| But Pope Brock plays him in such a one-note key of gulping and spitting and snickering cynicism that the spectacle becomes numbing. |
| It too plays up the one-note ostinato and fools around with the major-third idea, sometimes sounding it backwards, sometimes upside-down. |
| Currants and mint give the rice-stuffed grape leaves a sweet, bright flavor rather than their characteristic one-note mushiness. |
| Rappers express their libidinous desires in the boring, one-note language of conquest. |
| As for Jenna, she's annoying one-note and completely facile in her approach. |
| It is a devastating piece, one that rises to violence, and yet director Marcus Romer rightly judges that Mag should not be a one-note, sour old bag. |
