Kate watched him go, observing with misgiving the bland assurance on the kind face.

Eventually everyone in the world would become expert at the modest words, kind smiles and bland assurance that gloved the iron hand of ambition.

Nothing infuriates me like the bland assurances of petty officials.

"Now the rains will come," she said with bland assurance.

But Congress showed itself content to accept the Administration's bland assurances that it was complying with the law.

Angrily but resigned, I stamped away from their bland assurances.

Her voice, which used to mimic the bland assurance of announcers and flight attendants, has opened up.

"We need something more than bland assurances or a short-term guarantee," the statement said.

He went on to repeat the Prime Minister's bland assurance that, far from experiencing poverty, most students were better off than they had ever been before.

"Of course," she answered at once, then was a little surprised at how easily the bland assurance was made.