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Example sentences for: ennui

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

The New Yorker 's John Lahr says American audiences simply can't understand Chekhovian ennui.
“My dear, you are merely troubled by ennui.”
"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."
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.
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.