These anodyne remarks were interpreted by Beijing-owned newspapers as "fanning the flames" of discontent.
Once again, he was absent, leaving his anodyne assistant coach, Aitor Karanka, to field media questions.
"Hierarchy of victimhood" is one, very anodyne way of describing the forces at work.
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Much like the man himself, the content there is useful, but mostly comprising anodyne policy statements.
Next, there was the somewhat anodyne - if substantively incorrect - written testimony by US Army Gen.
Klaus Kertess, in 1995, was more cautious, included more paintings and was criticised for an anodyne show.
Compare the antiseptic, anodyne, and almost pro-forma descriptions of Bahrain with just some of what has been said about Syria.
But it might, because so many of our billionaires, having been raised in comfortable middle-class families, are so annoyingly anodyne.
The specific cause of the latest firestorm is a rather anodyne presentation McFaul gave at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
As I said on the 10 o'clock news last night, it is not clear why investors should be so thrilled by such an anodyne statement.
Through it all, there remained an anodyne constancy about the songs.
Some of the cast interviews also disappoint, wandering into the anodyne.
At the latest round it refused even to issue an anodyne joint statement, lest this be deemed to accord its Tibetan interlocutors some sort of official status.
The lodging industry was an anodyne place when Morgans opened.
Is National Journal--or perhaps Cook's social circle or his home--really populated by such grim women that he'd have to worry about giving offense by retelling such an anodyne old joke?
Most politicians' blogs tend to degenerate into anodyne travelogues.
While many observers are concerned about the lack of progress, they're also concerned that the only way for everybody to get out of Rio on schedule will be to agree something completely anodyne.
Our hero contemplates himself in the hallway mirror or waters the plants or engages in other some other anodyne activity which serves merely to distract him from doing what he claims he wants to do.
This diverse picture fits with previous research conducted by University College, London, which similarly found both positive accounts of records being "more thorough and focused" and negative ones that they were becoming "less detailed and more anodyne".
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Is it possible that Barclays' board has been misled by Anthony Salz's urbane manner and establishment background into thinking that his review of the bank's business practices will deliver an answer to them which is comforting and anodyne?
The Chief Justice, as the leader of the federal judiciary, is obligated to prepare an annual report, which historically has been a fairly anodyne document a set of modest requests to Congress, like faster confirmation of judges or new construction funds for courthouses.
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