All 4 Uses of
monotonous
in
The Age of Innocence
- But you couldn't make a man like Winsett see that; and that was why the New York of literary clubs and exotic restaurants, though a first shake made it seem more of a kaleidoscope, turned out, in the end, to be a smaller box, with a more monotonous pattern, than the assembled atoms of Fifth Avenue.†
Chpt 14
- To me the only death is monotony.†
Chpt 21 *
- I always say to Ellen: Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.†
Chpt 21
- As she stood there, lifting her long arm to fasten a puff that had slipped from its place in her intricate hair, Archer was struck by something languid and inelastic in her attitude, and wondered if the deadly monotony of their lives had laid its weight on her also.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(monotonous) lacking in variety -- typically boring