11.   Director-writer Sande Zeig and co-writer Monique Wittig aim for lesbian noir, but their noir elements are splattered on a largely blank canvas.

12.   For Gingrich, the speakership is a blank canvas to be painted in colors of his own choosing.

13.   He had something else in mind, portraits that looked more like fashion photography, taken against a blank canvas.

14.   His face, a blank canvas of pale flesh accented by circumflex eyebrows, has a disturbing, masklike aspect.

15.   I regard a blank canvas as a joke from beginning to middle to end.

16.   In this program, you start with a blank canvas.

17.   Indeed, the artists of El Paso tend to see the city as, pardon the expression, a blank canvas.

18.   It has become a kind of blank canvas, as well, layered with symbolism and inspiring intense passions and debate in this proudly Mexican-American city.

19.   Like a blank canvas, the garment encourages artistic individuality.

20.   Ms. Hampton now faces her own blank canvas, brush in hand.