All 8 Uses
monotonous
in
Madame Bovary
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- It was one habit among other habits, and, like a dessert, looked forward to after the monotony of dinner.†
Chpt 1.7monotony = lack of variety
- Afar off a dog sometimes howled; and the bell, keeping time, continued its monotonous ringing that died away over the fields.†
Chpt 1.9 *monotonous = lacking in variety and/or boring
- Of the windows of the village there was one yet more often occupied; for on Sundays from morning to night, and every morning when the weather was bright, one could see at the dormer-window of the garret the profile of Monsieur Binet bending over his lathe, whose monotonous humming could be heard at the Lion d'Or.†
Chpt 2.4
- Several citizens had scoured their houses the evening before; tri-coloured flags hung from half-open windows; all the public-houses were full; and in the lovely weather the starched caps, the golden crosses, and the coloured neckerchiefs seemed whiter than snow, shone in the sun, and relieved with the motley colours the sombre monotony of the frock-coats and blue smocks.†
Chpt 2.8monotony = lack of variety
- She turned away from time to time to avoid his look, and then she saw only the pine trunks in lines, whose monotonous succession made her a little giddy.†
Chpt 2.9monotonous = lacking in variety and/or boring
- Emma was like all his mistresses; and the charm of novelty, gradually falling away like a garment, laid bare the eternal monotony of passion, that has always the same forms and the same language.†
Chpt 2.12monotony = lack of variety
- When the cloth was removed, Bovary did not rise, nor did Emma; and as she looked at him, the monotony of the spectacle drove little by little all pity from her heart.†
Chpt 3.2
- Then the open country spread away with a monotonous movement till it touched in the distance the vague line of the pale sky.†
Chpt 3.5monotonous = lacking in variety and/or boring
Definitions:
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(1)
(monotonous) lacking in variety -- typically boring
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)