monotonously

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Thanks in large part to a typically overworked performance by Mr. White, who is monotonously soulful and tortured, Springsteen comes across as an anti-icon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

And there are many entertaining moments, a few thought-provoking subplots and a fine evocation of how exhausting it is to be shuttled from state to state to cover candidates who monotonously refuse to grant interviews.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024

“Joker” is, finally, so monotonously grandiose and full of its own pretensions that it winds up feeling puny and predictable.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2019

The boys acquit themselves worse — Gregson’s “Wildly Into the Dark” and Atticus’s “Love Her Wild” are loaded with sensitive-cowboy-mystic peacocking, monotonously mansplaining love to their stardust-kissed muses.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2017

He shouted at them and when they did not move he came down on the beach and his dog barked monotonously.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck