humdrumness

When they were older they planned to marry, but neither wanted to settle down to the humdrumness that they had always known.

Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart

If this temperament oftentimes allowed Tory to color humdrumness with rose, it also gave her a sensitive distaste to what other people might not feel so intensely.

The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest Margaret Vandercook

Is not the commonplaceness, the humdrumness, the dead-levelness, of life largely a matter of individual vision, "as I see it"?

The Hills of Hingham Dallas Lore Sharp 1899

I certainly have got a case of humdrumness and fatigue on for the ones I do know.

Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886

The same spirit which induces a man to break out of orthodox humdrumness, induces him to love the marvellous, the forbidden, the odd, the wild, the droll -- even as I do.

Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

When they were older they planned to marry, but neither wanted to settle down to the humdrumness that they had always known.

Letters of a Woman Homesteader 1847

Amidst the humdrumness of coping with self, family, community, finance, illness etc. where do we have time to be self questioning?

Daily News & Analysis 2009

Most striking about their relationship is not Mrs. Pugach’s lingering resentment, not her husband’s less-than-evident remorse, and not even their mutual dependence, but the marriage’s frank descent into humdrumness.

Sunday Reading 2007

And in between there, there’s just a whole lot of humdrumness which may be the real bete noire.

pinch 2006