There is very little to break the familiarity and deadening monotony of Aslam's routine. |
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In fact, it's likely they may be tired and dreading the monotony of a step routine. |
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The Tallahassee cop decided to play a little gag to break the monotony of a training mission. |
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So short are the new trees that not a leaf breaks the angular monotony of gabled roof lines. |
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They watch football to lose themselves in the game and take a break from the everyday monotony of their lives. |
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It broke up the monotony of the water and it was interesting the way the boat appeared to nod as it rode the waves. |
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The sweetness of the vocal harmonies is tempered by the rawness of the guitar and the unremitting monotony of the drum patterns. |
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A bass voice, she adds, breaks the monotony of a song, bringing variety to the music. |
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She thought that maybe her mind was making the tone sound different so as to break the monotony but then the sounds began to make sense. |
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Cultural singularity cannot prevail in a commercial world because monotony conflicts with the consumer's natural curiosity. |
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Their high energy and simplicity make them easy to absorb and enjoy, but also bring them to the brink of monotony. |
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It's time to drift back into the soulless monotony of a five-day work week and inch closer and closer to death. |
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Bored with the monotony of her life, she takes her motor-less moped on short excursions. |
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The month of February had not helped ease to ease the monotony, with its never-ending gray days and gray, slushy snow. |
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To add to the monotony, they are a dullish hospital green, fabricated from porcelain-enameled steel. |
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And given their alfresco setting, they can also combat the mind-numbing monotony and confusion-inducing machinery of indoor strength training. |
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We want to break the monotony we have had in the past of always waiting for the main show in June. |
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After a brief flicker of excitement, the game has descended into monotony again. |
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Maybe I've just naturally reached the end of the time span that I'm able to cope with the sheer monotony of revision and exams. |
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Metallic fabrics broke the monotony of a restrained colour palette dominated by greys and blush pink. |
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Heavy lidded by the glare-filled monochromatic monotony of the landscape, soothed by the cool breath of the air-conditioner, we fell asleep. |
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To these I would add the frenetic monotony of motor racing commentary, and the nasal shrieking of the gee-gees callers. |
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Rather than relieve the monotony, the gratuitous rumpy pumpy merely deepened it. |
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To break the monotony, we hopped along the road in a westerly direction to pay a visit to a large furniture and furnishings store. |
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For a long time, it looks like this early '60s skin flick will merely be an excuse to show pert particulars for untold moments of monotony. |
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This will help them acquire useful skills without the monotony and tediousness of a regular school session. |
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Intermittently enjoyable segments punctuate the generally underwhelming monotony of this scatological would-be musical. |
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The secret to maintaining this balance over the long haul is to avoid letting moderation turn into monotony. |
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The beach is vast, uncrowded, with ample space for sunbathing, water sports and safe bathing with just enough gentle surf to ward off monotony. |
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This course gives the hardcore basics for surviving through the monotony of the undergraduate frosh existence. |
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Are the arts condemned, in short, whatever fertility one attributes to their techniques, to the eternal monotony of imitating the first models? |
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Cook's findings are presented in boringly linear sequence, fact following fact with mind-numbing monotony. |
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Rita is an outsider, a teenage misfit who sticks out all the more next to the monotony of the lives around her. |
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Pierce broke free from the shopping monotony of the holiday season to score 42 points, yank down 14 boards, drain 4 trifectas and swipe 4 balls. |
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I've tried MMOs before, and been thoroughly bored by the monotony that appears prevalent. |
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I could use a pen pal, and, you're right, it would break up the monotony of forwards and other useless emails. |
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This technological approach has created a certain blandness and monotony in the wines. |
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This was evident, too, in the terrible monotony of the subjects studied and the very limited variety of the sources used. |
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But the monotony renders it very difficult not to channel-hop or get up to make tea. |
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For modern acoustic guitar-wielding crooners, monotony lurks quickly between hushed major-chord strums. |
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All of these methods can break the muscle monotony of traditional routines and shock complacent bodyparts into new gains. |
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Midsummer vacations are eagerly awaited every year by all students with the sole objective of getting a break from the monotony of studies. |
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We see them dreaming of the splendours of imperialist Russia, but get very little sense of the monotony they wish to escape. |
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Still, while locked up, the inmates look for something to relieve the boredom and monotony of prison life. |
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As he headed out to his next class, he hoped the test scores, when they came out, would give him a break from the normal monotony of his life. |
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The football season was in full swing, and the monotony of routine has set in. |
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Each artist had her dress in a different colour avoiding the monotony of uniformity. |
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Occasionally breakdown to break the monotony of a long journey with frequent stops. |
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He had a penchant for framing shots through the spokes of the nearest wagon wheel, to break up the visual monotony of a scene. |
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Once again, contrast piping or tone-on-tone jacquard prints are a great way to break up the monotony of solids. |
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The unadulterated ecstasy of before is hardly a memory, and the extremeness of his mood swings is now a dullness that consumes him in unchanging monotony. |
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Varying the instrumental accompaniment can help avoid musical monotony. |
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Regressing into a trance-like state as I threw myself back into the mindless world of typing numbers, I began to feel a little woozy at the monotony of it all. |
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Festivities at Christmas, Easter, and May Day, at the end of ploughing and the completion of harvest, relieved the monotony of the daily round of labor. |
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The voice-over narration feels, for the most part, unnecessary and irritating, and the maddening slowness of enunciation and the monotony of intonation feel tired and false. |
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As a result, a sense of mellifluent monotony is achieved and paired with an unmistakable improvisatory quality that characterizes most Greek folk music. |
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A couple of moments might make you jump but overall it's a promise the film just can't keep as tension quickly fades into a tone of general monotony. |
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Life's fleeting nature, as well as the monotony of it, is apparent in every frame. |
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A great tasting meal replacement breaks the monotony of your diet. |
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It will break the daily monotony of riding on cramped and airless trains. |
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The tedious monotony of his job did not deter him from being innovative. |
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We all know how easily innocence is lost, how simple it is to thoughtlessly embrace cynicism and the humdrum monotony of what we call everyday life. |
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She breaks the monotony of ironing, cooking and dressing and undressing her husband by using red lipstick, a red apron, but the wearing down process finally takes its toll. |
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I barely even notice the battle anymore through the deadly monotony. |
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The brief storm was a relief from the monotony of the hot summer afternoon. |
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The river snaked through the forest, and they travelled on hour after hour, through an unbreaking monotony of green. |
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If he had a fault as a conversationalist, it was a certain tendency to monotony, a certain lack of sparkle and variety in his small-talk. |
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For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. |
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Thomas Hart explores the issue of monotony in the Galician-Portuguese cantigas de amor by comparing them to the troubadour canso. |
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It's mostly routine stuff, until a call about a man knifed at Penn Station breaks the monotony. |
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According to scientist Andrew Haynes, reindeer deliberately eat the mind-bending fly agaric fungi to escape the monotony of winters. |
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After hours the monotony was broken, a lone lammergeyer circled the clear blue skies. |
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All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts? |
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However, they were also growing tired of the monotony of numerous appearances at the same clubs night after night. |
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It is often beautiful, but its sentences tend to start, pause, and finish at the end of lines, with the risk of monotony. |
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What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition. |
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Unfortunately, nothing much happens in the rest of the episode either. It gets to the point where a montage is devoted to establishing Sam's monotony at Oldtown. |
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If the reader finds a certain monotony in the words chosen by the translator I hope he will realize that the bandsman has to operate within the limits of his instrument. |
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Yet second-hand romance and second-hand emotion are surely better than the dull, soul-killing monotony which life brings to most of the human race. |
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They would carry their private grief on their faces for a few weeks more before hiding it inside and resuming the communal, contourless monotony of prison life. |
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