31.   Our children, he says, are not blank slates.

32.   Perhaps he defined the season this time, too, with a shapeless silhouette, a blank slate of coloration and utterly noncommittal clothes.

33.   So, how do Americans go about filling that blank slate?

34.   Somehow, the old ones had all vanished, leaving a blank slate upon which new craters were slowly accumulating.

35.   Some saw the complex as brutally anti-urban in its treatment of the city as a blank slate.

36.   The Bob Jones visit took on an outsized importance because Bush has still been a relative blank slate ideologically.

37.   The difference is that Cuomo is no blank slate.

38.   The most impenetrable are fabricated from solid steel or aluminum plates, blank slates for graffiti that can intimidate after-hours passers-by.

39.   The package is drafted with such broad strokes that it effectively leaves a blank slate for the new cabinet to fill in.

40.   The one that says our children arrive in this world like a blank slate?