routineer

The difference between the shallowest routineer and the deepest thinker appears, to the latter, trifling; to the former, infinite.

At this point the whole routineer scheme of things collapses, there is a period of convulsion and Cæsarean births, and men weary of excitement sink back into a newer routine.

The routineer in a panic turns to the taboo.

Taft was the perfect routineer trying to run government as automatically as possible.

The routineer with his taboo does not see this, so he attempts the impossible task of obliterating the impulse.