The ho-hum attitude may be because the law's major benefits don't take effect until 2014.

You would never guess from Clark's ho-hum attitude that he was flirting with some legendary company this year.

A lack of novel fashions has also inspired a ho-hum attitude on the part of shoppers.

Still, investors took a fairly ho-hum attitude.

I sense, on the American opera scene, a ho-hum attitude to Glass, based on the assumption that he always does the same thing.

All of which adds to the ho-hum attitude of the American fan and athlete toward the heel-and-toe discipline.

His analysis mirrors the Rams' ho-hum attitude about Warner's deft and deadly deep touch.

For several months, Republicans sought to fill the vacuum created by Democrats' apparent ho-hum attitude to politicking hard on healthcare reform.

Distressed by the ho-hum attitude toward a threat to human survival, Dr. Lifton agreed to help organize a conference on the subject.

Even so, U.S. registered voters seem to have taken a ho-hum attitude about third-party candidates this year, a recent Gallup poll indicated.

And so despite the locals' ho-hum attitude toward the new year, the toubab energetically went about their plans to celebrate the arrival of 2000 in Timbuktu.

The ho-hum attitude from Ho-ho-kus to Secaucus to Succasunna persisted, even after the Nets excelled.

Right before your very eyes, they were horrifying, with 43 percent shooting from the field against the Boston Celtics and a ho-hum attitude in front of their home fans.

The proof is the ho-hum attitude with which UN Security Council resolutions, especially those having to do with the Middle East, are greeted.

So there was a decidedly ho-hum attitude toward the unfamiliar young Bavarian National Ballet when it quietly sidled into the New York State Theater last week.

Two decades after a nude photo scandal helped cost a Miss America her title, Americans may be adopting a more ho-hum attitude toward people who bare it all for the cameras.

When these special sorts of plants have appeared in overseas gardens, they have often been met with oohs and ahs, while gardeners in this country react with a rather ho-hum attitude.

Typical of the ho-hum attitude toward these killings was a headline on a two-paragraph story on page 14 of O Globo newspaper: "Hooded men kill seven people in Vila Alianca."

Predictability can translate into a ho-hum attitude among TV viewers, who are less likely to sit through a marathon Oscar broadcast just to hear a winner announced at the end of the evening that everyone expected beforehand.

"The equity market at the moment looks sort of O.K.," said Tim Brown, British strategist at UBS Phillips & Drew International in London, echoing the ho-hum attitude shared by many analysts.

Forrester's chief executive, George F. Colony, spoke recently about current trends in technology - like radio frequency identification tags, or RFID, used to identify things like products or pets - as well as consolidation in the research field and his ho-hum attitude toward Google.

"I had a sort of ho-hum attitude when I heard it had arrived, but then I saw what this beetle could do and it was just frightening," Mr. Koeck said from his office at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in Trenton.