The characters are hungry to escape their monotonous lives, but that's only half the story.

"To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure".

It is, therefore, natural that people look forward to dance festivals which relaxed their otherwise monotonous lives.

It was a welcome diversion in this placid and monotonous life.

She decides to go to Hollywood to escape her monotonous life.

So the monotonous life of the prisoner during the first days after her arrival at the factory, was continued.

A dull old house,' he said, 'and a monotonous life; but I must have her near me.

After complicated journeyings with many pauses, there had come months of monotonous life in a camp.

They found life quite monotonous, with the fish and vegetable diet boring.

To change his monotonous life, he gets drunk and drives around.