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Example sentences for: ennui

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The New Yorker 's John Lahr says American audiences simply can't understand Chekhovian ennui.
Sixteen features look at the nomadic ennui of the frequent business traveler.
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.
An article marvels at the Clinton administration's ennui: The second-term president has no agenda, and entire departments (notably the Justice Department) seem to be paralyzed.
"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."