Blandly

I glanced at the Duke, to find his small blue eyes creased against the sun, his expression blandly impenetrable. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)

Assessment was trotted out to replace Aptitude, though it did little more than render the word Test blandly redundant. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

"Permit me to say," put in blandly Mr. De Saussure, – "that I am rejoiced to find I did not understand you at a former conversation we held together. ❋ Unknown (1869)

By the time Dick had come to that part of the poem, wherein the bard describes as blandly as though he were recording a dance at the opera, or a harmless bout of bucolic cudgelling at a village fair, that bloody and ruthless part of our campaign, with the remembrance whereof every soldier who bore a part in it must sicken with shame — when we were ordered to ravage and lay waste the ❋ Unknown (1852)

By the time Dick had come to that part of the poem, wherein the bard describes as blandly as though he were recording ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

The new launch vehicle, dubbed blandly the Space Launch System, would consist of a first stage that uses up to five space shuttle main engines. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And he has a point: The whole collection looks kind of blandly polished, each piece resembling something already on the racks at a department store, albeit an upscale one. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“It wasn’t Gerdi, it was Jill from the Rescue, and she drives slower than you do,” Cammy called blandly. ❋ Jodi Lynn Anderson (2010)

On the second day of his opening address, on behalf of a shareholder class action against AWB, John Sheahan SC told the Federal Court in Sydney yesterday it was remarkable how executives from the Australian company would "blandly" discuss deliberately disguising payments to Jordanian trucking company Alia as business transactions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"blandly" as if to suggest I am responding inappropriately to these posts but I continue to say that rather than be dogmatic about these issues when I do not yet know the "dogma" I am taking what I consider a reasonable course that I am at a loss to understand why it appears to cause such disapproval from you and some others. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They are terse but not anonymous: Both men express themselves not in the blandly corporate tones of an encyclopedia entry but in their own distinctive voices. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)

Obama blandly replied that this was covered in his comprehensive immigration bill, which Republicans were holding up. ❋ Peggy Noonan (2011)

That's more apparent from the musician's live persona than her recordings, which often blandly rework motifs established by such pop-folk singer-songwriters as Laura Nyro and Joni Mitchell. ❋ Click Track (2010)