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  • Edmond was a competent actor, a tall, bland-faced man who took to makeup well.

    Nutrition 2010

  • For behind these pen-names — eighteen or nineteen of them — stood a single bland-faced, sharp-tongued teenager, whose real name was Cyril Kornbluth.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Explorers - C. M. Kornbluth Blue Tyson 2008

  • For behind these pen-names—eighteen or nineteen of them—stood a single bland-faced, sharp-tongued teenager, whose real name was Cyril Kornbluth.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • Now they are just accustomed to those bland-faced party people give the same old propaganda talks all the time.

    WE’RE NOT CHINA! Taiwan 2005

  • And the very thought of counselling, of having some bland-faced professional sit there, hearing without a flicker of their eyes everything that she had done that night, and then, with the same dispassion in their voice as in their eyes, asking her why she felt this was a trauma, and whether her other sexual relationships had been traumatic.

    Purchased for Revenge James, Julia 2006

  • And the very thought of counselling, of having some bland-faced professional sit there, hearing without a flicker of their eyes everything that she had done that night, and then, with the same dispassion in their voice as in their eyes, asking her why she felt this was a trauma, and whether her other sexual relationships had been traumatic.

    Purchased For Revenge James, Julia 2006

  • Edmond was a competent actor, a tall, bland-faced man who took to makeup well.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • He was vaguely familiar to Tess, a bland-faced man of thirty-five or so.

    Butchers Hill Lippman, Laura 1998

  • Another -- Maria, the bland-faced, grandmotherly woman who'd sat at the entrance the day of my first visit --- gave him a neck rub and fondled his penis.

    Blood Test Kellerman, Jonathan 1986

  • I see only a bland-faced, rather plain-looking woman who couldn't have been exciting.

    Seeds of Yesterday Andrews, V. C. 1984

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