Picard suppressed a grin, thinking that the monotonous repetition of T'Zen's message had finally given the android a handle on why humans resented tedium so much.

But the monotonous repetition of the words drummed at my brain and I sat there, quite regardless of the cold, seeing nothing, hearing nothing beyond that voice, completely stunned.

He turned over the facts again and again in his mind until their monotonous repetition affected him like a dull, nagging pain.

There is a great deal of monotonous repetition.

On the contrary, it is a monotonous repetition of the eternal revolution, it is the perfect commonplace of revolutions.

This nickname refers to the monotonous repetition of one note in the accompaniment.

Raphael remembered the endless, monotonous repetition of the 'y'knows' during his enforced attendance at AA meetings when he'd tried playing games with a new caseworker.

These are not free from monotonous repetitions, though at times this is necessary to accentuate the narrative character of the style.

Other readers believe that the monotonous repetition of the failed Miriam/Paul relationship theme is deliberate.

The footsteps came to the top landing and went past my door along the hall, with that same dead monotonous repetition, regular as the movement of a machine.