Word: humdrum
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...such a lyric manner, did Fabre, one of the world's great entomologists, record the daily lives of insects: fired by devotion to his "dear friends," he could describe the horrid or the humdrum in paragraphs almost like fairy tales in their mystery and charm...
...cast of A Queen Came By went back to their humdrum jobs-and a quick look at the racing form. A horse named Jacket was running in the fourth at Newmarket. The entire cast put their money on his nose. Jacket romped home, paying four...
...play concerns a young man who escapes from his humdrum life by inventing wonderful tales about himself. This gains for him the prestige he craves, ("I should have been a knight in shining armor"), but he soon finds it difficult to remember when he is lying and when he is not. He is a Walter Mitty of action; a Christy Mahon without honor...
Decline & Fall. Dr. Douglas' ancient times have none of the awesome stage effects of Ben-Hur or Quo Vadis, with their baths, slaves, violence and mystery. They are practical and humdrum; the decline of Rome does not mean orgies in the palaces, but higher taxes. The nomadic simplicity of desert life is so contrasted with the hypocrisy of the cities that Dr. Douglas sometimes seems to be loading the dice in favor of the outdoors and in favor of the Arabs as against the Jews. There is another side of Jewish life, however, which Fara discovers when...
...what they think the public wants, as long as we still have freedom of the press. Restraints, to be effective, must be imposed by the gentlemen of the press and radio themselves." A man's only hope of exercising his right of privacy-is "to live a happy humdrum life and stay out of the way of newsmen...