monotones

These voices, which we call monotones disappear almost entirely when pupils are trained to use the head voice.

The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard

I also dug into my overflowing strip scrap bin, and made some string squares (or rather, started) in monotones - this is something I've thought of doing for a while, but just not got around to.

Last post for a few days... katelnorth 2007

I also dug into my overflowing strip scrap bin, and made some string squares (or rather, started) in monotones - this is something I've thought of doing for a while, but just not got around to.

Archive 2007-08-01 katelnorth 2007

I, eventually, found the monotones to be soothing.

Think Progress » GOP New Orleans Congressman: Health Reform ‘At A Par With Slavery’ Because Of Nonexistent Abortion Coverage 2010

The graphics in these videos are simplistic, and the voices are typically computerized monotones — it's a long way from the golden age of animation.

Animation Nation Ellen Gamerman 2011

His constantly sunglassed face lacks any affect, his mouth hangs open, he raps in the most boring of monotones over recycled Led Zeppelin samples.

District-9 and Viral Marketing darkerblogistan 2009

The music of dropping change dragged the waitress from the back where she'd been chatting with someone in dire monotones.

Vitamins 2010

Someone has called it “an excuse to be meticulous”, but one could just as easily call it an excuse to love things—physical, tangible things that you love in a most physical way by touching and hearing and smelling. everything in the office … limited to simple monotones

Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Infiniti Brand Journey: Flower Robotics pre-interview 2010

I passed the hours of that first day in the main auditorium, with only a thirty-minute respite for lunch, in a stultifying atmosphere of interminable speeches delivered in dry monotones by men who possessed no oratorical gifts whatsoever some with accents so thick as to render the mother tongue unrecognizable on topics equally dull and arcane.

The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

Done in newsprint monotones, its pile-up of limbs, hands and throats is so densely patterned as to present something like a puzzle or jigsaw.

Picasso: Peace and Freedom 2010