Meaning of one-note | Babel Free

Definitions

Having only one opinion, outlook, tone, etc., especially as expressed repetitively; without variety or range.

idiomatic, not-comparable

Examples

“But Pope Brock plays him in such a one-note key of gulping and spitting and snickering cynicism that the spectacle becomes numbing.”

“The footnotes that attend Ambrose Bierce in the U.S. literary canon roughly place him as a minor writer of grotesque supernatural tales and trenchant war stories, a misanthrope, curmudgeon, a purveyor of stringing sarcasms, a one-note wit.”

“To his mind, there was only one right and true position on the question. This sort of one-note response is precisely the problem facing politically engaged academics in the U.S. at the moment.”

“The movie is one long snigger. […] It might be one-note, but at least it's in the key of funny.”

“Moreover, Drive Angry offers evidence that Cage hasn't recently been one-note in his performances so much as in his choice of schlocky material.”

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