How To Use Ennui In A Sentence

Joseph is a disgruntled Brooklyn teenager who, when he doesn't get into Columbia, fills up with ennui.
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
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
The sea-world over, sailormen love to beguile the days of calm, to put to flight hours of ennui, by the spinning of yarns.
Did their mother die of ennui or choke on a chicken bone? Times, Sunday Times
A pall descended on the Palace of Westminster, a kind of anxious ennui.
What would have seemed like raw meat for columnists, satirists, incendiaries and the like has fallen between the cracks of ennui and indifference.
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.
At present it feels like a lost cause, and the SNP seems directionless, ennuied and underachieving.
To stave off the ennui as I do my pain, I've started to go through my old video collection.
A brief surge of pure joy was quickly supplanted by his more usual ennui. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
In the columns gathered here, he throws around words like ‘ennui,’ ‘elan,’ ‘celerity,’ ‘phlebitic,’ and ‘riposte’ like an SAT test-prep instructor.
Olivia Williams' crisp, tinkling syllables have a very Kristin Scott Thomas-ish ennui, and she is often shown lying perfectly still in satin sheets like a vaguely preposterous alabaster saint.
But she went on to give a searing description of the ennui the work brings - broken only when the tea trolley arrives.
Faced with consumer ennui and apathy, Nike has decided to engage in a desperate effort to regain mindshare.
`Said she thought everyone would be going round saying, `Oh, comme je m'ennuie! ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
The books always had a point, even in their pain and desolation and ennui, he found comfort in their purpose.
They were, after all, still ensnarled in the whole mess, and the ennui of that debacle seemed to flood them with bad karma - not to mention bad relief pitching.
But no; the brigadier's servant and the mess-waiter, who was a high-spirited and intelligent dragoon, sought to vary the _ennui_ of the march, and to assert their superiority over the Kaffirs in the matter of stage-driving, by taking the _fourgon_ and its half broken team full gallop down the incline terminating in Houwater _vlei_. On the Heels of De Wet
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.
It means the post-novel ennui is wearing off, and maybe when coffeeem sends back "Lucky Day," I'll have something useful to say about it. A little drop of poison in the red red blood
The animals at the zoo seem to be caught in that some place in-between world weariness and ennui.
And that the pleasurable sensations arising from these secretions may constitute the unnamed pleasure of exigence, which is contrary to what is meant by tedium vitæ, or ennui; and by which we sometimes feel ourselves happy, without being able to ascribe it to any mental cause, as after an agreeable meal, or in the beginning of intoxication. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
Her usual carefully-studied air of ennui had for a moment slipped. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
Call it lethargy, call it ennui, call it plain, honest to goodness sloth, but I had yet to stir my bones and make the trek north.
Since losing his job, he has often experienced a profound sense of ennui.
Prior to this we'd had limited access to the French word "ennui" - a more grandiose, long-term boredom - but once we had our own word for listless dissatisfaction, we embraced it. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Les collègues de John se sont mis à l'appeler "la vieille dame de John Wagner", ce qui en anglais peut aussi signifier "la moitié de John Wagner", de sorte que John en vint à redouter de sérieux ennuis avec sa femme. Archive 2010-06-01
All this Palin coverage is causing a state of ennui in many of your readers. Palin: 'I will forever question' Rev. Wright strategy
But critics found possible reasons other than underlying biology for fertility drops: for example, sexual ennui — or, as they more technically put it, a diminution in coital frequency over the course of a marriage. Delayed Childbearing
The ennui among young Germans is such that couples cannot be bothered to procreate in numbers sufficient to sustain the population.
Audio File: listen to Jean-Marc read the following expressions and pronounce the verb conjugations to the French verb crever Download MP3 Download Wav crever un pneu = to flatten a tire crever de faim = to be starving crever d'ennui = to be bored to death je crève, tu crèves, il crève, nous crevons, vous crevez, ils crèvent Kindness of strangers
I would, however, still be feeling something - melancholia or acedia, ennui, despair, nameless dread or another such psychic state historically lacking effective treatment.
The joys of rereading might have offered Mallarme a stronger antidote to his ennui than sighing for distant, exotic lands.
Suddenly a sense of the difference between the week behind him, with all its ups and downs, its quarrels, its _ennuis_, its moments of delightful intimity, of artistic freedom and pleasure, and those threadbare monotonous weeks into which he was to slip back on the morrow, awoke in him a mad inconsequent sting of disgust, of self-pity. Robert Elsmere
The dreary _ennui_ of the heart, _ennui_ that revolts at truth, that is nauseated by earnestness, expresses itself in what we call slang, and slang is the sign of mental disease. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour
Temporary ennui or a more long-term change of direction?
As James says, there may be a good reason for that, other than his general ennui and drifty uselessness. Honest John MP: Misses Transport and
So, I suppose, this ennui is the ying to that yang. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Writing Blahs
He is portraying an English landscape of barren trees, a place of despair, ennui and fear.
Were it not fur her, I dare say Edward Plantagenet would long since have succumbed to ennui and despair.
The pain of living in this house with such ennui, such boredom for nine years.
He keeps cheating on his girlfriend and stealing bikes out of sheer ennui. Times, Sunday Times
Jaded by the excesses of a prodigal youth in English society at home and on the Continent, he is at first merely anxious to relieve his ennui by touring the countryside.
The post-novella ennui is not as bad as the post-novel ennui, but it's still pretty darned draining. The plot of our life sweats in the dark like a face
Were it not fur her, I dare say Edward Plantagenet would long since have succumbed to ennui and despair.
Schultz is a man facing old age and his looming mortality with a dim sadness that seems to complement his general ennui.
My current bout of emo and ennui is being laid at the feet of insufficient dairyfat, and as a result, I am treating it by P.O. administration of macaroni and cheese, which seems to be helping. Well, that was a pretty productive day
I've met a few in my time and the defining characteristic they exhibit is a rather unattractive effortlessness and ennui.
But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man. Bret Easton Ellis: 'So you're a misogynist, a racist – so what? Does it make your art less interesting?'
My amiability, which is in many cases the result of indifference; my indulgency, which is sincere enough, and is due to the fact that I see clearly how unjust men are to one another; my conscientious habits, which afford me real pleasure, and my infinite capacity for enduring ennui, attributable perhaps to my having been so well inoculated by ennui during my youth that it has never taken since, are all to be explained by the circle in which I lived, and the profound impressions which I received. Recollections of My Youth
`Tony Hill,' he said, covering his ennui with a coating of brightness. THE LAST TEMPTATION
The French word _ennui_, which now only means weariness of mind, signified formerly injury, and the vexation or hatred caused thereby; something like the English word "annoy," as in Shakespeare's Richard III., v. 3: Sganarelle, or, the Self-Deceived Husband
In this case, not a lot has changed in the past millennium and a half, except that we're more likely to be wearied by tedium, ennui or heartsickness than by physical fatigue.
On the theory that post-novel ennui is inevitable, and I really only have one more short story to finish in the near future, I did a bad thing. Just drive safely.
I think I had a lingering sense of ennui that wasn't helping me stay energized and positive about my job.
In their own ennui of the day, they passed their idleness with staring out the window to spy Elizabeth's coming from the back lawns accompanied by two gentlemen.
Detecting a certain ennui sweeping across Belfast's healthy but slightly stale, generic dance music-dominated gay scene just over a year ago, Niamh Rowan, Mairead Hughes and Stephen Dorothy launched Eclektric, offering a fusion of left-of-centre electronica, indie and pop with an equally quirky dose of live-mixed visuals. Clubs picks of the week
He interestingly elicits the languor and melancholy of Fowler, fusing this ennui with the action as Fowler journeys up-country to report on the vicious shooting war.
But even my beer-swilling customers seemed to have the same ennui that I did.
It's the kind of ennui that ultimately affected his friend Vieira, who has been reinvigorated by his move to Italy.
I'll have the knockwurst with a side of gypsum and a sense of ennui, thanks. "We Are the Last Minority" Say Surrealist Poets
Since losing his job, he has often experienced a profound sense of ennui.
Did their mother die of ennui or choke on a chicken bone? Times, Sunday Times
How can we overcome the general ennui associated with the thought of another incredibly boring day ahead of you?
I suppose this is what they call ennui," said Eric again, after a pause. Eric, or Little by Little
He was Carl Schirmer, the avatar of ennui, the eternal ephebe, always more eager for ambience than destiny. In Other Worlds
He sets all of this action in a kind of unnamed anywhere, a mildly bizarro world of wacky mini-mart customers, humdrum garden apartments and seething ennui.
He keeps cheating on his girlfriend and stealing bikes out of sheer ennui. Times, Sunday Times
Apparently, sophistication and ennui can be easily applied with a brush.
Personally, I found it quite dull, but then I suffer from financial ennui.
WORD CORRECT PRONUNCIATION bivouac _biv'wak_ chargé d'affaires _shar zha'daffar'_ connoisseur _connissur_ dishabille _dis'abil_ ennui _onwe_, not _ongwe_ finale _finah'le_ foyer _fwaya'_ massage _masahzh_ naïve _nah'ev_ papier maché _papya mahsha_ piquant _pe'kant_ prima facie _prima fa'shie_ pro tempore _pro tem'pore_ régime _razhem'_ Practical Grammar and Composition
When our children suffer from ennui, we worry that they lack stimulation.
But for those who are privileged to get their life extended forever, will boredom and ennui not set in?
The strenuosity of the life, the nervous excitement alternating with ennui, the lack and improper times of sleep, the lack of rest and particularly of restful occupation, the not infrequent use of alcohol in injurious amounts, are all factors calculated to make a defect operative. Disease and Its Causes
So, shouldn't a fellow, consigned to years of ennui, be allowed the reading material he chooses?
I managed to fight off ennui and squeeze out an analysis of sorts after all.
Powerful unforeseen forces jeopardize the peaceful stability of mathic life and the established ennui of the Extramuros — a threat that only an unsteady alliance of saecular and avout can oppose — as, one by one, Erasmas and his colleagues, teachers, and friends are summoned forth from the safety of the concent in hopes of warding off global disaster. 2008 July | Fanatical Pupil
Suddenly a sense of the difference between the week behind him, with all its ups and downs, its quarrels, its _ennuis_, its moments of delightful intimity, of artistic freedom and pleasure, and those threadbare, monotonous weeks into which he was to slip back on the morrow, awoke in him a mad inconsequent sting of disgust, of self-pity. Robert Elsmere
Roman philologer, wrote: "If you are fond of books, you will escape the _ennui_ of life; you will neither sigh for evening, disgusted with the occupations of the day, nor will you live dissatisfied with yourself or unprofitable with others. Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs
Partly it's just a recovery attitude after a very busy month, but it's more than that; ennui perhaps.
One man's ennui is another man's earner, which is why we have accountants, cleaners and cooks.
He keeps cheating on his girlfriend and stealing bikes out of sheer ennui. Times, Sunday Times
He hoped, with singular intensity, for the safety of the daring young lovers, that unknown youth whose feet had foreworn the path for his feet and that dead and gone young girl, who had dared anything rather than endure the mortal ennui of those hours behind the veil .... The Fortieth Door
Mostly we learn that Gilbert was so restless that a cure for her ennui -- sex with a younger man (even one as tousle-haired as James Franco) -- didn't do it for her. Brad Balfour: Huff Post Review: A Trio of Films Offer Inspiration, but Only Two Deliver
The ennui is without doubt the worst thing a POW has to contend with. Thomas Hawksworth
However, a few months on Rousay cured him of the notion and he retreated back to London - ‘to accidie, ennui and bilious conversations in the Groucho Club’.
Playing Lucy Collins, the troubled daughter of the neighbourhood's petit bourgeois family, she constantly bristled with an insolent ennui and a mild subversiveness.
Therefore, says Toth, it is only natural that all parties standing to gain from these ventures would eventually reach a state of guilt-induced "sell-outness" combined with an underlying, debilitating ennui that must result in surrender. James Napoli: Beatles Music Pulled From iTunes: "Everyone Is Finally Rich Enough"
The thought of this weekend's coverage, and the doom-laden analysis which is sure to follow, fills me with ennui.
In the mind of the cinephile, three packed screens of Argentinean ennui at the local multiplex would be paradise.

How To Use Ennui In A Sentence

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