All 7 Uses of
monotonous
in
The Fountainhead
- As one stands before its southern facade, one is stricken with the realization that the stringcourses, repeated with deliberate and gracious monotony from the third to the eighteenth story, these long, straight, horizontal lines are the moderating, leveling principle, the lines of equality.†
Chpt 1.4
- The thought followed him, gentle, unstressed, monotonous, at his work, at home, at night: he was a murderer…no, but almost a murderer…almost a murderer…He knew that it had not been an accident; he knew he had counted on the shock and the terror; he had counted on that second stroke which would send Heyer to the hospital for the rest of his days.†
Chpt 1.15
- When he approached, she made no effort to ignore him; she turned to him, she answered; but the monotonous precision of her answers stopped him, made him helpless, made him leave her in a few moments.†
Chpt 2.6
- I am—essentially—such an earnest, single-toned Puritan that I must allow myself another color occasionally—to relieve the monotony.†
Chpt 2.8 *
- That's the trouble with victims—they don't even know they're victims, which is as it should be, but it does become monotonous and takes half the fun away.†
Chpt 2.12
- He did nothing spectacular; his voice was low, metallic, inclined to sound monotonous; he was too correct, in a manner that was almost deliberate satire on correctness.†
Chpt 3.1
- He saw the economy of plan preserved, but the expense of incomprehensible features added; the variety of modeled masses gone, replaced by the monotony of brutish cubes; a new wing added, with a vaulted roof, bulging out of a wall like a tumor, containing a gymnasium; strings of balconies added, made of metal stripes painted a violent blue; comer windows without purpose; an angle cut off for a useless door, with a round metal awning supported by a pole, like a haberdashery in the…†
Chpt 4.12
Definition:
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(monotonous) lacking in variety -- typically boring