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Mr. Simon’s record was also one of the first to grasp the mid-’70s ennui of a generation fenced in by marital responsibilities and yearning for its earlier, wilder self.

We kept joking that we rescued the press from the Free Table — but at this point, it feels more accurate to say it rescued us from dinner ennui.

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To set the tenor, she destroys an entire medical laboratory in Kuala Lumpur while bemoaning her ennui.

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This is where body horror comes in to turn our fear of mortality, or perhaps just ennui, into something, well, horrific.

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He has not been in front of us and that absence has led to the sense of ennui among the opposition.

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