Примеры humdrum

• But all these only briefly interrupted an otherwise humdrum existence.

• The polite urbanites of the eighteenth century desired separation; they wanted the street cleared of noisy, humdrum performers.

• In the fantastic scenes, such patterns comprise the exotic pages of the score, while the modal and octatonic passages comprise the familiar, humdrum ones.

• We may fancy an exotic past that contrasts with a humdrum or unhappy present, but we forge it with modern tools.

• Nor is it outrageous that intellectual historians and literary scholars have lavished more attention on them than on more humdrum contemporaries.

• Many reduplications are of this sort - dilly-dally, harum-scarum, humdrum, mumbo-jumbo, namby-pamby.

• From the perspective of outsiders, linguistic theory may indeed be a heady realm, and language teaching humdrum practice.

• For the vocal-rhythmical humdrum of lines 3 and 4 is an effect that lines 1 and 2 have set off.

• This is a more humdrum work.

• The urban district councils of the smaller boroughs grind away at what is an arduous and humdrum task.

• They see defence and defence expenditure as inviolate, separate from the prosaic and humdrum problems of every day.

• I should have thought that he would have said something but his speech was no more than a humdrum little homily.

• They range from quiet, perhaps sometimes humdrum, roles to the most dangerous and demanding tasks.

• This brings me back to the facts of life, to the humdrum realities of economics and politics.

• To-day is a relatively quiet day when we are talking about humdrum affairs such as concern domestic matters.