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

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.

From Salon

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Salon