Bee Wilson

The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.

British Journalist

Nancy Kress

Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.

American Writer

Pierre Loti

It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.

French Writer

Nev Schulman

If we don't hope, if we don't stay positive - at least about love, or finding love - then the rest of life becomes really just painful to think about, because for the most part, you know, day-to-day stuff is monotonous.

American Producer

Jasmin Bhasin

I think it is really important for all of us to take breaks because we get so bored with our daily monotonous lives. I feel we become robotic so it is important to break that vicious circle in which we get caught.

Indian Actress

Arjun Kapoor

As a host on TV, one has to engage the audience and contestants on the show. One has to bring a new element to their personality while hosting so that it doesn't look monotonous to the audience.

Indian Actor

Isabella Bird

To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to whom the pure, dry mountain air is the elixir of life.

English Explorer

Rani Mukerji

It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.

Sudha Chandran

The negative characters made me very popular but were getting too monotonous.

B. C. Forbes

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Scottish Journalist

Emphasizes a lack of diversity or change in a situation or activity.

Lack of Variety

Often used to express a negative feeling towards a boring or repetitive activity.

Negative Emotion

Can describe a person's monotonous approach in response to boredom or disinterest.

Response to Boredom

Relates to speech or sound; lacks inflection or varying tones.

Unchanging Pitch

Indicates absence of emotion or enthusiasm in voice or music.

Lacks Emotion

A monotonous sound may not keep people's attention and could cause disinterest.

Risk of Disengagement

Describes landscapes or backgrounds with little or no variation; can seem endless.

Visual Uniformity

Can make time seem to stretch, as the uniformity provides no markers of progress.

Feeling of Length

 and it's where we get the word harmony. Music was used as a form of medicine to treat illnesses and physical complaints, as a vital accompaniment to sporting contests, and as a means to keep workers in time as they toiled away on monotonous or menial tasks. One of the most important applications

Music and creativity in...

 with taming his more boisterous inmates, writing that the "monotonous steadiness, and not its severity...constitutes its terror," a quote many still agree with. And treadmills lasted in England until the late 19th century, when they were banned for being excessively cruel

The treadmill's dark and...

 but it's very monotonous and it provides you with a lot of time to think, and what do I do when I think? I get super uncomfortable because I have to focus on what's happening in my life. It was a long, long walk, and I started to think about some real serious things.

After the Avalanche:...

 What moved the needle was randomly assigning them to meet one student whose scholarship had been funded by their work. Now, instead of focusing on the monotonous process of making calls, they were absorbed in a meaningful purpose of helping to fund tuition.

Adam Grant: How to stop...

 and that challenge intrigued me. I began this sort of personal crusade against the mundane, because if there's one thing I've realized, it's that any career, even one as seemingly glamorous as surf photography, has the danger of becoming monotonous.

Chris Burkard: The joy...

 the work they do has none of the characteristics that get us up and out of bed and off to the office every morning? How is it that we allow the majority of people on the planet to do work that is monotonous, meaningless and soul-deadening?

The way we think about...

 so simplistic and devoid of character? Well, it turns out, I'm not the only one who's alarmed by what's happening in our towns and cities. There's research showing that these buildings aren't just simplistic and monotonous.

The Case for Radically...

 all of the same length, each separated by periods. Things would get monotonous very fast. In that situation, semicolons bring fluidity and variation to writing by connecting related clauses.

How to use a semicolon -...

 who rolls a rock up a mountain all day only to find the boulder rolled down at night. Don't live a life which is monotonous, mediocre, meaningless. Be spectacular! --

East vs west -- the...

 How do you imagine the life of a scientist? Boring and monotonous, spending endless hours in the lab with no social interaction?

Monotonous