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...Monsieur (Madame?) le President must be straight-laced and straight-faced. Anything else would be a sign of weakness. Yet again, these wannabe pundits have it backward. If anything, what this political race needs is more emotion. With the airbrushed, carefully coiffed Edwards on one side and the spectacularly bland Obama on the other, it was a breath of fresh air to see the Iron Lady—or anybody, for that matter—do something other than flash her pearly whites for CNN. In this era of personality politics, elections have devolved into debutante balls where composure...
...last move to rebrand themselves, candidates rolled out new slogans for their campaign tours. The result? Bland rhetoric and funky punctuation for all. [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] TOUR TITLE TRANSLATION HILLARY CLINTON Big Challenges, Real Solutions?Time to Pick a President Generic message in multiple parts?just give us the nomination already BARACK OBAMA Stand for Change Stop stealing our theme, Hillary FRED THOMPSON The Clear Conservative Choice: Hands Down! Who are you calling lazy? We have exclamation points!!! JOHN EDWARDS America Rising: Fighting for the Middle Class John Edwards will punch...
...adopted home, and he deftly conjures an American landscape of rolling, wide-open spaces spangled by brawny, glimmering rivers ("This sight beats the Yangtze," Pingping gushes, while she gazes at the "mighty and vast" Hudson, just outside New York City). There are also decent depictions of bland, sleepy McSuburbs like Lilburn, Ga. - a typical bedroom community of electricians, engineers, stucco churches and donut shops near Atlanta, where the family eventually moves after buying the Gold Wok, a local Chinese restaurant...
...beats aren’t all bad either; “Rec Room Therapy” and the funk-tastic “Supa GFK” are both pretty phenomenal tracks. Most of the other songs don’t have bad beats; they’re just bland, not even worthy of mention. Like the album as a whole, the production and the beats are solid, but lackluster, like that girl or guy you settle for at a party because all the really good ones are just out of reach. The single most disappointing feature...
Nothing has dented Rudd's popularity. The revelation earlier this year that, in 2003, he visited a strip club in Manhattan with New York Post editor Col Allan served only to color in a somewhat bland personality; to many, he was now a flesh and blood Aussie male. Nor did the release during the campaign of YouTube footage showing Rudd tasting his own earwax during a parliamentary debate in 2001 (he claims he was scratching his chin!) do him any discernible harm...