In the tragic symphonic narratives of Shostakovich's Fourth and Vaughan Williams's Sixth, monotone patterns seem to represent the world dying with a whimper: entropy in action.
The monotone punditry on England's opening World Cup match against Italy – which prompted 445 complaints – led to widespread derision on social media and beyond, later described by Neville himself as "pretty brutal".
Here's a Steven Wright joke, picture him saying it in a very droll monotone way: "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it".
The reporter added, "When I met him he wasn't unlikable but definitely transfixed [in] his own world -- speaking in a dull monotone voice, his eyes at times [glazed] over".
Personally, I thought the fashion world was headed in the direction of monotone drapery, assemblages of all the numerous shades of black and grey thrown over the shoulders of the tall and lanky.
"I had convinced myself that kind of optimism served no useful purpose in the world where I existed," he explains, in an underwater monotone, as the protesters look on, baffled.
However, in the real world, the birth function (f u)) is often non-monotone.
The negative symptoms are so called because they are an absence as much as a presence: inexpressive faces, monotone and monosyllabic speech, few gestures, seeming lack of interest in the world and other people, inability to feel pleasure or act spontaneously.
The ABT Studio Company will present world premieres by Brian Reeder and Laura Gorenstein Miller, as well as Frederick Ashton's "Monotones" and George Balanchine's "Tarantella" (tonight and Sunday afternoon).
YMG do this song like they do all their songs--sweet and monotone--but Hole turns it into a thundering, tragic tale of drug world cred.
