routineness

“My mother was like clockwork,” Bob tells me, emphasizing the routineness by snapping his fingers.

I will say that what prompted a lot of the internal reforms we put in place had less to do with what the left or Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International or other organizations were saying and had more to do with me looking at sort of the way in which the number of drone strikes was going up and the routineness with which, early in my presidency, you were seeing both DOD and CIA and our intelligence teams think about this.

But the series had a kind of true-to-life routineness, moments that consisted simply of two friends hanging out at the tidier one’s apartment, sharing a bottle of wine and musing about the promise of work-life balance.

The routineness of air travel today, the sometimes weary casualness with which many passengers fly, contradicts the physical grace of airliners.

The process was handled by various company employees in a piecemeal fashion, despite the routineness of the task.