a past and future stretching far beyond the anodyne riffs to which he confined it

anticipating another anodyne meeting like all the previous ones

an anodyne against loneliness

This anodyne-­sounding platitude belies something darker.

That sounds anodyne, but

the saturation of the reading public by a 'mass', profit-hungry, anodyne culture

Technocrats placate through anodyne consensus

a weirdly totalizing kind of centrism: keep your political ideas as anodyne as your business aphorisms

They looked up the word "anodyne" to confirm that it originally meant free from or alleviating pain. Only later did i come to mean insubstantial, uninteresting, or unimportant.

Defined merely as the capacity to affect others, power is an anodyne concept, lacking sufficient purchase to single out significant instances as important.

Although he is often depicted as an anodyne moralist, a precursor to multicultural liberalism, King was actually a visionary whose politics became increasing radical in tandem with the movement he led.

the rise of an activist left that had no patience for the anodyne neoliberal nostrums of free trade and enlightened multicultural management

it describes the everyday experiences of people far from areas traditionally associated with America’s Long Wars—thereby implicating our own anodyne lives in the steady militarization of our common world

the choice is not between a virulent racism and an anodyne diversity; and even if it were, criticism of the latter should not cease

pain belongs in therapy, fortified by the anodyne paintings and muted by the padded walls

being a novelist, even one whose name was o the lips of every literary saloniste and cocktail party-goer, no ticket to dignity and no anodyne to status anxiety

the cheerless challenge of a Schopenhauer. His work forces them to struggle hard to make their vision seem anything more than anodyne consolation.

Another anodyne would obviously be to widen the access road and make it two-way.

less innocuous than Rooney’s politically anodyne writing is her inflated reception

mirrors processes of adolescent self-definition, functioning as an anodyne of sorts to infantile narcisissm, refusing to look beyond the borders of its own importance

utterly anodyne texts