humdrum existence
humdrum life

"If I have brought a little humor into your humdrum existence, my life has not been lived in vain."

She hadn't realized how much sheer joy he added to her previously humdrum existence.

I wonder if we can ever settle down to the humdrum existence of civilian life."

Junior Avonlea found it hard to settle down to humdrum existence again.

London's character used his imagination to try to escape his humdrum existence.

Ten more days were to pass before the longed for interruption to Huy's humdrum existence occurred.

Lili, trapped in a humdrum existence, runs a nightclub that is situated on a river just at the water's edge.

The characters are forever floating back and forth between daily humdrum existence and noble pasts.

"It was meant to take people out of their humdrum existence and bring them into a world of unimagined wealth and luxury."

Julia had felt like a character in a fairy tale, whisked out of humdrum existence and given a glimpse of perfection.

It is not something peculiar to the Royal Family - people have very humdrum existences and the Royals provide a bit of excitement.

Did Richard ever recover his fortunes and continue his high-rolling lifestyle or has he settled for the more humdrum existence of a gentleman farmer?

Kabakov points out that the color of the state is red but the color of the country is gray, due to its "humdrum existence".

But some have seen the bonuses as a once-in-a-lifetime way out of a humdrum existence - not that work at Kingston is all that humdrum.

The yacht had been taken as bounty, the crew put into deep freeze until they were required to spice up the humdrum existence on board Quail's ship.

She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to her own humdrum existence by adopting different identities - and voices - for her clients.

This humdrum existence seemed certain to last him from womb to tomb, for Septimus was not the stuff on which authors base two hundred thousand word sagas.

Secondly, although this might be seen by some to relegate librarians and information scientists to a rather mundane, humdrum existence, we would submit that the reverse is true.

"What a resort sold was a feeling of relaxed luxury and a freedom from the everyday humdrum existence that guests were trying to escape," Mr. Lapidus said.

He was the more sure of this because in his own mind he could picture no inducement sufficiently powerful to attract any one to return to the humdrum existence of the ranch.

I lived a somewhat humdrum existence for some two years, and then one morning I had a pleasant surprise in the shape of a visit from my old friend, Pierre Bonchose.

The protagonist, Tony Webster, is a divorcee who lives an ordered and humdrum existence, but finds his life unravelling after a lawyer's letter causes him to revisit his school days.

Mentally and physically, Schutt's young people lead humdrum existences, but if her slightly older characters don't have much going on in the real world, at least their thoughts sizzle and pop.

Luke Skywalker lives a humdrum existence on Tatooine with his Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru that have kept his father's true history a secret from him.

But in their more humdrum existence, they have exhibited the character and concerns of the sort of people who in recent years have made this densest of all states still denser.

But with me things are different: I live an ordinary humdrum life.

It took me away from my sort of humdrum life."

It was an escape from their humdrum lives, a chance to win booty.

The humdrum lives of a dull couple - even when younger, were they ever more than tedious?

"We had to do something to shake you out of your humdrum life," said Flanders.

All Dennis wanted was to live a humdrum life, with an overweight peasant girl who didn't even like him.

He then settled down to a humdrum life as a low-level civil servant.

Everyone seemed satisfied and we left the exalteds to resume our humdrum lives across the street.

I guess he must have sailed for Virginia to inject some excitement into a humdrum life.

She led an ordinary, humdrum life at best.

One of the purposes of a good beach holiday is to forget about humdrum life back home.

And certainly no Russian writer has been more sympathetic to the ways that passion can play havoc with even the most humdrum lives.

Few of the people in their pictures look like winners; most of them plainly lead hard or humdrum lives.

Bring a little elegance into our otherwise humdrum lives.'

Pearl is becoming bored with her humdrum life.

You might sa) brought a ray of sunshine into their humdrum lives.'

We knew it was not true to life but it was a good way to escape our humdrum lives if only for a few hours.

"The humdrum life of a couple is disrupted by the arrival of an anonymous love poem."

"As you must have noticed, mon capitaine, I've hardly required assistance to make your humdrum life more interesting."

Six youths try to escape their humdrum lives with weekends of drug-fuelled debauchery.

Can the humdrum lives of humans compare?

Even what seemed like humdrum lives were photographed - you ought to be in pictures, and you just might be.

Her dreary humdrum life enveloped her like grey cotton wool.

Are we all rushing to these oases to improve our complexions, to change our humdrum lives?

Colin "CD" Dobson, lives a humdrum life at a critical point in history.