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  • Monotony is best battled through others - which way you invite them into your life is probably not so terribly essential as long as the contact is physically there and not just via phone or email.

    "The mental and diva's hands..." greygirlbeast 2010

  • Reversing the Monotony is hosting a 50 Followers Contest where two winners will each have a choice from a dozen titles.

    Links to Book Giveaways and Even a Kindle Giveaway 2010

  • Naturalness, or at least seeming naturalness, as was explained in the chapter on "Monotony," is greatly to be desired, and a continual change of tempo will go a long way towards establishing it.

    The Art of Public Speaking Dale Carnagey 1906

  • The City of Dreadful Monotony, the East End is often called, especially by well-fed, optimistic sightseers, who look over the surface of things and are merely shocked by the intolerable sameness and meanness of it all.

    THE GHETTO 2010

  • If the East End is worthy of no worse title than The City of Dreadful Monotony, and if working people are unworthy of variety and beauty and surprise, it would not be such a bad place in which to live.

    THE GHETTO 2010

  • Monotony also exists on the southernmost stretch of Florida's Highway 1 through the Florida Keys.

    America's Scariest Highways 2010

  • Evocative Monotony isn't about the story -- not the plot, not even so much the characters -- as much as it is about the emotional effect of the prose.

    quick book review: Justine Larbalestier's LIAR hradzka 2010

  • This is not because the book is terrible, but because Larbalestier has a writing style that I've seen a lot of in recent years and find deeply annoying: Evocative Monotony.

    quick book review: Justine Larbalestier's LIAR hradzka 2010

  • Monotony also exists on the southernmost stretch of Florida's Highway 1 through the Florida Keys.

    America's Scariest Highways 2010

  • Monotony also exists on the southernmost stretch of Florida's Highway 1 through the Florida Keys.

    America's Scariest Highways 2010

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