They are elements for the construction of a city allowing great variation, and with them the usual monotony of cities could be avoided.
Irritation, discomfort, and monotony are a duplication of reality.
Although both a rigid routine and its total absence can create monotony, sheer boredom seems to have been medieval inmates' share.
From the later eighteenth century the vernacular tradition began to decline, with the growing trend towards 'standardization and monotony' (p. 294).
The material is thin, and we are consumed - by monotony.
Pity he could not wholly overcome its rhythmical monotony.
It would avoid the monotony that might arise if one individual alone was responsible for all aspects of the site.
All of this lends the work the stamp of monotony.
