Sentence example with the word 'ennui'

ennui

acedia, depression, dread, grimness, languidness, listlessness, phlegm, sluggishness, tastelessness, unease, yawn

Definition n. the feeling of being bored by something tedious

Last update: August 5, 2015


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Beyond British and sensationally sociological, Blur and singer/songwriter Damon Albarn weave tales of stifling middle class ennui into clever pop vignettes.   [noun]

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Sc. 4) causes the queen to remonstrate, in reply to her lady's suggestion of a game at bowls to relieve her ennui, "'Twill make me think the world is full of rubs, and that my fortune runs against the bias."   [noun]

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On her face the expression of anguish and ennui changed, it seemed to me, when she looked at him, into an expression of anxiety for HIM.   [noun]

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On the contrary, it is a period of uneasiness, of shame, of pity, and, above all, of ennui,--of ferocious ennui.   [noun]

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The former is called ennui, and the latter is in his heart.   [noun]

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More would probably drive him crazy with ennui, but this is just enough.   [noun]

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It is because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief.   [noun]

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Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find ennui his torment.   [noun]

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It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.   [noun]

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Truth is, the young fellows are suffering from ennui.   [noun]

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Whenever ennui attacked Mrs.   [Please select]

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