Word: nondescriptive
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...with the sniper perch built into the trunk. They must have slept soundly, since they didn't hear federal agents and police creeping up on all sides, armed with submachine guns. Appropriately, they were seized in the same benign setting in which they had allegedly stalked their victims--a nondescript parking lot off a highway outside Washington. It is hard to imagine what castles of delusion came crashing down when the tactical team smashed in the windows of the Caprice and dragged the two out into the nighttime chill. The air was filled with screams, but witnesses could not discern...
That’s where Harvard’s nondescript offensive and defensive linemen were milling—nondescript not only because of the nature of their position, but also because they’re almost entirely...
Shea opens a nondescript box on top of another filing cabinet...
Academy Award-winner Marvin Hamlisch has assembled a score of nondescript pastiche; he imitates the various types of music appropriate to the 1950s setting without bringing any soul to them. A man whose best work was relatively schmaltzy and oft remembered more for the lyrics written by others, Hamlisch just seems ill-suited to the project. A better choice for producing jazzy period music with dark undertones might have been the young composer Jason Robert Brown...
...dumb (The Simpsons), even abusive (Titus). On My Wife and Bernie Mac, black dads don Ward Cleaver's authority-figure sweater. Wayans' grouchy suburban dad Michael Kyle is firm and in control--though, Wayans says, "a bit of a Neanderthal." Creatively, My Wife is one of TV's most nondescript sitcoms, from its familiar suburban-family premise to its plain-as-macaroni title, but its very blandness makes TV's skittishness about black comedy seem all the sillier...