anodyne

How To Use anodyne In A Sentence

• It does mean, though, that he runs the risk of smothering the most anodyne comment with the pillow of portent. Times, Sunday Times
• The sound effects - such as the perfect hollow pop every time Sara takes her pills - work in harmony with the images to convey the dull repetition and anodyne ritual that make up any addiction.
• Somehow this avoids being just another silly pop song with anodyne lyrics about love and happiness.
• At their suggestion I sent a complaint there and was rewarded with an anodyne standard letter which was obviously sent out to all complainants but which dealt with none of the points I raised.
• If the utterly mainstream, occasionally anodyne nature of the entertainer's work makes him hard to accept as an enormously significant black role model, so too does his apparent oblivion to racial politics.
• HoF II was designed by the Taylor Morrison company, a home builder specializing in anodyne subdevelopmental housing in the Southwest. Future Schlock
• Any pretext for action was a kind of anodyne, and she despatched her maid to the Farlows 'with a note asking if Miss Viner would receive her. The Reef; a novel
• Once in a while, anodyne comment emerges in the mainstream about the ‘dumbing down’ of news.
• Somehow, such a rationale seems to me like an anodyne offered to those who seek an existence of painless acceptance rather than an endless quest to reconcile seeming irreconcilables.
• There is a good deal of modal harmony, taken from Scandinavian folk music, which is comforting to the ear but far from anodyne.