Word: blandly
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...BLAND FACE OF EVIL...
...still active mind. At first glance he appears to be a pretty standard and uninteresting type; you would pass him in the street without giving him a second thought. If you spoke to him, as documentary director Amy Berg lengthily did, you would find him to be rather bland and affectless, not particularly forthcoming about his long and astonishing career...
...might have overlooked these glaring circumcisions from Hornby’s work if there had been a single memorable tune in the show. Instead, each song in the score regurgitates the same chord progression and is littered with irredeemably bad lyrics. Rob and his girlfriend, Laura, portrayed by the bland Jenn Colella, sleep with new people shortly after breaking up and concurrently sing about it—he, “I slept with someone who slept with Lyle Lovett” and she, “I slept with someone who handled Kurt Cobain’s intervention...
Though these two teenagers are painted vividly, they also seem to be very boring people who don’t show any character growth. At first I took this to be a failing on the author’s part, but upon reflection, Schrefer has accurately depicted the bland personalities of many who want for nothing (except higher SAT scores...
...Strange, isn't it, how the powerful get short-circuited from their power base. Too often, people whose job it is to lead by listening have the tendency to go politically deaf in times of crisis - to proceed as if nothing had happened, to sleepwalk in a state of bland or numb denial...