one-note

If it's one-note and been done before, you just want them to put a bit more effort in.

In part, this is just a liability of a one-note group show.

But with that material, he has turned himself into nearly a one-note performer.

The characters might be one-note, but at least they consistently hit the right one.

But it will certainly keep the orchestra playing its one-note symphony.

So we are not just a one-note song here.

This is not a one-note approach to the system.

The other cast members must cope with one-note roles as well.

Her one-note humming took on a tiny edge of pleasure.

The party's response to the recession has also been disconcertingly one-note.

The problem is that this is largely a one-note performance.

While I think its delivery has been a bit clumsy and too one-note, it is the right strategy.

Yet at the same time, he said, he did not want to present the men as one-note heroes.

"But this one-note thing really got under my skin."

It seems a rare one-note portrayal of a man who was a little more complex than that.

Oh, and there's another one-note line over the top.

Maybe it's not knowing where to go with an amusing but essentially one-note character.

Sometimes as actors we go for the one-note thing because things move so fast in TV.

My goal from the beginning was not to play this guy as a one-note villain like he sort of is in the comic book.

The one-note coverage isn’t seen as that, of course.

It was the first time people got to see I was not a one-note horn.

"He wasn't satisfied with the one-note explanation of things," said Sanders.

The one-note quality of his performances will be a problem on multiple-song nights.

He continued: "Lancaster is so clearly kind of a one-note mean guy.

Far away, a train whistle played a one-note dirge in the night.