monotonous
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We’re all familiar with workplace efficiency, where every task must beat the clock and “skill and creativity” are reduced to “repetitive, monotonous tasks, without the beautiful compensation of singing along.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The film is so committed to its rigors — the two-person cast, the glacial camera pivots, the moody lighting — that it teeters on the line of becoming monotonous.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
Set in a dour factory, “Metropolis” is “the grandfather of all ‘beat the worker down with monotonous, repetitive labor, totally unrecognized by management’ movies,” says Mankiewicz of TCM.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025
It can get a little bit monotonous and a little bit tedious.
From BBC • Sep. 9, 2025
You listened to the monotonous chewing of cattle, the tepid rustle of water as it fingered its way through the reeds.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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