Sentence examples for too humdrum from inspiring English sources
They were a touch too humdrum in their common humanity.
By contrast, the design of the kit for British athletes seems too humdrum a topic to provoke much vitriol.
WHEN the New Rochelle Library Association considered honoring donors to its $1.5 million fund-raising campaign, brass plaques seemed too humdrum.
It could be that British managers are lazy and scared of technology, or that universities are too humdrum or bureaucratic to attract business interest.In this section Guantánamo-on-Thames? Gulliver's dilemma Constructive, Reverend?
Especially when discontent congeals around issues of culture and nationalism rather than material need, the promises of social democrats and labor liberals can seem too humdrum and insufficiently inspiring.
Who Do You Think You Are? (a programme that abhors the commonplace and discarded even Johnny Vegas as too humdrum) would fall on the Archer family tree with delight, whooping like baboons.
She points out, too, the humdrum reality of their subject matter.
Not only were we inept, we were humdrum too.
The end result is that there is little connection between where the economic activity takes place and where the profits are booked.This can happen in more humdrum industries too.
("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.
In the opening pages, we're presented with the spread-eagled bodies of Joseph and Celice, middle-aged professors of zoology, arranged on a lonely stretch of salt dunes in a tableau too dramatic for their humdrum lives: without their underclothes and with their heads caved in, the "unlikely victims of unlikely passions".
