voters looking for further nuance might have been left a little underwhelmed, not least by the expectation that world-famous analytic philosophers tend not to rely on anything as touchy feely as intuition.
(14) Hermione H oby's fine, if slightly underwhelmed, words Savages – Silence Yourself You can hear echoes of the music that inspired them … but what's striking is how easily Savages slip the moorings of their influences and come up with something fresh.
(15) The first, on a “remastered” version from 1999, sounded underwhelming: compressed, light on bass, palpably small.
(16) Campaigners including Labour Behind the Label, War on Want and Made in Europe believe the international response to the incident has been underwhelming, with a compensation fund for victims of the disaster remaining less than half full.
(17) And so Tony Blair should not have been surprised when politicians and publishers stood underwhelmed by his decision to call his memoir, the book that sparked the biggest political bidding war in British political history, The Journey.
(18) We want everyone to have the chance to win the sort of money most people can only dream of, unless they are a banker or a Euro MP.” Underwhelmed by the EU referendum?
(19) Hearing that the Conservatives have been holding their Spring Forum at Cheltenham this weekend, you may have assumed that this normally underwhelming political event has been taking place somewhere in the heart of the Gloucestershire spa town itself.
(20) eurozone GDP “Inventories have likely shaved off a bit of growth in the second quarter, but this actually bodes well for the second half, as industrial orders remain strong according to the European commission’s business survey.” European stocks regaining some of the week’s losses after news that the Greek parliament approved a third multibillion-euro bailout deal offset the underwhelming GDP figures.