ennui
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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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
Never explicitly, “All We Imagine as Light,” a miraculously subtle piece of work, poses all of the questions above, spreading a luxuriant, hypnotic ennui.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024
This is not about identity politics but ennui: Even minuscule choices, like what socks to wear, are part of a larger cultural self-definition and viral conversation.
From Slate • Aug. 3, 2024
Gatiss’s Gielgud is suffering from late-career ennui, but when he’s in his element he’s assured, witty, wryly acerbic.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2024
He was full of ennui, full of misery, full of death; there was nothing left in the world that could attract him, that could give him pleasure and solace.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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