I maintained a weight I was happy with, but I was mind-numbingly bored by the unvarying routine.

Harold Crick, who lives alone in a spartan apartment in an unspecified city (Chicago, it looks like), is an I.R.S. auditor who obeys an unvarying routine.

This was the routine, the unvarying routine, and had been ever since the Trehanna arrived on the station.

These were pleasant interludes in the unvarying routine of all their lives and served to fill man's need for contact with his fellow beings, for these could indeed be strands of loneliness.

Mildrith wanted little more than her church, her baby and an unvarying routine.

And so, by my calculations no fewer than 696 times, I have maintained what has been a quite unvarying routine.

Certain infallible rules have been established, and we carry on an unvarying routine in which we apply the same theory to the same cases.

Surely they had been at sea at least four weeks, but the ship's isolation and the unvarying daily routines made it difficult for him to work out any very dear sense of how rapidly time was passing.

Little Yuli's funeral gave them the chance to break the unvarying routine of life, and to live imaginatively.

Stop That Ferry Q.: For years I have watched the unvarying routine of the Staten Island Ferry from the Brooklyn Heights promenade.