All 5 Uses of
monotonous
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive.†
Chpt 1
- The formal monotonous ticking of the Louis Quatorze clock annoyed him.†
Chpt 4 *
- The mere cadence of the sentences, the subtle monotony of their music, so full as it was of complex refrains and movements elaborately repeated, produced in the mind of the lad, as he passed from chapter to chapter, a form of reverie, a malady of dreaming, that made him unconscious of the falling day and creeping shadows.†
Chpt 10
- …with a vermilion-and-gold ceiling and walls of olive-green lacquer, he used to give curious concerts, in which mad gypsies tore wild music from little zithers, or grave yellow-shawled Tunisians plucked at the strained strings of monstrous lutes, while grinning negroes beat monotonously upon copper drums, and, crouching upon scarlet mats, slim turbaned Indians blew through long pipes of reed or brass, and charmed, or feigned to charm, great hooded snakes and horrible horned adders.†
Chpt 11
- The monotony became unbearable, and, as the mist thickened, he felt afraid.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(monotonous) lacking in variety -- typically boring