Word: nondescription
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Moreover, Impulse successfully sets itself apart from ordinary thrillers by legitimately developing its plot and characters. For the most part, the characters in this film come across as real, and if the acting is somewhat nondescript, the tempo at least keeps things from getting dull. In fact, because relationships and conflicts crop up so intensely fast, it is easy initially to mistake Impulse for a drama rather than a psychological thriller...
There are quite a few virtues to Fly Away Home, most of them involving Daria herself. Initially nondescript, she begins to emerge as a witty and complex person, we discover her only as she discovers herself. Unfortunately, none of the other characters is nearly as well-conceived, with, the exception of Daria's new lover, Tom. However, most of the male characters. Ross in particular, are saddled with flat, awkward, cliched lines. Ross in constantly telling Daria that he needs his own space, needs to discover who he is, and that she is stifling...
...hurts a novel in which there is no adult male with substance enough to cast a shadow. This is true even for minor characters; an interracial couple friendly to Jessie and Carll consists of a black wife who is a shrewd, forceful lawyer and a white husband so nearly nondescript as to be invisible...
Remember the humble office calendar? It was just a ho-hum piece of desk equipment, a chintzy plastic tray with 365 nondescript pages on it. But now it is being replaced by the posh and prestigious desk diary. Bound in padded leather with the owner's name or initials stamped in gold on the cover and decorated with silken page markers, the best-bred datebooks look a bit like church hymnals, and they command nearly the same reverence...
Harvard officials picked the Science Center location for the fountain because the area is heavily trafficked, visible from several angles and is currently nondescript, Oommen said...