Sentence examples similar to humdrum obligations from inspiring English sources

It was mostly humdrum duty, Mr. Michener said.

As Charles Fried observed (in developing an account of contract law based on the law's promissory roots and thus on the idea that contract obligation is "essentially self-imposed") (1981: 2), contractual trust does not establish intimacy but rather serves "humdrum ends: We make appointments, buy and sell" (1981: 8).

The humdrum.

Middles can seem humdrum.

So far, so humdrum.

Others are more humdrum.

Half-time: Humdrum stuff.

Few desserts rise above humdrum.

A humdrum task, you say?

It was sloppy, lightweight, humdrum.

It was fustian, beige, humdrum.