Word: tastelessness
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...guide also has high praise for Sir Freddie Laker and his pioneering, price-cutting Skytrain, "the most exciting development on the hitherto complacent transatlantic travel scene." The crews are smart and thoughtful, the meals attractively priced. "But, alas," reports Ronay, "it's the familiar story of dry meat, tasteless, watery vegetables, gray potatoes or a new horror, rubbery scrolls of pasta (and eaten with plastic cutlery at that...
...America R.F. D., what Walt Disney is to puerile pubescents, and what cocaine is to the Studio 54 crowd--Pinocchio's pizza is to me. Fair Harvard, can't you grant one last wish to an embittered senior, before he ventures off into that frozen wasteland, that tasteless tundra, of Gino's shake 'n bake pizza...
British Novelist Margaret Drabble has described the Eurocurrencies as ''colorless, odorless, tasteless, unspendable money that passes in hieroglyphics through computers from one part of the globe to another...
...point the movie comes to a halt so that we can go on a supposedly comic helicopter ride. There are also pointless interludes in which the hero visits his humorless grandfather (Lee Strasberg) at an old-age home; these scenes swing wildly between sentimental clichés and tasteless jokes about senility...
...empathize with all the people he writes about. He does not try to understand why a nouveau riche black Kenyan has two freezers (which she never uses), whisky at every meal, gold-painted nails, and an expropriated mansion too large for her needs. He simply finds her ludicrous and tasteless...