The machine made a repetitive and monotonous sound.
"It's monotonous sound and volume; it's bodies squeezed together, it's a little masochistic," Ricardo Urgell said in a 2011 interview.
The non-ideological swing voters likely to decide this election take one look at Mr. Cheney, or catch one monotonous sound bite, then promptly trance out and forget what the Democrats are barking about.
"Botswana, Botswana…" Or you may prefer the less nationalistic version, "drink lager, drink lager…", or even "work harder, work harder…" These are the local ways of rendering the call of the Cape turtle dove, a rather monotonous sound which fills the air from dawn to dusk, eventually driving its listeners mad.
IGN, in contrast, heavily criticized the game for a lack of background music, and simplistic and monotonous sound effects.
Simon Reynolds, writing in Melody Maker, said that "other bands would give their eye teeth" for the songs' riffs and found the album's densely complicated style of metal to be distinct from the monotonous sound of contemporary rock music: "Everything depends on utter punctuality and supreme surgical finesse.
Catathrenia (nocturnal groaning) is a rare condition characterized by monotonous irregular sounds that occur during sleep.
Occasionally - on the druggy, crimson-hued Pretty Girls, for instance - his monotonous rhythms sound plush and hypnotic; for the most part, however, they are thuddingly dull.
"Yalta was hardly visible through the morning mist; white clouds stood motionless on the mountain-tops," Chekhov writes at the start of the famous passage that continues: "The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us.
Record yourself practicing a speech; you will be amazed at how monotonous you sound, even when attempting to be 'bright'bright
It sounds monotonous because it is.
