Example sentences for: ennui

How can you use “ennui” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "It is clear that the faithful are paralyzed by ennui and the party is floundering," writes William J. Bennett in the most recent issue of the Weekly Standard . "What is missing is a focused, appealing, and philosophically coherent national agenda."

  • Happiness melted into melancholy, sadness into ennui.

  • Many responses remark on our sedentary youth, barely able to leave the couch, let alone the house, sedated by the television, the Nintendo, the ennui, the Quaaludes.

  • Make that the level after next" (Rob Brunner, Entertainment Weekly ). It's blessed with "post-cool happiness" (James Hunter, the Village Voice ), which makes it "an antidote for ennui, using hedonistic, ass-wiggling enthusiasm and 'ain't-no-mountain-high-enough' lyrical proclamations" (M.

  • Ellis' latest novel of ennui and anomie among America's beautiful people irritates reviewers to varying degrees.


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