monotone

“That’s a hard question to answer,” Stewart says in her signature monotone, the voice she uses when she’s not selling you something.

“Emilia Pérez,” which recently took special awards at the Cannes Film Festival, introduces the concept of “halves” set against a monotone backdrop.

In the band’s formative years, NOFX’s defining quality was how bad the group was — bad musicians and bad singers, with Fat Mike’s distinctive, whiny-sounding lead vocals and Melvin’s guttural, monotone screams.

I was doing comedy in Boston for a year and there was a newspaper called the Phoenix, an independent paper, and someone wrote a review, they saw me, and they said, " . . . a monotone, deadpan."

She speaks with a South Central-inflected monotone in her voice, and is always down to lean into the darker undertones of an outfit, upping the drama with black leather or structural details.