monotonous

• “This man says the city is much cooler in summer than the country: that spring visits the city earlier: that what we call the monotonous row of houses in a city street is far more beautiful than the irregularity of the country.”

  Robert Browning: How to Know Him

• “If we could only carry that clear conviction with us day by day into the little things of life, what different things these, which we call the monotonous trifles of our daily duties, would become!”

  Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII

• “Chopin he has the courage to write: "Had Professor Niecks applied the term monotonous to No. 12 we should have been more ready to indorse his opinion, as, although great power is manifested, the very 'sameness' of the form of the arpeggio figure causes a certain amount of monotony to be felt.”

  Chopin : the Man and His Music

• “The thin monotonous wail that convulsed her scrawny frame drove her mother, Esperance, to desperation.”

  The Huffington Post: World Vision: Malnutrition Starves Children, Economies of a Lifetime of Potential

• “If you don't like the word monotonous, I'll say dull and stupid.”

  The Peril Finders

• “Anyone who has ever spent an afternoon mowing lawns knows the downsides of the job: walking in monotonous straight lines with the filthy emissions of a two-stroke engine in their face, and a subway’s worth of noise to contend with.”

  Chris Worrall | Inhabitat

• “According to Brande, it’s quite normal for our “genius” to assert itself when we’re involved in monotonous, repetitive tasks.”

  2006 December « Becca’s Byline

• “He has good posture and clean lines, but it's all kind of monotonous aka the opposite of a cha-cha.”

  Dancing with the Stars Episode Recap: Monday, Oct. 24, 2011

• “Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and laughed.”

  Fictionaut: Sole Music

• “Love is like the ocean: seen superficially, or in haste, it is called monotonous by common souls, whereas some privileged beings can pass their lives in admiring it, and in finding, ceaselessly, the varying phenomena that enchant them.”

  The Vendetta

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