All 6 Uses of
monotonous
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To the Lighthouse
- How's that?" of the children playing cricket, had ceased; so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts and seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again as she sat with the children the words of some old cradle song, murmured by nature, "I am guarding you—I am your support," but at other times suddenly and unexpectedly, especially when her mind raised itself slightly from the task actually in hand,…†
Part 1
- She bore about with her, she could not help knowing it, the torch of her beauty; she carried it erect into any room that she entered; and after all, veil it as she might, and shrink from the monotony of bearing that it imposed on her, her beauty was apparent.†
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- …she spoke them rhythmically in Cam's mind, and Cam was repeating after her how it was like a mountain, a bird's nest, a garden, and there were little antelopes, and her eyes were opening and shutting, and Mrs. Ramsay went on speaking still more monotonously, and more rhythmically and more nonsensically, how she must shut her eyes and go to sleep and dream of mountains and valleys and stars falling and parrots and antelopes and gardens, and everything lovely, she said, raising her head…†
Part 1
- Can't paint, can't write, she murmured monotonously, anxiously considering what her plan of attack should be.†
Part 3
- How monotonous, they would say, and the same always!†
Part 3
- It was no monotony of bliss—she with her impulses and quicknesses; he with his shudders and glooms.†
Part 3
Definition:
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(monotonous) lacking in variety -- typically boring