And that there can be realism within the monotony — realism and comedy — within the monotony of life.
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Think of ways to break up the monotony, says Cote.
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It's much more exciting than the monotony of everyday life.
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No more mess, no more monotony, no more smelly hands!
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What you absolutely have to avoid is monotony and boredom.
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The mothers say the monotony is hardest on their children.
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Somehow it has never even proved to be a monotony.
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But he's also making you suffer with gore and monotony.
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At the very least, I'm going to break up the monotony.
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Boring, yes, but in this age, monotony can be incredibly comforting.
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The summer was progressing in a swirl of depression and monotony.
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Roye acknowledged that the monotony of defeat sometimes wore on him.
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There's a monotony to the blank-eyed painting, our critic writes.
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I like to break up the monotony of Speedo after Speedo.
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I used it as a way to break up the monotony.
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Forbis's own hope is strained by the dull monotony of prison.
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Monotony and boredom can be a threat to any expedition's well-being.
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In the busy monotony of our lives, we were parents once again.
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Breaking up the monotony, a mob of emus raced alongside the ute.
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Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins no doubt knew that monotony could become a problem.
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" An earlier version of this article misstated the history of "Mr. Monotony.
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In The Water Dancer, there is nothing to break up that monotony.
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With monotony, small differences begin to emerge, between those trees, those sweaters.
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It was an adventure and helped to break the monotony of prison life.
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But as narrative techniques go, this is an almost certain formula for monotony.
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In partnership with The Laughing Cow, we're challenging you to break the monotony.
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Investors rewarded Facebook for its monotony with a 4.5 percent share price boost.
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Unfortunately, at least to Lambkin, the success eventually gave way to creative monotony.
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Mr. Weinstein said the changes would break the uniformity — some call it monotony.
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Staying busy and aware of all your progress could help combat the monotony.
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This week, two fairs gamble on unpredictability to help break up the monotony.
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But in explaining his success, Redick cited the monotony of his daily routine.
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Then, after about 50 seconds of nothing happening, the monotony is suddenly broken.
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"Honestly, monotony can be good," one turker, Katie Boehm of Pittsburgh, told me.
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It's especially welcome here, because it makes for a nice break from the monotony.
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Transfer Deadline Day is over, and the monotony of life has resumed in earnest.
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To get away from this monotony, I decide to switch things up a bit.
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I hated the monotony of the gym, and the endless yawning miles of cycling.
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That three of these works are male-female duets may contribute to the monotony.
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"It breaks up the monotony," Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman said in recent days.
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However, truly distinctive pieces can emerge from the spatial monotony of an assembly line.
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I told the photographer I objected to the quantity and monotony of the images.
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The storytelling reaffirms that less is more in an age when more is monotony.
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His shared project with Saint Phalle was to explode everything: monogamy, monotony, art, propriety.
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It definitely broke the monotony of the two of us staring at each other.
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Breaking away from monotony, feeling lost, and maybe ushering in the End of Days.
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Some days, her mother-in-law (Elizabeth Marvel) breaks up the monotony with a visit.
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The only difficulty of the game is dealing with the monotony of the whole experience.
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Their mere presence amid Paris' climate of monotony and institution is a sign of progress.
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But no number of books or other entertainment could alleviate the monotony of the job.
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His speeches, delivered with the jackhammer monotony of the truly boorish, were indisputably his own.
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We live in a golden era for those who love their art mired in monotony.
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That dilemma encapsulates both the fierce urgency of now and the plodding monotony of it.
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Just enough actual work is done to fend off monotony and keep the enterprise moving.
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Real-life espionage is, for the most part, boring: a lot of waiting, meetings, monotony.
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Season five stripped that away and gave us nothing but the grinding monotony of despair.
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I believe this is representative of monotony and repetition in the subject of this picture.
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They lie, they exploit, they seek distraction at any price from the monotony of existence.
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Ariadne, for instance, survives the monotony of marriage by having anonymous sex with virtual strangers.
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I pull up Chopped on Hulu while I do this to break up the monotony.
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I think the monotony and beige festive glow of every scene might have hypnotized me.
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What awful games will Commander Lawrence play with June for the sake of disrupting Gilead's monotony?
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One has to dig deep to break out of such cycles of passive existence and monotony.
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Do you sometimes long for a respite from the monotony of pugs, beach sunsets, and blossom?
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No matter what anyone else was spinning, monotony never replaced melody, nor synthetics instead of lyrics.
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Isn't avoiding monotony one of the reasons why I went into freelance in the first place?
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Indeed, Mac has been firmly aligned against gray monotony since their famous 1984 Super Bowl commercial.
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That she doesn't have family and cultural ties that would break up the monotony of Monterey?
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I've usually had something on the side that relieved the monotony of working nine to five.
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It might sound tedious, but I always enjoyed the simple monotony of just moving materials around.
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He was clutching a device that he contends could change the monotony of bathroom routines forever.
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If we didn't come up with excuses to escape from daily monotony, then we'd go crazy.
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But with repetition comes monotony; thanks to today's models, the look has (more or less) evolved.
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We joked that we wanted the war to start just for a break from the monotony.
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The dancers, in previous productions clad in drab gray skirts and tops, add to the monotony.
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My only qualm is that the rhythms vary so rarely that a certain monotony sets in.
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Having goals can break up the monotony of your responsible days and give you little victories.
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By the end of my third meal, I was desperate for some break in the monotony.
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They fear "losing it"—when residents, overcome by monotony or anxiety, wander the halls like zombies.
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There are plenty of films about the monotony of suburbia, but Wakefield takes a very different turn.
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The protagonists themselves vary depending on the world, but most of them have grown tired of monotony.
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At their worst, people might roll their eyes at the monotony, but they'll get over it eventually.
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But on its own, "Swear" is an almost gentle break from the monotony of Negan's endless torture.
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DeMille, an old thriller pro, recreates the monotony of a guided educational tour of Havana at length.
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However, it's not just the monotony of self-isolation that's brought this pastime back into the spotlight.
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Like the House team, they used video to illustrate their arguments and break up the visual monotony.
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The need for preserves, relishes and chutneys to relieve the monotony (and to provide nutrition) was acute.
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And for Jannah, this particular color offers a small respite from the aesthetic monotony of New York.
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Luckily, brands are heeding the call and finally launching palettes that break away from all the monochrome monotony.
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Bored by the monotony of the highway, I began to think of problems with the traditional hiring process.
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As a student, it's easy to yearn for a life beyond the monotony of classes, papers, and tests.
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To overcome isolation and monotony, astronauts will need a variety of stimulating ways to interact with their environment.
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Monotony is the killer of enthusiasm, and the confusion as to why it's occurring must be building resentment.
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Her photographs of endlessly repeating spools or blocks commented on the monotony, rigidity and efficacy of mass manufacture.
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Dementia-care facilities offer regular manicures and other salon services to break up the monotony of the days.
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All of this variation, including the fan feedback, has cut into the monotony of a typical touring routine.
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It's a way to escape the monotony that swiftly overtakes Rome 2, even in Rise of the Republic.
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They want breathing room but disdain the energy wastefulness, visual monotony and social conformity of postwar manufactured neighborhoods.
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Like anyone, she fears monotony, but this hardly seems to account for such extreme, almost self-destructive restlessness.
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Sol soon finds that storytelling is a communal habit that breaks up the utilitarian monotony of country living.
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I wondered whether the monotony would eventually drive this replacement Bruce, to hover, immobile, near his transparent rocks.
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Yet there's a meekness and monotony to "Salvator Mundi" that can't be redeemed by these marginally engaging details.
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"I'd like to thank Flavor Flav for breaking up the monotony of my acceptance speech," Young MC said.
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She had been waiting in the hospital for an organ for weeks, each day with a similar monotony.
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She had been waiting in the hospital for an organ for weeks, each day with a similar monotony.
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You can find yourself getting lost in the monotony of the task, which lets your mind zone out.
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In contrast, algorithmic recommendations lead us down a path of pleasant monotony: a looming monoculture of the similar.
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It also provides me different sexual experiences, somewhat eliminating monotony that inevitably happens in all long-term relationships.
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Thankfully, there are plenty of teams in the present and the future that could break up the monotony.
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The first half of the film is really focused on stretching your imagination, lulling you into the everyday monotony.
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But Pedrosa takes the repetitive monotony one step further by turning footage of random buildings into a complex kaleidoscope.
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A "remarkable, global urban monotony" has set in, everywhere from Singapore to Ulan Bator to Buenos Aires to Boston.
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The drab monotony of Ms Goldin's life as an addict is captured on photos taken with her camera phone.
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I see no monotony in my single existence, but I believe that their hearts were in the right place.
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They can often be social hubs for drivers, breaking up the monotony and solitude they face on the road.
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They say they like their job because it provides them with escape from the monotony of life in prison.
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Oakenfold feels Everest will be a refreshing break from the monotony of playing his same old gigs and festivals.
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Maybe it's the monotony of the attack that lulls the defense to sleep, or the decelerating genius of Harden.
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Even my daylong encounter with harvesting spelt showed me the monotony of the chore, as much as the challenge.
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For those who usually work with sprawling teams, a game jam can break the monotony and bring fresh focus.
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All these films make visible the hidden labor which undergirds the global economy, and expose its monotony and precariousness.
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The stability (and even monotony) associated with German politics under Ms. Merkel appears to be coming to an end.
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This is evidenced by the monotony of child-rearing chores, demoralizing social cliques and career pressures they must endure.
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In addition to breaking up monotony, it can help you feel more connected to the organization as a whole.
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Thinking creatively and finding innovative solutions will help you avoid the feeling of monotony, which eventually leads to burnout.
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This standing around is simultaneously boring and one of the happiest, most poignant things I've ever done with monotony.
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Metal fiends, for instance, find an infinite array of subtle shades in what seems like undifferentiated monotony to non-initiates.
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First there was the grapefruit diet—promising that the tart monotony of grapefruit after grapefruit would finally reveal your abs.
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I can understand why she decided to break up the monotony by giving little "Kit" her own one-woman show.
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She was ecstatic at the chance to escape the monotony of camp life, and is a pretty good pastry chef.
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The red skirt, though still knitted and subtly printed, helps break up the monotony that comes with a matching set.
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When I feel monotony start to creep into my routine, there are a few brands I look to for inspiration.
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Because this lunch staple can easily fall into the territory of meal monotony, any little extra oomph of inspiration helps.
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Breaking up this year's monotony of white people is a fish lover (from The Shape of Water) and Jordan Peele.
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The monotony of monitoring a semi-automated vehicle may reduce vigilance by provoking what psychologists refer to as "passive" fatigue.
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A weekend is always a good excuse to escape from the monotony of daily life and go a little batshit.
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Stripping away the manual arithmetic allows each game to move at a clip, girding the tension from devolving into monotony.
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"The proposed colors avoid monotony throughout the project site and blend well together," the submission to the city council reads.
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The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.
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He's even started to receive unsolicited sushi and Greek food, Nuhr Rachrichten reports, changing up the monotony of endless slices.
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"Too many companies don't realize the monotony of a lot of people's day-to-day life at work," he says.
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"Too many companies don't realize the monotony of a lot of people's day-to-day life at work," he continues.
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The jazz monotony is passive: Since Spotify's radio function is automated, I can consume more music without thinking about it.
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But then again, sometimes the monotony of life opens up opportunities for us to be inspired by the tiniest of things.
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The back and forth between different voices and styles break up the monotony of hearing the same person song after song.
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Though monotony played its role, an attachment to my son sprouted imminently, and I was madly in love with our connection.
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The show feels lived-in, toeing the fine line between monotony and equilibrium as it gives its characters room to breathe.
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Creative and innovative solutions will keep your thinking fresh so you can avoid the feeling of monotony that often precedes burnout.
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If I was left wanting more, that has to do with the eventual monotony of a play whose structure seems predetermined.
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The penultimate round of Premier League fixtures is over, and the sun-kissed monotony of summer is only a week away.
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When you have stories of white straight affluent people, there becomes a kind of monotony that reinforces stereotypes in our culture.
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I am interested in relationships of contradiction and the beautiful monotony of inhabiting our bodies while simultaneously trying to escape them.
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It won't be by turning back the clock to an idealized past that was in fact ruled by drudgery and monotony.
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"Cleaning gum from the bottoms of a thousand desks can build character, or at least a tolerance for monotony," he writes.
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What happens when the stuff that's supposed to break you out of the monotony is just as monotonous as everything else?
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Michael is lonely, and bereft at the prospect of living a life without any nuance or spark to break through the monotony.
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Monroe hopes his illustrations will break up the "monotony and pace of a typical textbook", rather than replacing conventional anatomy diagrams altogether.
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It's an interesting approach, and it gives players a more challenging arcade-style experience to break the monotony of online multiplayer matches.
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This revival of the 1977 musical about the monotony of earning a living custom-tailors the original for City Center's 75th anniversary.
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"Cleaning gum from the bottoms of a thousand desks can build character or at least tolerance for monotony, or something," he writes.
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It is kinda like catching the train for the 5th day in a row; the monotony gets to you more than anything.
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Unlike his coach, Staal sees nothing wrong with relishing Saturday's history, if only to spice up the monotony of the regular season.
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The physical objects themselves are also unique; they deviate from the monotony of the sleek aesthetic that's come to dominate the world.
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The symmetrical patterns which are essential to Chapman's artwork can also be found in his techno music, released under his label Monotony.
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It's so rough to spend over 7.503 hours a week somewhere that doesn't have little hints of fun and breaks in the monotony.
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The sound of the fountain surrounded them, when suddenly the auditory monotony was pierced by the erratic sound of rattling shopping cart wheels.
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This is my first job out of grad school, and if I'm not super productive the monotony of adulthood starts eating at me.
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Updating your soundtrack and swapping your old leggings for high-quality H&M performance gear are the first steps toward banishing gym monotony.
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When it comes to Yun's paintings, I don't see timelessness, monotony, or inaction, all of which are familiar Western descriptors of Asian art.
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Older adults were also more likely than the young adults, on average, to enjoy the vanilla-flavored drink and not mind the monotony.
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"We have a very fundamental process that prevents us from eating the same food every day—it's called the monotony effect," Levitsky said.
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HQ is redefining mobile, creating through its twice-daily trivia games a sense of urgency that pierces the monotony of our social feeds.
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It was she who elevated their experiences beyond everyday monotony and gave them a new story—their story—to be a part of.
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The residents can help to prepare the meals, chopping vegetables and washing dishes, all of which breaks up the monotony of the days.
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It was a golden age for Schumacher, Ferrari and Formula One, despite the monotony of the most popular team winning almost every race.
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The exhibition is presented as a linear path, with the first several gallery spaces presenting filmic renderings of the monotony of modern work.
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This new album sees the band living in the midst of adulthood rather than dreading its monotony from the vantage point of youth.
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While C-SPAN isn't exactly known as must-see TV, a lot of its monotony comes from the imposition of congressional camera rules.
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The monotony of the piece of course hearkened back to the droning, durational art that he had been inspired by in the 1960s.
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I do my run in segments to break up the monotony; I tell myself re-setting the treadmill will help trick my brain.
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The monotony of the counting, the silence of the other passengers, the lack of response, the futility — the nothingness is building into something.
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As the school years go by, everyday details of hallways and fences and coaches and classes will fade back into a comforting monotony.
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Shots of hands engaged in tasks are emphasized, while head-on representations of characters are avoided, conveying the monotony of Beauvais's everyday life.
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When Sydney Blumstein, an associate broker at Corcoran, decided to invest in real estate in 21, she was determined to avoid the monotony.
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The game's singular focus on punishing fast-paced combat verges on monotony, and few enemies or encounters really succeed in breaking it up.
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Where an occasional inhabited house interrupts the monotony of abandonment, a glimpse of curtains or a pot-plant appears both valiant and acutely pathetic.
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We understand the sentiment behind the Funko Pop purchase and we're more than happy to help you send the same message minus the monotony.
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We also talk with the incarcerated contestants about how a beauty competition can help them temporarily escape the monotony of their lives behind bars.
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A cacophony of railway noise helps build a sense of monotony and tension: the chug of the train carriages, the screeches on the tracks.
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Monotony is really not something I'm worried about for you this month: On August 18, there will be a lunar eclipse in your sign!
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A meal (replacement) to start the day Pelchat said there is one occasion, however, where satisfaction with food monotony seems common across all ages.
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Listen to such an improviser for more than a minute or so, and "even novice listeners will perceive an inescapable monotony," says Mr Gioia.
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In the game, I tell myself the monotony of collecting and repair will be worth it just to leave this place for somewhere better.
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Eventually the void will be all that surrounds him, a suffocating monotony of darkness — as if he never existed in the first place. Yeesh.
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Going through it is a bit like going through a carwash, with alternating spells of monotony and liveliness; some parts are messier than others.
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For all the things to appreciate about what Durant did in the Finals, he also broke that monotony, in one startling moment after another.
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But after working in a hospital during college, she quickly learned that the "monotony of color and routine and uniform" was not for her.
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On the "Chuck & Julie" show on Tuesday, Bonniwell said that "you wish for a nice school shooting to interrupt the monotony" of impeachment coverage.
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Also, there is a certain monotony to the soirees of young marrieds that make everyone go two by two, like animals in Noah's Ark.
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This week, surrealist photography, the new anti-semitism, fighting the corporatization of Burning Man, the monotony of contemporary architecture, Lagos's art scene, and more.
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Halloween stunt foods are something to look forward to, a momentary flicker of delight breaking up the relentless monotony of the forward march of time.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Scorex is the breakthrough drug that breaks up the monotony of soccer making it fun for a change like turning it into hockey.
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I appreciate that this chat plays an important role in keeping my friends sane through the monotony of constant breastfeeding and never-ending sleepless nights.
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They don't have to force jokes to prove that they're cool, and they often likely break up a monotony of white faces at major events.
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It looks like the power and control they have over their residents helps break up the monotony of living in a souped up bunker everyday.
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Kloos sticks to a familiar formula, but what makes these books stand out against the monotony is his balancing act of action and character development.
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Working in an office can be pretty depressing, especially around the holidays, so people will try just about anything to distract themselves from the monotony.
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Though still lamenting the monotony of nights out and waking up after the sun's gone down, it doesn't feel as good as it once did.
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The video is equally as simple, featuring the band performing in what appears to be a black room, wearing sunglasses, expressionless, working through some monotony.
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So, if you're extremely stoned and can't face the fast-paced tempo of modern gaming, then the pleasing monotony of MOO is definitely for you.
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But her work is also a chronicle of monotony; of everyday life under communism, Gorbachev's perestroika, and the disastrous "shock therapy" capitalism of the 1990s.
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Some people accept it as a fundamental fact of modern life and can distract themselves from the monotony by scanning magazines, thinking about candy, whatever.
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The excellent Ms. Rogers returns as Harry's frowzy helpmeet, a woman narcotized by monotony, who can still put on the dog for a handsome stranger.
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I sensed that I would need some connection over the coming weeks and a break in the monotony of hanging out in my apartment alone.
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I sensed that I would need some connection over the coming weeks and a break in the monotony of hanging out in my apartment alone.
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To help break the silence (or break the monotony), we've pulled together some of the best playlists of music that will help with your concentration.
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The anxiety of getting sick, the anxiety of staying in the apartment for days on end, you could break that monotony with, you know, entertainment.
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She returns to work in Beijing next week after completing 14 days of self-quarantine, so she's been breaking the monotony by playing mobile games.
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"The repetitive monotony of doing the same thing over and over and seeing no outcome, seeing no end to it and nothing changing," he said.
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Besides breaking up the visual monotony during a marathon telecast, these served as a sort of "Previously on …" recap for the home and Senate audiences.
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Such visual monotony is hardly to the taste of the center's newest occupant, Kevin, who arrives falling-down drunk and soaked in his own urine.
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And then there were the care packages from home that included pizza kits to break the monotony of the meals they eat on the station.
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The well-constructed staples at Covina deliver subtle surprises, underwritten by an abundance of umami—a 2016 rebuke to the notion that simplicity breeds monotony.
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The effort backfired, as most historians found that American GIs simply found her show to be a welcome diversion from the monotony of wartime duty.
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If things have been stifled in your love life, the lunar eclipse in Leo will end the monotony and boredom for sure—but expect drama.
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The monotony is broken only by columns of black smoke rising on the horizon to the north, from what was their hometown, now a battle ground.
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At 9 o'clock, I climbed into the bottom bunk and curled up in my sleeping bag, worn out from physical exertion and the monotony of digging.
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In the intensive care unit, this process is carried on with extreme monotony, indifferent to whether the patient is actually able to think, feel, or protest.
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In "Improvisation Is the Heart of Music," a wicked little tale about marriage and monotony, a husband repeats the same elaborate anecdote verbatim, over and over.
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We heard from those who were happy to break up the monotony of summer and those who had mixed feelings about what this year would bring.
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It doesn't come in a rainbow of hues, but given the brown and beige monotony of most Thanksgiving tables, its emerald vibrancy will perk things up.
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Nora's days consist of caring for her children, indulging her proudly retrograde father-in-law and yearning to take a job that would break the monotony.
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Though there are a few worthy contenders here (Nutella, marshmallow fluff—call me), there's a monotony to their textures, a kind of sluggishness in their sameness.
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Challenging the story's tonal monotony, Dick Pope's cinematography is clean and unshowy, highlighting faces slowly sinking from hunger and fields turning all too quickly to dust.
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While there are some perfume ads out there directed by big names which aim to break up this monotony, most of them are almost exactly the same.
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With Netflix's many original series' taking on a superheroic flair lately, the trailer for The Get Down promises a highly-anticipated break from the costumed crusader monotony.
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So to break up his monotony, I decided to futz with the interview format a little and used only lines from Nicolas Cage movies as my questions.
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It likely none of the videos are filmed from close enough to reveal any trade secrets, but they certainly illustrate the monotony of building expensive flying toys.
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It could be the combination of the monotony of this art — the quantity of motionless urban landscapes — that makes parts of the exhibit feel empty and tedious.
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Trump's "brash" rhetoric might also account for the site's monotony: A quick search finds zero Hispanic, African-American, Arab, or gay men within 100 miles of D.C.
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But I think the play can always sense a tingle of the concealed monotony that powers Tharsis, and that's what makes the game so affecting and relatable.
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Sometimes we use it to call attention to things that are positive, and it's a nice break from the monotony of what Trump is doing wrong today.
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More important, the triumphs of 2016's greatest winners are as punishing in their monotony—their inevitability—as they are distant from our own, less triumphant lives.
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In each episode DWP beautifully breaks up the monotony of televised Blackness, taking care to show us in all of our varying physical, cultural, and ideological states.
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To break up the monotony, he and Kohan playacted an imaginary TV show called "Djembe," about an African man who was married to a white suburban woman.
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Bookish and curious, he tries to break the monotony by reading histories he salvaged from his father's bookstore, which burned down in 2012 when protests turned violent.
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The monotony of my desk job hadn't changed in the nearly two years I'd been there, except that I was barely making deadlines because I couldn't focus.
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Moorehead writes engagingly about domestic matters, the tension inherent in the underground resistance and even the dreary monotony of life in confino on the remote penal islands.
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Amid the monotony of loading the routine items on the video board such as player introductions or advertising spots, there is now a little opportunity for creativity.
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It meanders through low bushland that the relentless Tierra Caliente sun has scorched near colorless, with the monotony only broken by a sparse population of tall cacti.
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"You've got to commit to the chair," said Mr. Kuehl, explaining how trimmers endure the day-in, day-out monotony from October until December, and possibly longer.
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For Ms. Chwals, the serial home buyer in the 1960s West Village co-op, living in a midcentury building also meant a break from new-condo monotony.
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We both lived in much bigger cities before starting our careers in Ottawa, and it didn't take long for us to grow bored of the city's monotony.
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This summer, two memoirs about marriages that take abrupt and chaos-inducing turns may instill a new appreciation for the placidity (or monotony) of your own partnership.
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To be alive is to have the passion of Casanova without its isolation, inconstancy and despair, or the resolute certainty of Kant, without its monotony and insignificance.
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Over the last 13 years, the band has evolved, releasing four full-length records that utilize Americana to explore the monotony of Midwest (and American) human condition.
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Laura Les: Making this mix for me has sort of been a therapy to escape a lot of stuff happening around me, along with being a way to break some monotony while I'm listening to the same nine songs all day every day trying to finish my album, so I guess the concept is breaking away from monotony and having some summer fun in the midst of it.
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There are only a few slivers of metal in their design — inside the headband and as contrasting accents on the exterior — to break up the matte black monotony.
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It helps break up the monotony of being a receptionist, plus I like the variety, as I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my life.
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December spoils us with festivity and decadent crisps, and the first month of the year throws us back into monotony, and penny-pinching, and the freezing, unforgiving cold.
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And so Michael makes his way from the airport to the hotel and then groggily around the city in search of something, anything, to break up the monotony.
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Instead of an addictive feedback loop that keeps pulling you back for more, it's a series of painful and broken tasks that occupy your time with dull monotony.
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We enter Sweetbitter, premiering May 6, in 2006, as our heroine Tess (Ella Purnell) escapes her suburban, Middle American monotony for the bright lights of New York City.
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Of course, they're fantastic styles — and foolproof ways for naturals to maintain or grow out their curls and kinks — but it's still nice to break up the monotony.
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Munroe told the New York Times that he hopes his excerpts will help break up the monotony of sciences textbooks, not typically known for their sense of humor.
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The mixtape commits itself to the smaller spaces of family and personal faith, and sometimes lapses into spiritual and sonic complacency, inadvertently equating monogamy and monotheism with monotony.
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Recent releases—"The Lobster" and "Swiss Army Man"— have broken up the monotony of Hollywood narratives with challenging stories both bizarre and loaded with unexpected reflections upon society.
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Every life, from Jane to Petra to Lina to you, the viewer, is full of telenovela moments – dramatic peaks and valleys and all the necessary monotony in between.
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Switching over is super easy Mint Mobile is online only, a big perk for anyone who knows the monotony of waiting for help at a major retail store.
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Racing shorter distances while training for a marathon provides a check-in to see how you're doing speed-wise (and psychologically) and breaks up the monotony of training.
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Leading the charge to combat that dull and dangerous model monotony is Straight/Curve, a controversial film that's about to make a lot of designers and agents uncomfortable.
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Time Well plumbs the monotony, wonder, and existential dread of the human condition, from dreams to rituals, evolution, cosmic doubt, disembodiment, and flickers of light in the darkness.
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The format of short performances is a safeguard against monotony, and the performers are nothing if not committed, but all together, "1940" lacks a degree of exuberant conviction.
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Dr. Ravi Subramanian is a medical writer and microbiology Ph.D who performs stand-up and hosts the monthly live show "Monotony" at Caveat under the name Raj Sivaraman.
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Life in a dystopia may be repetitive, but a TV drama about life in a dystopia can only thrive on this chaotic brand of monotony for so long.
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The Michelin-starred chef argues that good food can offer a welcome break from the enforced monotony of a hospital stay, potentially boosting patient morale and speeding recovery.
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Generating any excitement amid the monotony of Russian politics — where the same man, representing the same party, has been in power for nearly two decades — is proving difficult.
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He had come to Wuhan with his wife to help their daughter, who is pregnant, and said he was taking a break from the monotony of staying indoors.
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"There is a monotony about the injustices suffered by the poor that perhaps accounts for the lack of interest the rest of society shows in them," he wrote.
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The artist has imposed a strict code of visual monotony upon this miscellany, painting all objects either dull white or dull grey — shades best described as drably institutional.
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Trapped in the monotony of suburban Connecticut, I felt a kinship with this motley group of hardcore dudes from Long Island, who sang about trashed friendships and soured love.
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My fantasy that the monotony of sim life might be broken if I spend a little more money is a recreation of how we're intended to play these games.
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Attendees, influencers, and editors hitting the New York Fashion Week Fall and Winter 2018 show circuit aren't just breaking up the black puffer coat monotony with their colorful shearlings.
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Maybe you became a freelancer because you wanted to set your own schedule, leave the monotony of nine-to-five, and even work from the beach now and then.
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As for the lyrics, Cumming and Kivlen remain opaque, back-and-forthing and claiming loneliness, monotony, depression, apathy, feeling outcast, and the impending apocalypse as light jumping off points.
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Of course, ideally you're rounding it out with at least a few other foods, if for nothing else than to avoid the monotony of endless cream of potato soup.
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"Trusting the leadership of huge corporations with America's artistic heritage is a crucial mistake, and can already be seen in the 'monotony' of contemporary major studio cinema," Coppola wrote.
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To remedy the matter, McCartney encouraged him to compose a bridge that not only explained the title, but also injected some variation into the tune before monotony set in.
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However, recent research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology about repeat and novel experiences suggests we ought to reconsider how we digest those feelings of monotony.
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"On my lunch breaks, to get away from the rigid monotony of programs like InDesign and Illustrator, I'd fire up Microsoft Paint and do some quick doodles," Jim says.
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With added tools like gesture control, story mode, Hitchcock dolly zoom and hyper-lapse, the Osmo 3 breaks up the monotony of regular footage and makes shooting more fun.
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As well as the obvious physical hardship, the monotony of lap after lap after lap on the wooden boards is the other challenge that he will have to overcome.
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Meal prep monotony is real, and we understand why you'd want to toss that sad salmon… but here are four flavorful dishes that will last you through the week.
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"On the "Chuck & Julie" show on Tuesday, Chuck Bonniwell announced a segment on impeachment by saying, "You know, you wish for a nice school shooting to interrupt the monotony.
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That approach gives more children a break from the monotony of the classroom and will eventually bring out more future champions than an elitist, top-down approach, he argues.
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The head of Bronzino's Lucrezia Panciatichi, set against a 19th-century train station waiting area in "Salle d'Attente," becomes a dramatic performance of the baroque monotony of passing time.
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That's a question that is definitely not answered in "Joan of Arc: Into the Fire," which opened in a blaze of monotony at the Public Theater on Wednesday night.
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STOP EVERY FEW HOURS Break up the monotony of being in the car by stopping every two to three hours to get some fresh air and stretch your legs.
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A recent article in Wired pointed out that evidence of Walker's magnificent monotony is nowhere more apparent than in the void of blandness that is the politician's Instagram account.
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I'm really excited to go because I've been a little bored by the monotony of the work week, and this is the perfect thing to shake things up a little.
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After yet another day of mind-numbing monotony at work, the last thing you want to do is cook a meal that is long on prep and short on flavor.
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While ostensibly concerned with exploring the minutiae of everyday life, the monotony soon becomes overbearing — the characters too eccentric to be relatable and the plotting too inconsequential to be memorable.
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The sound design, like the scenery, is minimal, the humming monotony of a tape recorder and, later, a song sung by her son all adding to the anxiety and restlessness.
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The Butlers were bored with the monotony of everyday life when they decided about a year and a half ago to crisscross the country in an R.V., Ms. Roth said.
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The idea for the performances took root back in 2012, back when Beach House were touring in support of their album "Bloom" and found themselves feeling the monotony of routine.
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The poems gathered in the sections "A Partial History of Iridescence" and "Gizzard," for example, contextualize poetry as a kind of spiritual transcendence opposed to the monotony of social alienation.
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Like all animals, humans require stimulation; without something to break the monotony, most of us end up like a tiger pacing its cage—stressed, depressed, and prone to problematic behaviors.
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Except that on Aaron Sorkin shows at least you get the added interest of everyone walking really fast while they talk to break up the monotony of all the speeches.
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But while my hands have been occupied with the monotony of manual labor, my mind has been elsewhere, delving into a fantasy realm as a means to fight off the boredom.
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Designed to break up the sensory and social monotony of a multi-year spaceflight, ANSIBLE enables users to enter virtual reality Earth environments and interact with avatars of their loved ones.
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This can be emotionally and financially draining: Few of us have the time or money to regularly indulge new experiences, which can lead us to feel bad about our lives' monotony.
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For 13 years, I'd inherently understood the virtues of monotony—a concept praised by certain adults who like to wear the same clothes every day, or have a rigid morning routine.
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The responsibilities and monotony of a daily routine have a way of making the challenges of wandering from place to place, not always knowing where you might sleep, seem like fun.
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In her TikTok videos, Kager parodies the realities of life as a woman in tech, from the homogeneity of tech conferences to the monotony of job offers at all-male companies.
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As such, we're not going to provide you with a wearisome preamble about the arduous monotony of international football, even though we actually have, in a self-referential sort of way.
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" As Caroline Beaton, who has written extensively about millennials and labor, points out, the rise of the "knowledge sector" has simply "changed the medium of monotony from heavy machinery to digital technology.
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There's a certain monotony that threads each of these pictures together, but when compared to the scene that unfurled in London this week, it's difficult to imagine ever returning to such civility.
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Rather than assume mental illness was incurable or some form of demonic possession, doctors were considering how to treat patients as individuals, and concerns about boredom and monotony arose with this shift.
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One of my chances to escape the monotony is walking my dog every few hours, which allows my pet to relieve themselves and yours truly an opportunity to seek out human contact.
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The monotony of everyday life melts into the asphalt, where my main interest is self-protection, and my brain strips away to reveal the threat and promise of my immediate physical surroundings.
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If only the Ubuntu software on board could also match iOS for speed and fluidity, I'd be recommending this as a refreshing change from the monotony of Android domination here at MWC.
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You see, while some Elvis's were here to exactly embody the King's flesh, blood and principles, others were simply trying to escape from the monotony of life; to embrace one another's company.
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Life for Gaza's kids is back to a dreary monotony of having too little to eat and too little to do, in a territory that's without electricity for 18 hours a day.
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There's no apparent joy in these painful exertions, and the occasional signs of a wider life — practicing kinesiology, getting lost inside a virtual-reality headset — fail to banish the movie's disconsolate monotony.
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It would be intended not to help them escape the monotony of cubicle life but rather to give them something to fiddle with discreetly in order to better focus on actual work.
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But the 37-year-old isn't that delusional guy at your office who thinks his idea for a start-up is going to spare him the monotony of working for a living.
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It's so nice having other people working the same hours – it's like the comradery you get from going into the office, but without the stress or monotony of a regular desk job.
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The "Groundhog Day"-like monotony combined with a 24-hour news cycle means that if something "new and stupid," as Vale puts it, happens on the trail, the media seize upon it.
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But one of my biggest critiques of the show is that it includes people of color to break up the monotony of whiteness but fails to actually challenge any of the cultural norms.
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Moms drink to escape the monotony of daily life with small kids, to get away from the expectation of perfection in all areas of our lives, and to take a well-deserved break.
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It is a tale of a romance gone sour over two decades of monotony, as Italy's economy has stagnated since it ditched the ever-devaluing lira for the EU's newly minted common currency.
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In fact it's exactly the sort of suburban monotony that many people end up applying to do a BA at Freie Universität Berlin or getting bang into Ironman triathlons in order to escape.
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Many of the posters know their furry visitors by name and have formed a special bond with each pup, which helps to break up the monotony of driving the same route each day.
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Anything to break the division away from the monotony of exclusively three round fights on undercards with any new blood that has a modicum of success being thrown to the wolves right away.
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They can be an attractive alternative to the monotony of choropleth maps, especially with the proliferation of tile-grid maps (an equal-area cartogram useful for comparing states) — but they're just an alternative.
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I used to think that paprika and parsley were just for show — nothing more than powdery red dashes on creamy deviled eggs, and verdant speckles breaking up the brown monotony of beef stew.
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You don't have to plan an adventure that will leave you exhausted on Monday, but don't write it off as a chore-filled day of monotony or simply slate it for hangover recovery.
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The waiters gave us special treatment, perhaps relieved by the break in the monotony, showering us with attention as if aware that this was a once-in-a-lifetime event, which it was.
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But there's more to it than that; it feels like people are here to free themselves of the monotony of living to work, settling down, having a full-time job, and buying property.
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Confronted with the "inhuman monotony" of life behind bars, Mr. Hall became a serious student, ultimately gaining admission to the Bard Prison Initiative, a competitive, full-time degree program run by Bard College.
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But when her comatose father's caretaker abruptly quits, she seeks the help of her estranged brother, who breaks the monotony by wheeling their father on outings around the city in his hospital cot.
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Indeed, perhaps the best we can hope for is to point to the phenomenon in its absence: Aliveness is whatever is lacking when the monotony of the routine forces itself to the fore.
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While utterly enchanting for editorial, this particular Alexander McQueen collection is a surprising but amazing pick for a star-studded affair, especially given the monotony we've been seeing on step-and-repeats these days.
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With a reported 3.1 million Britons and countless others around the globe now in their third week of teetotaling, I worried that the monotony of clean living might be starting to frustrate the participants.
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Closely scrutinized or heavily fortified sections at each end - around the towns of Dandong and Tumen - are what we usually see in media reports, their monotony made a little more cheerful by Chinese tourists.
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The debate itself more closely resembled a Quentin Tarantino movie, in which a group of men are stuck together for what seems like eternity, and try to break the monotony by yelling a lot.
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There's already an over saturation in this game—THUMP has previously made no bones about the increasingly formulaic nature of festivals lineups and the fog of monotony that seems to hang over the market.
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I, for one, would love to have a 911 that goes like stink on a country backroad on a sporty Sunday drive but then also handles the monotony of daily commuting during the week.
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In that respect, these mapping apps affected the gameplay insofar as they give players a little more information than the game's own interface and offered a glimmer of hope beyond the Rattata-infested monotony.
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But bells and whistles can't save you from the absolute monotony of the main gameplay loop, which turns nasty hordes of writhing rat king piles into chores rather than anything even a little scary.
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The title track feels like a riff on John Carpenter's classic Halloween theme, with its hauntingly solitary central synth line, and centers on the monotony of the song's protagonist's central task: feeding Larry's hawk.
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It left standing, at the center of prosperous and proud communities, a well of monotony, exhaustion, and broken bodies that history has long since given us the tools to drain and fill with stones.
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In its scale, monotony of materials and color, preening formalism and disregard for the gritty urban fabric, the hub is the sort of object-building that might seem at home on the Washington Mall.
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But the urgency with which Juice delivers them makes each video about merch, show dates in Wisconsin, and the monotony of the day feel like a missive from a man running out of time.
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As silly as you may look, you're breaking up the monotony of life — the rotten jobs, taxes and public benefit corporations trying to run subway systems that allow and make impossible our every day.
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It isn't necessarily one dramatic moment, but the incessant monotony of assaults on normalcy that slowly shift the ground beneath you, reorienting what is proper and preferable, what is outrageous and what is acceptable.
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When she agrees to pose as Rafi's love interest for his dadi (Farrukh Jaffar), who is eager to visit Mumbai to meet Miloni, it's a welcome break from the monotony of her own life.
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The musical reframes the story of shitty weatherman Phil Conners becoming trapped in an exhausting time loop as an exploration of the "loops" everyone gets stuck in, most prominently the unyielding monotony of depression.
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Back then, I mostly didn't notice the monotony of my daily lunches and was more focused on meticulously picking the nuts and seeds out of the nine-grain, whole wheat bread she insisted on packing.
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"The biggest fear I have, since I can remember in my teens, and the one that causes me the most turmoil in my life is monotony—being bored, being average," he said in the film.
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The slowing tempo of events reflected a growing monotony facing a president shackled by potential damage he could inflict on his brand should he be allowed take unfiltered questions, speak extemporaneously, or otherwise roam free.
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It is this daily, dead-end monotony, though, as well as the wise desire not to be betrayed by too much hoping, which causes them to look on politicians with such an extraordinarily disenchanted eye.
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They were used to break up the monotony of standalone Carpool Karaoke bits, and they look to be very much in play here, starting with Corden and Smith crashing a wedding in the premiere episode.
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The untamed experience of being on the ranch gives them the chance to go a little wild, and becomes their beloved escape from the monotony of life in California — until the changes of adolescence intervene.
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While such consistency provides security, however, it can also read as monotony, which is why an assortment of perfectly distilled velvet gowns with deep portrait necklines and an ineffable richness ultimately had the most force.
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Amid the monotony of sad pop EDM and moody trap flooding the airwaves today, the songs' throwback, cheery, summery, pop rock energy — with actual melodies and catchy chord changes — has caught on in a different way.
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Religion News Service's Tobin Grant suggests that the need for something frivolous to break up the monotony and cold weather rendered the Christmas season, rather than early spring, the ideal time for a period of celebration.
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They are the proof of something more concrete than intentions: that the Negro situation is not static, that changes have occurred, and are occurring and will occur — this, in spite of the daily, dead-end monotony.
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When I jump rope I am contained lightning, but the monotony of jumping up and down for, say, forty-five minutes to an hour can only become a dance party for one with the right soundtrack.
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Monotony settles in; we read at a remove, which feels cruel given that Tokarczuk's aim is so clearly to train the eye to see more deeply, more attentively, and to root out hidden consonances and meanings.
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To kill time on board and break up the monotony of endless ocean scrolling past cabin windows, the ship's crew have organised dozens of activities to keep people occupied, tourists on board the vessel told Reuters.
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Not because the 33-year-old seasoned football pro needs the money, but because the monotony of factory work, the graft, the need to cover his neat hair with an unsightly net all helped keep him real.
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An airport worker directing the plane on the tarmac of the Greater Rochester International Airport has found a great way to take the monotony out of his day by practicing some stellar dance moves while he works.
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McDonald's, though, was engineered for satisfying monotony — each item was a precise deposit of one scientifically created taste, free of nuance: the simple tang of focus group–approved mayo, or the unassuming umami of perfectly homogenous chicken.
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Initial thoughts appear to praise the technical complexity of "No Man's Sky", but also question the monotony of constantly looking around then having to find some more minerals to keep your character alive and repair your spaceship.
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Sometimes a lot of famous people come out for USO, so the soldiers don't get so bored, and to break up the whole monotony of being out in the desert for such a long period of time.
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Fashion has always been a form of escapism, a way to break away from the daily monotony, the sea of khakis and T-shirts, and the sameness that traps those who don't see the potential of clothing.
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If you weren't being "called" to stay, I could see why you'd want to leave: The incessant chanting, the blandness of the free food, the monotony of the place, and all the rules got old pretty quickly.
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It's rare to find a similar vocal energy outside of the metal world; conversely, the backing, which soon swelled into a livelier psychedelia, was a welcome relief from the heavy monotony that constant riffs can sometimes engender.
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Always be sure to separate work from sextual pleasure Sexting in the workplace might seem like a very naughty, fun and exciting thing to engage in — it's a great way to break up the monotony of the day.
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He landed a sales job at a subsidiary of one of China's largest e-commerce firms but swiftly became disillusioned with the monotony and low pay, and decided against returning to work after Chinese New Year in February.
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O'Neill's Actual Sunlight is one such GameMaker project and originally stood to reflect the causes that surround depression and suicide, as he best saw it, such as the monotony of the workday grind and lack of fulfilling relationships.
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Killjoy by Erika Curmudgeon by Reese Dekker and Ellie Sullivan Finesse by Eric, Jose and Parker Monotony by Masa Kawasaki Equinox by Caroline Knight Comeuppance by Cassie and Jason Guffaw by Meghan O'Brien Pry by Mark Chappell Disheartened
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Liberally illustrating her advice with case studies, Hillis transforms the idea of living alone from a dreary monotony suitable only for women who can think of no better option into a thrilling opportunity teeming with glamour and verve.
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Under a clear bright sky, the waters of the Red Sea shimmered and the sand glowed a warm ocher, the monotony interrupted only by an occasional fisherman's shack, a small nomadic settlement or a bleached one-room mosque.
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For about a week now, the whole country is on lockdown to slow down the new infections and death toll and the Italians have relied on emotional flashmobs and social media initiatives to break monotony and lift spirits.
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" There may be something funny and even defiant about Yo's deliberate monotony, but I would pause before claiming that "this is a noble approach to the problem of continual novelty in a world composed of finite aesthetic possibilities.
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Trying to guess what customers are going to order is always a fun way to break through the monotony of pouring liquid into a glass for eight straight hours, and it makes you wonder how these drinking patterns emerge.
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This episode brought him to that breaking point, with all its attendant catharsis, while also serving up an over-in-an-episode spy plot that broke up some of the (intentional) monotony of the show's fifth and penultimate season.
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"It's a tricky one, and I tell you I think about it a lot with married women who are in this sexual monotony of feeling this obligation of having to have sex because they're in a monogamous relationship," Jada said.
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LA and Berlin-based DJ and production duo 333 Boyz attempt to break through the oversaturation and monotony of the internet music world with "FW 2016 Global Freakout," a frenzied, genre-bending mix they crafted for Schwarz's label Nina Pop.
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A particular low point, from the first act, involves an almost-literal treading water song, where a bunch of sailors off to the mysterious Skull Island sing "Pressure Up." It's a monotonous song about the monotony on the high seas.
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"It's a tricky one, and I tell you I think about it a lot with married women who are in this sexual monotony of feeling this obligation of having to have sex because they're in a monogamous relationship," Jada replied.
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The Cliff's Notes history of the holiday is that in the early '90s, several college students in Nanjing, China got together and decided to create a special day to "break away from the monotony" of being single, and instead honor it.
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The Walking Dead has been predictable for years, hitting the same exact story beats in episode after episode, where viewers are treated to dozens of minutes of monotony punctuated with the occasional close call or death of a brand new character.
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While the Canadiens preach safe plays, Subban was often almost rebellious in his style, breaking the monotony of a system designed by his coaching staff where his teammates spend over half the game chasing the puck instead of carrying it.
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And whether it's a piece of cake, a scoop of ice cream or a big juicy cheeseburger, scheduled splurges can also break up the monotony of restrictive eating, which can help you stick to your plan for the long-term.
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On this album, it's clear that everyone (the band, their idols, and their fans) are getting older; the songs are tinged with a measured sadness and hope for a happy-ish ending somewhere in the middle of the monotony of adulthood.
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Also, one of the reasons the President is beefing up his legal team is to break up the monotony of the floor arguments over the 24 hours they are expected to have to make their case, according to a person familiar.
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The artist spoke, cultishly, of protecting his work from "the eyes of the vulgar and the cruelty of the impotent," and narrowed his art's halcyon range of associated senses—a visual music conjuring touch, taste, and scent—to dour monotony.
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The scene is violent and symbolic and it connects to multiple themes: the grinding monotony of Seattle's unrelenting rain echoes Bernadette's domestic imprisonment, while the slipping foundations of her property tell us something about the stability of her own mind.
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A job can provide an escape from the crushing monotony of prison life – a chance to do something productive, earn a little money, and maybe even learn some skills that are useful in and of themselves and useful when reentering society.
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We traveled to Sao Paolo, Brazil, to talk with the incarcerated contestants about how a beauty competition can help them temporarily escape the monotony of their lives, and what socio-economic forces helped to put them behind bars in the first place.
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" Over three minutes, sludgy guitars and Wetzel's manically-paced spidering rhythms behind the drum kit set the tone for Winters to yelp ominously of the monotony of road life: "Bumping across the whole hilled nation/Hemming and hawing, piss and then sleep.
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Thus, in addition to relieving the monotony of a hospital stay or entertaining residents in a nursing home, Max might visit a school where young children wary of reading aloud will happily read to a dog that does not care about mistakes.
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This person also told the Post that the game had created a competitive environment among workers at her facility, though the employees who the paper spoke with did seem to find the game broke up some of the monotony of their work.
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The series accomplishes this via a number of flashbacks to the two's time in the wake of the miscarriage, along with several montages of the monotony of Jesse's life in that time: more beer, more sex with Tulip, more failed pregnancy tests.
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Only the grittiest endurance athletes attempt ultramarathons, in which they face potentially serious injury, dehydration, muscle cramps and sometimes, in the track and road races that were Ritchie's forte, the crushing monotony of following a set course a seemingly interminable number of times.
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By contrast, today's social practice artists engage with their subjects as collaborators, placing a premium on building a sense of community by attempting to counter the monotony of urban rhythms and ease the strains that contemporary life has put on interpersonal relationships.
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"There's something liberating and decadent about staying in a hotel: a break from the monotony of our daily lives, new surroundings to explore, fine restaurants, high-quality linens, room service, maybe even a spa or hot tub," sex therapist Kimberly Resnick Anderson said.
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And there are only so many ways to say that Pickett was volatile, prone to violence, a drug abuser and a man who, in the words of the singer Lloyd Price, "could not stay out of trouble," before a certain monotony sets in.
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The studies are vital, because even the simulated Martian environment can be a lonely and frustrating place, as the New Yorker described last year: The HI-SEAS crew members have not been immune to homesickness, or to the pressures of monotony and enclosed space.
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In a process he likens to the monotony of "digging a trench," he'd spend hours and hours just listening to the material, building up a sound library before finally, toward the end of 2015, putting together the three long pieces that comprise the album.
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Just as 221th-century Americans accepted monotony as inevitable, they also accepted loneliness — or as they called it, "lonesomeness" — as part of the order of things; they thought it was unpleasant but not unexpected and that everybody was going to experience aloneness in their lives.
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GM partly created the problem because it added extra tasks to the workers' jobs in an effort to ease the monotony of a job that likely would become mind-numbing otherwise, but Time reporter Edwin Reingold suggested that that wasn't what employees actually wanted.
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I liked the idea of the act being fetish like in its portrayal, communicating the feeling that the character was using it as a form of private escapism, a pre-meditated means of release, disconnected from any day to day role and of course monotony.
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The green monotony of the dripping corn was interrupted here and there by a tractor dealership or the back side of a small town, where laundry flapped near backyard swing-sets and asphalt roads angled off from the track and into a verdant oblivion.
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After five hours of driving through the monotony of flat woodland, the couple had checked into a motel, carted their luggage to the room and returned to the car, too hungry to rest but too drained to seek out anything more than fast food.
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It finds humor in just about everything: in the serious subjects, in the gross things about women that are rarely talked about, in growing into your 30s, in the monotony of long-term relationships, in fun new crushes, and, most importantly, in female friendship.
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"Trusting the leadership of huge corporations with America's artistic heritage is a crucial mistake, and can already be seen in the 'monotony' of contemporary major studio cinema," the "Godfather" director wrote in a letter given to The Hill by the advocacy group Public Knowledge.
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It's a solid action set piece that goes a long way toward relieving the monotony of mid-season seven, and Buffy's telepathic conversation with Willow and Xander helps recenter the show's focus on their friendship in the middle of a season of growing distance.
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Developers are folding fitness into games as part of a dual-pronged strategy: to retain players by offering a physical twist on traditional gameplay and to draw in new ones like Ms. Ruiz who are looking to break up the monotony of working out.
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But the accumulating impression is of a monotony that isn't really disturbed by the rather hokey crashes of thunder in the score or the plastic-tube furniture and transparent panels that are lowered on wires to hover for a moment before rising and retreating.
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I mean bad dying, where every day the unmoving dullness and static monotony of your life burns the gumption from your blood cells until you're just a putrescent trash bag full of pigs' trotters waiting to be crushed by the sticky teeth of an old dust truck.
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Emily and Janine's time in the Colonies continues to be harrowing and monotonous, and harrowing in its monotony: The endless scenes of the Unwomen digging through radioactive dirt for no apparent purpose all blur together after a while in a way that feels deliberate but also dull.
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Mr. Verseux said that "monotony, always in the same place, always with the same people" were among his biggest challenges while living in the domed research lab that the group called home, where the only respite from the cabin — going outside — required wearing a mock spacesuit.
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I don't know, it's something like that, and yoga is supposed to help transcend the stiff monotony of our coffee-desk-happy-hour existence and find some peace of mind in whatever piece of our mind is left over after Game of Thrones and Trump's daily tweets.
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The slim book, printed on lined paper in an approximation of his handwriting, evokes the mind-breaking monotony of jail, with flashes of humor (his go-to snack is a tortilla stuffed with Doritos) and darkness (an inmate with AIDS berates him for being "a junkie").
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If you look at what Shields and Condit actually did, you'll see why one was getting tagged regularly and the other had almost no trouble at all in a fight so mundane that the UFC production crew began experimenting with panning overhead shots to break up the monotony.
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Classic zombie movies set in urban areas, from Dawn to Shaun, barely have to lift a rotting finger to say something about the mindless monotony of modern life; stories with a broader view, like 28 Days Later and World War Z, are a bloody backdrop for political allegory.
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Since its inception in 2015, Berlin-based label Money $ex Records—founded by OYE record store owner Markus Linder, aka Delfonic, as well as Glenn Astro and Max Graef—has been releasing music that's worked to shatter the monotony of usual sounds you find in dance music genres.
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"Yeah, I ain't taking no more calls, might think bout calling it quits / Press is trying to block my blessings, no more talking to Vince / NPR and XXL, man, I can't tell which is which," he raps, talking about the monotony of interviews, and the way they represent him.
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With huge forces — vocal, choral and orchestral — deployed sparely and at length, Mr. Lachenmann sets up a sort of purposeful monotony of prickly and spooky sound effects and musical fragments that bursts into sonorous splendor, mirroring the girl's warming visions, when each of the three matches is struck.
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Are not the fine mixtures of red and white, the expressions of every passion by greater or less suffusions of colour in the one, preferable to that eternal monotony, which reigns in the countenances, that immovable veil of black which covers all the emotions of the other race?
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To secretaries, who constituted 6 percent of the American work force then, Redactron word processors arrived in an office like a trunk of magic tricks, liberating users from the tyranny of having to retype pages marred by bad keystrokes and the monotony of copying pages for wider distribution.
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The problem is the crushing monotony and abject depression that work brings to your life makes you yearn for that freedom of nothing, to do whatever you want, the big summer vacation of life where no one tells you what time to go to bed or when to come home.
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This is a coming-of-age story, in a way, as she ultimately learns to trade the mythology of the drunken genius ("Whisky and Ink, Whisky and Ink" ran the headline of a profile of John Berryman in 1967) for the monotony of the anecdotes delivered in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
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Jaybird RUN True Wireless In-Ear Headphones, $112, available at Amazon and Best BuyI spent a long time looking for wireless earbuds that both felt secure and were loud enough to drown out the monotony of pounding feet on a treadmill, and these are the best I've ever come across.
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Opener "I Have To Feed Larry's Hawk," premiering today on Noisey with a video by Melbourne designer Ashley Goodall, feels like a riff on John Carpenter's classic Halloween theme, with its hauntingly solitary central synth line, and centres on the monotony of the song's protagonist's central task: feeding Larry's hawk.
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The managers' most effective tool, both to break out of the visual monotony and substitute for live witnesses, was file video, which they used to string together the words of Mr. Trump and his staff into a kind of cinéma-vérité documentary of the often right-out-in-the-open scandal.
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Food expenses add up, especially when you aren't splitting those total costs with a partner or an S.O. — so for me, each week turns into a never-ending battle to spend as little money as possible on as much food as possible, without over-buying or succumbing to meal monotony in the process.
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Gruen's vision was to build a cultural city center that could help break the monotony of the suburban sprawl that was developing across the US after the end of World War II. What Gruen had not anticipated was that his new creation would become synonymous with the very thing he hoped to combat.
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Vitaminwater likes challenging monotony, Suarez, the company's associate brand manager, tells CNBC Make It. "We don't think there's anything more boring than mindlessly scrolling through your phone, and this is an opportunity to take that stance against routine and give someone $100,000 to do something uniquely awesome with their time," she says.
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When we were making the film, we also looked for these examples in nature that would be able to break up the monotony of very urban landscapes, so that we could put some cinematic footage into it, and looking for those kind of nature examples in waves, in forest fires, in redwood forests.
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And the lack of diversity among film critics is definitely a problem; it often results in redundancy and monotony, or a dangerously shallow picture of how a piece of cinema might be viewed by diverse audiences — the number of white critics who didn't understand the animated short "Bao" is just one recent example.
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No one but Lanthimos could adhere so loyally to the classical model of the tragic, yet the result treads close to monotony, and even to a kind of sorrowful sadism—on the whole, I'd rather not watch children, numb below the waist, crawling helplessly downstairs or being hauled along by their hair.
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But for Conforto's final week in Las Vegas before the All-Star break — which is the same for Class AAA and the major leagues — he, catcher Kevin Plawecki and infielder Eric Campbell decided to rent a furnished house with a swimming pool for a week to break the monotony of hotel life.
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The engineers gradually zap SAM's bugs and boost its bricks-per-day output well past the 1,000 mark, but the monotony of chapters devoted to each gig (Laramie: "From the start, the job had bad juju") exposes the book's most inexplicable flaw — the chasm between what Waldman reveals and what he withholds.
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As Eurídice and Guida, the sisters at the heart of this measured-to-the-point-of-monotony (but ultimately deeply moving) tale of unrequited sibling longing, actresses Carol Duarte and Julia Stockler embody those same polarities: the former tall, introspective and slightly gloomy; the latter short, unclouded by worry and a little wild.
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I needed a break from the monotony of memorization, I wanted to meet people, the gym was cool enough to boast a pole-dancing class I'd never take, and the location (just a half-block from a Tasti-D-Lite) seemed to promise me entrance into the "Sex and the City"-themed life I imagined.
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Photo: GettyAmazon is currently experimenting with a pilot program that turns warehouse jobs into a sort of video game, a system the company claims is meant to break up the monotony of the day-to-day tasks required of its workers but has, conveniently, led to competition among employees to outperform their colleagues, according to reports.
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" The revolution Sanders speaks of is more a rebellion against the conventional lifestyles of the previous generation and the monotony of a 9-to-19703 life than it is against the "rigged economy" he has built his campaign around, though he does lament how "Democracy is a United States Congress composed of millionaires and state legislatures controlled by lobbyists.
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"If you can take some of the monotony out of driving, or make driving something which is more technology-oriented and modern, you can potentially draw younger people into a profession where right now you're not seeing a lot of them even though it pays well," saidJonny Morris, Peloton's external affairs and public policy lead, in a phone call.
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But you have to watch a lot of cutscenes and spend hours making on-foot treks before you start building roads, driving vehicles, and erecting ziplines that catapult you from one part of the world to another, and the power of those moments directly stems from the monotony you must trudge through to get to them.
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With Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah, his expensive acquisitions from Chicago, making fans fear that their best days are behind them — and with the Knicks (6-7 after Sunday's home win over Atlanta) already treading a fault line between mediocrity and monotony — Jackson picked a fine time to quibble with the professional integrity of LeBron James.
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If High Top Mountain was his hillbilly tribute to where he was raised in Kentucky, then his follow-up album Metamodern Sounds in Country Music was his tribute to his time in the Navy as a young man, partying his tits off as often as possible to escape the rare monotony of being in the Navy when there wasn't a war going on.
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The casual MMA fan doesn't give a damn if the 135-pound kickboxer on undercards is showing some slick set ups and combinations, but if anyone is going to break the monotony in matchmaking at the top end of the division and actually get a much deserved title shot, Marlon Moraes, Practicing Knockout Artist is the man to do it.
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Mukherjee gives us the breakthroughs, of course, but he also delves into the rivalries, the missteps, and the sometimes excruciating monotony of the experiments: In the early 1970s, a team of researchers including a young biologist named Robert Horvitz began trying to map the location of every cell in a worm's body in an attempt to understand the fate of each.
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" Near the end of her post (which she has received "overwhelming" support on from other moms who feel similarly, she told GMA), Brammeier vowed to "happily and as carefree-ly as possible continue to wake up, brush our teeth, brush our hairs, get dressed and head to school, daycare and camps with the joy of summer in our smiles, and the pang of monotony in our meltdowns.
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"We believe the way virtual reality can capture your senses can help astronauts feel more connected to Earth, and offer ways to combat the sensory monotony that result from such prolonged durations of isolation," says SIFT senior research scientist Peggy Wu. The study will continue when the next HI-SEAS mission begins in 2017, and Wu says that early results are "promising," although not definitive or complete.
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The monotony was punctuated only by a few good jokes by host Jack Whitehall (I snorted aloud at "Back in your grotto, Sheeran"), and Beyoncé and Jay-Z as The Carters, who filmed an elegant acceptance speech for Best International Group in front of a portrait of Meghan Markle, seemingly in solidarity with her as a hypervisible black woman who has been routinely ravaged by the UK press throughout her pregnancy.
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Tony Horwitz earned his Pulitzer Prize in 1995, reporting for The Wall Street Journal on the bleak and awful working conditions of America's low-wage earners — embedding himself in a poultry plant alongside those toiling on the risky, gruesome "disassembly lines," and capturing the harrowing monotony of the silent "cage" where workers opened envelopes for other companies in a room where talking was prohibited and the windows were covered.
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No," Thunderball" and "From Russia With Love" In a 1966 issue of the Soviet literary journal Novy Mir (New World), Ms. Turovskaya wrote that "one can speak as ironically as one likes about the rather stupid adventures of brave Bond," but she suggested that the popularity of the films, based on Ian Fleming's spy novels, "may be rightfully considered as an index of the monotony and dullness of life" in the West.
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This time, the woman is the narrator, and after the introduction of a slow, repetitive riff which foreshadows the monotony of her life, Oberst sings: I'm growing out my hairLike it was when I was singleIt was longer than I've known youI had no money thenI had no worries then at all The internal rhyme of "money" and "worries" weds the two words together, and we immediately know that the obligations of capitalism have damaged the bond between two people.
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