But surely there is something to hope for in a car journey that is neither violence nor blandness?
This track gives us hilarious lines and moments rivaling even the blandness of “Yesterday was Thursday…Today it is Friday.”
But his utterances on Sunday demonstrated only that his unerring talent for blandness will do little to get America back to work.
Conan was always the safe, mild-mannered choice to replace Jay Leno, who is blandness incarnate.
Her blandness was beyond all baiting; she professed she could be as still as a mouse.
"Oh, yes, you will," and he smiled with a blandness that was maddening.
Wetter suddenly assumed an air of great dignity and blandness.
She threw into her smile all the blandness her sex alone can command.
Jermyn had turned round his savage side, and the blandness was out of sight.
Then his eyes fell, and his tones changed to blandness once more.
1660s, from Italian blando "delicate," or Old French bland "flattering, complimentary," both from Latin blandus "smooth-talking, flattering, alluring," perhaps from PIE *mlad-, nasalized variant of *meld-, extended form of root *mel- (see melt). Related: Blandly; blandness. Latin also had blandiloquentulus "flattering in speech," which might have yielded a useful English *blandiloquent.
