All 7 Uses of
monotonous
in
The Mill on the Floss
- What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?†
Chpt 1.5 *monotony = lack of variety
- No woman is; she can always incline him to do either what she wishes, or the reverse; and on the composite impulses that were threatening to hurry Mr. Tulliver into "law," Mrs. Tulliver's monotonous pleading had doubtless its share of force; it might even be comparable to that proverbial feather which has the credit or discredit of breaking the camel's back; though, on a strictly impartial view, the blame ought rather to lie with the previous weight of feathers which had already placed the back in such imminent peril that an otherwise innocent feather could not settle on it without mischief.†
Chpt 2.2monotonous = lacking in variety and/or boring
- As for Tom's school course, it went on with mill-like monotony, his mind continuing to move with a slow, half-stifled pulse in a medium uninteresting or unintelligible ideas.†
Chpt 2.7monotony = lack of variety
- "Sit down, sit down," said Mr. Deane, relapsing into his accounts, in which he and the managing-clerk remained so absorbed for the next half-hour that Tom began to wonder whether he should have to sit in this way till the bank closed,—there seemed so little tendency toward a conclusion in the quiet, monotonous procedure of these sleek, prosperous men of business.†
Chpt 3.5monotonous = lacking in variety and/or boring
- And now her lot was beginning to have a still, sad monotony, which threw her more than ever on her inward self.†
Chpt 4.2monotony = lack of variety
- The voice that said this made sweet music to Maggie; but athwart it there came an urgent, monotonous warning from another voice which she had been learning to obey,—the warning that such interviews implied secrecy; implied doing something she would dread to be discovered in, something that, if discovered, must cause anger and pain; and that the admission of anything so near doubleness would act as a spiritual blight.†
Chpt 5.1monotonous = lacking in variety and/or boring
- But the severe monotonous warning came again and again,—that she was losing the simplicity and clearness of her life by admitting a ground of concealment; and that, by forsaking the simple rule of renunciation, she was throwing herself under the seductive guidance of illimitable wants.†
Chpt 5.3
Definition:
lacking in variety -- typically boring