These days it's not harsh treatment that epitomizes prison life but instead the tyranny of tedious routine.
The stultifyingly tedious routine of the drab, drifting days thinking of no one but her.
Her team was busy with the tedious routine of sifting material and information that would probably prove useless.
The rest of their life is chores and tedious routine.
You don't play in bands for half ofyour 29 years without learning how to warp the tedious routine of rock 'n' rollinto acceptable customs.
Seeing the news in the supermarket gave existential diversion to the tedious routine of constantly buying groceries by the ton.
Mr. Pistone followed a tedious routine of daily visits to the club, listening to boring conversations.
There was no more tedious routine than searching for a shipwreck.
Pitt droned on through the tedious but necessary routine while diverting a cautious eye every few seconds on the sea a bare fifty feet below.
Why go through the tedious routine of talking to a computer, when it was possible to design an android capable of becoming part of one?