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"monotonous" Definitions
  1. never changing and therefore boring
"monotonous" Synonyms
unchanging uniform unvarying steady regular consistent undeviating even unwavering invariable constant stable fixed unfluctuating immutable invariant unbroken unalterable inflexible habitual solid monochromatic monochrome homogenous homologous unicolor monochromic homochromatic homochromous one-color self-colored flush static straight toneless flat droning uninflected boring dull tedious uninteresting humdrum dreary tiresome wearisome pedestrian drab dry stale unexciting colourless(UK) slow colorless(US) prosaic ponderous tiring dispassionate expressionless passionless unemotional unfeeling indifferent cold frigid impassive wooden emotionless numb apathetic hollow stony deadpan vacant blank repeated common usual prevalent recurring typical everyday commonplace customary familiar normal persistent prevailing recurrent ubiquitous general ordinary wonted unbounded limitless unlimited infinite immeasurable boundless endless measureless bottomless illimitable incalculable vast unfathomable inexhaustible untold interminable fathomless immense indefinite unending drawling drawly dragging languid twanging twangy one-note monotonal tuneless cacophonous dissonant harsh discordant unmelodic unmelodious unmusical clashing atonal horrisonant monotone rasping hoarse grating raucous strident croaking raspy soporific somnolent hypnotic sleep-inducing sleepy somniferous drowsy narcotic opiate sedative tranquillizing(UK) calmative slumberous slumbrous somnific anaesthetic(UK) anesthetic(US) balmy regimented controlled disciplined ordered organised(UK) organized(US) strict orderly systematic neat tidy unvaried regulated strictly regulated systematised(UK) insistent dogged emphatic demanding determined importunate pressing tenacious unrelenting urgent adamant obstinate persevering assertive exigent firm unfaltering unyielding decided More
"monotonous" Antonyms
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535 Sentences With "monotonous"

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New Horizons researchers anticipated a monotonous world battered by craters.
Being on set is monotonous and taxing on the body.
It's this really slow, monotonous and limited melodic range music.
In a low, monotonous tone, they are chanting his name.
It sounds monotonous, and it is, but so is baseball.
More surprisingly beaches (at least, those in Barcelona) are monotonous.
According to Slat, life on board can be quite monotonous.
Still, it was thankless, monotonous work, and I was floundering.
Dead men in such familiar promiscuity that they become monotonous.
It's easy to see how views can feel so monotonous.
From there, it's a long and sometimes monotonous waiting game.
The Roomba did what robots do best: easy, boring, monotonous work.
In addition to being bothersome, it also becomes monotonous after awhile.
Of course, some days are very monotonous — that's just a given.
However, the work is monotonous and receives little reward or recognition.
It is major surgery that calls for a brutal, monotonous rehabilitation.
Similarly, Trinity remains a monotonous, baffling enigma to the very end.
It's monotonous, and it's predictable, and worst of all, it's humorous.
The sounds of nature, though, could be either calm or monotonous.
Buster Scruggs is beautiful but also monotonous and a bit repellent.
If your job is monotonous, it will likely soon be gone.
Much of the business of trading in Elite Dangerous is monotonous.
Diagramming a Nickname for Otto Porter Otto Porter is unwaveringly monotonous.
For some reviewers, Burne-Jones's somnambulistic repetition is monotonous and superficial.
They sang the song of summer's ending, a sad monotonous song.
They sang the song of summer's ending, a sad, monotonous song.
But weeks into it, I began to dread the monotonous labor.
"Global warming is not a smooth, monotonous process," the study says.
"The process was monotonous, inefficient, and murder on the eyes," Allen wrote.
After changing hands, Zaman has predictably joined the monotonous pro-Erdogan chorus.
The repeated surge of share prices on Wall Street is getting monotonous.
Growing up in predominantly Black public schools, BHM was a monotonous production.
If the life of a monk is monotonous, their diet is not.
For me, coming from the rather monotonous, white Germany, that was fascinating.
"The more monotonous, dry, tough, the better," as Aravena himself puts it.
That's difficult to do, says Drexler, when you sound stiff and monotonous.
Sending emails can seem like a monotonous part of daily office life.
Mike Flynn's monotonous riffing and the stylings of a Trump Winery manager.
I probably won't write too much detail about this since it's monotonous.
But the choreography also had a wallpaper effect — ordered, handsome and monotonous.
"Greetings, Harish," Project Debater began, speaking in a mainly monotonous, female voice.
Even so, "Boone" is slightly monotonous, and familiarity may be one cause.
DNA sequencers have difficulty when faced with similarly monotonous strings of base pairs.
Your day is so monotonous it becomes tougher to think outside the box.
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.
That is not to say the show is monotonous or lacking emotional depth.
The long sobs of autumn's violins wound my heart with a monotonous languor.
Though, from the POV of a celebrity, the frenzy has to get monotonous.
"Editing hundreds or thousands of images per day can be monotonous," Etienne said.
Yet it has such vivid diversity of presentation that it never seems monotonous.
The deeper the topic — heartbreak, marriage, career struggles — the more monotonous the telling.
The orchestra seizes on this playful pattern, giving it a monotonous, ominous thrust.
An automaton that saves you from one of the most monotonous household chores?
Scientists began to suspect that the cheetah was "genetically monotonous" several decades ago.
Again, everybody knew that, and likely nobody was persuaded by their monotonous delivery.
That should tell you how monotonous the Democratic primary polling has really been.
His frugal campaign and painfully monotonous demeanour add to his aura of incorruptibility.
"I just said in a monotonous voice, 'Thank you for coming,'" she said.
Where Vicarious envisions these robots is in jobs that are monotonous or hazardous.
And so much better than the monotonous "mushy macaroni" at his state boarding school.
After decades of monotonous overwork, that must seem like the twinkling of an eye.
Even though her work was monotonous, it gave her a freedom she'd never had.
Some applications do still feature a monotonous "robot voice", but that is changing fast.
On the dancefloor, a handful of people are swaying along to a monotonous beat.
The reason that it's not monotonous is that it isn't the same thing everyday.
When people experienced empty moments, they described them as dull or monotonous or tedious.
When you read Twitter itself, it's just a monotonous drumbeat of awfulness these days.
For better and for worse, No Man's Sky can be a sometimes monotonous adventure.
Unusual paint jobs and architectural oddities make some houses stand out in monotonous neighborhoods.
The scenery is nothing special (and doesn't change), so the drive is very monotonous.
The cubicle in particular has become a symbol of unfulfilling, monotonous, paper-pushing work.
The landscape we drove through was flat and monotonous, the sky a pale gray.
But that style eventually became monotonous, because every creator was jumping on that bandwagon.
Speaking at a single speed quickly turns whatever you're saying into a monotonous drone.
But he grew disenchanted with jazz and decided to cultivate his "monotonous" style instead.
Artificial intelligence systems excel at the kind of monotonous concentration where humans so often fail.
Oprah Winfrey wants you to know that eating on Weight Watchers doesn't mean monotonous dieting.
It's become monotonous with its over-the-top-ness and hasn't advanced it's plot much.
Koepka and Rose have swapped world number one with monotonous regularity over the past month.
The monotonous, stilted delivery sounds very close to the original version, but it's definitely different.
They have all worked with repetition, even to the point where it becomes very monotonous.
Rain pattering down from the sky was monotonous, but dripping from trees it was calming.
In fact, it was bordering on monotonous for the 36 minutes of in-ring action.
Audible Subscription, $15/monthAdd some excitement to their monotonous, everyday commute with an Audible subscription.
While it was a very much welcomed addition, it has always seemed a bit… monotonous.
" Wallace Matthews of ESPN says, "Choose your adjective: Repetitive. Monotonous. Dispiriting. Same-old/same-old.
And most of the crew agreed that a year within the habitat became extremely monotonous.
It is an utterly monotonous activity in what eventually becomes a marathon of a season.
The landscape, dominated by impossibly flat greens, is monotonous, unless you see it as hypnotic.
A desaturated palette makes "Rodin" as monotonous to look at as it is to endure.
Maintaining a garden could also serve as a hobby for crew members during monotonous months.
Like many warehouse operators, Obeta has trouble finding workers willing to do the monotonous work.
The result: a packed schedule and a monotonous routine with room for everything but ourselves.
Instead, his path in the film is inward, pitiful, apolitical, and (I think deliberately) monotonous.
Atchley's study focused on monotonous, flat rural highways with minimal traffic, not congested urban commutes.
Being out in the winterscape is beautiful and perhaps inspiring, but it can also get monotonous.
In another artist's hands, such a gathering of objects and materials might produce a monotonous drone.
A nearby video monitor displays the artist in monotonous activity in the museum director's nondescript office.
"Running is very monotonous and something we all kind of tend to complain about," Miller said.
Questions of postpartum and the wonders of motherhood became monotonous and I felt dissociated with myself.
The work was sometimes thrilling, often monotonous and always continued no matter rain, sleet or snow.
The goal is to automate the often monotonous work of creating, testing and deploying analytical models.
Sources say that Anthony's everyday existence, away from the glare of the media spotlight, is monotonous.
Another film that tackles the questions of faith without being preachy and monotonous in doing so.
"It was quite a monotonous process of searching for specific images," McGloughlin told photography blog PetaPixel.
"There can be something compulsive about [cruising], or monotonous, or boring, or repetitive," says Mark Turner.
Monotonous tasks like commuting to and from work can end one's day on a stale note.
The menu of items available from the hotel kitchen looking smaller and more monotonous each day.
" Since then, Wheeler also has regularly touted what quickly became a monotonous incantation: "Competition, competition, competition.
They've settled into dull, monotonous work — raising the barrier for a camel — that can seem absurd.
It was a monotonous activity, pausing every few streets to orient myself and take in my surroundings.
The exhibition is like a painstakingly rendered, at times interesting, at times monotonous handwritten note saying goodbye.
The latest Tinder Hero to save us all from reading another monotonous "Hey" is Reddit user BostelJ.
Sometimes game elements or other design choices are only enjoyable for a little while before becoming monotonous.
But the Refinery29 Beauty Innovator Awards aren't your average monotonous parade of best this and best that.
He lived with them in the countryside for two months, where days are slow, hot, and monotonous.
It's not that these games cause people to be violent; it's that the constant violence is monotonous.
I am constantly humming the track from the loading screen and it is getting a little monotonous.
She started the page, she says, because life of a prison wife between visitations can become monotonous.
He learned that starfish convert a monotonous carpet of mussels into a diverse assemblage of marine invertebrates.
To break up the monotonous cuisine, men experimented with new foods, such as penguin or seal meat.
But this first act lacks full power, with the singing growing monotonous as the stage constantly rotates.
Do you like doing a lot of monotonous work like gathering supplies, farming, and talking to people?
With long stretches of monotonous driving and busy urban settings for delivery, trucks can absolutely benefit from automation.
Just like any other workplace, film sets can be a monotonous grind This scene is short, but pivotal.
But there's such a monotonous, unimaginative tread of cruelty that it loses any shock value or allegorical heft.
They've offered a welcome change from the monotonous sounds of rappers that are carbon copies of one another.
With monotonous straight lines as far as the eye can see, there's nowhere pleasant to rest your gaze.
The men aboard do their monotonous work in resigned silence, then blow off steam in the karaoke lounge.
Grinding is all well and good, but after a while, the monotonous repetition wears away at your soul.
They took a lap and posed for cameras, providing some excitement on a monotonous day early in camp.
Several members said one big misconception of life in the house is how monotonous some days can be.
A "monotonous" survey of the sea floor has resulted in the unlocking of a 128-year shipwreck mystery.
The music always poses the same challenge for us: how do we make something so monotonous feel exciting?
Cathy Marston's telling, at American Ballet Theater, takes an admirable feminist stance, but is undone by monotonous choreography.
On the other hand, projects that are too specific and rigid run the risk of delivering monotonous results.
" He praised the president's made-for-TV lawyers but said "a lot of this" is "pointless, monotonous, redundant.
Unlike the inoffensive bubblegum pop and monotonous club-happy dance music, Gaga&aposs hits had personality and edge.
But with myriad modifications to houses here over the decades, Levittown no longer presents the same monotonous landscape.
Nars intended, he explained, for the models to look like performers, characters and artists, rather than a monotonous army.
But reps and runs can get monotonous, so luckily he has Maximus the golden retriever to mix things up.
In its earliest iteration the app seems most useful to those trapped in sending a lot of monotonous messages.
Anyone who has worked a monotonous job knows this feeling, descending into your head while still doing your work.
Viewed as a whole, the statues are monotonous — Lenin is always portrayed as stern — but there are individual nuances.
Sourcing is an arduous, monotonous job that requires manpower and concentration: Even a single mistake can derail your production.
Saving packed produce from becoming sad, monotonous meals this winter is as easy as upping your secret ingredient game.
There is no school for the children, no organized activities, just a monotonous expanse of tents, gravel and mud.
In video games, these phenomena contribute towards a sense of "variation", ensuring our experience doesn't, god forbid, become monotonous.
But there's one constant: The client discusses something terrible while keeping up a monotonous physical response to bilateral stimulation.
It gets monotonous after a while, which is par for the course for most racing games, to be fair.
Thinking that the Great Wall of China would be monotonous, she asked if she could explore France and Egypt.
She won "with the same monotonous ease with which she usually wins her races," The New York Times reported.
The tone was monotonous, like the hum of machinery in a factory, and he could not follow the words.
Ms. Gough provided a convincing portrait of a textbook depressive in London, which made sense but also felt monotonous.
They may work well enough on the radio or in concert but, conscripted for theatrical service, grow quickly monotonous.
A plate of crisp, salty, horseradish-spiked sauerkraut made from savoy cabbage was a little monotonous on its own.
"The more monotonous, dry, tough, the better," as he put it in a story this spring by Michael Kimmelman.
This takes a genuine interest in the business and even the day-to-day details, which are sometimes monotonous.
Sunday's Extreme Rules pay-per-view marked a trifecta of monotonous, plodding WWE shows in the wake of WrestleMania.
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Other than a two-month winter break, he has been here, working his way back, one monotonous day after another.
Since the workout is quick, it doesn't feel monotonous, and you can easily tag it onto your usual cardio routine.
The company says driving from behind a desk is less taxing than the typical long monotonous stretches on the road.
Sushi restaurants have been using machines to roll rice in nori for years, an otherwise monotonous and time-consuming task.
Even activities like chopping wood or playing baseball are boiled down to their boring, monotonous essence in this animated film.
While life in the camp is bleak and monotonous, refugees are reviving their culture which was under threat in Myanmar.
If you were in need of something to spice up a monotonous Monday, Universal Pictures has presented just the thing.
Grapefruit for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner This diet does allow solid food, but the 12-day program is pretty monotonous.
These dynamic creations break up the monotonous urban landscape, lending an identity to places which were villages only years before.
Photo: GettyResearchers in France have discovered that a monotonous diet of corn causes hamsters to exhibit some unusual behavior—cannibalism.
In a paper published in Nature Physics on Monday, Patla's team reveal a profound result from an exceedingly monotonous experiment.
Batman. Spiderman. Ironman. For comic book enthusiasts, the novelty items out there can start to feel a bit...monotonous, no?
While the views were beautiful, the flat landscapes of green fields and forests got a little monotonous after a while.
And this can become quite monotonous if you are clearing up after your baby two or three times a day.
Season seven eschews that structure, which is partly why it feels so monotonous, but this quiet episode has its charms.
And so on for 302 monotonous pages that don't really amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
My most nagging concerns about working from home were that it would get boring, lonely, monotonous, and maybe even depressing.
I've begun to pick up some old hobbies, such as coding and writing, to break up my gray, monotonous existence.
But the latest version of this major showcase of American art is also bleak, pious, naïve, monotonous, isolated and isolating.
We see good moments from all of them, but they're limited to whatever time isn't reserved for Annie's monotonous backsliding. 
It's rapid-fire, often monotonous, and even if, or because, it does the trick, much of it is pretty depressing.
Altman practices on other inmates, women who are glad to have the small reprieve from the monotonous reality of prison life.
Four-time CrossFit Games veteran Kristin Holte developed this water-adjacent workout for Reebok as an alternative to monotonous lap swimming.
Keep in mind that it's not just you; even people who love a good runner's high find running in-place monotonous.
If this map of New York showed the most popular non-English language in each neighborhood, it would likely be monotonous.
Recent years have seen a shift away from rote learning and monotonous grammar rules in favor of a more holistic approach.
But if you listen to the full video of the debate, you can hear that Miss Debater's tone is pretty monotonous.
If nothing else, the days of Atlanta hosting the most predictably monotonous team in the league are finally about to end.
This meant relief from my usual monotonous diet: home-cooked dinners made from fresh ingredients by my parents, both excellent cooks.
Packing a school lunch can be a daunting and monotonous task, but these tips and suggestions will make the process easier.
It's prettier, it's less monotonous, and it scratches that first generation itch I've been trying to get at for 20 years.
"I think everything that can give you this cocooning and monotonous tactile stimulation can have a positive impact," he tells me.
The landscape's monotonous patchwork mimics an elephant's coloring, and the animals often seek shelter beneath trees during the heat of day.
And no matter how monotonous constantly washing your hands with soap and water may seem, remember it could save your life.
That's usually why our own personal stories become skewed and monotonous, told only through the misleading eyes of power and propaganda.
"It got monotonous," said Nathan Rodriguez, 30, one of Lyft's first 50 employees, who last year traded San Francisco for Austin.
By the time Oksana ultimately betrays him, the reader is waiting for the monotonous lineup of her various flings to end.
The dancers cluster into unison formations and break free, but after a time this repeated structure seems more monotonous than daring.
Adam Beyer's monotonous bass lines bore you to death, and it's obvious to those on Twitter who you feign interest to.
He is the Wordsworth of monotonous occurrences, the Gainsborough of the smoking area, the Attenborough of the habitats of nameless faces.
What happens when the stuff that's supposed to break you out of the monotony is just as monotonous as everything else?
But the monotonous "Les constructeurs" falters when compared to its thematic predecessor, Gustave Courbet's "The Stonebreakers" (1850), which projected majestic seriousness.
It's a long, laborious process—grunt work that's both high-stakes and monotonous and delays the start of the actual surgery.
If it all sounds a little monotonous, get an intervalometer (or a camera with one built-in), which automates the entire process.
This afternoon, monotonous online conversation about Katy Perry and our crumbling democracy cleared briefly to make room for a conversation about cows.
Roseanne may have been a monolithic representation of family life in America because of their monotonous existence, but it was not apolitical.
It found that technology and automation can help workers by reducing the "monotonous and physically strenuous activities" of, say, lifting heavy packages.
This approach to voice synthesis also means that we're stuck listening to the same pre-recorded, monotonous voice over and over again.
For those players, like myself, who've become hooked on the battle royale genre, Playground represents a break in the game's monotonous cycle.
At times the excavator build can be easy, mundane, and even monotonous, with just a few pieces being added in each step.
Some of them are acceptable: chronic illness is bad, washing every morning is good, hanging up laundry is a monotonous task, etc.
Vibe by Chef'n Garlic Chopper, $9.70, available at AmazonI always found that mincing garlic was a particularly monotonous and meticulous cooking task.
Veronika Part, with her handsome head grandly plumed, dances the role in heavy point shoes and with allure that gradually grows monotonous.
It's hard to get through Secondhand Time, not only because the subject matter is so painful, but because the testimonies are monotonous.
AVDIYIVKA, Ukraine/KIEV (Reuters) - For Ukrainian pensioner Olga Shazhkova, channel-surfing in the front line town of Avdiyivka is a monotonous business.
But when the Cards Against Humanity jokes have all been played out and you're tired of settling Catan, things can get monotonous.
That monotonous slapping of skin is basically all you need (maybe, at a push, also someone to occasionally say, "Yeah, like that").
No pretext to escape from our families, our children, and all the other people who make our lives a monotonous living hell.
While there are some recurring refrains, the narratives in the films are not delivering a monotonous dialogue, neither in pitch or content.
I've noticed a lot of young people look at the monotonous daily hysteria of we anti-Trumpers and they find it silly.
At Obeta, an electrical parts company that opened in 503, it is the kind of monotonous task workers have performed for years.
The work, too, was monotonous, and I would get lost in the swing of an ax and the rocking of a crosscut.
I play my recording, shut my eyes and find comfort in the monotonous audio that has saved me so many times before.
Mr. Lee can envision no situation in which the physically taxing, monotonous work of making garments will go to the United States.
Everyone, whether male or female, old or young, taxi driver or ex-girlfriend, has the same round face, the same flat, monotonous voice.
It had a great start, then got a bit monotonous, but the action has picked back up and I'm on pins and needles.
But based on my own experience, I decided I was safer on a long, monotonous drive using the system than not using it.
On Agony Planet, Greem's dead-eyed, monotonous murmurings push Sherburn and Barclay's punishing industrial techno into a realm that feels positively sci-fi.
We rightly think of factory work as dangerous, monotonous, and exploitative, but that doesn't meant it's not better than toiling in the fields.
Ryder also said storytelling is a good skill to have at conferences, where buyers often hear pitch after pitch, which can be monotonous.
This deadline was ugly, monotonous and, in the context of what we expect these sorts of occasions to be, kind of a letdown.
Like almost all of Eminem's work this decade, Kamikaze wants to live and die on its craftsmanship: a monotonous barrage of verbal pyrotechnics.
"The main issue ... is a monotonous diet – mainly rice/maize, kimchi and bean paste – lacking in essential fats and protein," the statement said.
His monotonous worker-bee routine, state of privation and lack of social life made it difficult for Mr. Jones to create compelling visuals.
When he carries on alone, speaking to God, questioning and suffering at great, monotonous length, his weakness becomes tedious, as does the film.
Life on base can be monotonous, broken up by visits to the fitness center or meals at the camp's Subway sandwich outlet. Capt.
I was there , and found the experience striking but ultimately monotonous—a lot of frantic tremolo competing with the whirr of rotor blades.
Joe Goldeberg is living a life of monotonous domestic bliss with eyes on a new You: the bibliophile neighbor with the wedding ring.
While this may alleviate readability issues and even inject some fun into otherwise monotonous documents, for Becher and Benoliel, it raises other concerns.
Most of the days with guests onboard are pretty monotonous, but teasing D. about if he's solved the clue has kept me entertained today.
Certain jobs require craft skills which are becoming rarer; many people now have the wherewithal to avoid tasks that can be dirty or monotonous.
I was reminded of how soothing Stardew Valley could be, especially with how it gives the player a sense of purpose in monotonous tasks.
Driving around with hot pizzas might sound like a humble, even monotonous job, but that couldn't be further from the reality of the streets.
Overwatch has always had a diverse cast of characters that bring life and color to the otherwise monochrome and monotonous first-person shooter genre.
After admiring or admonishing the best and worst looks on our favorite celebrities, award show red carpets can get a bit monotonous very quickly.
I would listen to monotonous hold music while a pharmacy worker searched for the drug or asked several others before returning with an answer.
This article originally appeared on VICE UK."House of happiness," says a dry, monotonous voice that resembles a depressed employee answering his work phone.
The fully acoustic works, in particular, grow monotonous, even if you're listening while gazing into an idyllic medieval courtyard on a crisp, sunny day.
The early part of spring training is generally filled with this type of basic fielding drills that players can easily find monotonous or extraneous.
The nearly unvarying format of the seascapes — 12-by-11-inch canvases in which two fields were broken by a horizon line — sounds monotonous.
"The whaling moratorium, where they stopped whaling in 1978, came just in time to prevent this biodiversity from being genetically more monotonous," he said.
But the 218.80-year-old found her new job had long hours and was monotonous - loading parts onto conveyors that fed robots all day.
The song was produced by TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek (!) and it's a polished if rather monotonous piece of radio-ready odd-pop.
In her classic essay on evil, Simone Weil differentiates between evil as we imagine it ("romantic and varied") and as it exists ("monotonous, barren").
Amid the monotonous score and the chanting by the chorus (the director's invention), Ms. Bürkle drools and howls while trudging along the spinning disc.
What's justified or necessary from a historical standpoint, though, can get monotonous in dramatic terms when it's presented in ham-handed and obvious ways.
Music — including favorites like Rachmaninoff's Prelude in D major — played in her head when she ran, helping her through monotonous stretches of the course.
With laserlike focus, the movie observes the monotonous daily rituals of Doña Flor (Adriana Barraza), a 63-year-old government clerk in Mexico City.
It's somehow perverse that an artist this prime for discussion is given nothing but monotonous praise, while his work is treated as an afterthought.
That means the proceedings may at times seem monotonous — something Democrats have worried about as they prepare for the trial proceedings to get underway.
These were created in reference to Erik Satie's "Furniture Music" — infinitely repetitive compositions conceived to operate merely as aural décor; the monotonous sound of globalization.
"We've historically had a monotonous routine of these epicycles of handwringing, blame, and then return to normal," David Pozen, a Columbia law professor, told Politico.
But sometimes, when I'm on my commute home for yet another Friday night in, I feel like my monotonous habits aren't encouraging my best self.
Say goodbye to your monotonous routine and instead, make the choice to switch it up with simple lifestyle changes that will garner lasting, positive effects.
At depths of roughly 13,000 feet (4,000 meters), it's a monotonous, pitch-black abyss featuring crushing pressures and temperatures just a few degrees above freezing.
And yet, despite technology's inevitable and monotonous way of making our lives more convenient, Trump still seems to favor the older methods of TV recording.
But why even bother if you could just pick up your old Xbox controller and pretend you're playing a very loud, very monotonous, video game?
They're the guys that took rock music to the masses, and it's because of them that we now have this massive, monotonous money-making machine.
Using a statistical analysis of people's reactions to different sorts of urban sound, the team drew up four broad categories: chaotic, calm, monotonous and vibrant.
Behind those monotonous lawns lives a diverse population: one-third of the 88,000 people who live in Sunrise are black and one-quarter are Hispanic.
Below, we've outlined a few mobile games that will keep the kids (and mum and dad) entertained during the more monotonous stretches of the journey.
One of the biggest challenges to making a 4-hour album—one I recognized from the very beginning—is making sure it doesn't get monotonous.
We had this whole concept of monotonous, hypnotic riffs that we would play over and over, which felt kind of cult-y at the time.
For instance, long pauses and a monotonous vocal tones were associated with sadder stories, while more energetic, varied speech patterns were associated with happier ones.
Golden State's greatness was garish and strident and honestly a little obnoxious; the virtuosity was monotonous at times and somehow all too pure to take.
Enigmatic in its simplicity, in the monotonous repetition of its four sides, its four identical corners, it can generate a whole series of interesting figures.
But the screenplay for The First Purge, by franchise creator James DeMonaco, is not quite imaginative enough to keep from getting monotonous after a while.
Patients with PTSD tended to speak in flatter speech, with less articulation of the tongue and lips and a more monotonous tone, the researchers reported.
This is a movie franchise built around a superhero who fought a bunch of monotonous secret agents to save the world from giant AI bugs.
Extirpate blends the power electronics of Whitehouse with a metallic interpretation of Throbbing Gristle's monotonous rhythms to make for a listening experience that constricts the throat.
Agility Robotics' chief technology officer Jonathan Hurst imagines a future filled with walking robot assistants that could someday free people from monotonous errands like grocery shopping.
Generally, the AI associated parts of speech that had long pauses or used monotonous vocal tones as sad, while varied speech patterns were categorized as happy.
The great problem with fatalism as a form of entertainment is that its monotone palette quickly turns monotonous unless it's generously spiced with suspense and empathy.
But no exercise is perfect, and bobbing up and down can get monotonous, so you've got to figure out some way to make squats more interesting.
Sometimes when you're slogging your way through a somewhat monotonous and super-long workday, your mind begins to wander — oftentimes in the direction of an escape.
Not only because it exists to kick me out of bed in the morning but also because of its incessant blaring, which is shrill and monotonous.
It's a cynical strategy that stymies offensive flow for both sides and more often than not reduces matches to monotonous slogs devoid of skill and creativity.
While life in the camp is bleak and monotonous, refugees say Bangladesh offers relative freedom compared with the apartheid-like conditions they endured in northern Rakhine.
Iced lattes cool us down from the oppressive Shanghai heat, and the cheerful, air-conditioned interior serves as welcome relief from an afternoon of monotonous castings.
For example, if you work in customer service you might say you like to socialize and interact with people, but you don't like a monotonous schedule.
The range of toys that he still reorganized and kept within the customers' reach was so small and monotonous that it barely attracted the youngest children.
At one moment the Motor Maids are driving through "these flat, monotonous wheat fields," and then, a moment later, he makes you shift your perceptual gears.
But Palmer's hours in the gym and all that grueling, repetitive, monotonous work, would likely not be much talked about had the Cardinals regressed this season.
They also reveal hidden views and break up the monotonous look of a large, unbroken ceiling with the bonus of brightening the middle of the room.
As with any stormy, ambivalent relationship, which includes reading, the ups and downs, push and pull that at first seemed exciting can end up feeling monotonous.
You have this monotonous loop of cable television just going all day, and that loop would be broken when someone political was going on 'The View.
The monotonous clickety-clack of the wheels speeding over the iron tracks makes them drowsy, or it could be the heat and wind in their faces.
This style makes it easy and efficient for inmates to move around, but the design is monotonous and full of visually unappealing materials, like steel and concrete.
The promise of automation is increased efficiency, the elimination of dangerous and monotonous jobs, and—from a classic utopian view—the rise of leisure time for all.
With this week's surge, the stock is currently up more than 32 percent from January, helping Best Buy break out of a relatively monotonous year so far.
And in the tech industry, internships aren't what they used to be — no more monotonous photocopying in the belly of some nondescript office tower for college credit.
For some, that means traveling while the kids are out of school — for others, it's taking a much-needed break during a rather monotonous time of year.
"I was sorting grapes, and even though it's monotonous and you want to shoot yourself after 12 hours, you see the purpose of being there," he says.
The action led to the coining of a new phrase, "Lordstown Syndrome" — referring to the malaise and depression of young workers who worked on monotonous assembly lines.
Who wants monotonous mayonnaise or basic bitch brown sauce when you can cover your pulled pork burger in Tabasco sauce or smear sriracha on your ironic moustache?
"She's everything I want to be," we learn via Rachel's monotonous voice-over that does a good job of conveying her self-loathing despite being over-written.
"Many families survive on a monotonous diet of rice and kimchi most of the year, eating very little protein," said Nicolas Bidault, a World Food Program official.
Most of the time I'm so absorbed in my work that it doesn't bother me, but sometimes (especially in the winter) it can get lonely and monotonous.
At least half a dozen friends, including Mary, brought home new puppies, providing spots of sunshine in an otherwise bleakly monotonous scroll of doom, gloom, and ruin.
Everything except the headphones in this image is in black and white revealing how monotonous and plain life can end up being without the pop of color.
As monotonous green-gray metal separators, shielding the projects, have sprouted across Paris, the inconveniences have been accompanied by an angry chorus of groans from hapless motorists.
Villainous Sydney is the novel's weak point, although she is hilariously horrific, but her monotonous evil serves well as a foil for the more complex main characters.
Sweet Escape aims to use tech to automate many of the monotonous edits its team makes to customer photos Sweet Escape aims to use tech to automate many of the monotonous edits its team makes to customer photos The efficient approach is also designed to increase turnaround time, meaning customers get photos as quickly as possible, leaving photographers with satisfied reviews and more time to focus on actually taking photos.
Though this might sound like a monotonous addition to the mountain of political comedy being peddled these days, Shaffer ensures his story is far from another Trump joke.
However, older adults are more likely to find satisfaction in a monotonous meal replacement diet, according to a small study published in the journal Physiology & Behavior in 2000.
He realized, with the help of a few fan forums, that the album version of "Videotape," a somber, monotonous song, has a highly complex and challenging hidden rhythm.
Article after article has relayed claims of an ultra-competitive workplace culture, employees being treated like soulless robots, sweatshop-esque performance requirements, and long hours of monotonous work.
Between repeating business cycles and the never-ending calendar of earnings announcements, it's easy to feel caught in a monotonous loop of economic stagnation and sinking oil prices.
A lasagna with layers of thin homemade pasta was also a welcome upgrade, though a bigger variety of fillings would have made the dish a bit less monotonous.
Humor, though, is not Gray's forte, and his Fawcett is a sturdy and somewhat monotonous creature, who, for all the strivings of Charlie Hunnam, does not consume us.
As a meal, it would be monotonous, but when sampled, in our case, between bites of duck hearts and an oxtail marmalade, the cauliflower became a worthy accompaniment.
The penniless matriarch in Mona Mansour's monotonous black comedy, "The Way West," a Labyrinth Theater Company production at the Bank Street Theater, definitely falls into the delusional category.
One moment you're in a fairytale world where everybody accepts you for what you are, and the next you're forced back into the monotonous routines of daily life.
A decade later, she's leading a comfortably monotonous life as a radio producer when she runs into Godfrey on the street and realizes that certain battles wage on.
In "Alone at Sea," Elizabeth Weil writes about Aleksander Doba, who kayaked across the Atlantic Ocean (for the third time) at age 70: Ocean kayaking is catastrophically monotonous.
Veidt seems to be subjecting himself to this to break free from the monotonous adoration from the clones, proving Doctor Manhattan wrong about Veidt's seemingly unending self-absorption.
Agriculture secretary Perdue has consistently put the interests of business in supplying monotonous, calorically dense, less healthful foods to our schools over the children who are in them.
Those plus the occasional speed trap (markers that you race through at high speeds) and airplane route are the only this that break up the monotonous albeit beautiful countryside.
The tactic paid off handsomely as she largely avoided the soggy rough and took advantage of soft greens to fire approach shots to within birdie range with monotonous regularity.
See, here's the dirty secret about how even the most exciting entertainment in your life is made: Just like any other workplace, film sets can be a monotonous grind.
Meanwhile, Hemsworth and Evans' IMDB pages are plagued by a litany of films that showcase their monotonous ability to play the same two-dimensional characters for years on end.
The main issue in North Korea is a monotonous diet – mainly rice/maize, kimchi and bean paste – lacking in essential fats and protein, the World Food Programme previously said.
In the brick building where life was generally a monotonous nightmare for us all, it turned out while a bunch of kids had stayed home, some had shown up.
The first of those abuses being tackled is the monotonous and time-consuming task of time tracking and filing time sheets — a meta problem if there ever was one.
While my goal is to get my ship running, so that I can start my long journey to the center of the universe, it's actually a pretty monotonous thing.
Mr. VanNieuwkuyk also noted that younger drivers have not yet logged hundreds of annoying hours stewing in traffic or had to suffer through the daily ritual of monotonous commutes.
But its unrelenting grimness and monotonous choreography give that point of view little room to grow and add nothing to the poetry and page-turning drama of Brontë's novel.
But for the most part, teens who spoke with VICE News said they often felt anxious and worried during their time at the camp, and that days were monotonous.
"It is quite certain that a lot jobs will disappear, especially the more monotonous or repetitive ones," Harari told CNBC's earlier this month at DBS' Asian Insights Conference 2018.
Eilish's songs are actually miniature sonic fun houses, anything but drab or monotonous, with playful melodies, meticulously varied instrumentation and a theatrical spectrum of attitudes, from taunting to suicidal.
Some Thai television personalities joked that the boys will help ratings of the otherwise dull television show, which is usually reserved for monotonous conversations about the military government's performance.
Filmmaker Cao Fei turns her attentions to the compartmentalized, monotonous labor of Osram light-bulb factory workers by depicting them acting out their fantasies in the video, "Whose Utopia"?
When we first meet William "Ironhead" Miller (Hunnam), he's giving a speech to newly returned soldiers cautioning them not to work for security contractors; his life is dull and monotonous.
Whether that's due to backlash or a genuine interest in telling more diverse stories is debatable, but it's led to a richer, less monotonous experience at the movies in 2016.
While Rodin's works spoke to the consequences of sieges, the works in the GDR exhibition seemed like an effigy to the monotonous disillusionment borne by artists working under state censorship.
At the same time, humans need machines to counteract the "deadly dullness" of dry, monotonous work, since the human brain is not made for the dull or repetitive, he said.
But that can get pretty monotonous—as much as I love pumpkin curry, if I end up having it for six meals in a row, I end up hating it.
Even though the post was deleted, it made its way to Reddit, where of course the internet started treating the monotonous stream as if it were an exciting, adventurous video.
The strange fate of Olympic opening ceremonies is that they inevitably segue into the visually monotonous parade of nations, two hours of waves, hideous national costumes and rampant selfie taking.
Pressured to start taking piano lessons at 8 years old, he found repeating scales monotonous but later credited the exercises with sharpening his playing and making it seem more casual.
David Thewlis is the voice of Michael, a self-help author stuck in a rut until he meets an anomalous woman (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who shakes up his monotonous life.
"What we do gets kind of monotonous—getting shuffled out of a club every night," explains frontman Brooks Nielsen, over beers in Brooklyn, ahead of their recent New York shows.
The landscape is monotonous — a flat and almost ghostly expanse of scrubby desert whose most impressive feature is the tenacity of the flora, fauna and human beings who survive there.
They know the monotonous injuries inflicted on them by men seeking only their own satisfaction, as well as the frank, intense sexual pleasure that arrives when you least expect it.
"I imagined myself reading the attributions in this monotonous South Side Chicago accent, trying to do all these different people, and I just thought it would be a drag," Saunders says.
"The main issue in DPRK is a monotonous diet – mainly rice/maize, kimchi and bean paste – lacking in essential fats and protein," the WFP told Reuters in a statement last month.
Your day-to-day routine might not seem as monotonous as the tasks that factory line robots perform, but as Michael Marczewski's stressful short film Vicious Cycle asks, is it really?
A solemn white-collar worker looking to add a little excitement to his monotonous middle-aged existence stumbles upon a sadistic parallel universe in illustrator Cornelius Joksch's animated short film, Adultland.
The two-day, 16-hour process — at times illuminating, at times monotonous — represents the senators' only chance to have a voice in the Trump impeachment trial, at least until final deliberations.
To escape from the monotonous reality of working life and the crumbling detritus of an EU-less Britain in order to cram as much fun into five solid days as possible.
From there, analysts can then evaluate each threat holistically, saving them time and allowing them to focus on the sophisticated analytical part of their work, instead of on monotonous data wrangling.
In the wake of Viet Cong's release and tour, the group's four members dispersed and relocated to different cities, some reeling from dissolved longterm relationships, others returning to monotonous day jobs.
Other companies, including Tesla, Mercedes-Benz and General Motors, are taking an incremental approach by putting increasingly sophisticated automation systems into their conventional cars to make driving less monotonous and safer.
With Overgard kept studiously free of any real character details, the movie can start to feel strangely monotonous, an endless cavalcade of catastrophe that at times stretches the limits of credibility.
It's a long peel of dun-colored sand bordered by tidy rainbow summer houses, monotonous black and white condos and monstrous blue McMansions that blister the length of the Delmarva Peninsula.
In most wine regions, especially prosperous areas like Burgundy where biodynamic viticulture is revered by many top producers, you see almost nothing but a monotonous tableau of vineyards end to end.
This is not misogynist, but it is morally uninterested, and strangely monotonous to behold, and you couldn't imagine Malick getting Mary Astor or Myrna Loy, say, to pull the same moves.
Their lives take a depressing, monotonous turn after they return home, but everything changes 50 years later when the woman they were both in love with is killed in an accident.
Just the perception that we grow up and that our mind is moulded in a particular way and that we're living in this society which in many ways is quite monotonous.
Culture III is apparently due for an early 2019 release, but, before that drops, Takeoff and Offset are supposed to follow the monotonous QUAVO HUNCHO with solo records of their own.
And while we might intellectually understand that the world is not going to suck, everywhere, forever, it's hard to remember this truth when the narrative becomes so monotonous, so grim, so heavy.
As researchers continue to question the ethics around MTurk, its workers will keep to completing many of the strange and monotonous tasks that keep academia and the internet at large churning along.
Using monotonous gray tones to background these vivid, contrasting props and the faceless subjects of her photos, she communicates both the stagnancy of sadness and the unexpected, often overwhelming, pang of sorrow.
It'll likely feel monotonous if you're still neck deep in Fallout 4's campaign, but if, like me, you've stepped away from the game, it's a nice return to something very familiar.
According to Gates, it's the mundane, monotonous, and thankless practice leading up to those moments of insight that defines who you are as a designer and ultimately curates your portfolio of work.
The answer of both is, in a nutshell, we want to be able to let a car drive on its own when driving is monotonous or annoying, like during the daily commute.
And as Uber continues to scale and move further into autonomy, it will be worth paying attention to who is going to be tapped to handle the more monotonous, low-wage jobs.
If you felt "Dunkirk" lacked a sufficient human dimension, this slightly monotonous film puts that up front, as the troops wait in suspense, banter with the cook (Toby Jones) and plot strategy.
But I'd argue that even though The Walking Dead is intentionally and narratively full of despair, the problem is that its story in the last two seasons has been monotonous and bland.
These jobs require backbreaking physical labor, and are often monotonous and tedious, requiring workers to repeat the same motions or tasks for upwards of 12 hours a day, six days a week.
Moments later, "Something's Coming" sets a jumpy tune against a monotonous substrate, dramatizing the longings for escape that propel Tony — the Romeo figure in this updated "Romeo and Juliet" — toward his fate.
It was a story told again and again about heroic cops and depraved men, girls for sale in plain sight, pimps in grocery store parking lots, a monotonous evening news moral panic.
As for the alleged binge-watching, Ms. Robinson said that she and her colleague put on "Schitt's Creek" in the background while they were working on a monotonous task in the office.
Dave Clark, the top executive in charge of operations at Amazon, said the company wanted the machines to perform the most monotonous tasks, leaving people to do jobs that engage them mentally.
But it's a monotonous work, in which the dancers, fingers twitching, form a tableau at center stage before falling out to let loose with agitated rolls to the floor and whipping turns.
Almost anyone who has worked in an office has felt beaten down by the job at some point, whether it's by an annoying co-worker, a demanding boss or monotonous daily tasks.
At the same time, Kidz Bop serves as unintentionally scorching parody: The Kidz' shrill chanting amplifies pop's tropes of lovelorn treacle, monotonous synth and bass and the childishness that dominates the charts.
Some might have been discouraged by a monotonous job that paid less than $100 a month, but Mutua harbored the spirit of an entrepreneur, even if he lacked the training of one.
In Star Trek, the crew doesn't spare a second thought about replacing and upgrading the ship computer, which speaks to them in a monotonous disembodied voice because they view it as a tool.
Rather, development will increasingly concentrate on utilizing third-party services to handle a large chunk of the monotonous yet necessary aspects of the project, such as cloud storage, push notifications and user administration.
To get you started, here are ten boring as hell, gratingly monotonous or just plain slumber-inducing videos ranked in order of how well they will make you go the fuck to sleep.
Burnout can consist of exhaustion, a reduced sense of accomplishment, cynicism toward the activity, and a lack of progress due to a monotonous training schedule—and it isn't reserved exclusively for professional athletes.
It was a similar scenario at the more sedate setting of the All England Club and by the end a desperate Konta, so potent early on, was swinging and missing with monotonous regularity.
The Northern Irishman battled his driver, finding the waist-high fescue grass with monotonous regularity as he hacked his way to an 80, his worst score in 29 rounds at the U.S. Open.
That doesn't mean there aren't funny lines and solid sequences, like one involving Shalhoub and Pollak in a later episode, only that the nature of the dialogue yields diminishing, bordering-on-monotonous returns.
The video features one-half of YELLE, Julie Budet, as a suburban resident who seems to live a fairly monotonous life: wake up, drink coffee, get ready, exercise, do chores, and so on.
Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is 217 and bored in Staten Island, a nighttime poetry class in Manhattan the only diversion from her lackluster marriage, dispiriting teenage children and monotonous job of teaching kindergarten.
It was only during the first major field deployment of M.R.E.'s, during the Gulf War in 1991, that military leaders realized the monotonous and largely brown rations could become a morale problem.
LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. — When Monica Bouchard, 238, calls voters across the country, sometimes hundreds within a few hours, she makes sure to use "the best voice possible": kind, clear, engaging and anything but monotonous.
A rubber-band rhythm of tension and release grows monotonous, and the otherwise appealing naturalness of the dancers is marred by over-insistent eye contact between them, an effect like too much mascara.
When was the last time anyone heard an assessment so edgily honest around a team whose last three coaches spoke in tones so colorlessly monotonous that you wondered if their comments were computerized?
TaxSlayer: Among the cheapest options for e-filing, TaxSlayer is comparable to TaxAct, but reviewers say the former&aposs user interface can become monotonous and it&aposs difficult to return to previous sections.
She doesn't grow restless or shy while Lib asks her to undress to examine her body, and she doesn't complain as the days stretch on, the monotonous chain of hours unbroken by mealtimes.
But the word also evokes a homogenized space, a Monocultural Cinematic Universe in which everything is bright, vapid, and family-friendly, and any whimpering of dissent is smoothed over into sameness: monotonous culture.
The rain forests episode closes with an aerial image of the wild Amazon tree canopy butting up against a homogeneous sea of agricultural palms, as sterile and monotonous as a computer-generated pattern.
But it's still an irritating, monotonous, and often embarrassing one that seemed unavoidable ... that is until one fed up genius, Samir Mezrahi, figured out a way to intervene the inevitable autoplay: a blank song.
These employees described to the paper an increasingly monotonous work environment in which they are effectively tending to and training the robots, and felt limited by the work of performing tasks delegated by machines.
The two-day, 16-hour process — at times illuminating, though mostly monotonous — represented the senators' only opportunity to participate in Trump's impeachment trial, at least until potential final deliberations as early as Friday. Sen.
Many critics are shouting out how much better Wonder Woman is than its fellow DC Comics flicks — which tend to be overstuffed with laughable writing, a barrage of special effects, and monotonous action scenes.
That's the approach that I've taken in my disco stuff as well—you can take a really cheesy song and space it out, make it more monotonous and clubby in a way that's interesting.
True, multinational chains, with their garish lighting, generic signage and often monotonous wares, have begun to supplant traditional retailers, including the jewelers whose shops line the Ponte Vecchio, home for centuries to Florence's goldsmiths.
But then, especially if you're the one wearing that, if you just had this monotonous, every exact half a second, this thing is opening and closing, it's just going to slowly drive you insane.
Yet if you feel like you're doing busy work or repeating the same monotonous tasks, it can be easy to forget that you actually are contributing in a meaningful way to the company's goals.
Regardless of the criticism leveled at it — much of it justified — Art Basel is for the most part actually about art and, however monotonous it may be, the fair is a high-quality spectacle.
The film is essentially a long masterclass, and while it had the potential to be a monotonous, self-centered diatribe, it's instead a magical peek into Varda's genius, peppered with her inimitable wit and humor.
One of the more involved stories features a young Finch man who descends into a fantasy world in his own head, all the while keeping up with his monotonous day job in a fish cannery.
When you notice your toddler getting bored of a monotonous task such as washing potatoes, try telling him or her a story, or make up a song to sing as you work with the food.
Rethink's focus was on small scale custom operations: a small business that could semi-automate itself by having a Sawyer perform some monotonous manual labor like packing boxes or aligning parts on the conveyor belt.
We can't help but count down the days to the monotonous work week without rooftop happy hours and summer Fridays, and that impending doom can really put a damper on work and the creativity flow.
Viewed from there, the colors interrupt the monotonous red brick facades below, distinguishing these buildings from the thousands that have sprung up across the city over decades, with little oversight, to contain Cairo's bursting population.
The result is deeply claustrophobic and resolutely unromanticized: Green's signature whimsy pops up from time to time in his characters' conversations, but his depiction of mental illness focuses on the sheer monotonous grind of it.
Although it sometimes turns a bit monotonous, and, by the end, morbid, the show gives evidence of Western art's not entirely healthy obsession with realism, as well as the resurgence of sculpture in recent decades.
The print and televised statements consist of plain black text in bullet points on a white background, with a monotonous, slow voice-over that is reminiscent of a digital assistant added to the televised ones.
As monotonous (or loud: looking at you Jim Cramer) as the CNBC anchors can be sometimes, I wanted to have the headlines and stock tickers crossing in lieu of my usual second monitor and TweetDeck.
Regardless of the risk, it was clear on both sides of the aisle — and to experienced prosecutors who watched — that after a long day of complicated and sometimes monotonous testimony, Mr. Schiff's oratory broke through.
It was the absence of any objective whatsoever, a kind of perpetual, monotonous gray state of tactical success after tactical success, while the area patrolled by U.S. soldiers steadily shrank as more troops went home.
Because churches and rowhouses dominate this part of Malcolm X instead of the monotonous high-rises farther north, the spaciousness of the thoroughfare can be fully appreciated here for its generous width and broad sidewalks.
Most ordinary North Koreans rely on a monotonous diet of rice, corn, kimchi and bean paste, and they lack essential fats and protein, according to testimonies from defectors and from U.N. officials allowed to visit.
His current position is general secretary of UEFA, which oversees European soccer, and most fans know him best for his regular, if somewhat monotonous, on-camera appearances during the draw ceremonies for UEFA's various continental tournaments.
His repeated calls for off-world colonization in the face of such risks as "climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth" began to sound monotonous, and people began to tune him out—Gizmodo included.
What that looks like in execution remains to be seen, but it certainly indicates that DICE is well aware of how monotonous the previous installment became, no matter how many DLC expansion packs were shuffled out.
It's immediately reminiscent of the grainy, sparkly keyboard refrain in "Yummy," but I'm not mad about some continuity — as long as the same effects and chords don't get overused and make the album sound too monotonous.
Their most frequent topics of conversation are how they get bathroom breaks, the pleasant temperature of the warehouses, the excellent benefits and suitable wages, friendly management and how the job isn't monotonous or tiring at all.
The episode was flat and monotonous, racing through plot beats without pausing to earn any of them, and leaning too hard on the acting chops of Peter Dinklage and sad Drogon to hold it all together.
The moon collection didn't lose its luster in the 20 minutes I had with the game, but it runs the risk of becoming a bit monotonous if it doesn't keep things fresh throughout the game's kingdoms.
The video switches back and forth between two screens, so the monotonous artificial sound of the cutthroat battle is disturbed by the technicians' comments about their work rather than that of the commentators regarding the match.
Even if there weren't higher rates of violence, just imagining yourself in a position where you are stuck somewhere for years in this monotonous, terrifying situation, that still seems like a brutal environment to be in.
Once the plot requires Percy to go on a picaresque quest to retrieve the titular lightning bolt, with Annabeth and a satyr named Grover (Jorrel Javier) in tow, the storytelling and songwriting become hectic and monotonous.
I don't want to touch my phone with wet or soapy hands, but the task of showering is so monotonous that it's the perfect time to catch up on emails or check out the weather forecast.
That said, the slice's dense texture remains nearly the same from top to bottom — I wish there'd been something to break up the somewhat monotonous flavor and texture of it, like fresh strawberries or chopped nuts.  
This could very well be a relatively cheap marketing ploy, but Nissan cites a 2015 study, undertaken by Loughborough University, which claims that even mild dehydration can result in increased driving errors on long, monotonous drives.
Steven Bender: Our economy is addicted to precarious and cheap labor, so we rely on Mexicans for dangerous or monotonous jobs, from crop picking to baby butt-wiping, to slaughterhouses, to steep roof repairs, to unwashed dishes.
In some cases, you can obtain ingredients through trading, or via the whims of inscrutable aliens, but the objective, always, is to craft more so you can explore more, in an endless, monotonous loop of non-achievement.
For a student who has just spent four years (or eight semesters) living on a monotonous schedule that rarely requires more than joggers and a hoodie— or, god forbid, a uniform — prom has the same transformative effect.
Ford, a 28-year-old public relations professional who lives in New York City, had just begun training for her first 100-mile ultramarathon, and found that the time spent on her feet was monotonous and uncomfortable.
It, and the Nate-as-a-kid chapters, give the core plot essential breathing space, adding background to the brothers' determination to find Every's treasure, and breaking up the this-can-quickly-grow-monotonous trigger-finger workouts.
"The Olympic Village gets boring and the food is somewhat, well, monotonous," said Carlos Vizcaino Sánchez, 48, a Cuban émigré who coaches track and field athletes in the Seychelles, the 115-island country in the Indian Ocean.
Regulations that require human test drivers to be trained, alert and able to take over when necessary — especially given the human tendency to lose focus during monotonous road tests — will help avert accidents and strengthen public trust.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In Xaviera Simmon's CODED exhibition, now on view at The Kitchen, there are a lot of intersections between the human, sexualized (and colored) body, and wide, visually monotonous land- and seascapes.
"Rehearsals," on weddings, is written in the allegedly universal second person but feels like a tactic to distance Jamison from girlish terrain, and "The Long Trick" is an oddly monotonous tribute to the men in her family.
There's nothing new about the abbreviated history you find in "Outlaw King," a monotonous slog through the life and brutally terrible times of Robert the Bruce (1274-1329), a Scottish noble who fought — and fought — the English.
Although the headlines are jumbled, you can make out the originals if you listen closely — but the narrator's monotonous voice is soporific; the back-and-forth, lackluster pull of the same four or so strings mind-numbing.
It hadn't seemed to cross his mind that a better opportunity might mean doing a less monotonous job or that a higher salary would mean he — and others in his position — could afford to work fewer hours.
"Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows" balances darkness and light, social commentary and ecstatic escapism: it is a well-gauged equilibrium that keeps the sex writing from feeling monotonous, and reinvigorates the subplots of honour killings and arranged marriages.
They're experts at sporting goofy grins and shooting skeptical stares, and often give off major IDGAF vibes that speak to me on a deeply personal level after scrolling through pages and pages of monotonous selfies and brunch shots.
"By writing the songs, I'm hopeful it answers some of the questions that I get asked that might be a little monotonous," the 23-year-old singer laughingly tells PEOPLE of his new album, Last Year Was Complicated.
Residents of the industrial Canadian city, which lies just across the river from Detroit, have been experiencing a monotonous type of noise pollution that is usually just referred to as 'The Hum,' and it's been happening for years.
Like most robotic systems, SuperPick is designed to replace dull, repetitive warehouse tasks that often lead to a high turnover rate — and honestly, warehouse tasks don't get much more monotonous than picking, sorting and placing objects from bins.
Furthermore, because of cramped conditions and monotonous work at high-stress levels (after all, protecting nuclear warheads from terrorism, not to mention rush hour traffic, has a tendency to induce stress), agent morale is flagging within the agency.
Rodgers often has married couples—who "still love each other but have stopped liking each other"—do this exercise; they meet as strangers at a bar, which hopefully re-injects passion and intrigue into their otherwise monotonous relationship.
It's a bad look to add in puffing hours out from fight time, which is not at all the same as getting high and watching The Seven Five at the end of another monotonous day in training camp.
It&aposs going to be in the seventh year of his presidency when they realize they&aposre going to miss him when we have another bland, vanilla, monotonous president who is long-winded and very boring in press conferences.
The earWave ad campaign, which took on as a freelance project, took all the vibrancy she put into the work — into the blacks and browns of her subjects' skin — and flattened it into a monotonous black and white mess.
The Florida Project follows Moonee and her mother, Halley (played by first-time actor Bria Vinaite, whom Baker found on Instagram), over the course of a long and monotonous summer in a bright purple motel called the Magic Castle.
For instance, Delphine Seyrig plays a quietly imploding housewife in 1975's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, a minimalist epic chronicling her monotonous existence of cleaning, cooking, tending to her son, and sleeping with men for money.
In a brief filed one week after Levandowski's deposition, Waymo argued that Levandowski's monotonous pleading of the Fifth Amendment could be used to infer that he had indeed stolen the trade secrets he was confronted with during the deposition.
When it first tears through the darkness, amplified to eardrum-rattling volume, you sense a collective quickening of pulses at the Daryl Roth Theater, where a somber and monotonous new variation on "Cyrano de Bergerac" opened on Thursday night.
Except it wasn't the album; it was a series of tracks that sound more or less like the album — syncopated piano, upright bass, brushed drums — weaving between tracks by Evans and other jazz musicians in a pleasantly monotonous wash.
I'm not sure I agree that all of us fall perfectly into one category or another, but if you're someone for whom meal prepping has turned food into a monotonous, neverending chore, well, maybe it's time to live a little.
A particular low point, from the first act, involves an almost-literal treading water song, where a bunch of sailors off to the mysterious Skull Island sing "Pressure Up." It's a monotonous song about the monotony on the high seas.
Tired of the monotonous, frenzied enthusiasm over the pageant from her mother and the rest of the town, Will decides to sign up as a contestant, knowing that her very body in the space will act as a form of protest.
Djokovic lost only four points on his own serve in the first set but what was most worrying for Isner was the way his opponent managed to read his towering delivery, pinging back returns to the baseline with monotonous regularity.
We also use repetition as an oppressive graphical nod to the monotonous tasks we do in life, combined with a sense of data overload to evoke the frustration of having to parse through so much information to find the real meaning.
The relentless suspense of this seamy tale of adultery and murder among the Paris working class fell victim to Mr. Botstein's arid, inflexible conducting of his American Symphony Orchestra, leaving Puccini's obsessive rhythms and hypnotically repeated motifs sounding merely monotonous.
All of this points to one underlying trend: With the unemployment rate near a 50-year low, workers have better options than working monotonous jobs, on their feet all day, catering to cantankerous customers with unpredictable hours and low pay.
In the long run it can be a more cost-effective solution for a large company than paying a human to do the same monotonous work, but do we want 1,000 robots in our homes all programmed to do one specific chore?
The survey of more than 5,000 Australians over the age of 18 found that a majority liked the idea of using a driverless vehicle when they were tired, when driving was "boring or monotonous," or if they had consumed alcohol or drugs.
This aesthetic often falters or fails, whether by becoming too monotonous or pretentious or by slipping into trite depravity, like a red-light-district level that culminates in some erotic encounters between beast-women and televisions and a vaudeville act involving public hanging.
What seems like a sleepy, monotonous job of diagnosing strep and mono takes a bad turn when a student, Victor Pascow (Obssa Ahmed), is hit by a car and brought in oozing blood and brain; Louis, despite a valiant attempt, cannot save him.
There something about yelling "HEY YO" while bouncing—the moves constantly being switched up to stop you hitting that monotonous state anyone who has regularly gone on gym machines will recognize—that gives you the ability to keep going, and going, and going.
Still, the film, accompanied by a percussive score from Benh Zeitlin and Dan Romer (both wrote the music for "Beasts of the Southern Wild," which Mr. Zeitlin directed), has a wandering attention span and grows monotonous even at barely more than one hour.
" Repetition has long been a facet of Radcliffe's songs, evidenced his unsettlingly monotonous delivery on Enjoy the Great Outdoors highlight "Slamming On The Brakes," where he opened with "Doe / A deer / A female deer / Crashing through the windshield, lips dry, eyes peeled.
She curated an ever-diversifying portfolio of esteemed, wealthy black women: a room-dominating, lusty-voiced Oprah; a monotonous, pageant-calm Beyoncé; a cream-clad Whitney Houston who lived so fast she practically cast sparks; an elderly Maya Angelou whose vowels were poems.
A better way to put it might be: Call centers are an example of how capitalism can result in truly monotonous and utterly repetitive jobs, which is exactly the kind of thing that social scientists looking to conduct "research" are drawn to.
The poems are monotonous scribbles of the moody-undergraduate school, what young Werther would have sung had he been Canadian: O apple of the world we weren't married on the surface we were married at the core I can't take it anymore.
He's a hulking, topless, monotonous, drivel-spouting meathead who's absolutely gagging to join the crew of lesser known and underappreciated cult gaming icons—a Dante, a Gene, a Travis Touchdown—but with absolutely none of the wit, style, charm, or charisma to warrant it.
I think couples do it to remember the happy times and reminisce on this one day or one hour where they fell back in love with each other, which has since devolved into the monotonous daily struggle of remembering why you are with someone.
That's exactly why we're turning to these brides, hailing from all over the world, who bring a refreshing (read: extra) take on the monotonous traditions we've been subjected to since that one time our parents dragged us to a very distant relative's never-ending party.
Taking ideas from both left and right while adopting Evola's occult trappings "beyond" ideology, their new band, Death In June, produced a brooding, monotonous sound with often lugubrious lyrics evoking the ruins of civilization and the desire to rise, phoenix-like from the ashes.
The Post's report about automation creating an increasingly monotonous, confined, and mind-numbing work environment for Walmart workers immediately calls to mind similar reports about the company's retail rival Amazon, which has also been shifting to free labor performed by robots for years now.
Back in those days, those records did quite well for underground stuff, they really worked for the early Scandinavian and European black metal scene, because it was so dark and bleak,and kind of monotonous which was kind of a thing in those days.
While it's true that entrepreneurs must be prepared to wear several hats at once, if you're always tied up in monotonous administrative tasks—especially those that fall outside your skill set—you won't have the time or energy to devote to high-level strategizing.
And when the beaches during the day and dance clubs at night become monotonous, head to the mainland to explore Wynwood, the district whose walls feature work from some of the world's most celebrated street artists, or Versailles in Little Havana for some Cuban cuisine.
No. It's a very romantic notion to want to live some totally off-grid hunter-gatherer lifestyle, but having seen the sheer monotonous toil and graft that some of the local peasantry put into their existence, it really put me off doing the same.
For anyone who has lived in the Midwest, among the hushed suburban conformity and tidy green lawns, it's not remotely shocking that an untamable imagination like Goff's could arise from — and was perhaps even animated by — the area's vast, monotonous landscapes and often conservative attitudes.
A Victorian girl bound by Victorian-era trappings, she took informal school lessons in a dining room filled with carved oak and marble, ventured on monotonous twice-daily outings to nearby Kensington Gardens, and awaited a future of ballroom dances in satin dresses and pearls.
Only two of those drives took longer than three minutes, quick strikes that represented a staggering blend of speed and arm strength before giving way to a workmanlike drubbing: methodical, mostly monotonous and essentially merciless — a rarity in a matchup of top-five teams.
The three-day Judiciary Committee proceedings were largely an exercise in grandstanding, speechifying and at times monotonous repetition — an endurance exercise in which each side appeared to be baiting the other to trip over their arguments or commit procedural offenses that could resonate outside Washington.
Cohen's singing changed over the years too, although here the transformation was more strictly physical — always monotonous, his deadpan was if anything bleaker in 1967, when his clear voice projected fey self-delight, than in 2016, when his deep, parched croak suited the melancholy more closely.
The gym can be a great place to meet up and work out with friends too, but most people run solo indoors, which can be quite monotonous, and slightly sad when the realization sinks in that you're running but not actually going anywhere on a treadmill.
Emily and Janine's time in the Colonies continues to be harrowing and monotonous, and harrowing in its monotony: The endless scenes of the Unwomen digging through radioactive dirt for no apparent purpose all blur together after a while in a way that feels deliberate but also dull.
While it's literally just fun and games, the researchers say that learning through the game is much more effective than simply sitting through a monotonous speech — especially since everyone sitting in the plane assumes that they already know the deal with those masks and emergency doors.
But an array of features of, say, the 1997-to-270 period are observable today: An unusually long economic expansion that began with tepid growth rates and stubbornly slow employment gains finally start to hum, reaching a phase of almost-monotonous strong performance and essentially full employment.
But the company — whose machines are designed to supplement rather than supplant human security guards, and take care of monotonous tasks like scanning license plates in a parking lot — also has a closer view than most of the emerging and unpredictable world of robot-people interactions.
What is more likely is that the bedbugs and the 24/7 fight to remove them has exploded the monotonous routine of my melancholy city life and allowed me to stand on the mountains of rubble and see the skies of possibility from a fresh vantage point.
That doesn't mean the Pistons will win a championship anytime soon, but if the 21-year-old is able to exceed expectations as a versatile defender while adding new proportions to Van Gundy's flat attack, they'll be more feisty and stylish than the monotonous, predictable also-rans they've become.
Everything in the movie was completely planned out ahead of time in terms of the colors of the various locations And as we have Gamora being chased into this cavern, which is actually a bunch of levels of caverns, I didn't want the design to be too monotonous.
Rather than monotonous demonstrations of how to use a life-jacket, the video integrates important safety messages with stunning locations around the country, including oxygen masks at Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art and an emergency slide how-to in the glorious surroundings of Josephine Falls in Queensland.
Britain has become so familiar with her weaknesses over the past year or so—her lack of human empathy, her habit of repeating the same monotonous phrase ("strong and stable", "nothing has changed"), her combination of stubbornness and weakness—that it is easy to forget that she has formidable qualities.
Since the late '70s, his art has taken a brain-scrambling multitude of forms: monotonous photographs of German apartments, luridly colorized mappings of Mars, retouched pornography scoured from the web, Man Ray-style "photograms" made with a supercomputer and copies of early-20th-century still lifes doctored to look like negatives.
Now, given that this is a video in which an aerobics instructor, played by Deanne Berry, and her crew of nimble bodied dancers virtually fuck a sweat-soaked lone male, played with gusto by Juan Pablo Di Pace, over a thuddingly monotonous, MDMA-spangled soundtrack, that might seem like a slightly naive attitude.
If it weren't so well done — lit like a furnished basement, shot with an almost tactical rigidity until the final scene — the whole thing would feel monotonous: Ford and Tench go to work each morning, interview some serial killers, discuss their results with Carr, then go home to their respective families or girlfriends.
It's not only useful for small companies with smaller production runs that might only need a robot to work on a specific assembly task for a few days instead of many months; it's also useful for product testing and performing a myriad of tests that would be too monotonous for a human.
"Aircrews believed the drawings on the aircraft would be contained only to aircrews viewing while flying on the aircraft and was meant to be a morale boost and joke to break from the monotonous routines encountered during that rotation," according to a redacted copy of the investigation obtained by Task and Purpose.
The painter maintains a foothold in New York, but he teaches for a living somewhere else; the painter believes in the importance of a "rigorous and consistent in-studio working schedule," however monotonous that might sound, and "an informed awareness of contemporary art in all media," however bleak that might appear to make him feel.
These relatively small staffs are traveling across the country for school visits, doing several information sessions for prospective students a week, reading thousands of applications (difficult and monotonous work that takes eight to 12 hours a day if you're doing it right), and then sitting through full-day committee sessions to debate specific cases.
"Those with the PTSD talked more slowly (slower tongue movement), were more monotonous with fewer bursts of vocalization, were less animated and energetic (lifeless) in their speech, and had longer hesitations and a flatter tone," said lead study author Dr. Charles Marmar, chair of psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine in New York City.
Which is quite good really because the world's a monotonous, bland, boring place most of the time so the last thing any of us need or want is another bloke who makes records that sound like the records someone else made fifteen years ago but not quite as good as those records were in the first place.
As pretentious as that sounds, that's probably exactly the thought running through the minds of the biggest names in Hollywood as they do various monotonous activities — like Jennifer Lawrence jumping on a trampoline to promote a new fragrance by Dior — or perilous ones, like Dakota Johnson going to therapy because of her dark journey filming Suspiria.
"Tyll" revels in the efforts of second-rate artists doing their best with small talent: a bard whose "poor singing would not be so bad if he could at least play the lute," a monotonous old woman who can remember long stories without forgetting a line, a count who fills out his memoir with descriptions from other books.
At the Guggenheim, it is the first in a terrific selection of paintings and drawings that have raised my opinion of his two-dimensional work, which unfortunately is far better known for the monotonous and largely mud-colored monochrome, ritualistic portraits from his later years, for which he demanded direct gazes from his sitters as he excavated their heads in pictorial space.
Verhoeven's American crossover success began with Robocop, another big action movie with an unexpectedly wry perspective, and Troopers seems very much an attempt to recreate that success after the belly-flop of Showgirls (even if it turns into a boiler-place action/mission movie in the back half, as the back-to-back combat sequences grow more than a little monotonous).
The past three days have seen a petty-ass war between Lana Del Rey stans and Lorde stans on review aggregator Metacritic, with hordes of presumably sepia-toned Lana Del Rey fans creating accounts to attack Lorde's Melodrama, labelling it boring and mainstream, Meanwhile, a miniature army of Lorde fans are responding in kind, dismissing Lana Del Rey's Lust for Life as boring and monotonous.
The first, titled "WIND IN MY SAILS", sees Earl spitting with many a biblical reference—Moses, Satan, God, repent, hell—as he further steadies his hold on his monotonous flow, steering it into unchartered territory, over an instrumental (which samples FlyLo's Captain Murphy project) that's a little lighter than what we were presented on last year's sophomore album I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside.
Variety reports that the actress will star in a new Fox comedy, which has been green-lit for a pilot, called Linda From HR. Graham is set to play a woman named Linda Plugh, "whose one bad decision throws her monotonous, unfulfilled life into an exciting but dangerous tailspin of balancing work life, home life and a secret that could unravel everything," Variety writes.
Platformers are practically made to break you, and some boss fights can be the most monotonous experience of "roll to dodge, strike at the belly, roll to dodge, strike at the belly..." Being that we are humans, it's not outrageous to expect some range of emotion when engaging with a medium that you're actively participating in (and, in a way, working against to overcome obstacles).
It's not bland or monotonous, some musical white noise, or meditation musak: every minute is fixed by some dreamy idea (and all of it has been performed for a dozing audience as part of a happening broadcast in full live on the BBC), but it also aspires to a lull, a certain boredom, a mode that seems perpetually scarce in the days of screens everywhere.
Proving the painting's flatness with frontal shapes or solid stripes must have seemed superfluous or monotonous to him; he wanted movement; he wanted your eyes to dance and skitter across the painting, where the ground might be mottled or solid, where the shifts of color and surface pull you closer, where the space between the planes and vibrate or smolder, where color intensities vary considerably.
They radiate expertise and some appealing tactile nuance, in their contrasts of blunt brushwork and raw canvas (Moholy-Nagy strove to train his students' sense of touch by requiring them to explore surfaces with their eyes closed), but one canvas is very like another: less a fulfillment than an illustration of the artist's pictorial aesthetic, which was exacting in execution but monotonous in feeling.
These are monotonous interludes meant to expand on and explain the legend of Donna — how she turned her university valediction into "When I Kissed the Teacher," a number that not even the Muppets would endorse; how she wound up pregnant with a daughter of uncertain paternity; how she turned a bunch of dust and debris into the sort of seaside splendor you find only in a Nancy Meyers movie.
"Their days amount to little more than running the home and working as many hours as they can to meet these orders, cooped up inside," Mr. Kara said, noting that injury and chronic illness, including back pain and diminishing eyesight, were common complaints as a result of the monotonous work, which is often fulfilled in dusty or dirty environments and with no medical care offered by the subcontractors.
If, then, the cumulative effect is initially slightly monotonous, that is perhaps because his "Young Woman Braiding Her Hair" (1876) already reveals much of his skill, but perhaps not as much as manifest in his "Bust of a Model" (1916) or in the various other later pictures; it's interesting to note that the woman depicted in "Blonde Bather" (1881), a memorial of his honeymoon in Naples, is not unlike his later models.
After a person hired to sit in a car and monitor its self-driving tech failed to prevent a fatal collision between her self-driving Uber test vehicle and an Arizona pedestrian, engineers wondered whether that system—which demanded the humans behind the wheel perform the monotonous task of watching miles of road go by and simultaneously be prepared to wrest control of the wheel if something went terribly wrong—was ill-conceived.
First, a rundown of some examples (with a tip of the hat to Benjamin R. Cohen, a professor in engineering at Lafayette College, who alerted me to the trend): In "Love," we are treated to no fewer than three sex scenes within the first six minutes, the most dramatically significant one being the male protagonist having stiff, monotonous sex with his aloof girlfriend, both of them still wearing tops, as he asks her to move in with him.
You lean your forehead against the cool window and watch the countryside rolling by — the orchard rows, the cows — and although there might be some brief distraction (a crane flying overhead that looks for a second like a pterodactyl; Luis, in the seat behind you, doing the trick where he inverts his eyelids) mostly it is just field after field, the vineyards and the flocks of black birds, the irrigation spray feathering in long arcs over the moving landscape's bright, monotonous sweetness.

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