White Bread

I'm supportive of that: I don't want my kids to be white-bread like their mother. ❋ Katherine Rosman (2012)

The phrase describes the melding of patriotism with a kind of non-denominational white-bread deism: it encompasses both explicit religiosity in public life the references to God in our founding documents and less well-defined but still-powerful expressions, such as the idea that the 9/11 dead are martyrs. ❋ David Van Biema (2012)

Announcing Mr. Spivak's hire, the station's general manager, Jerry Nachman, told The Post: "Given the reluctance on our part to put the toothy, blond, stylistic, unoffensive, white-bread news talent on the air, this guy was destined." ❋ Unknown (2011)

The new version, by contrast, is a white-bread commodity musical that is transparently based albeit without acknowledgement on Sam Raimi's 2002 "Spider-Man" film. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)

It's the most homogenized of the three, a white-bread sandwich of inoffensiveness but lacking in color all the same. ❋ Alma Katsu (2011)

Oh please, everyone, have you seen that white-bread Bush, beige and pastel carpet mish-mash that the living quarters is now? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The white-bread Republicans are opposing the black president from nominating the Asian professor as judge. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And please quite sounding like Sarah Palin, as if the only “real” Americans are those living in white-bread suburbs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The former is the clean-cut ideal of an LDS doorbell-pusher: white-bread, well-groomed and safely asexual. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Just who is this guy with the plainest, most white-bread name in America? ❋ David Bourgeois (2010)

The culture needs changing: "When it comes to diversity, the NHL is not much different than Canada -- a white-bread majority with some who are still a little awkward with visible minorities," says David Shoalts in The Globe and Mail. ❋ Danny Groner (2011)