One is that the standardization leads workers to rebel against the mundaneness.

Wanting to get away from their town's mundaneness, Takeru agrees.

Somehow the mundaneness of being sidelined by the ordinary seems more embarrassing.

We've got to get out of here, escape the mundaneness of the classroom."

Perhaps it was the incredible mundaneness of the task that made it so natural for them to work together.

After they graduated, they began working at different companies but soon came to be bored with the mundaneness of corporate life.

He seemed totally focused on the minor task, as if he found its mundaneness reassuring.

We want characters we can identify with, but also an epic tale that lifts us from the mundaneness of our own experience.

So the mundaneness of it all might be purposeful, but the flatness couldn't be, could it?

The normality of these tasks parallels the mundaneness of routine policing elsewhere.

"I wouldn't blame yourself for the mundaneness of this morning's riff," says Piers Barclay, thoughtfully.

In the first series finale, weirdness threatens to flood London while mundaneness threatens Undone.

Their cultural emancipation from the bourgeois makes the central city an appealing alternative to distance themselves from the conformity and mundaneness attributed to suburban life.

But although it is constructed with care and obvious forethought, the very mundaneness of the lives Ms. Goldberg writes about smothers scene after scene.

Outside of any game ever being called by Joe Buck, this may be the biggest disparity between "craziness of play" and "mundaneness of announcing."

Crazy 'wannabees', fighting mundaneness.

But in many of his portraits, Van Dyck put these things together with an unusual lack of fuss and fireworks, a kind of mundaneness that still speaks to us.

Such invention, in Singer's vision, is a reaffirming alternative to the mundaneness that is superimposed on everyday life and passed off as reality - or as the presumption of sense.

While his work often shows a lack of visual artistry, even a mundaneness, his art retains a transgressive aspect that is refreshing and helps lift his work above the commonplace.

Reviewer Michael Berry wrote, "There aren't many possible denouements for a book like this, and Brewer steers a middle course between the extremes of outright fantasy and predictable mundaneness.

Shields's self-described "uninhibited", "spontaneous" work was astonishing in its mundaneness, and now fills 94 cartons in the collections of Washington State University, to whom he donated the work in 1999.

She now sees the mundaneness of the life she lived because she has to live that life again, only now knowing what she is missing and not able to live in blissful ignorance.

This is a play about how easily ordinary lives can become rancid and desperate, and it is constructed with forethought, but the very mundaneness of the lives it concerns smothers the playwright's intentions.

Mr. Way, who has been profiled in publications like Art and Antiques, has come to see a false dichotomy between the exquisiteness of his vocation and the assumed mundaneness of his job.