Monotony
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I guess that's to be expected in a Western, but that adds to the
monotony.
Not even one clever line to alleviate the
monotony.
The
monotony
of the scene got to me, but I think that is because I am a product of my generation.
In that respect, surfing is closer to hiking, mountaineering, or skiing than to tennis or football: The aesthetic experience of being in a beautiful natural environment is an important part of the activity’s attractiveness; there is satisfaction to be found in the sense of accomplishment; and there is vigorous physical exercise without the
monotony
of running on a treadmill or swimming laps.
By contrast, the epidemic of
monotony
we are facing is an unusual variant of what psychologists call “leisure boredom.”
With a mixture of vexation at the impossibility of evading his acquaintances anywhere and of desire to find something to distract the
monotony
of his life, Vronsky looked round again at the man, who had first moved away and then halted; and at the same moment the eyes of both brightened.
As is frequently the case with irreproachably moral women who become tired of the
monotony
of a moral life, she from a distance not only excused a guilty love but even envied it.
Only one episode interrupted the
monotony
of the first fortnight: a slight fever which kept him in bed for forty-eight hours with aching limbs and throbbing head, dreaming in a state of semi-delirium that he was pushing his tram in a passage that was so narrow that his body would not pass through.
For fifteen years they lived in the same small provincial town, and no event broke the
monotony
of existence, not even the birth of a child.
At first she seemed consoled by the great quiet, soothed by the flat
monotony
of the immense plain; she buried herself in it as a woman who has done with the world; she affected a dead heart, so detached from life that she did not even mind growing stout.
To be sure, the
monotony
of life on board must have seemed unbearable to the Canadian, who was accustomed to freedom and activity.
It was one habit among other habits, and, like a dessert, looked forward to after the
monotony
of dinner.
Several citizens had scoured their houses the evening before; tri-coloured flags hung from half-open windows; all the public-houses were full; and in the lovely weather the starched caps, the golden crosses, and the coloured neckerchiefs seemed whiter than snow, shone in the sun, and relieved with the motley colours the sombre
monotony
of the frock-coats and blue smocks.
Emma was like all his mistresses; and the charm of novelty, gradually falling away like a garment, laid bare the eternal
monotony
of passion, that has always the same forms and the same language.
When the cloth was removed, Bovary did not rise, nor did Emma; and as she looked at him, the
monotony
of the spectacle drove little by little all pity from her heart.
They want to get away from each other when there is only such a very slight bond as that between them; and one day, I suppose, the pain and the dull
monotony
of it all had stood before her eyes plainer than usual, and the mocking spectre had frightened her.
They pleasantly break the
monotony
of the pull.
The days seemed insupportably long; each brought the same anguish, the same heavy weariness which overwhelmed him at certain hours with crushing
monotony
and regularity.
Nor while he was thus occupied was Mr. Winkle idle, his whole time being devoted to pleasant walks and short country excursions with Mrs. Pott, who never failed, when such an opportunity presented itself, to seek some relief from the tedious
monotony
she so constantly complained of.
Thinking this an eligible place wherein to make his inquiries, Mr. Winkle stepped into the little shop where the gilt-labelled drawers and bottles were; and finding nobody there, knocked with a half-crown on the counter, to attract the attention of anybody who might happen to be in the back parlour, which he judged to be the innermost and peculiar sanctum of the establishment, from the repetition of the word surgery on the door-- painted in white letters this time, by way of taking off the
monotony.
Mr. Bob Sawyer was seated, not in the dickey, but on the roof of the chaise, with his legs as far asunder as they would conveniently go, wearing Mr. Samuel Weller's hat on one side of his head, and bearing, in one hand, a most enormous sandwich, while, in the other, he supported a goodly-sized case-bottle, to both of which he applied himself with intense relish, varying the
monotony
of the occupation by an occasional howl, or the interchange of some lively badinage with any passing stranger.
Now and then I hazarded some remark to break the
monotony
of the journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the conversation soon flagged.
I had no time to get tired of the monotony; for in three hours we stopped at Kiel, close to the sea.
CHAPTER XVIIIMerry days were these at Thornfield Hall; and busy days too: how different from the first three months of stillness, monotony, and solitude I had passed beneath its roof!
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