Sentence examples for humdrum tale from inspiring English sources

Or is this merely a humdrum tale?

Moments later, the humdrum tale of a family who discover a wooden tree in their back yard is elevated to a joyous tribal dance.

What we get is an unwieldy and mostly humdrum combination of mob tale and backstage musical: "Goodfellas" meets the aforementioned "Showgirls" (with elements of "All About Eve" and "Glee" mixed in).

An awful lot happens both on and off stage: the first IRA bomb attack for five years, a prison riot in which the governor is taken hostage, a full-blown cabinet row over public spending and so on.What lifts this racy tale above the humdrum is that Lord Hurd of Westwell, as he is now, really knows about the action, inter-action and inaction that goes on behind the scenes in Whitehall.

A humdrum task, you say?

The humdrum style is a trick.

Then, too, the everyday nature of travel in the last couple of decades — my children, both under 10, have been to England, France, Greece and Italy — has made vacation tales seem almost humdrum.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was a spry short story written by James Thurber back in 1939 and spinning the tale of a henpecked fantasist in humdrum Connecticut.

But those 70,000 new jobless people have wretched tales to tell, so familiar they risk becoming humdrum.

What I love most about A Canterbury Tale is the way that it roots its magic and mysticism in the humdrum everyday.

The humdrum.