| But for those who are privileged to get their life extended forever, will boredom and ennui not set in? |
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| How can we overcome the general ennui associated with the thought of another incredibly boring day ahead of you? |
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| I've met a few in my time and the defining characteristic they exhibit is a rather unattractive effortlessness and ennui. |
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| The physical environment itself is a crucial factor in the creation of unhappiness, ennui, anger, alienation and despair. |
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| The animals at the zoo seem to be caught in that some place in-between world weariness and ennui. |
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| The pain of living in this house with such ennui, such boredom for nine years. |
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| It's the kind of ennui that ultimately affected his friend Vieira, who has been reinvigorated by his move to Italy. |
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| He is portraying an English landscape of barren trees, a place of despair, ennui and fear. |
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| One man's ennui is another man's earner, which is why we have accountants, cleaners and cooks. |
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| I managed to fight off ennui and squeeze out an analysis of sorts after all. |
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| The thought of this weekend's coverage, and the doom-laden analysis which is sure to follow, fills me with ennui. |
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| Schultz is a man facing old age and his looming mortality with a dim sadness that seems to complement his general ennui. |
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| In the mind of the cinephile, three packed screens of Argentinean ennui at the local multiplex would be paradise. |
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| I think I had a lingering sense of ennui that wasn't helping me stay energized and positive about my job. |
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| The books always had a point, even in their pain and desolation and ennui, he found comfort in their purpose. |
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| So, shouldn't a fellow, consigned to years of ennui, be allowed the reading material he chooses? |
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| But if you're bilingual and up to your eyeballs in ennui, please be my guest. |
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| The ennui among young Germans is such that couples cannot be bothered to procreate in numbers sufficient to sustain the population. |
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| We characterize it in the same manner as melancholia, tristesse, ennui, annoyance and wearisomeness. |
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| Over the course of three near-perfect albums, they have honed their own brand of retro-futurism, languid melancholia and small-town ennui. |
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| It did nothing to alleviate the depression, desperation, and miasmic ennui that was engulfing me. |
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| Now ennui is a terrible thing but it seems to have roughly the same effect as terminable boredom. |
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| To stave off the ennui as I do my pain, I've started to go through my old video collection. |
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| Faced with consumer ennui and apathy, Nike has decided to engage in a desperate effort to regain mindshare. |
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| The joys of rereading might have offered Mallarme a stronger antidote to his ennui than sighing for distant, exotic lands. |
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| 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. |
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| The sea-world over, sailormen love to beguile the days of calm, to put to flight hours of ennui, by the spinning of yarns. |
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| I'm on the ennui express, heading out of the city when the message comes through. |
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| What would have seemed like raw meat for columnists, satirists, incendiaries and the like has fallen between the cracks of ennui and indifference. |
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| A pall descended on the Palace of Westminster, a kind of anxious ennui. |
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| Like his gen-x contemporaries, including Wallace, Franzen sees our modern ennui as the big bogeyman of our time. |
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| The shenanigans of Intimacy will shake any jaded theater fan from nudity ennui. |
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| One of the 25 words whose definitions she had to commit to memory was ennui. |
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| 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. |
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| Consumed and eventually disgorged, Pierre is restored to his loving parents, his ennui banished. |
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| As often happens in hostage situations, a sense of ennui enveloped the participants. |
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| Probably the best movie to tackle the ennui of working life, Office Space also gave us one of the best quitting scenes. |
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| Turning its second club competition back into a straight knockout would probably help alleviate the boredom and ennui. |
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| When our children suffer from ennui, we worry that they lack stimulation. |
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| Not that it will sell, because these days there is only room for the middle-brow ennui of Hollinghurst and Byatt. |
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| But for all of Mr Obama's ennui, political contacts between America and the EU are intensifying. |
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| Personally, I found it quite dull, but then I suffer from financial ennui. |
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| Even with all her comforts and a constant, tugging ennui, Mei knows the risks that she faces as an ernai. |
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| Playing Lucy Collins, the troubled daughter of the neighbourhood's petit bourgeois family, she constantly bristled with an insolent ennui and a mild subversiveness. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| In any case, the general mood of enervation and ennui was reflected in the day's marquee match in Ashe Stadium, a fourth-round men's singles between Novak Djokovic and Juan Monaco. |
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| Keep a reader's log of observations as you go along, and e-mail us updates on your progress — your mood swings from exhilaration to exhaustion, voraciousness to ennui, hopelessness to renewed fervor, etc. |
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| It was extraordinarily wholesome, fit for families, small children with ice-creams, pensioners, even grumpy teenagers, smitten with ennui and worldweariness. |
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| Directed by Tamás Ascher, this version sets the drama in a mid-20th-century dacha and transforms the ennui of endless days into something combustible. |
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| More broadly, there is concern that common human afflictions – sadness, melancholia, ennui – are being turned into medical conditions and then treated with pills. |
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| Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else. Yet the ennui that marked this second period had less to do with nostalgia than nausea. |
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| Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. |
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| At another, now upside down but still pillarlike, he makes a further such display, tapping his foot as if he had time to kill, and all this were mere ennui. |
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