It's become humdrum rather than chilling.
But a repetitive presentation — the main item set atop a mound of its accompaniments — had become humdrum.
She poured scorn on claims by Paul Bolt, director of the broadcasting standards commission, that returnable hits such as Holby City had become "humdrum", saying his remarks were "hugely patronising".
("That pure blue," writes Ms. Berg, as a character looks upward. "Those white, white clouds"). But "Dream When You're Feeling Blue," about the three Heaney sisters and their romances with men in uniform, has a bobby-pin level of period detail that becomes humdrum much too quickly.
But "the ERA has been talked about so much that it has become humdrum," says panel member Frank Gannon, who heads the Science Foundation Ireland.
They realize that they have allowed their love to go stale or, at the very least, become humdrum, and they want to correct the situation.
Routine - you feel that your week has become humdrum and that there is little to relieve the monotony of what you're doing.
Sex, she wrote, became as "humdrum as washing your face or cleansing your teeth".
After all, no story has become as humdrum - or as plagiarised - as the Bible.
If so, you'd be right at home in our pages, where, Gina Kolata points out, the "eye-popping" and the "jaw-dropping" have become almost humdrum.
