I find a lot of the people I see everyday very humdrum and old beyond their years. |
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She was eleven years old now, alone in this little village that was surrounded by the humdrum of the daily activities of the city. |
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There has been a tendency to see Rome as all pomp and glory but there is the humdrum about it as well. |
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He could not get up everyday and face the daily humdrum life of a high school English teacher. |
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It would be nice to go beyond the usual everyday humdrum routine, I should think. |
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The walk was long and rather dull because it was nothing but a dull narrow hall, serving its humdrum purpose splendidly. |
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After all, what can be more humdrum than a team of people armed with Hoovers, dusters and cans of furniture polish sweeping through a building? |
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In other towns innumerable counterparts lived similar, humdrum, unexciting lives. |
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Perhaps what also appeals to us is the ability to escape the humdrum, routine, everyday boredom and frustration just by murmuring a spell. |
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The beribboned Almost Ready accessory bag and the Go-Go garment bag are perfect for a European getaway or just humdrum daily use. |
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There are also few new experiences for you, just the humdrum of daily life and the loneliness of having to get on with it on your own. |
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They just wanted to see something exciting happen, something to break up the mundane humdrum of everyday life. |
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The next day was as boring, mundane, unexciting, humdrum, dull, tedious, uneventful and monotonous as usual. |
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The high seas harbour a host of job opportunities for those driven by wanderlust and the desire for a life away from the humdrum. |
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Their suburban Boston clients envisioned their basement home theater as a place to escape from the humdrum of daily life. |
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It's added a rare touch of glamour to the club, whose space-age stadium squats anomalously on the edge of a determinedly humdrum town. |
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Sometimes the rule that lets us lift the lid on the nation's secrets comes up with humdrum stuff. |
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When Canadians are on the road, an astounding 86 per cent choose to listen to music to beat the highway humdrum. |
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At one point, we see her flitting from window to window, peeking through her lorgnettes at the humdrum of street life below. |
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Save for the occasional inspired moniker, they tend to be humdrum offerings. |
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Superficially, the humdrum of life continues, with routine largely unruffled. |
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The ordinariness of their lives interested me most of all, as if in the quotidian of genius my own humdrum days might find their apotheosis. |
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I saw my sport as a release from the everyday humdrum of life and as a sort of freedom from those things. |
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Once the honeymoon's over and you settle into the humdrum pattern of everyday life, it's easy to get bored. |
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What made the 1973 film stand out was that it set its demonic possession in a humdrum modern-day context. |
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His poetry expresses a discontent with orderly lives and humdrum routine, praising spontaneity and emotion. |
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Are you stuck in a rut, longing to be creative but unable to break free from the humdrum routine of your daily job? |
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I still dream about the blissful day I expelled her, and the happy humdrum months that followed. |
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But now I'm older and popularity is less of an issue and I've developed a unique identity to go with my humdrum name. |
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Just watching them and thinking that there had to be something more in this life for all of us than the everyday humdrum. |
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What were you reading when I came to take you away from your usually boring, humdrum life for a time? |
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This was inevitably followed by a return to the humdrum reality of everyday life. |
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You'd be hard pressed to find a better condensing of urban humdrum in under forty minutes this autumn. |
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While it lasts it prevents us from making shoes, writing books, from engaging in either the humdrum routine of life or in making crucial decisions. |
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Like so many young girls, she tried modeling as a lark, a way of escaping the humdrum and finding glamour. |
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But they were frivolous, fun, and most of all, they added a little spontaneity to an otherwise humdrum existence. |
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He says that he conjured up his apparently humdrum existence in order to protect us, his imaginary friend. |
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To live an orderly life does not necessarily mean that you have a humdrum existence. |
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Lauchie MacDonald lives a humdrum existence but his world soon turns upside down when the vivacious Liza dances into his life. |
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Two working-class best friends aspire to leave their humdrum existence in the boring suburbs and mix with the Parisian glitterati. |
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He played it down, Mr. Shays recalled, characterizing it as humdrum desk work. |
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Throughout the show, survivors of humdrum Midwestern childhoods blossom after they arrive in this great unsleeping metropolis. |
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In truth there is no simpler or humdrum questionthan this: «Why do you have such a sad face? |
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Brighton's reputation for unorthodoxy, so carefully built, may not be eroded by such humdrum concerns. |
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Out of Control is more of a lucky dip, with scintillating trinkets and humdrum knick-knacks. |
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There was effort aplenty but little of beauty to colour the humdrum. |
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There are also believers whose faith was routine, almost humdrum, and who one day experience its vital force. |
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If this sounds humdrum, that's what austerity Britain is: humdrum, run-of-the-mill immiseration. |
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The rest of the film is humdrum macho heroism – made, like Captain Phillips, with help from the US military. |
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In I Wished for a Unicorn, the child's imagination frees the child from the humdrum, dull backyard. |
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Let yourself be carried away into a less humdrum world, while still in control of the march of time. |
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The most humdrum episodes are filled with meaning in this way and given particular significance. |
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In some cases, the performances were careless, humdrum or lacked lustre. |
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Great popular music is far more than that, and if we knew what was good for us we'd be aspiring to its genius rather than dragging it down to our humdrum level. |
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Yes, that's a lot of boilerplate sitcom zaniness, but the show frequently rises above the usual humdrum with sharp writing and great character work. |
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But for some teens ISIS seems to symbolize power and purpose, a great drama promising deliverance from the humdrum. |
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Most stars in the Milky Way have humdrum lives, tracing slow predictable orbits around the galactic center. |
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Three things stand out in this simultaneously remarkable and humdrum bit of film. |
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After all, who would want to watch a show about the humdrum life of a high school chemistry teacher with decent health insurance? |
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He sets all of this action in a kind of unnamed anywhere, a mildly bizarro world of wacky mini-mart customers, humdrum garden apartments and seething ennui. |
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Why go back to that bleak weather and humdrum British nine to five? |
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As a consequence, the city is reduced to humdrum of brick and mortar breeding environmental and health hazards while strangulating human existence. |
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Their dinner party chit-chat concerned the humdrum topic of house prices. |
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She'd gone about her morning with its usual humdrum routine. |
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But when you actually do so, you suddenly become aware of how many sights and sounds you just take for granted and ignore in the course of everyday humdrum life. |
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Having said that, however, there is something in the humdrum routine of everyday life in different cold and gray places around the world that fascinates me. |
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I used to feel almost trapped by the normal, everyday, humdrum life. |
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Such details transform a humdrum waiting room into something closer to a home. |
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We all know how easily innocence is lost, how simple it is to thoughtlessly embrace cynicism and the humdrum monotony of what we call everyday life. |
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This, by now, is a tediously predictable scenario in contemporary theater: Take a rich classic, bowdlerize it and replace powerful content with humdrum tricks. |
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There is ambivalence in the coexistence of these two narrations: the characters seem to lead a humdrum existence but the artist transposes them in an existential reality. |
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It is still a refuge from the sturm and drang of humdrum existence. |
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Harriet longs to cast off her humdrum existence as a governess. |
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Would you like to escape from the humdrum of the city, then let's go: over hills and through valleys, through fields and forests, on foot, by bicycle, bus or train. |
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It is to tell them through the humdrum of everyday that all life is important, that their life is priceless, and that together we can advance towards the Kingdom of Love! |
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The story behind how Track-O came to be is anything but humdrum. |
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Every day, Isabel 6 saves me easily the half of my humdrum work. |
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The Bank of England governor proposed that those banks that take on humdrum banking activities, safe but not speculative, should be separated from those engaged in high-risk areas. |
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Bored with the humdrum 'ding-dong' sound that announces your guests? |
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This representation tends to give emphasis to the intrinsic characteristics of the painted subject, and thus stands apart from Pop Art which on the contrary would usually stress the prosaic and the humdrum. |
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I think it helped distract us from the dry, humdrum, and heat of the here and now. |
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Southwell's card is humdrum at best but Brassbound nonetheless looks interesting in the 32Red Handicap over two miles. |
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Southwell's card is humdrum at best, but Brassbound nonetheless looks interesting in the 32Red Handicap over two miles. |
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How in this humdrum worldkin of ours did mortal men ever come to do this madness? |
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It centres on the reunion of four friends, one of whom, the zaftig and humdrum Becky, is getting married. |
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Espace Métro Accords holds auditions, delivers busking licenses and promotes musicians: the company accredits applicants who can liven up the humdrum of passengers' daily routine. |
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These dramatic colors, however, differentiate periodical cicadas from the humdrum, dog-day cicadas. |
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Miss Price told him a long, involved story, which made out that Mrs. Otter, a humdrum and respectable little person, had scabrous intrigues. |
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For him a suit jacket and tie is for everyday prime ministerial humdrum but real power dressing – when he's hosting international leaders – means pale blue cotton and unironed chinos. |
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These unrealistic aims resulted in parliamentary criticism, especially since the king was reluctant to deal with the more humdrum business of administering justice at home. |
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I return to humdrum town life brainwashed, de-cluttered, relaxed, destressed and energised, determined to employ newly learned techniques on the daily walk to the bus stop. |
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