ennui

How To Use ennui In A Sentence

• The ennui among young Germans is such that couples cannot be bothered to procreate in numbers sufficient to sustain the population.
• To stave off the ennui as I do my pain, I've started to go through my old video collection.
• The best assessment, however, comes from my husband, who chortled, "She basically ennui-ed herself out the door!" as he refilled his wine glass. Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 11 Recap: Alba-tross
• As a professional, for example, Dr. Sermond presides with creeping, midlife ennui over a querulous clientele to whom he gives little more than amused compassion-much of it arising from his own seeming lack of problems.
• I will not say that the Kingdom of Heaven was within us, for we were just as troublesome and unregenerate as any boys that ever lived on earth before or since, but the word ennui was not in the lexicon of my youth. In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
• Kind of funny, isn't it, that the Kudeshka word for "schoolchildren" sounds a bit like the English word "ennui"? Analog Science Fiction and Fact
• With their last album, Air soundtracked the film, The Virgin Sucides, a tale of suburban angst and ennui in the 70s.
• It is with a sense of profound ennui that one reads today the enthralling news that, "Gordon Brown hinted … that he could yet call a referendum on the new EU reform treaty if fellow European leaders 'backslide' on deals struck by Tony Blair to protect British sovereignty. The games they play
• The physical environment itself is a crucial factor in the creation of unhappiness, ennui, anger, alienation and despair.
• The Nabob finding his time after dinner hang somewhat heavy on his hand, and the moon being tolerably bright, had, one harvest evening, sought his usual remedy for dispelling ennui by a walk to the Manse, where he was sure, that, if he could not succeed in engaging the minister himself in some disputation, he would at least find something in the establishment to animadvert upon and to restore to order. Saint Ronan's Well