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