Word: blander
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lonesome Dove, by contrast, was perhaps the most realistic picture of the Old West TV has ever presented, its often shocking bursts of violence suffused with a lyrical stoicism. Return to Lonesome Dove, however, is less a sequel than a lazy recycling of scraps from older, blander westerns. Captain Woodrow Call (Jon Voight replacing Tommy Lee Jones) makes a second trek from Texas to | Montana, this time to drive a herd of horses, while his unacknowledged son (Rick Schroder) goes to work for a powerful cattle baron. In place of the hardscrabble poetry of the original is a meandering frontier...
...this is Harvard. Most everyone had complaints. A common criticism of the mixing of white and milk chocolates was that the result was a blander candy. Raj Gajwani noted, "White chocolate doesn't have the same kick...Kisses are chocolate [as it's] meant to be. Chocolate isn't meant to be white...
Network shows could get blander, while teen books get gorier...
...find it. But as production for the new season gets under way, the impact of the new label is shaping up as substantial, maybe even crippling. The Clean Up Your Network campaign may help make TV safer for kids, but it will almost certainly make network programming even blander than it already...
There are other areas that can be examined. All satisfactory art can be appreciated at different levels. If we continue to keep out elitist, private forms of information, there's a way that film-making will become blander and blander. I don't want to be a private cineaste who is only seen in clubs and university campuses. However difficult [my films] are, I'm determined to be seen by a larger audience...