All 13 Uses of
monotonous
in
Light in August
- It will take you that far; backrolling now behind her a long monotonous succession of peaceful and undeviating changes from day to dark and dark to day again, through which she advanced in identical and anonymous and deliberate wagons as though through a succession of creakwheeled and limpeared avatars, like something moving forever and without progress across an urn.†
Chpt 1monotonous = lacking in variety and/or boring
- So much is this so that in the watching of it the eye loses it as sight and sense drowsily merge and blend, like the road itself, with all the peaceful and monotonous changes between darkness and day, like already measured thread being rewound onto a spool.†
Chpt 1
- Now there is no sound in the room save the steady shrilling of insects and the monotonous sound of Byron's voice.†
Chpt 4 *
- He prayed for a long time, his voice droning, soporific, monotonous.†
Chpt 7
- Even the air seemed still to excrete that monotonous voice as of someone talking in a dream, talking, adjuring, arguing with a Presence who could not even make a phantom indentation in an actual rug.†
Chpt 7
- In a minute I will memory clicking knowing I see I see I more than see hear I hear I see my head bent I hear the monotonous dogmatic voice which I believe will never cease going on and on forever and peeping I see the indomitable bullet head the clean blunt beard they too bent and I thinking.†
Chpt 10
- He whistled monotonously but truly: something in minor, plaintive and negroid.†
Chpt 12
- The door would be shut, locked; from beyond it the monotonous steady voice came.†
Chpt 12
- And before the door had shut and the bolt had shot to behind him, he would hear the voice again, monotonous, calm, and despairing, saying what and to what or whom he dared not learn nor suspect.†
Chpt 12
- As he mounted the stairs the monotonous voice grew louder, sounded louder and clearer than usual.†
Chpt 12
- She spoke of herself and of him as of two other people, her voice still, monotonous, sexless.†
Chpt 12
- It was as though he carried within him, somewhere within that inert and sighing mass of flesh, the secret itself: that which moved and evoked them as with a promise of something beyond the sluttishness of stuffed entrails and monotonous days.†
Chpt 13
- She speaks in the same dead, level tone: the two voices in monotonous strophe and antistrophe: two bodiless voices recounting dreamily something performed in a region without dimension by people without blood: "I laid across the bed and I heard him go out and then I heard the horse come up from the barn and pass the house, already galloping.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
lacking in variety -- typically boring