英语词汇“ennui”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

I knew she looked just like her parents—lanky, washed-out, lipless—and that when she spoke to them they answered her in the same even, lowing rhythm of ennui and supremacy she lorded over us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand until he said it that part of my ennui had been resentment. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they assumed, also, a life of ennui. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But as she sat there amid her guests, she felt the old ennui overtaking her, the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Orange groves, failed movie stars, lamplit cocktail hours by the swimming pool, cigarettes, ennui. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was this what the novelists meant by ennui? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Oh, the Test matches that have saved us from ennui, the boxing bouts, even the billiard scores. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It elegantly foreshadowed the disaffected ennui my generation would raise to an art form in the '90s. Director Michael Lehmann on why Ivanka and Kellyanne are today's "good Heathers" 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z

But she was also drowning: in debt, ennui, romantic misfires and self-doubt about the freelance writing career that had produced one too many bylines on mascara articles. Review | Is there such a thing as too much self-care? One woman found out. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

I plan to round off the fun with some beautifully rendered ennui and isolation, courtesy of Norwegian cartoonist Jason, whose back catalogue I'll be wallowing in this summer. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z

The film is intentionally withholding with the most basic information, but Franco does a tremendous job balancing beachside ennui with escalating tension. New this week: ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ Kanye and ‘From’ 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

He sought a place where he might inoculate himself against the ennui that was slowly destroying his soul. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

She barrels ahead into solutions for our paradoxically harried ennui, including close listening to Mozart and keeping a diary. Review: ‘How to Be Bored’ Looks at How to Deal With the Blahs 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

Watch any Chekhov play, and you grasp the national ennui that preceded the Russian Revolution. In praise of boredom, at the movies and in life 2011-06-08T01:01:00Z

Adrift in ennui, he no longer bothers to ensnare the city’s evildoers. ‘A Sherlock Carol’ Review: Crime-Solving on Christmas Eve 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

Coppola underlines Marco's ennui with long takes, often without dialogue, including one where Dorff sits and smokes an entire cigarette and another where he drives his Ferrari around the same track time after time. Sofia Coppola takes insider's look at Hollywood A-lister 2010-09-03T13:08:00Z

“And he likes movies with naked French ladies smoking cigarettes full of ennui,” she says. How we stay together: we debate absolutely everything – but we fight fair 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

That comfort with and dedication to youthful ennui is emerging in several places at once lately. On Khalid’s ‘American Teen,’ Songs of Young Love and Technology 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

In its early scenes, the movie portrays the ennui of an economically stagnant culture in which the outlook for the country’s aimless, unemployed youth is cloudy. Review: ‘Love at First Fight,’ a Romance in the Wild 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

What really animates him are love and ennui, terror and regret: the enduring emotions that our technologies can’t contain. Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

If I keep the TV tuned to Arté, the French-German cultural channel, for hours on end, am I more likely to succumb to a nasty case of ennui? Media Cache: Hazards Lurk Between TV and Sofa 2011-08-21T13:18:49Z

But Primal Scream's recent London performances of 1991's Screamadelica seemed to cut through the ennui; with the acclaim still ringing in their ears, they're taking the same show around the country. The best pop for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:03Z

A single clause can slalom from ennui to anger. Theater Review | 'A Behanding in Spokane': Packing Heat, and a Grudge 2010-03-05T04:55:00Z

But, I've always said I think it's about American loneliness, and ennui, and what it means to be in so much pain that you have to cut off half of your consciousness. From "Perry Mason" to "Severance," Jen Tullock explores the various shades of "American loneliness" 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

It’s funny to have accidentally become the face of millennial ennui. Lena Dunham grows up 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

As Gordon, McNairy is certainly on point, making us feel the burden of his engineering ennui and desire to build something revolutionary. ‘Halt and Catch Fire’: Suffering from some faulty code

On the negative side, the vocabulary, over a long period, generates a certain ennui. San Francisco Ballet’s Limpid Sophistication Shines in ‘Unbound’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Elyria is disengaged and depleted in a manner that put me in mind of the characters in the novels of Tao Lin, that Zen summoner of millennial ennui. Catherine Lacey’s ‘Nobody Is Ever Missing’ 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Here's another exorcism of Del Rey's patented languid ennui, heroically burdened by the boredom that apparently is the consequence of unconditional love and monstrous wealth. This week's new tracks 2012-07-06T23:05:23Z

The inaugural issue tackles the complex issue of ennui. T Magazine: A Quirky Little Bookshop in Cyberspace 2012-12-12T22:16:39Z

This is deranged passion recollected not in tranquility but in ennui. Postcards from Venice, Previews of Toronto 2013-09-06T15:46:17Z

‘La Turista,’ at the moment, is basking in a glow of uncertain approval which is maintained only by suppressing the ennui it unquestionably engenders.” Charles Marowitz, Director and Playwright, Dies at 82 2014-05-12T00:20:07Z

There was an epic scale to the fear: no humdrum new-dad ennui but a rolling freakout at sperm, sex, the lot. Eraserhead: the true story behind David Lynch's surreal shocker 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

The French, who gave us the word ennui and sharpened the concept of existentialism, produced the works that may most help Mr. Snowden adjust to his new life, especially those of Jean-Paul Sartre. ArtsBeat: Russia for Beginners: A Literary Course for Edward Snowden 2013-07-25T23:16:45Z

“Norma” is a mature work, born of the same lived-in ennui that had made “Is That All There Is?” an unexpected hit in 1969, when Lee was almost 50. Boxing Up the Past: The Year in 16 Pop, Rap, Soul and Jazz Sets 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

But “K” is nonetheless weirdly suspenseful, and also uncannily contemporary — a riff on the theme of modern ennui and frustration that is unsettling and poignant. New Directors/New Films Festival Gives Spotlight to Youth 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

But then there was always the "faceless record button", and the fear of ennui. Beardyman interview 2011-03-20T00:05:18Z

Some of their wait-and-see ennui may be due to the show's introduction of characters we know only by surname without knowing their personalities. "House of the Dragons" introduces the Lannisters before they had game 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

There was a time when people talked about the “New Yorker story” as a genre unto itself, as shorthand for a polished slice-of-life tale of suburban ennui. ArtsBeat: Anthologies That (Mostly) Stand the Test of Time 2013-05-17T15:41:49Z

She said she hoped the works captured her ennui, stillness, worry and fear — “a sense that illness could be close at hand.” Gillian Wearing Has Turned Masks Into an Art Form 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

The unnamed heroine of Ottessa Moshfegh’s new novel, “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” is a kind of brand ambassador for ennui. A Sleeping Beauty Hopes Hibernation Is the Answer to All Life’s Problems 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

He's probably the most European man that ever lived, a loose knot of sighs and forced ennui. The X Factor 2010: the finalists 2010-10-04T12:25:00Z

I won’t spoil it for those of you willing to swim through the ocean of ennui leading up to it. Review: In ‘10 out of 12’ at Soho Rep, the Audience Tunes In to the Crew 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Though ennui, admittedly, is an awfully fancy word for the context. Television Review: Navigating Bromances and Romances 2011-02-07T23:25:55Z

Relationship ennui and marital bed death are low-key obstacles here, but even worse is the way the premiere capitalizes on the disconnect between the four main characters and the wives and girlfriends in their lives. Smart Watch: Let’s look at men via portrayals in “Mr Inbetween,” “Insecure” and other T... 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z

The movie is often characterised as a study in ennui and curdled dolce far niente, a sunbaked torpor and languor that incubates marital despair. Viaggio in Italia (Journey to Italy) – review 2013-05-09T21:29:01Z

Sometimes — the Bagger ventures, rarely — this ennui extends to the winners. Hollywood Awards Races Have Little Variation 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

“Please, don’t write another gay-Israeli-disco piece,” one curator said, with heartfelt ennui. So Long, Israel; Hello, Berlin 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

This semi-fascist scheme isn't what torpedoes Green Lantern; the culprits are familiarity and ennui. Green Lantern: Not So Super-Hero 2011-06-16T15:55:00Z

But much of “Forbidden Broadway” exudes an oxymoronic air of spirited ennui, an awareness that there ain’t much in the way of inspiring creative targets these days. Theater Review: ‘Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging!,’ a Satiric Revue 2014-05-06T20:42:24Z

Mr. Nelson’s characters are inevitably readers of Chekhov, and “Nikolai” quotes directly and indirectly from that master of Slavic ennui. Theater Review: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Newhouse 2013-05-07T02:00:01Z

Trocker refuses to answer, sustaining the unease until it becomes ennui. ‘Human Factors’ Review: Paranoia is the Family Business 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

As a 6-year-old, I was taking in all of this male ennui, slow withering drama, and I think it had a deep effect on who I am as a creator. Mark Duplass Can’t Get Enough of ‘Rocky II’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

But they tended to be monochromatic, as if early-onset ennui and the shallow comforts of art snobbery were the exclusive inventions of white people. How a $15,000 Movie Rallied a New Generation of Black Auteurs 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

Regardless of this ennui, when it comes to the nominees, it very well may be the best night of the year. Smart Watch: Emmy snubbed “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Counterpart” and others. Let’s watch t... 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

Steer is wilful and quietly charismatic: The Ballad Of Brick Lane is a tale of hipster ennui set at the end of a failing relationship. Serafina Steer: 'The harp is a lonely instrument' 2013-01-19T15:00:01Z

The essence of Wes Anderson whimsy, Herman is a self-made millionaire with a tiny moustache and a case of ennui. Boyhood, Moonlight and beyond: the best coming-of-age movies 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Because the collision of violent spasms and art-film ennui left my brain bloody but unfilled. Only God Forgives: No Absolution for Ryan Gosling 2013-07-18T09:45:42Z

“Namour” is a striking portrait of ennui and alienation that resonates. Another antidote to #OscarsSoWhite: The annual Black Star Film Fest starts this weekend 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Like, I wanted to do this for reasons other than ennui. I’m not here to make friends 2013-03-02T00:30:00Z

"Giving you my utmost good, but it's not just good enough" goes the gorgeous chorus – with the lyric's general sense of ennui matched by a musical backing that never awakens from its lovelorn coma. All We Are – Utmost Good: New music 2013-05-06T07:00:13Z

There was angst and ennui all the time. I Quit a Famous Rock Band 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

"The play was meant to get you out of your seat, to take you out of your ennui and drive you to action," Ruffalo said. Mark Ruffalo was schooled by 'Normal Heart's' pioneering gay playwright 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

It isn’t a critique of aesthetic or romantic ennui, but an example of intellectual timidity. ‘Under the Silver Lake’ Review: Andrew Garfield Gets Lost in a Haze of Pop-Culture Allusions 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

And also, of course, shot through with longing, ennui and existential anguish. | 'Le Amiche': A 1955 Antonioni Movie Gets a Film Forum Run 2010-06-17T21:57:00Z

Said wrestling match takes place within a deep, pleasantly atmospheric fog of interwar glamor that makes it actually rather pleasing: heiresses and bohemians, cigarettes and alcohol, fatalism and ennui, garrottes and sleek, deadly period handguns. My Book-Buffer for June and July 2012-07-03T18:40:01Z

The images come at you thick and fast, even as they talk of inertia and ennui. New band of the day – Parquet Courts (No 1,442) 2013-01-30T18:17:10Z

The collision of violent spasms and art-film ennui leave the viewer’s brain bloody but unfilled. Only God Forgives: A Red Light for Ryan Gosling 2013-05-22T18:15:59Z

About a year ago, I found myself overcome by ennui. I’m the woman you met on Ashley Madison: How the rush of infidelity led to affairs online 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

It is in the classic high Italian style of Fellini's La Dolce Vita and Antonioni's La Notte: an aria of romantic ennui among those classes with the sophistication and leisure to appreciate it. Cannes 2013: The Great Beauty - first look review 2013-05-21T07:10:06Z

Chekhov’s quest to inoculate himself against ennui offers lessons for writers working in our current climate of desensitization. Weekly Culture Review: Pulitzers, Kendrick Lamar, and More 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Gimlet-eyed couplets in that vein predominate in Sleaford Mods’ music, which homes in on the gloomy ennui of lower- and middle-class British life. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

The visual style of television became much faster and jumpier to stave off visual ennui. Design Notebook: Frustrating as They Are, We Still Can’t Live Without TV Remotes 2012-05-30T22:55:39Z

As a visual of 2020’s stay-at-home misery, it should hang in a museum, where, with its subtle range of suffering and ennui, it can beguile visitors for centuries to come. Perspective | Shows like ‘Celebrity Watch Party,’ ‘Ultimate Tag’ and ‘Labor of Love’ only seem like TV’s bottom of the barrel 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

I find taking a sip of highly Instagrammable bottled water is a really effective way to wash away the ennui. The mystery of the influencer and the Instagrammed motorcycle accident 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

The same might be said of Stone’s characters, who together form a rogue’s gallery of late American alienation and ennui. Remembering Robert Stone 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

A patron of the arts who imagined herself an actress, Margaret proved incapable of masking ennui. Review | Princess Margaret’s beauty and arrogance are on parade in ‘Ninety-Nine Glimpses’ 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

Rising levels of parental ennui present a challenge, as these film-makers prepare to release their sequel. ‘I must have watched it 50 times’: a Frozen dad prepares for the sequel 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

As the weeks turned into months, ennui set in. Perspective | Ask Amy: Woman’s last name becomes pressing concern for future in-laws 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

By the time first person has switched to second and then finally to third, a kind of ennui creeps in: "She gets out the scrapbook and they say / Did we really live like this?" Will Furniture finally enjoy the comfort of success? 2010-07-13T15:27:00Z

The song is built on one of Aaliyah's previously unreleased vocal tracks, with a verse by Drake, in which the rapper brags about his watch, expresses his ennui, and appears to diss Chris Brown. Aaliyah's family deny involvement in posthumous album 2012-08-08T12:01:33Z

“Slow Horses” moves on waves of ennui and disappointment, and on the bitter joy of expertly honed sarcasm. An International Buffet, From Elena Ferrante to ‘Slow Horses’ 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

Enter a new boy, a stranger booted from a posh academy, who scrawls “NIHILISM” on the cover of his notebook and elevates the group’s ennui into something more profound. If Nietzsche Were in High School 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Then comes the rejoinder, a stirring lamentation from the trumpeter Marcus Wyatt, just as deflated, but refusing ennui. The Playlist: John Prine Comes Home, and 10 More New Songs 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

Not as extreme as Kevin Shields and co, obviously, but with that blend of melody, ennui and a sheen of guitar noise. F&M playlist 2011-02-17T21:45:00Z

Did we really need another show about the nebulous ennui visited upon the privileged? ‘Togetherness’: What? An unhappy married couple? In Los Angeles? Again? 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

In two novellas about Japan’s growing population of alienated and emotionally remote youth, the celebrated playwright Okada captures the ennui that has paralyzed a generation. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Her life as a housewife shifts between gradients of exhaustion and ennui until Tomiko, her mother-in-law, asks her to run an errand. She Tumbled Into a Hole, and Her World Broke Open 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Filled with lurches from effervescence to ennui, this Annie is a mish-mosh pit that encourages indulgent viewers to dive in and have fun where and if they can find it. Review: Annie Is Surprisingly Sit-Throughable 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Its songs primarily deal with the anxiety, frayed relationships and ennui that crop up in one’s mid-20s, a preoccupation that juxtaposes strikingly against such brash, self-assured music. Dude York’s personality shines through on new record 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

The unnamed heroine of her third novel is a kind of brand ambassador for ennui. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Can you wonder that connoisseurs sag from ennui? Captain America: Been There, Saved That 2011-07-22T19:45:00Z

My early curiosity built to a cozy level of admiration, then drifted off into ennui. Review: 'Fifty Shades of Grey': Where's the Wicked Whiplash? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

As Justino contends with the ennui of his job and his impending separation from Vanessa, he contracts a mysterious fever; at the same time, a strange animal roams through the nearby rainforest. ‘The Fever’ Review: Tropical Maladies 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

Anxiety defined our national mood back in the autumn of 2020, making the limited series a brilliant antidote to the ennui that gripped us back then. Nicole Kidman is ready to Goop you now in Hulu's hollow "Nine Perfect Strangers" 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

This is a book, then, about a time, a place and a particular mood, which veers between intensity and ennui. Tractor Boys by Martin Bogren – review 2013-07-07T13:00:01Z

We simply watch these daft noblemen and women play charades, dance and trade riddles in a desperate attempt to stave off ennui. ‘Barococo’ Review: Fop Till You Drop 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

Yet perhaps it also speaks to an ennui I doubt I am alone in experiencing. This was the year of not watching any Oscar bait ... but hey, at least "Eurovision" was fun 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Once I was released from the yoke of corporate ennui, I naturally had a bit of time on my hands and the freedom to spend it as I wished. Drowning in commitments? It's time to stop giving a damn 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Yet he didn’t carry the “here we go again” ennui or whiff of wariness that often permeates the air around celebrities. Charlie Hunnam: Pushy When It Counts (Picky, Too) 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Charyn’s Salinger is an empty vessel, collecting ennui and experiences, despairing for some way to clarify it all in fiction. Review | By the end of 2020, we were supposed to have more J.D. Salinger. Instead we have ‘Sergeant Salinger.’ 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

A better snapshot of liberalism’s ennui would be hard to imagine. Art in Review: Rey Akdogan’s ‘Night Curtain’ at Miguel Abreu 2012-10-11T22:52:06Z

The difference here is that the ages are in the 30s, with each character representing a different stereotype of pre-midlife ennui. Television Review: Navigating Bromances and Romances 2011-02-07T23:25:55Z

His best movies arose directly from the suburban ennui of the Eisenhower era he grew up in: atom-bomb drills in school, the Bomb itself, 1950s television, consumerism, mindless conformity. They Live: John Carpenter's action flick needs to be saved from neo-Nazis 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Fendt is more interested in tracing the architecture of their ennui than considering its cause or consequences, and the movie observes their leisure with a warm gaze. ‘Outside Noise’ Review: Walking and Talking in Vienna and Berlin 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

I suppose we ought to care whether this is exhaustion, death or sheer ennui. Dance Review: When Brecht and Weill Danced, Revisited 2011-05-12T22:00:13Z

The performance on Wednesday, sensitive though it was, did carry some of that sense of ennui. Luigi Nono’s Harsh Music Inspires Reflection and Action 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Yet six fictional years after she flew to Reno with him, Betty lives in a fog of ennui, defined by her role as a wife and mother but yearning for more. Women of 'Mad Men' make a strong impression amid their fight for change 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Rock can convey ennui just as effectively, too: think of the climax to The Graduate and the scene on the bus where Dustin Hoffman finally ends up with Katherine Ross. Score draws 2010-12-04T00:05:00Z

The idea of office ennui is nothing new — in 1853, Melville wrote of Bartleby, the clerk who one day decided he preferred not to do his job anymore. Are More and More People Working Meaningless Jobs? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

His wide appeal, many admirers say, lies in an ability not just to invoke the deep existential concerns of much endurance-based performance art — anxiety, ennui, other discomfort — but also to push beyond them, toward joy. ‘The Visitors,’ by Ragnar Kjartansson 2013-01-06T04:59:41Z

But ennui explodes into passion as one chorus bleeds into another, until the song's climax: "Come on you big bad world and entertain me." Will Furniture finally enjoy the comfort of success? 2010-07-13T15:27:00Z

It’s New York as a July rooftop party or a rat scurrying from a garbage bag, ennui ballads crooned into an intercom, bleeding through the crumbling plaster of the adjacent apartment. ‘The essence of life is kind of a nostalgia anticipation sandwich’: Philosophy 101 with Julian Casablancas 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

While some of his recent panels are clearly about life under quarantine, others fit into his usual themes of ennui and social awkwardness. A Pandemic Gives the Funny Pages a Jolt of Reality 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

The resulting character is an antidote to the just-passing-through sense of travel ennui. Historic firehouse to hot hotel: Repurposed buildings revel in their colorful pasts 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

But if the Seinfeldians liked to talk about nothing, the scientists upstairs were focused on a very particular something: New York’s doom, not from ennui, but from weather. Sandy recovery: Walls won’t stop superstorms 2012-11-06T19:20:00Z

Bored teenagers dealing with the world at large may have more devices in-hand now, but that tumult of emotions and ennui remains the same. Saint Etienne looks to the past but limits the nostalgia 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

The comic relief on her new debut album, “Young Forever,” is “Tired of California,” a sweet-voiced summation of the attractions, superficiality and ennui of aspiring to stardom in Los Angeles. Queen’s Unearthed Lament, and 6 More New Songs 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

Damon’s schlubby everyman Paul finds downsized life no shorter on ennui or existential aimlessness than before: his romantic and professional circumstances take a drastic dip alongside his property portfolio. High-concept satire Downsizing is dwarfed by its white saviour narrative 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Contemporary viewers will probably feel ennui, such images — and juxtapositions of images — being readily accessible on the Internet. Art Review: ‘Robert Heinecken: Object Matter’ Is on View at MoMA 2014-03-20T12:00:01Z

Bored New Jerseyites Phil and Claire Foster decide to head into the Big Apple in a bid to pep up their marriage, which long ago fell into a pit of suburban ennui and routine. You review: Date Night 2010-04-26T14:24:00Z

One is Miranda, played by Selma Blair, whose face is a catatonic mask of indifference and ennui. Dark Horse – review 2012-06-28T20:30:01Z

But the ennui hanging over these heroes never slows down the action. "The Old Guard" mixes Charlize Theron and immortality for a fresh take on overdone superheroes 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

And so we are forever inundated with shows about people for whom the Southern California sunshine is just another layer of self-centered, hard-to-afford ennui. How Netflix’s ‘Flaked’ is just one more drop in L.A.’s ocean of hipster miseries 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Distinct cinematic visions and bold narrative experiments help distinguish the second week of New Directors/New Films, trumping the more familiar festival-ready drifting stories and generic youthful ennui. New Directors/New Films Festival Highlights Bold Narrative Experiments 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

The irritations and ennui that set in during unstructured play time for grown-ups are wittily conveyed, as is the sense of social selves melting into primitivism. ‘The Adults’ and ‘99 Breakups’ at the FringeArts Festival in Philadelphia 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

There’s nothing political about that response: Like “Nocturama,” it’s nothing but an expression of aesthetic ennui. Review: Bored, Beautiful Terrorists With a Taste for Luxury Brands 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Throughout all the teenage ennui, he watched movies made by the likes of Scorsese, Jarmusch and David Fincher, which told stories that challenged him and suggested that there was another world. Fit for stardom: How Adam Driver went from US Marine to Hollywood heartthrob 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

Moment to moment, murder and mayhem were committed, followed by elation and ennui. Dance Review: Keely Garfield?s ?Twin Pines? at Danspace ? Review 2012-01-23T22:08:42Z

He also directed a mini-movie called “Remember Now,” as an artistic meld of smoldering passion, the ennui of gilded youth touched with the essence of “La Dolce Vita.” Fashion Films Become the Hottest New Accessories 2010-05-17T10:55:00Z

Daria’s sister Quinn, who at first glance appears to have it all together as a popular mean girl, is nevertheless riddled with existential ennui. Daria: the 90s cartoon that nailed American feminist teenhood 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

These anti-fashion looks were also born out of the collective ennui of fashion insiders searching for something more authentic. Perspective | Fanny packs. Prairie dresses. Luxury shower shoes: Is fashion trolling us or what? 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Instead Jaeger lays bear the spiritual ennui of a leisured civilization without real purpose. Review | Muriel Jaeger, a trailblazing science fiction author, deserves a new look 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

The Steps Reunion on Sky Living kicked it off, providing a thrilling mix of ennui, Technicolor flashback and bitter recrimination. Nostalgia TV: a comfort blanket when times get tough 2013-04-11T11:23:51Z

There is summery ennui all over this one – think Factory if it had opened an office on Venice Beach. New band of the day ? Craft Spells (No 1,002) 2011-04-11T15:59:29Z

The north meant aggression, the gothic, the "sadically mad cruelties of the Northern Middle Ages" and the "Northern tortures of ennui and indigestion". Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z

All three suffer from ennui and neglect in the countryside; all three seek solace in affairs that end badly. In Russian Plays, Don’t Mention the War 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

Yet, despite his positivity, Dev seems to think his life requires ennui or existential fretting to be worthwhile. In Aziz Ansari’s ‘Master of None,’ a new definition of Netflix-and-chill 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

There are a number of explanations for our ennui. Why are we so bored? 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

And too often, unfortunately, it is undone by a grating aura of chic ennui. 'Doug Aitken: Electric Earth': Why MOCA's big new show has too few sparks 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Here the ennui sometimes seeps into the narrative in a way that leaves stretches of the movie enervated and galumphing like a corpse. Review: 'Warm Bodies' could use more heat 2013-01-30T17:16:04Z

On the surface, the movie, based on a novel by Amy Koppelman, looks like another case of suburban ennui, between Laney’s big SUV and bigger house, the school lunches and the family dinners. Sarah Silverman switches to drama. But she’s still making people squirm. 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Episode 11, The Jet Set, in which Don drifts in a Californian villa with a rabble of Eurotrash is like a Slim Aarons print come alive with ennui. The Sopranos to Blackadder – what are the definitive series of the best TV shows? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

Nothing is bothering him other than, perhaps, mild ennui. 8 Years After ‘The Night Circus,’ Erin Morgenstern Has a New Novel 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

The narrator of “Marshlands,” a writer, is being driven mad by ennui. Experimental Literature That Tests Family Bonds and Routines 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

If a chef's not keeping the kitchen alive with new dishes, that's one thing; it's another to kill off old favorites from the ennui of those who've already had their fill. Brennan’s in New Orleans Walks the Tightrope of Tradition 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

The exhibition, he wrote, was too often “undone by a grating aura of chic ennui.” Move Over, Neptune. Doug Aitken Has Another Big Idea. 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

Otherwise they’re a jittery lot, at least when they shake off their ennui. | 'Uncle Vanya': ‘Uncle Vanya’ With Cate Blanchett at City Center 2012-07-22T18:31:05Z

The royals here are just fops who, with or without Moses, might have died out on their own, of inbreeding or ennui. REVIEW: Don't Let Your People Go See Exodus: Gods and Kings 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

The track is bubble gummy pop with a hint of reggae, and it’s packed with little hooks and ever-changing effects, but nothing breaks through the ennui. Sky Ferreira’s Dazzling, Defiant Return, and 11 More New Songs 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

The whole work is an evocation of young womanhood, compelling in its blend of awkwardness, ennui and burgeoning forces within. ‘Rosas Danst Rosas’ Revisits a Choreographer’s Early Work 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

And Williams, so good in An Education, is an enthrallingly intelligent and seductive combination of ennui, sarcasm and ambition. You review: The Ghost 2010-04-19T13:02:00Z

On Kill the Messenger, Cuomo complains of "no fun", as though he's the first sentient being to experience ennui. New band of the day: The Orwells (No 1,519) 2013-05-24T15:02:04Z

The Girlfriend Experience is riddled with ennui and existential dread. The new normal: why television has chosen to humanize sex workers 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

Not that any of these awards were unarguably deserved, but their contrarian choices relieved the other groups' lockstep ennui. Colin Firth, 'The Social Network' Take Early Oscar Lead in Critics Awards 2011-01-07T17:45:00Z

Oh, my poor, sweet television darlings, I hope you’re in the mood for lots of sighing and vague feelings of ennui this fall. Perspective | 10 new shows to check out this fall, including ‘Murphy Brown,’ ‘Camping’ and ‘Forever’ 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Jude Law and Rachel Weisz in 360, 'a film that reflects the lives of people who confuse the ennui induced by jet lag with authentic Weltschmerz'. 360 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:33Z

A few of the more polished passages bring to mind what Didion could do at her height — the literary journalism from El Salvador, the defining pieces about California’s culture of ennui. Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ is a reminder of what the journalist could do 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

That same year came Leiber and Stoller's last great song, Is That All There Is?, a masterpiece of ennui in the style of Brecht and Weill, inspired by a Thomas Mann short story. Jerry Leiber obituary 2011-08-23T17:58:52Z

The ceremonial jitteriness of each performance, underscored by restless percussive jazz, conveys both endless ennui and uneasiness. Theater Review: Toshiki Okada?s Under the Radar Entry at Japan Society - Review 2012-01-07T00:33:21Z

“There’s a certain ennui,” he said, eyeing the canvas one recent spring day. Eric Fischl Goes Back to His Future 2013-05-15T23:11:56Z

O’Connor presents Charles as a kind of Hamlet-on-the-Thames, stooped under the weight of his own ennui, by turns annoying and sympathetic. ‘The Crown’ Has Had Its Scandals, but There’s Nothing Like Diana 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Still, by the end of the show there is a feeling of fatigue and ennui, exemplified by the languid women who never look the painter in the eye and by interiors that become claustrophobic. Exhibition Review: At the Victoria & Albert, Muses Let Their Hair Down 2011-04-11T14:37:06Z

For Ballard, this was a faux English nationalism; one signed up to by those whose mass-mediatised ennui was ever on the point of exploding into violent anomie. Will Self walks through Britain's flag-waving heartlands 2013-03-07T11:31:01Z

The one deviation is playing iPhone games to relieve her ennui. ‘Swallow’ Review: Objects in Stomach May Be Sharper Than They Appear 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Given a chance to get out of bed, Noodle would often “crumple with ennui.” The Year in Limbo 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

Evans drew, in part, on her own childhood for Stuart's loneliness and ennui at the start of the book. Lissa Evans's small change from TV to books 2011-07-08T15:50:08Z

The hour dramatizes the talking points of the political present: race, health care, the struggle of small businesses, the general ennui that this election cycle has produced in many voters. “Horace and Pete” Is Louis C.K.’s Most Audacious Independent Creation Yet 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

In yet another show of Ronson’s eclectic contacts list, venerated author Michael Chabon contributed lyrics throughout the record, and his work infuses Ronson’s compositions with a sort of sordid California ennui. Review: Mark Ronson's 'Uptown Special' is at the Mercy of His Collaborators 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

A variation on pitting pseudo-socialites against strivers, the series follows seven gallerinas who’d do almost anything to break into the city’s art world — as long as they don’t have to crack their ennui. The Week Ahead: Aug. 12 — 18 2012-08-11T03:44:19Z

But on uphill loops, as the movie pauses to catch its breath, it is also a dry-eyed contemplation of millennial ennui in a hypercompetitive, winner-take-all climate. Review: ‘Victoria,’ a Nonstop Flight Through the Streets of Berlin 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

The lyrics confront domestic violence, sexism, racial hierarchies, homophobia, the ennui of displacement. Elza Soares, a Revered and Fearless Samba Legend, Brings Her Throne to New York 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wampach played up this troubling idea of passivity by presiding over a false intermission, handing out drinks and popcorn with well calibrated ennui. David Wampach in Queer New York Festival at Abrons Center 2012-06-13T21:19:11Z

His autopsy of the current liberal ennui is not particularly trenchant or surprising, but it’s certainly amusing. The Plight of the Aggrieved, Rich Manhattan Liberal 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

There is a chaotic energy to the characters — who drink and party around Platonov, a local Casanova, to evade ennui in a Russian province — that makes it especially well-suited to young actors. In Paris, Young Theater Makers Swing Big 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

The once terrifying, now domesticated father of three finds himself at the beginning of "Shrek Forever After" grappling with the kind of existential ennui that only a frantic kid's birthday party can inspire. "Shrek" returns to form 2010-05-21T12:01:00Z

If “Parenthood” were cynical, or if “Thirtysomething” were less ponderous, you’d get something like “Tangle,” an engrossing and talky drama about a few suburban families who are nursing some serious ennui. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

What better way to fend off ennui than to develop newer, cleaner ways to melt the eyes? Don’t call him the Walt Disney of Japan: How animator Hayao Miyazaki became a cultural icon by doing everything Pixar doesn’t 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

When a summer storm brings an arcane circus to a Midwestern town, two lads are torn from their humdrum ennui into a fantastical realm of bearded ladies, malevolent carnies and the infamous Illustrated Man. Salman Rushdie, Diana Gabaldon and other authors reflect on the books they find most transporting 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

A mood of mournful ennui prevails, as if the film itself were grieving for real lives lost to Second Life’s beguiling lotus land. Cao Fei Captures Modern Malaise in a Series of Inventive Videos 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Encapsulating the seesawing ennui and excitement of city life, numbers such as “The Ladies Who Lunch,” which was explicitly tailored for Stritch, and “Another Hundred People” have become cabaret classics. Sondheim and the City: In a Rethought ‘Company,’ a Woman Wavers 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

All of this was happening in Hollywood, at a time when many of the greatest artists and intellectuals of Europe were languishing there in spectacularly productive pools of ennui. Man Ray inserts the human factor into the equation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Two of his sons lent a hand on separate tunes, with the award for sangfroid going to toddler Mac for rattling a tambourine with impressive ennui. Paul Weller ? review 2010-12-12T22:00:00Z

As with yesterday's chap, delicacy, dolour, feyness and ennui are the order of the day. Trophy Wife (No 876) 2010-09-28T15:47:00Z

He was, after all, the least complex of the four lost souls at the heart of The Good Place, so the ennui of eternity was bound to creep up on him relatively quickly. The Good Place: was this the most devastating TV finale ever? 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Her characters are typically and blithely privileged, often afflicted with ennui, if not affluenza. Why Hasn’t Sofia Coppola Gotten the Respect an Auteur Deserves? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

I continued pulling, and after the adolescent novelty of possessing a medical justification for my ennui wore off, I quit the Prozac. My secret hair pulling 2012-09-09T00:00:00Z

And just because Alex's life seems awfully good doesn't mean he doesn't suffer from his own form of ennui. Please Give: As Good As It Gets 2010-04-29T23:55:00Z

The social consciousness and sense of political engagement crucial to the original 2 Tone scene is absent, replaced instead by longing and ennui. New band of the day ? No 1,058: Razika 2011-07-08T15:22:50Z

Rarely does ennui or regret look so lovely, so aglow in golden light. "Big Little Lies" is back to stare at the sea 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

The problems are similar, even though they cover different phases of disrepair: “Satisfaction,” on USA, is about a well-off couple driven apart by midlife ennui. It’s Ennui Time on ‘Satisfaction’ and ‘Married’ 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Just when it seemed he was lost forever in the mirage of his own ennui, a great white whale of a Chevy zooms toward him — and he pursues it with zeal. Mad Men Watch: How Much Damage Did You Do, Peaches? 2013-05-06T09:45:54Z

It’s strange that the word “morality” keeps coming up when one is talking about this laureate of decadent ennui. In Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Serotonin,’ the Provocative Beat Goes On (and On) 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

“The Savage Detectives” really got to me, these children acting as bohemians and this ennui. Playlist: Worldly Influences On a Young Artist 2011-07-22T18:47:47Z

A growing feeling of sweatpants-induced ennui may be partly accountable for sales. We Have Reached Peak ‘Exercise Dress’ 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

That said, the song provides one last moment of weirdness: Cameron-a-likes and illuminated feather boas both roaring along, word-perfect, to a disco version of a Pink Floyd song about rock star alienation and moneyed ennui. Scissor Sisters 2010-06-23T20:30:00Z

Frears delivered power, intrigue and sexual menace with this story of elegant cynicism set in 18th-century France – a parable of the arrogant ennui that prefigured the revolution. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Are their motives racist, homophobic or the nihilistic ennui of a hopeless generation? Avignon festival week one roundup: Complicite is masterful, Camille captivating 2012-07-19T13:16:45Z

Although sprightly in tone and merciless in its put-downs of the younger generation, this is really a play about postwar ennui, the sterility of the City and the banality of suburbia. The Breadwinner – review 2013-04-24T11:56:16Z

When Is This It came out, the title seemed to function both as a sneer of ennui as well as a pre-emptive joke about anticlimax. The Strokes: no Spinal Tap 2011-02-27T00:03:00Z

It was part of the ennui that came over this country. America’s response to coronavirus pandemic is ‘incomprehensibly incoherent,’ says historian who studied the 1918 flu 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

His description of the “day-to-day abstract humiliation” of not having a driver’s license until he was 26 is a painfully honest account of the toll that ennui takes on black social mobility. His Blog Explored Notions of Black Masculinity. His Memoir Explodes Them. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Seattle’s combination of intensity, intimacy, angst, and ennui, worked particularly well in the 1990s. Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

More than aimless ennui, “Cody,” the Los Angeles band’s fourth album, from 2016, had the sepia tint of earned nostalgia, and it opened the door to a new career phase. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

That question is paralyzing for the fictional Harry, who has sold his Internet company for $100 million, but is stuck in an unhappy marriage and suffering from ennui. Zach Braff in Paul Weitz?s ?Trust? at Second Stage 2010-07-29T21:38:00Z

He works for an investment company and lives on a cul-de-sac, but the novel doesn’t traffic in easy suburban ennui. ‘The Slippage,’ by Ben Greenman, and More 2013-04-24T21:29:52Z

Zeke struggles to envision a promising future — the result of both standard adolescent ennui and a lackluster support system. How Baz Luhrmann captured the essence of hip-hop in Netflix’s ‘The Get Down’ 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

When you’re not dying, though, when your problem is a persistent rash, a dull exhaustion, snot, ennui, I see clearly the benefits of a homeopath with her chair and sympathy. Homeopathy won’t cure you – unless you have a little faith 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

It is, according to his label, "a dramatic homage to the Apocalypse, existential ennui and Paul Simon's Sounds of Silence". Sufjan Stevens Delights People with surprise EP 2010-08-23T11:12:00Z

Boone’s version is set in the 1990s and wallows in Gen-X ennui. ‘The New Mutants’ Review: Maybe All the Cool Super Powers Were Taken 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

The movie pays homage to the French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville, who specialized in stark crime stories, suffused with ennui and populated by emotionally distant antiheroes. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in November 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z

Even the show's supervillains, when not trying to destroy the planet, struggle with marital problems and existential ennui. TV from the outer limits of the EPG 2013-02-23T06:00:00Z

But it is: Using Dustin Hoffman as his marvelously witty vessel, Nichols dramatizes youthful ennui with a skill rarely seen in American cinema. The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

His 1920s-inspired collection — “The Great Gatsby” without the decadence and ennui — lit up the last morning of New York shows with a pastel prettiness. Special Report: Fashion: Reviews Spring/Summer 2012: Ralph Lauren, Proenza Schouler 2011-09-15T16:56:47Z

We were beset by ennui in the way of the sisters in Nancy Mitford’s “Pursuit of Love,” endlessly speculating about what time it was. Vacation Reading, Unpacked 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

With its dreamy mood of ennui, it seems more than just a genre scene. Watteau’s Peacefully Bittersweet War Scenes 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

She was to interior space what painters of the sublime were to the natural world, an explorer and an adventurer, charting new realms of ambition, desire and ennui. Review | Suzanne Valadon modeled for some of the world’s greatest artists. Then she became one. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

The weights of fashion and inherited culture are, of course, quite different; likewise the burdens of dictatorship versus those of democratic society, or the force of pride amid poverty versus a prideful ennui. The Meaning of Leopard Print 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

If you're still reading this you're either really looking forward to it or unable to turn the page because of the ennui. TV highlights 12/04/2013 2013-04-12T06:00:05Z

Let’s not go there, you and I. Unless I’m mistaken, “Prufrock” is a statement of the very ennui — the perception of a diminished world unable to satisfy a hungering sensibility — that afflicts Gil. | 'Midnight in Paris': Kicking the Old Ennui With the Lost Generation 2011-05-19T14:22:17Z

The world Ms. Breach conjures is awash in romance and nostalgia tinged with ennui. Joyce Breach Performs Standards at Don’t Tell Mama 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

But Sittenfeld doesn’t shy away from poking at the soft spots of a person’s psyche, the painful longings for something exquisite to cut through the ennui of even the most comfortable lives. The Heroines in Curtis Sittenfeld’s First Story Collection Are All Grown Up 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

Hours are spent trying to get the right drum sound, and the desultory banging of a single drum contributes to the mood of ennui. Review: In ‘Tu Dors Nicole,’ the Daughter Loafs While the Parents Are Away 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Or Eiffel 65's hit Blue, whose lyrics of suffocating bourgeois ennui are set to a tune that compels your arms to thrust either side of your head. Is this the most depressing Europop anthem of all time? 2010-05-06T14:20:00Z

The types and tropes were all there—mean girls, jocks, bullying, upper-middle-class ennui, idiotic or abusive parents, delusional teachers, a bad-boy crush—but they were relentlessly amplified, turned into grotesques. “Heathers” Blew Up the High-School Comedy 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

It is more a memoir of millennial economic ennui, a clever illustration of navigating impostor syndrome and the gig economy, since Hindman literally takes gigs as an impostor violinist. Pretending to Play the Violin 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Sizable net worth is no remedy for ennui, a truth Tyler, the Creator and Vince Staples made central themes of their most recent work. Review | Tyler, the Creator and Vince Staples show how fame doesn’t always lead to happiness 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

But the greatest display of adult ennui came in “Is That All There Is?” If only I knew what the lyrics meant 2012-09-16T17:00:00Z

Jay’s ennui is punctuated by the receipt of a series of Facebook messages from a former lover, the titular Katerina, who at first uses an alias to contact him. James Frey Has Written His First Adult Novel in a Decade 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

The songs evoke the smell of damp school sweaters and the ennui of suburban bus shelters, as well as the money scraped together to buy Dr. Martens boots. The Memories in Dolores O’Riordan’s Fierce, Fragile Voice 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

Sofia Coppola's portrait of LA ennui, Somewhere … Scandalous torture-porn shocker A Serbian Movie … In a month... This week's new films 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z

Cue the Labor Day ennui: we have somehow “missed out” on the summer that everyone else was having! Why You Feel Depressed on Labor Day 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Titled “Pure Desire,” it was a study of male adolescence and ennui as seen through teenage Icelandic skaters. Grace Ahlbom: Photographer of the Skateboarding Set 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Nor does she seem likely to court ennui in the immediate future. Review: The Bloom Is Still on Claire Chase’s Monumental Project 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

Set against reality's politics, Elliot's character embodies the overall ennui politically active people fear will doom us to another four years of chaos and pain . . . which remains a possibility. Beyond flashy big names, "The Politician" showcases how voters are bamboozled, swayed, and disgusted 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Their children, meanwhile, are manic and restless, trying to combat the ennui of summer with adventures that often end in injuries. Four Movies About Summer to Stream Now 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

This is the term of people who believe their ennui is epochal. An Epic Takedown 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

He retired in 2013 and did not want to succumb to the ennui that envelops many ex-astronauts who feel that their best days are behind them. He Stayed Grounded by Writing a Thriller Set in Outer Space 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Still, you heard no signs of wear or ennui. Music Review: Philharmonic Returns to New York; Glenn Dicterow Is Soloist 2012-05-21T21:48:51Z

And yet, any account of Margaret’s existence will leave a sense of waste and ennui. Mad, Bad and Difficult to Know: The Life of a Rebel Aristocrat 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the end of time; “Restless Eye” at moments brings to mind the deliciously strange and sulky ennui of a movie like “Melancholia.” Dance Review: ?Restless Eye,? by David Neumann, at New York Live Arts 2012-03-26T22:22:50Z

The ennui is linked to entitlement; in this family, everyone was too busy grabbing for what he or she wanted. ‘Transparent’ review: A family’s dysfunction is disrupted by Dad’s big news

The first half-hour or so of 13 Hours captures the ennui of guys sitting around waiting for stuff to happen, even as they’re hoping against hope that nothing will happen. Review: Michael Bay Ups the Blunt-Trauma Quotient with '13 Hours' 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

And it’s a faux-1970s European study of a couple in meltdown on the Mediterranean, high on self-conscious ennui and retro-couture; short on dialogue, or positive reviews, it turns out. Here's looking at me: Does Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea qualify for Hollywood’s Hall of Vain? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Seydoux looks absolutely at home in the past; with that paleness and those sleepy pillows of flesh under her eyes, she resembles the melancholy young women in Manet paintings, heavy with absinthe and ennui. Léa Seydoux: ‘For Bond, you have to be up for it. I had to work, to get fit’ 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

But he no longer fears the ennui that follows a small-town upbringing, nor that of middling indie fame. Feels like Devon 2011-04-01T23:01:00Z

Undercover of the Night is good fun and free of the ennui that sits so heavily on latterday Stones material, though the lack of specificity in the lyrics was derided on the track's 1983 release. Readers recommend: Songs about the police - the results 2011-03-24T16:42:45Z

In television terms, ennui tends to set it right around the third season of a show. The Season 3 itch: FX’s “Fargo” is still very good, but is that enough to keep this relationship hot? 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

“Run,” which introduces the first of its seven episodes on April 12, opens with Wever’s Ruby, neck-deep in ennui in a Ralphs parking lot. In ‘Run,’ a Romantic Comedy That Breaks Free 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

His most recent film with Almodóvar, Pain and Glory – a loosely autobiographical work in which he played a film director stricken with ennui – won much acclaim and an Oscar nomination for Banderas. Antonio Banderas reveals he has coronavirus on 60th birthday 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z

Irons plays a jaded criminal mastermind and jewel thief who sets out on a solo round-the-world sailing trip to forget his ennui, and finds love in Morocco. The Cannes film festival in my head 2010-05-11T09:53:00Z

An attenuated mess of a black comedy, partly in rhymed couplets and lacking even a scabrous sort of gleefulness, strands a theatergoer for 90 minutes in a restless state of ennui. Review | Nathan Lane and Adam Driver are both starring on Broadway. Only one of them gives us a good time. 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z

If you want ennui, you're still better off sticking with the French. Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke 2010-10-04T12:08:00Z

What’s frequently missing is the generation’s more subtle and artful expressions of indecisive lassitude — the built-in alienation, the lifelong romance with ennui. Perspective | These TV shows have figured out Gen X’s greatest gift to society: Grouchiness 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

He doesn't quite give it the full Baker Street, but the music is in the same area of airbrushed ennui and varnished perfection as Roxy Music's Avalon. New band of the day – No 1,304: Diana 2012-07-09T15:08:14Z

Harun becomes a stranger in his own country, which is caught “between Allah and ennui.” ‘The Meursault Investigation,’ by Kamel Daoud 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Despite the outdated references to AZT breaks and pre-post-millennial ennui, the spirit of Jonathan Larson's show remains as immortal as... well... How do you measure the revival of "Rent"? 2011-08-12T19:59:00Z

Stimulation could lead to ennui, and vice versa. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

But mainly it's about francophilia – the solution to much American ennui has after all been to head for Paris. Valentine's Day: let's hear it for Hollywood's odd couples 2013-02-14T08:01:01Z

To watch the second season you wouldn’t know that the Pacific is on the verge of rising up to swallow the Monterey Five’s playground; their lives are flooded with enough ennui as it is. Where did the "Big Little Lies" spark go? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

Still, though I hate to say it, that old ennui crept up on me whenever Mr. Hodge wasn’t onstage. Theater Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ With Douglas Hodge 2012-10-12T02:00:00Z

There’s no groping through layers of musty language to find our connection to Chekhov’s little band of privileged malcontents, stricken with ennui as the Russian Empire sleepwalks toward its end. ‘Uncle Vanya’ at the Pearl Theater 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

To fan his imaginative flames — and quell workplace ennui — Carrió relies on his passion projects housed at pepcarrio-lab.com. T Magazine: Seizing the Day 2013-04-18T19:14:51Z

I’m thinking here of the high-tech maneuverings seen in “Silicon Valley,” the privileged lifestyles of “Entourage,” the hipster ennui of “Girls” and the cutthroat Washington of “Veep.” Review | In a better world, we’d be talking about ‘Insecure’ as much as we talked about ‘Girls’ 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

All three women married for money and status, and lived unhappily with neurasthenic mothers, chilly in-laws, unfaithful husbands, disappointing children, loneliness, depression and ennui. French High Society During the Belle Époque 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Like so many of the other nominees, this one left me with a good-not-great case of ennui. Sorry, best picture front-runners: She’s just not that into you. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

She then sings a song about the ennui of middle-aged womanhood and her disillusionment with the bourgeoisie who surround her privileged 1970s Manhattan life. Anna Kendrick: The First Time I Made a Movie (at 16) 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The problem with treating ennui like an action sport is that you begin to seem completely humorless, even if that isn’t really the case. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-17T22:03:49Z

Mr. Jean-Raymond jolted a weary fashion press out of its customary ennui and, what’s more, proved himself to be the worth the trip. 2018: The Year in Stuff 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Making multiple murders feel like just another manifestation of mortal ennui can be a conscious artistic choice of course. | 'Bonnie & Clyde': ?Bonnie & Clyde,? With Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan - Review 2011-12-02T03:37:52Z

Alcoholism probably contributed to his sense of emotional dullness and spiritual ennui. Review | The De Young Museum tries, and fails, to trace Paul Gauguin’s ‘spiritual journey’ 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

His third book “Life After God,” a short story collection, evoked contempt from one reviewer for rehashing the same “self-pitying, small-scale ennui of Generation X.” Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

New to the Seattle emporium of all things weird and wonderful, these tiny vinyl Goth Cats make darkness and ennui cute in Emo Cat, Skeleton Cat, Bat Cat and Caped Cat designs. Stocking stuffer gifts 2023 | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z

A fatalistic ennui is spreading among young Chinese, who talk about "lying flat" or leaving the country in search of better prospects elsewhere. Xi Jinping arrives in the US as his Chinese Dream sputters 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z

As a teen experiencing ennui and sadness he would listen to Miles Davis and Bill Evans on YouTube. Secret shows and a cult fandom are behind this jazz phenomenon in L.A. 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z

His filmography is riddled with a brazen attitude toward everything from fame and crime to racial segregation and sexual revolutions, anarchy and ennui. John Waters gets celebrated in a fancy museum? Stranger things have happened 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z

“The more we make it a social norm for everyone to do, perhaps we will get beyond some of this vaccine ennui, vaccine hesitancy, and the political aspects that still surround these decisions.” Should I get a COVID-19 booster? 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z

As Britpop matured, a sense of ennui and depression kicked in. Britpop: What prompted the end of the genre that gave us Blur and Pulp? 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z

Could go on to win: The hearts and minds of anyone who loves to wallow in ennui. Emmys 2023: Drama power rankings 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

“Aloners,” a portrait of a South Korean call center employee, explores grief and modern ennui. Your Monday Briefing 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

“The Late Americans”: This novel is about envy, sex and ennui in grad school. The Sun Is Calling 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z

This, of course, is not a new kind of ennui. A Week With the Wild Children of the A.I. Boom 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

He assumed a tone of detached but prophetic ennui for the next 40 minutes. The day Martin Luther King and James Baldwin came to Beverly Hills 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

In an essay about seeing Black Flag for the first time, he wrote about the suffocation of suburban ennui. John Albert, punk pioneer and chronicler of L.A.'s underbelly, dies at 58 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

Some say the resulting cultural ennui from this predicament has given rise to the popularity of zombie movies, lack of sense of humor, bland pop music and politicians who lack bladder control. We went nuts over a balloon! Thank you for saving us, Rihanna 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

They are heavy with lyrics about romance, nostalgia and ennui, and feelings of longing and not belonging. For the versatile Ari Voxx, music is an expression of the ineffable 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

The story features several character cameos from folklore — all from the Western canon, unfortunately — along with a few solid wink-wink-nudge-nudge jokes thrown in to keep parents from drowning in a pool of ennui. Review | ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’: A serviceable, not stellar sequel 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

Then again, my own finale theory emphasized the season’s disaffection and ennui. Let's break down that 'White Lotus' finale: Our biggest surprises, disappointments 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

During the first act setup, we get to know our boozy Santa, filled with holiday ennui and cynical about the capitalist consumption of Christmas. Review: 'Violent Night,' wholly night, not so calm, not so bright 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Matthew B. Tepper, a professorial figure relaxing, bookless, on the far couch, said he would probably pick a book before leaving but was fighting a bit of ennui. Beloved L.A. book emporium the Iliad bounces back after a mysterious fire 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

Ms. Powell ultimately pulled herself out of “a tailspin of secretarial ennui,” as she put it, to become an early star of food blogging. Julie Powell, food writer behind ‘Julie & Julia,’ dies at 49 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

While tripping, Grant reassesses his past: Chapters ping-pong across time from his vaudeville days to his childhood to the talkies to middle-age ennui, jumbling the narrative to evoke Grant’s search for a logical arc. Review: Cary Grant takes acid. Fiction ensues 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

The collective mood of the typical industry audience may best be described as impatient ennui. Perspective | Serena Williams insists audiences see her, not just her stats 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

He embodies the flaws and ennui of his demographic, but Wayne doesn’t know what to do with him. Review | In ‘The Great Man Theory’ a middle-aged man can’t shift out of neutral 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

But wait, there’s also “ennui,” “UFOs” and “serial killers.” Why these delightful, eccentric quilts at BAM are exactly what we need right now 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

But what fills these 20- and 30-something Parisians with ennui is the seeming incongruity between the beauty of these concepts and the casual cruelty and speed with which young people seek them out. Review | ‘Paris, 13th District’: A movie on love and sex, without much to say 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z

It’s the ennui Cain says she grappled with her whole life until she began to accept its creative possibilities. Review | In a relentlessly positive culture, a defense of melancholy 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

And we witness a world rattled by climate change, where the robots will outlive us, but they, too, are straddled with ennui, spending hours in stasis “like any discarded thing would.” The video game of 2022 so far: 'Norco,' a masterpiece of interactive storytelling 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

The French poet once wrote that boredom or ennui was the worst fate one could experience — worse than many of the grim topics that Tyler used to rap about. Review | Tyler, the Creator keeps reinventing himself in concert 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

Consider this theory: that the current office ennui was simply the inevitable backlash to the punishing culture of the previous decade’s #ThankGodItsMonday culture. The Age of Anti-Ambition 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Pandemic-inspired ennui, blockbuster profits and a war for talent across the industry have accelerated the job churn at the country’s big banks. Wall Street opens wallet to keep talent. It’s not always enough. 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z

Pandemic-inspired ennui, blockbuster profits and a war for talent across the industry has accelerated the job churn at the country’s big banks. Wall Street Opens Its Wallet to Keep Talent. It’s Not Always Enough. 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Rather like the play Waiting for Godot, this period combined drama, farce, ennui, absurdity - and some choice language. Tory MPs continue to play the waiting game 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

I wake up each morning, confront my various screens and think, ”Is this fretful ennui a symptom of Omicron?” Column: January ennui has never felt worse than this year. We need masks. But also ice cream 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Didion's works were insightful, confessional and tinged with ennui and skepticism. Writer Joan Didion, chronicler of contemporary American society, dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

The original film was obviously also a product of its time, riffing on tropes about corporate cubicle workers, virtual reality utopianism, and 20th-century ennui. The Matrix Resurrections is more interested in being self-aware than being good 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

The conflicting messages from officials have amplified an already roiling mix of anxiety, fatalism, ennui and distrust. Perspective | Omicron won’t keep us from ending the pandemic. We’re doing that ourselves. 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

As Zauner chronicles high school suburban ennui and her months as caretaker to her mother during chemotherapy, she expands on piercing details of her lyrics to bracing early songs like “In Heaven” and “Rugged Country.” In prose and in song, Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner searches for connection and meaning 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

The genre of the teen soap gets a pulpy makeover — and channels adult ennui — in Showtime’s new supernatural thriller “Yellowjackets.” Review | ‘Yellowjackets’ and ‘Sex Lives of College Girls’ are very different shows. But they’re both razor-sharp on female friendship. 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

At the most desperate of junctures in a season swiftly slipping into ennui, USC’s freshman quarterback stood in the shadow of his own end zone, a half-empty Coliseum laid out before him. Drake London's injury overshadows USC's victory over Arizona 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

It is an opera about caring but not doing, about environmental ennui, which just may turn out to be our biggest threat of all. Review: The global warning opera 'Sun & Sea' is justifiably the hottest ticket in town 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Pollsters report that women in focus groups register a "sense of growing political ennui." Democrats hit the panic button. Is it too little too late for Joe Biden? 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

This sense of growing political ennui among women comes through in focus groups, says Democratic pollster Celinda Lake. Opinion | More women are tuning out politics — a danger sign for Democrats in Virginia and beyond 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

The dour F minor key and abrasive strumming give the gift of broad, atmospheric ennui to those who want to stew. Why I Keep Listening to Green Day’s ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

If anything, this bleeding of political talking points into local, nonpartisan races is worse than voters’ usual ennui. Adults get ‘F’ on teaching racial history in schools 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

A lack of motivation after a year and a half of pandemic ennui may also be curtailing how much a subset of workers is accomplishing. Want a Can’t Miss Productivity Tip? Forget About Being Productive. 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

Yet the ennui is not just a matter of pandemic chaos and the numerous scandals in the prelude to the Games. The 1964 Games Proclaimed a New Japan. There’s Less to Cheer This Time. 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

This spring, I wrote an article about languishing — the stagnation and ennui between the valley of depression and the peak of flourishing. Opinion | There’s a Specific Kind of Joy We’ve Been Missing 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

“There was a sense of fatalism, ennui, disillusionment with the world that I think was much more closely related to the war.” In visions of post-pandemic life, Roaring ’20s beckon again 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

I was a melancholy indoor girl myself, and Rose perfectly articulated my teenage ennui: “the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter.” ‘Titanic’ Is My Favorite Movie. There, I Said It. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

Zach Braff added the film “will cleanse your brain’s palate from the overwhelming dread and ennui and melancholia it may or may not be feeling.” ‘My Octopus Teacher’ wins the Oscar for best documentary 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z

Yes, we’re stuck in this flat place of ennui and isolation a little longer. Editorial Roundup: Minnesota 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

The result is a collective sense of ennui — one that is shaping what we do and what we buy, and even how productive we are. The Boredom Economy 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z

And so, most of the posts on the subreddit radiate with a strong wistful ennui in lieu of any firmware updates on the horizon. Microsoft killed the Zune, but Zune-heads are still here 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

We must shake off the ennui, break the fatigue. Opinion | Our leadership is hapless. But individuals can outsmart the virus. 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z

But as Giles and others noted, any display of ennui by a former spymaster like Putin, especially one staged in front of state TV cameras, was probably highly calculated. Embattled Belarus president has a sit-down with Putin. What's next? 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

A risk that I must fight my indolence and ennui for. Pictures of Themselves: The 2020 College Essays on Money 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

The idea of sun-kissed beaches of dazzling beauty and monotonous uniformity left us limp with ennui. The Perfect Ending to Our Pandemic Honeymoon Road Trip 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Feeling that “grand ennui setting in,” Booth created a TikTok account and began sharing “dumb videos” with his old comedy friends from California. These creative quarantiners turned their homes into the bars and restaurants they were missing 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

When the Black Lives Matter protests began after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis and statues were getting toppled across the country, they were jolted out of their pandemic ennui. Perspective | Change the world? Two students start with their neighborhood and find it’s not so neighborly. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

But it’s more than ennui or physical stratification. Sex during lockdown: are we witnessing a cybersexual revolution? | Ciara Gaffney 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

But they provided a glimpse into how desperate retailers and marketers are tailoring their sales pitches for newly homebound consumers, who are fluctuating between panic and ennui while scrolling through their Facebook and Instagram feeds. Don’t Mention the Virus! And Other Marketing Tips 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

"I'll find a way to deal with the ennui. Guests and weird concepts included." Pop stars live-stream concerts to combat isolation 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

To avoid technology-induced ennui, only hold video meetings when absolutely necessary. Working from home? Video conference call tips for the self-isolating 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z

A score that destines young doctors-to-be to a life of ennui in a job they do not enjoy, because they could not match into the competitive specialty of their dreams. A Major Medical Licensing Exam Is Going Pass/Fail, and it's About Time 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Lucas is 27 years old, and still one of the senior players in a Tottenham core that for all its apparent fatigue and ennui remains strikingly young. Spurs ponder where it all went wrong but this is as vital a moment as ever | Jonathan Liew 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Even the ceremonies to mark the moment speak to the ennui. Britain’s Brexit Shrug: Just ‘Get On With It’ 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

That’s why there is none of the jaded cynicism or “seen it all” ennui of western literary audiences. Books, Bollywood and barbs: the magic of the Jaipur literature festival 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

In the waiting room, the mood is a mix of anxiety and ennui. Welcome to Qatar’s Falcon Hospital. Please Take a Number. 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Temporarily relegated to the sidelines by the spectacle of impeachment dominating the House, and lulled into inactivity with legislative action at a near standstill, the Senate has become a den of ennui. Amid Rancor in House, It’s Quiet in the Halls of the Senate. Too Quiet. 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

The song follows a bleary synthesizer riff, and although it isn’t an especially glum melody, it communicates a precise ennui. Beck Is Home 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

There was a dispiriting sense of ennui in the night match. Alexander Zverev makes it sixth time lucky against Rafael Nadal at ATP Finals 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

The thought of having to spend the morning listening to her fills me with a crushing ennui. Faking it: could I go from being an introvert to an extrovert in one week? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

With Fitbit, it’s that same feeling — but with the added ennui of remembering that inside Fitbit are the remains of another innovative but failed startup: Pebble. Google is buying Fitbit: now what? 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

From coast to coast there was general ennui about both the campaign and the candidates, and at various points in the contest both major parties seemed to be leaching support. Justin Trudeau wins tight Canadian election, but he'll need a coalition to govern 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

But he pushed through the ennui with Moya’s help and recovered his mojo. Rafael Nadal Shows Why the Young Guard Will Have to Wait 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

The match between the former champions, each of them fighting late-career ennui, is a gift of a quirky draw. Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams put 15-year feud on line at US Open 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

It’s a perfect concept, and the bot captures all the millennial angst, ennui, and complex emotional nuance of being alive in 2019. The Twitter Emoji Mashup Bot is now available as free iMessage stickers 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

“Lady in the Lake” works well on several levels - as a look at the mid-1960s and a view of racism, sexism and the intersection of ennui and ambition. Review: Laura Lippman’s new stand-alone novel is superb 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

You get a small surge of dopamine from gathering a few online likes before existential ennui sets in once again. Is FaceApp an evil plot by 'the Russians' to steal your data? Not quite | Arwa Mahdawi 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

The Dodgers own a comfortable division lead; the Angels induce insomnia and ennui. Why the Minnesota Twins could sustain their astounding start

His most recent features — “To the Wonder,” “Knight of Cups” and “Song to Song” — are wispy, fragmentary tales of romantic ennui and moral drift, full of visual beauty but absent a comparable sense of transcendence. Cannes: Terrence Malick’s ‘A Hidden Life’ is a return to form and a spiritual call to arms 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z

I have been doing the crossword in The Post since high school five decades ago, but in recent months there has been a sense of ennui with the daily puzzles. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A picture-perfect example of ‘gender discrimination’ in the media 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

For those with that cash to spend on a new phone, is it exciting enough to break the global ennui? When will you next buy a phone? 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

But Helen’s ennui is palatable - vanishing only when she volunteers in a “living museum” that recreates life in the mid-1800s for visitors. Jennifer McMahon’s ‘The Invited’ is a powerful novel 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

We should be thankful that the Zurich Classic, if only in spirit, attempts to break this ennui. Is the Zurich Classic’s team format still fresh in Year 3, or is it already tired? - Golf Digest 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

Both are quirky and dryly funny, with a distinctive style that blends aloof New York art-punk and European ennui. New video: The animated ‘Mirai’ will resonate with kids and even more so with parents 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

When Ricky Gervais’s hit comedy series was looking for the US equivalent of the UK’s Slough as a symbol of dead-end ennui, it settled in Scranton. Joe Biden: can a veteran centrist win in the polarised age of Trump? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z

They offer rekindled socialism or make-Britain-great-again nationalism as the answer to inequality and ennui. Opinion | The Official British Policy? Mayhem 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

Less Than Zero harnesses that ineffectuality with minimalism, compressing ennui into dread, and then into horror. The dark brilliance of Bret Easton Ellis, by Ottessa Moshfegh 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

Critics and readers were delighted, but ennui sat naggingly on his shoulder. Russell Baker, Times Columnist and Celebrated Humorist, Dies at 93 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Newcastle, meanwhile, are gripped by gloom and ennui as they pine for someone to buy the club from Mike Ashley. Newcastle United v Manchester United: Premier League – live! 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Jean-Raymond jolted a weary fashion press out of its customary ennui and, what’s more, proved himself to be worth the trip. What CBD, Juuling and prairie dresses tell us about 2018 | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Club-branded Albert Camus outfit supplied by United’s official existential ennui partner? Klopp and Liverpool sense chance to inflict killer blow on Mourinho | Barney Ronay 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z

It was a revolt against the ennui of postwar social conservatism as much as capitalism. Never before have I seen blind anger like this on the streets of Paris | John Lichfield 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

He plays Ben, a handsome and wealthy Gatsby-type whose ceaseless pursuit of fun indicates a pervasive and gnawing ennui. Two years after 'The Walking Dead,' Steven Yeun's film career is 'Burning' - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Occasionally, I felt disagreeable emotions like sadness, anxiety and ennui. My dream of a green Cascadia paradise goes up in smoke 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Her big, round eyes telegraph ennui, and while there are moments of Rudolph’s trademark physical zaniness, the show also reveals her particular skill for imbuing small gestures with anguish. How Maya Rudolph Became the Master of Impressions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

In the space of a song, the London-based pop collective Superorganism often finds its way from joy to existentialist ennui and back again. This Week 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

Leave it to Russia to serve up the melancholy: toska translates as yearning or ennui. 10 of the best words in the world (that don't translate into English) 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

Will future generations wonder at this crisis of despair and ennui, and at the broad search for chemically induced numbness? Opinion | We owe our children a big apology 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Complementing Graeber’s sharp analysis of white-collar ennui, the journalist Sarah Kessler reports on the burgeoning gig economy in “Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work.” Review | Are you stuck in a pointless job? You are not alone. 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Instead, Watson beat his ennui and the medical issues that cost him 20 pounds, and came back to win at Riviera, the WGC-Match Play and the Travelers. Announcing the PGA Tour “Mid-season” Awards - Golf Digest 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Around about day four of any given heatwave, a certain seen-it-all-before ennui beds in, because wasn’t the year before last exactly like this, only more so? Middle-aged in a heatwave? I wouldn’t wish it on a dog | Zoe Williams 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

Germany will collapse into a vicious cycle of criticism and blame-assigning and then a profound sense of ennui previously seen over the last year in Italy, the United States and the Netherlands. Germany’s World Cup Is Saved in the Blink of an Eye (and Flick of a Foot) 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

As Team Venture and the Fraternity of Torment reunite at the museum opening, Professor Impossible stumbles through the background, his destructive ennui mirroring the mounting tension between the attendees of Jonas Jr.’s big shindig. After The Incredibles 2, watch this Venture Bros. episode 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Weed seemed an antidote to my adolescent angst and ennui, without the sloppiness of alcohol or the jaw-grinding intensity of stimulants. Legalizing marijuana is fine. But don’t ignore the science on its dangers. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

When Lipa tried the track she infused it with something new, a battle-weary languor that made it a timely anthem of millennial ennui. Dua Lipa: ‘Pop has to be fun. You can’t get upset about every little thing’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

The March for Science was a riposte to the US administration’s ennui around research; it aimed to reify the fundamental, multidimensional importance of science in tackling global challenges and advancing knowledge. The deep past of megafires, big data’s Achilles heel and behind the scenes of the March for Science: Books in brief 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

On The Ride he finds ennui in expensive dinners, and emptiness in airport security compliments. Drake’s progress: the making of a modern superstar 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

As a jaded travel writer, someone who has stayed in many soulless hotels and eaten in many overpriced restaurants in many disappointing places, I’m completely at ease with a certain exquisite idleness and ennui. What I figured out about America’s future from visiting Trump resorts throughout the world 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

In previous centuries, those suffering from ailments and ennui could travel through forests and up glaciers, by train and horse, to drink and dip in therapeutic waters. In Search of Lost Time in Europe’s Sanatoriums 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z

Lyrically, she depicts the angst and ennui of teenage life through the distancing filter of technology: "There's something so affecting / In the reflections / On my screen". Meet the band whose house is a hit factory 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

Baxter canvassed for Hilary Clinton and found the political ennui of younger women surprising. For Meredith Baxter and Sharon Lawrence, paths cross in 'The City of Conversation' 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

But it’s well worth reading for anyone wondering what the next generation of social software might look like — how it might avoid triggering the ennui that today’s platforms to. "Time well spent" is shaping up to be tech’s next big debate 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

So if “The Breakfast Club” remains unusual for taking suburban teenage ennui seriously, you might also need to be a teenager to stay on its wavelength. The '80s teenage angst fest 'The Breakfast Club' gets a high-class video release 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

That said, I think it’s been more a case of West Ham excellence than Chelsea ennui. West Ham United v Chelsea: Premier League – live! 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

The brightest spot in my annual ennui is watching another creature’s delight in October’s harvest. Perspective | How can I eat local when winter vegetables are so sad? 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

But perhaps these rappers’ ennui goes wider than mere Xanax, and into a numbing effect of our wider culture. The death of Lil Peep: how the US's prescription drug epidemic is changing hip-hop 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

Put your ennui to one side and embrace the Northern Irish dream; if you can’t be inspired by Michael O’Neill and his players, football isn’t for you. Northern Ireland v Switzerland: World Cup play-off first leg – live! 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Embodying contemporary ennui, Rabbit considers himself fulfilled when he manages to merely “muddle through.” ‘Millard Salter’s Last Day’ is winning novel 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

A heavy ennui hung over the four performers until they began to count to five and ring small gold bells at a frenetic pace. Peggy Piacenza’s ‘The Event’ weaves dance, short film, song 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

London in October is the wrong time and place for anyone looking to escape autumnal feelings of sadness or ennui. Bowers & Wilkins PX review: wireless noise canceling nirvana 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Something that would explain the lost chances, the ennui that led to another bout, another stint in rehab. Opinion | When an Epidemic Is Personal 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

She wants to be a good mother and companion, but ennui roils off her. Sarah Bailey’s ‘Dark Lake’ has solid character development 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

The coolest models tend to emit a certain ennui and Hameline is probably the coolest in fashion right now. Model of the moment Paul Hameline: “I don’t know why people would want to look at me" 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

Certainly, none of the competitors were complaining about any feelings of ennui at an event with a bright future. Here's hoping an old-school tournament spiced up with a new-school venue can catch on - Golf Digest 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

Directed by Alethea Jones and written by Julie Yaeger Rudd, this scabrous take on suburban ennui hits a lot of familiar notes with its story of bored mothers getting together to cut loose. New video: 'Colossal' is saved by the top-flight cast of Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis and Dan Stevens 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

The time-capsule elements might hit the sweet spot for some viewers, but they don’t deepen or even comment on the story’s layers of ennui, infidelity and resentment. Jenny Slate stars in tired '90s-set family dysfunction comedy 'Landline' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

There was no tension, just ennui for the loser, relief for the winner. Graceful Roger Federer transcends statistics to rebuild mystical aura | Kevin Mitchell 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

Still, it cuts through the aging slacker angst and millennial ennui to get to something earnest and authentic underneath. ‘Band Aid’ review: Quirky marital tale finds its rhythm 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

As for Irene, Brown shifts almost invisibly from cheery homemaker to suburban prisoner, and it’s hard to imagine Rebeck’s monologues of ennui and despair in better hands than these. Review: Strong cast lifts the family pathos in ‘Downstairs’ at ACT 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

A predictable but quirky relationship comedy, “Band Aid” cuts through slacker angst, millennial ennui and the hazards of watching your friends mature as you flounder. SIFF 2017: Highlights of the film festival’s second week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Ailing with illness and ennui, heartbroken and bored, Justin Vernon packed up his life on a whim in 2006 and drove 18 hours through the night to his father’s hunting cabin. Prison, casket or Taj Mahal – where's the strangest place an album was recorded? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Hers is a story often understood to be about corrosive and largely self-inflicted domestic ennui. Mai Der Vang’s and Airea D. Matthews’s Striking Débuts 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

"If anything it's going to do more to perpetuate election ennui." 'Strong and stable' - Why politicians keep repeating themselves - BBC News 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

So when Martin, a rail employee, announced upcoming attractions in Manitoba, the members of the Scenic Car Social Club shook off our ennui and pressed our faces to the window. It’s Canada’s 150th anniversary. What’s the best way to celebrate? All the way. On the railway. 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Despite their constant stream of banter, a sense of ennui dances around the edges of their activity, sometimes tripping into full view. Review | ‘Night in the Woods’ is great, and a lesson for all game creators in how to develop characters 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Though she grew up on the East Coast, singer, songwriter, guitarist and transplant Aimee Mann long ago earned her place as the poet laureate of a certain brand of Los Angeles ennui. 'The saddest, slowest, most acoustic' record: Aimee Mann announces a new album 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Author Emma Flint captures the loneliness, struggles and ennui of the residents of working-class Queens in the mid-1960s, especially the women who, for the most part, are stay-at-home moms. Book Review: ‘Little Deaths’ by Emma Flint is mesmerizing 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

The absolute winner is “Two Friends,” which explicates on a pair of the narrator’s departed friends, with his ennui and angst screaming at creation at the unfairness of it all. Train, Colin Hay and others unveil new albums 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

Eden Hazard, for bouncing back so bravely after a painful season-long battle with existential ennui. The Fiver Christmas Awards 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The election’s postmortem pundits offered differing explanations for Trump’s victory, including racism, sexism and the ennui of Hillary Clinton supporters. Donald Trump’s election is the death of America’s labor unions 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Attempting to live on a constant high guarantees ennui and desolation. Music for the stilted generation: the Weeknd's deconstruction of modern life 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

Zosia Mamet is pitch perfect as Julia’s best friend Cleo, a photo editor filled with ennui, and the group of pals wile away their brunches and Hamptons dinner parties happily tapping away at their phones. Art meets commerce in 'Goldbricks in Bloom' 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Gus the Polar Bear in Central Park died at 13, of ennui. ‘World’s Saddest Polar Bear’ to Get a Temporary Reprieve From Home in Chinese Mall 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

We didn’t have this sense of ennui or dissatisfaction during the growth years of the Reagan presidency in the 1980s or the Clinton presidency in the 1990s. The Trump Opportunity 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Confined to his apartment and living off cereal, gin and ennui, he’s a refugee in New York City, unable to head home and stuck between life and death, shrinking into grief over a lost love. Lazarus: ‘A jukebox musical for people who are too hip for We Will Rock You’ 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

We expected our political process to provoke antagonism and ennui. Forget fear and loathing. The US election inspires projectile vomiting | Barbara Ehrenreich 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Mrs. Clinton leads Trump among voters experiencing ennui; 45% of her voters are “very enthusiastic” to 53% of his, ABC reports. Hey, Trump Could Win! 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

The author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House combined the ennui of the “Feminine Mystique” generation with the intrigue of the horror genre. 9 New Books to Read for Halloween 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Yet this young Dutch artist was painting ennui in the 1650s. Clipped wings: the tragic true story of The Goldfinch 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

“Keeping Up with the Joneses” is ostensibly about suburban ennui, and the fear that embracing the American Dream may mean giving up on life. Spy comedy ‘Keeping Up with the Joneses’ plays it safe, delivering few laughs 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

As you probably know, there are five traditional Irish toxins: anger, ennui, liquor, lust and languor. A dad, a son, an eighth-grade science project. Stand back. 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

I sometimes see Paxman working in the London Library; he is usually intense, and friendly, probably because I once implied he was a feminist in print, and said his face was ravaged by ennui. Jeremy Paxman: ‘I never felt I belonged anywhere’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

On the one side, there are those expressing their fabulously downbeat Brummie ennui on Twitter: “2016 carries on its reckless march toward societal collapse: cereal cafe to open in Birmingham,” tweets Hinkypunka. Cereal Killer cafe: what will Birmingham make of its new hipster hangout? 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

“The Girl on the Train” is a dour piece of suburban miserablism, a peek under the attractive surface of lazily entitled upper-class ennui that reveals dysfunction and seeping pathology underneath. ‘The Girl on the Train’: Even Emily Blunt can’t enliven fatally dreary whodunit. 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

As before in history, however, the long period of stasis also brought a gormless ennui. Only true liberalism can thwart the demagogues | Nick Cohen 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

The vague existential ennui that passes for cosmopolitan citizenship on the Continent is apparently indistinguishable from an indifferent shrug. How ISIS Built the Machinery of Terror Under Europe’s Gaze 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

Fragmenting time and space, the Italian master created a potent new language for storytelling, and in the process charted a topography of modern ennui. Michelangelo Antonioni's melancholy classic 'La Notte' gets a stunning restoration 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

McMinn also started using an optical sorter technology, designed by a French firm to remove imperfect grapes, stray stems and other ennui from the harvest. This is how your favorite wine gets made: Forget Uber — tech pioneers are chasing the perfect Cab 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z

Piller’s enthusiasm is almost universally shared by her L.P.G.A. peers, contrasting sharply with an epidemic of ennui on the men’s side. Women Carry Golf’s Torch Where Men Are Reluctant to Go 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z

It brought welcome freshness to a sport where some of the biggest stars at times ooze can’t-be-bothered ennui. Column: 24-team Euro 2016 a wacky success 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

There are some in France who will look forward to the next three and a half weeks with an early sense of ennui, being bored with the party. Clashes of England and Russia fans in Marseille exposes failure of planning | Barney Ronay 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

Some of Mrs. Clinton’s stalwarts in the Media are becoming anxious over their own ennui. Hillary Wins the Media Primary 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

But lyrically, things feel a lot heavier, with violent accounts of faltering relationships and twentysomething ennui. On tour with Pup: crowdsurfing, cysts and dead chameleons 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

It is perhaps the ultimate existential ennui expressed in two words. ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ celebrates 30th anniversary at FerrisFest in Chicago 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

The adage that our presidential election is a nose-pinching exercise — or a choice between lesser evils — doesn’t approach the rising level of ennui flooding the American street. A nose-holding word to the disaffected: Vote 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Calling the move surprising, Johnson inadvertently coined a droll catchphrase that captured the asphyxiating ennui of the Nets this season when he added, “It’s not that bad here.” Joe Johnson’s Escape From the Nets Leads to the Playoffs 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Families will need to be active in helping to prevent opioid use in their children, with efforts at more family time and modeling behaviors to manage frustration, ennui and physical pain. Better Than a War on Drugs 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

Yet now, after a few go-go years, there is a sense of ennui in the world of tech conferences. At SXSW, a Shift From Apps to Innovation 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

It's the perfect pressure to make someone snap out of their ennui! 15 new trailers you should watch this week 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

The young man, we soon learn, has blinded six stable horses, a morbidness that shakes Dysart from his ennui in an attempt to understand the demons beneath the otherwise-normal boy’s exterior. ‘Equus’ at D.C.’s Constellation Theatre Company has Ross Destiche shine as Alan Strang 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

However, letters from Phillips over the past year depicted a grim existence behind bars – anger, ennui, alienation and an ever-present threat of violence. Death of ex-NFL player Lawrence Phillips: how did promising life unravel? 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

“People’s premiums going through the roof with Obamacare, so lot of economic ennui.” Fox’s Geraldo Rivera: “What is clear is that the nation was not ready for a black president” 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

The BPS opened up new avenues of research and made it apparent that boredom was about restlessness as much as apathy, the search for meaning as much as ennui. Why boredom is anything but boring 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

Nissan added to the viewer ennui with a spot about a racecar driver separated from his son. Super Bowl 50 Commercials Are Expected to Have a Lighter Tone 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

In the cover photograph for her 1975 album, “Horses,” she trades conventional symbols of femininity for dark pants, a white shirt and ennui. Warhol and Mapplethorpe: Exploring Gender as Disguise and Identity 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z

If the human version fills you with ennui, this version starring a giant fluffball and a tiny kitty will definitely turn you into a fan. Watch Cats and Dogs Remake—and Improve—Holiday Movie Classics 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

With George still not cured of his earthly ennui, Clarence, with some heavenly assistance, shows George what bucolic Bedford Falls would be like had he in fact never been born. Best Christmas films to watch this year 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

The last budget debate of the Obama era will go out in a blaze of ennui on Friday, and good riddance. The Last Obama Budget 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

There’s that Sunday morning ennui, and people are maybe a bit more brutally honest or a bit more open as a result. How Jamie Hodari, Workplace Entrepreneur, Spends His Sundays 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

The effect is to induce a terrible ennui, a defeatist sense that, no matter how much evidence there is that something is unacceptable, we accept it anyway. From Fifa to guns, let’s stop accepting the unacceptable | Jonathan Freedland 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

But peeling back layer upon layer of exquisite ennui reveals nothing but emptiness, sprinkled with stilted sentiments. Angelina Jolie directs husband Brad Pitt in lackluster drama ‘By the Sea’ 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

So their current status, as a synonym for ennui, is not in keeping with a culture established over 141 years of toil, and accordingly, the people are not happy. Aston Villa 0-0 Manchester City: Premier League – as it happened 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

Little wonder that Mr. Duchovny’s lyrics delve deep into his psyche and plumb the ennui of middle age. David Duchovny tours debut album ‘Hell or Highwater,’ discusses ‘X-Files’ revival 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

But what's truly noteworthy about Silverman's bid for thespian legitimacy is that she holds her own in this addiction drama, finding nuance in a movie that's constructed almost entirely of empty clichés about suburban ennui. In 'I Smile Back,' Sarah Silverman's desperate housewife has nuance 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

We boast to the French and Americans of our joy in the kind of ennui that could stun a team of oxen. Pakistan v England: first Test, day four – live! 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Watching her deploy her poker face while Guthrie asked if she understood how bad the emails looked, it was almost possible to see a glint of existential ennui in her eyes. The “Today” show exposes the media’s most asinine Hillary meme: Why their “likability” fixation misses the point 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Along with the beer chugging, pot smoking and sexual high jinks one would expect, "Red Oaks" also delivers some ennui. Coming-of-age comedy 'Red Oaks' is, like, totally sincere about the '80s 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

Juno handles this existential crisis with wisecracking ennui. Ellen Page Goes Off-Script 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

We boast to the French and Americans of our joy in the kind of ennui that could stun a team of oxen. Pakistan v England: first Test, day four – live! 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Concerned everyone else’s life is fine and dandy while you slip into ennui and feelings of inadequacy? The Log Lady will be sorely missed. She was Twin Peaks' greatest hero | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

The young woman expresses a sense of ennui as she lounges on a velvet chair, dressed in satiny shorts and polo shirts, shoeless in ankle socks. Armani creates new direction on runway, launches new book at Milan Fashion Week 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

Now, several generations later, that marvel of concrete innovation has fallen into disrepair, due in part to political ennui and neglect. California Editorial Roundup 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

They promised a life beyond our teenage ennui. Welcome back Winona – the exotic outsider all 1990s girls wanted to be | Bidisha 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

Yorkshire’s isolated landscape and the distance between farms add to the detectives’ ennui. ‘In the Dark Places’ has solid, multilayered plot 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

Those range from how boring Mars is, ennui over being stuck on a planet with nobody to talk to, general humorous commentary on life, and even a mixture of science promotion. A Sarcastic Mars Rover Shows Us Why Robots Matter 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Perhaps you've noticed that the word "annuity" sounds similar to "ennui." Or you've been alarmed about the reputation surrounding certain types of annuities. Why Annuities May Earn Investors' Respect Now 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

He's a shambling mess — potbellied and sleepy-eyed, with a well-used flask of single malt in his pocket and a bad case of writer's block to go with his bad case of the mumbling ennuis. Review: Irrational Man and the incredible shrinking worldview of Woody Allen 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

The first half closed out with the hit “Subdivisions,” as Mr. Lee simultaneously played keys and bass while crooning of the rural ennui of malls, conformity and prefabricated houses and lives. Rush 40th anniversary tour makes New Jersey stop 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

“I’m particularly interested in glamor, but I’m also interested in despair and unhappiness, consumer culture—a modern version of ennui.” Behind TIME's Plastic Surgery Cover With Miles Aldridge 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

It might break us out of the ennui that has descended, where we feel powerless.” Can Mars One colonise the red planet? 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

Turning its second club competition back into a straight knockout would probably help alleviate the boredom and ennui. Football: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

He pitched a tent in his suite and pretended he was camping in the woods, but even that didn’t take away the ennui. Willie Nelson: ‘I’ve bought a lot of pot, and now I’m selling some back’ 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

She didn’t quite muster Resnik’s level of disdain or Lansbury’s ennui, but she created a Madame all her own, with a tinge of Joan Crawford fierceness. Review: Catherine Malfitano takes on a Sondheim grande dame 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

The routine is anchored by the midday arrival of relief trucks from an India-based charity with vats of rice and lentils, a festive and crowded occasion that relieves the ennui of waiting and lifts spirits. Nepalis find community in tent city, but few resources 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

By the time she was 30, she had four children, a mansion and a case of ennui that felt terminal. Where Would the Kardashians Be Without Kris Jenner? 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

She spent ten years as a banker but after her daughter was born ennui set in and she decided a change in direction was called for – she became a winemaker. Born-Again Banker Makes Winning Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

Spring hasn’t technically sprung, certainly here on the East Coast, where we are still mired in historically harsh layers of ice and ennui. The Five Riskiest Spring TV Launches 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

The Republicans’ ennui in the Obamacare debate continued a strange start for the new majority. With another Obamacare repeal vote, GOP sets ‘world record in political futility’ 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

The American people don't like to see ennui in a withdrawn president – think of Teddy Roosevelt's exuberant personality. Obama Golf Game and Approval Ratings on the Upswing 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

The future-past of Ascension look a lot like our present, with more tasteful lingerie and a stifling sense of ennui. In SyFy's new series Ascension, the future ends in 1963 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Not only because it will save you the ennui of a hundred thousand Instagrammed turkeys, but because your family will like you better for it, too. Holiday PSA: Unless you want your family to hate you, turn off your cellphone

And about the only sane thing we can do is turn to our French friends, who've suffered from ennui for centuries. Chicago Bears fans have a French disease called ennui 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

For whether you say Italian cinema is an art of dreams or an art of family life or an art of ennui, it has always, in every case, been an art of beauty. Hollywood on the Tiber 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

But there are a two reasons to believe that this ennui may be of a more permanent nature. With so many issues off the agenda, no wonder the midterms are a turn-off 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

But the answer Ascension finds is as perplexing as it is frustrating: it'd look a lot like ours, but with more tasteful lingerie and a stifling sense of ennui. In SyFy's new series Ascension, the future ends in 1963 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

In any case, there are few snacks that better complement binge drinking and late night nihilistic ennui than Frito pie. Dunkin’ Donuts is back in the UK. But is it filling the hole? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

If you look at old black-and-white French movies, like those from Francois Truffaut, you'll find the face of ennui belonging to an actor named Charles Aznavour. Chicago Bears fans have a French disease called ennui 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Saakashvili changed into red shorts for the photo, taken opposite a coffee shop where bearded men sat on the stoop in studied ennui. Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia’s Ex-President, Plots Return From Williamsburg, Brooklyn 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

More plausible explanations are the desire to escape the ennui of home and to find an identity. It ain’t half hot here, mum 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

A couple of times, in line at a grocery store or coffee shop, instead of taking out my phone to stiff-arm the creeping ennui, I’d look around instead. Patton Oswalt: Why I Quit Twitter—And Will Again 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

In a Guardian preview from a season past I used the word “ennui” to describe the collective feeling of the club’s supporters, and I’m using it again. Sporting Kansas City and Dom Dwyer seek to exploit raw state of the Union 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

"Bears Coach Marc Trestman's endless lecture about how his team might improve their play if each player 'looked inside' produced an unbearable ennui." Chicago Bears fans have a French disease called ennui 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

South California All the fun of Disneyland with all the ennui of the Inland Empire. Billionaire Tim Draper's Mad Plan to Blow Up California 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

But even the words “reverse merger” inspire ennui and besides, Zayo wanted to recapitalize and show more organic growth, I was told at the time. Zayo Expects An Autumn IPO 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Through that, I realized that convention doesn’t always mean ennui, or selling out – and that great things can be realized through even the most commonplace tasks. 'You can work for other people and still be a #GIRLBOSS"' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Irony and ennui can be stretched too tight. London's restaurants: a grotesque display of opulence 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, ennui is defined as "listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; boredom." Chicago Bears fans have a French disease called ennui 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

As such, Hodgson has already been asked how he plans to alleviate ennui in Rio de Janeiro, where England will be based for the group stages. Can players really be bored at a World Cup? 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

Yeah, sure, we live in a fog of late-capitalist ennui where it’s become passe — maybe even boorish — to point your fingers and cry “sell-out!” Grammy advertisements tell us more about state of music biz than the show itself 2014-01-28T01:01:00Z

单词	ennui
例句	ennui I knew she looked just like her parents—lanky, washed-out, lipless—and that when she spoke to them they answered her in the same even, lowing rhythm of ennui and supremacy she lorded over us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t understand until he said it that part of my ennui had been resentment. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Perhaps they assumed, also, a life of ennui. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But as she sat there amid her guests, she felt the old ennui overtaking her, the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Orange groves, failed movie stars, lamplit cocktail hours by the swimming pool, cigarettes, ennui. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z 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. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Was this what the novelists meant by ennui? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Oh, the Test matches that have saved us from ennui, the boxing bouts, even the billiard scores. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It elegantly foreshadowed the disaffected ennui my generation would raise to an art form in the '90s. Director Michael Lehmann on why Ivanka and Kellyanne are today's "good Heathers" 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z But she was also drowning: in debt, ennui, romantic misfires and self-doubt about the freelance writing career that had produced one too many bylines on mascara articles. Review \| Is there such a thing as too much self-care? One woman found out. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z I plan to round off the fun with some beautifully rendered ennui and isolation, courtesy of Norwegian cartoonist Jason, whose back catalogue I'll be wallowing in this summer. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z The film is intentionally withholding with the most basic information, but Franco does a tremendous job balancing beachside ennui with escalating tension. New this week: ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ Kanye and ‘From’ 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z He sought a place where he might inoculate himself against the ennui that was slowly destroying his soul. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z She barrels ahead into solutions for our paradoxically harried ennui, including close listening to Mozart and keeping a diary. Review: ‘How to Be Bored’ Looks at How to Deal With the Blahs 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Watch any Chekhov play, and you grasp the national ennui that preceded the Russian Revolution. In praise of boredom, at the movies and in life 2011-06-08T01:01:00Z Adrift in ennui, he no longer bothers to ensnare the city’s evildoers. ‘A Sherlock Carol’ Review: Crime-Solving on Christmas Eve 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Coppola underlines Marco's ennui with long takes, often without dialogue, including one where Dorff sits and smokes an entire cigarette and another where he drives his Ferrari around the same track time after time. Sofia Coppola takes insider's look at Hollywood A-lister 2010-09-03T13:08:00Z “And he likes movies with naked French ladies smoking cigarettes full of ennui,” she says. How we stay together: we debate absolutely everything – but we fight fair 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z That comfort with and dedication to youthful ennui is emerging in several places at once lately. On Khalid’s ‘American Teen,’ Songs of Young Love and Technology 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z In its early scenes, the movie portrays the ennui of an economically stagnant culture in which the outlook for the country’s aimless, unemployed youth is cloudy. Review: ‘Love at First Fight,’ a Romance in the Wild 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z What really animates him are love and ennui, terror and regret: the enduring emotions that our technologies can’t contain. Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z If I keep the TV tuned to Arté, the French-German cultural channel, for hours on end, am I more likely to succumb to a nasty case of ennui? Media Cache: Hazards Lurk Between TV and Sofa 2011-08-21T13:18:49Z But Primal Scream's recent London performances of 1991's Screamadelica seemed to cut through the ennui; with the acclaim still ringing in their ears, they're taking the same show around the country. The best pop for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:03Z A single clause can slalom from ennui to anger. Theater Review \| 'A Behanding in Spokane': Packing Heat, and a Grudge 2010-03-05T04:55:00Z But, I've always said I think it's about American loneliness, and ennui, and what it means to be in so much pain that you have to cut off half of your consciousness. From "Perry Mason" to "Severance," Jen Tullock explores the various shades of "American loneliness" 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z It’s funny to have accidentally become the face of millennial ennui. Lena Dunham grows up 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z As Gordon, McNairy is certainly on point, making us feel the burden of his engineering ennui and desire to build something revolutionary. ‘Halt and Catch Fire’: Suffering from some faulty code On the negative side, the vocabulary, over a long period, generates a certain ennui. San Francisco Ballet’s Limpid Sophistication Shines in ‘Unbound’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Elyria is disengaged and depleted in a manner that put me in mind of the characters in the novels of Tao Lin, that Zen summoner of millennial ennui. Catherine Lacey’s ‘Nobody Is Ever Missing’ 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Here's another exorcism of Del Rey's patented languid ennui, heroically burdened by the boredom that apparently is the consequence of unconditional love and monstrous wealth. This week's new tracks 2012-07-06T23:05:23Z The inaugural issue tackles the complex issue of ennui. T Magazine: A Quirky Little Bookshop in Cyberspace 2012-12-12T22:16:39Z This is deranged passion recollected not in tranquility but in ennui. Postcards from Venice, Previews of Toronto 2013-09-06T15:46:17Z ‘La Turista,’ at the moment, is basking in a glow of uncertain approval which is maintained only by suppressing the ennui it unquestionably engenders.” Charles Marowitz, Director and Playwright, Dies at 82 2014-05-12T00:20:07Z There was an epic scale to the fear: no humdrum new-dad ennui but a rolling freakout at sperm, sex, the lot. Eraserhead: the true story behind David Lynch's surreal shocker 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The French, who gave us the word ennui and sharpened the concept of existentialism, produced the works that may most help Mr. Snowden adjust to his new life, especially those of Jean-Paul Sartre. ArtsBeat: Russia for Beginners: A Literary Course for Edward Snowden 2013-07-25T23:16:45Z “Norma” is a mature work, born of the same lived-in ennui that had made “Is That All There Is?” an unexpected hit in 1969, when Lee was almost 50. Boxing Up the Past: The Year in 16 Pop, Rap, Soul and Jazz Sets 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z But “K” is nonetheless weirdly suspenseful, and also uncannily contemporary — a riff on the theme of modern ennui and frustration that is unsettling and poignant. New Directors/New Films Festival Gives Spotlight to Youth 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z But then there was always the "faceless record button", and the fear of ennui. Beardyman interview 2011-03-20T00:05:18Z Some of their wait-and-see ennui may be due to the show's introduction of characters we know only by surname without knowing their personalities. "House of the Dragons" introduces the Lannisters before they had game 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z There was a time when people talked about the “New Yorker story” as a genre unto itself, as shorthand for a polished slice-of-life tale of suburban ennui. ArtsBeat: Anthologies That (Mostly) Stand the Test of Time 2013-05-17T15:41:49Z She said she hoped the works captured her ennui, stillness, worry and fear — “a sense that illness could be close at hand.” Gillian Wearing Has Turned Masks Into an Art Form 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z The unnamed heroine of Ottessa Moshfegh’s new novel, “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” is a kind of brand ambassador for ennui. A Sleeping Beauty Hopes Hibernation Is the Answer to All Life’s Problems 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z He's probably the most European man that ever lived, a loose knot of sighs and forced ennui. The X Factor 2010: the finalists 2010-10-04T12:25:00Z I won’t spoil it for those of you willing to swim through the ocean of ennui leading up to it. Review: In ‘10 out of 12’ at Soho Rep, the Audience Tunes In to the Crew 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Though ennui, admittedly, is an awfully fancy word for the context. Television Review: Navigating Bromances and Romances 2011-02-07T23:25:55Z Relationship ennui and marital bed death are low-key obstacles here, but even worse is the way the premiere capitalizes on the disconnect between the four main characters and the wives and girlfriends in their lives. Smart Watch: Let’s look at men via portrayals in “Mr Inbetween,” “Insecure” and other T... 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z The movie is often characterised as a study in ennui and curdled dolce far niente, a sunbaked torpor and languor that incubates marital despair. Viaggio in Italia (Journey to Italy) – review 2013-05-09T21:29:01Z Sometimes — the Bagger ventures, rarely — this ennui extends to the winners. Hollywood Awards Races Have Little Variation 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z “Please, don’t write another gay-Israeli-disco piece,” one curator said, with heartfelt ennui. So Long, Israel; Hello, Berlin 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z This semi-fascist scheme isn't what torpedoes Green Lantern; the culprits are familiarity and ennui. Green Lantern: Not So Super-Hero 2011-06-16T15:55:00Z But much of “Forbidden Broadway” exudes an oxymoronic air of spirited ennui, an awareness that there ain’t much in the way of inspiring creative targets these days. Theater Review: ‘Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging!,’ a Satiric Revue 2014-05-06T20:42:24Z Mr. Nelson’s characters are inevitably readers of Chekhov, and “Nikolai” quotes directly and indirectly from that master of Slavic ennui. Theater Review: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Newhouse 2013-05-07T02:00:01Z Trocker refuses to answer, sustaining the unease until it becomes ennui. ‘Human Factors’ Review: Paranoia is the Family Business 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z As a 6-year-old, I was taking in all of this male ennui, slow withering drama, and I think it had a deep effect on who I am as a creator. Mark Duplass Can’t Get Enough of ‘Rocky II’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z But they tended to be monochromatic, as if early-onset ennui and the shallow comforts of art snobbery were the exclusive inventions of white people. How a $15,000 Movie Rallied a New Generation of Black Auteurs 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Regardless of this ennui, when it comes to the nominees, it very well may be the best night of the year. Smart Watch: Emmy snubbed “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Counterpart” and others. Let’s watch t... 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Steer is wilful and quietly charismatic: The Ballad Of Brick Lane is a tale of hipster ennui set at the end of a failing relationship. Serafina Steer: 'The harp is a lonely instrument' 2013-01-19T15:00:01Z The essence of Wes Anderson whimsy, Herman is a self-made millionaire with a tiny moustache and a case of ennui. Boyhood, Moonlight and beyond: the best coming-of-age movies 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Because the collision of violent spasms and art-film ennui left my brain bloody but unfilled. Only God Forgives: No Absolution for Ryan Gosling 2013-07-18T09:45:42Z “Namour” is a striking portrait of ennui and alienation that resonates. Another antidote to #OscarsSoWhite: The annual Black Star Film Fest starts this weekend 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Like, I wanted to do this for reasons other than ennui. I’m not here to make friends 2013-03-02T00:30:00Z "Giving you my utmost good, but it's not just good enough" goes the gorgeous chorus – with the lyric's general sense of ennui matched by a musical backing that never awakens from its lovelorn coma. All We Are – Utmost Good: New music 2013-05-06T07:00:13Z There was angst and ennui all the time. I Quit a Famous Rock Band 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z "The play was meant to get you out of your seat, to take you out of your ennui and drive you to action," Ruffalo said. Mark Ruffalo was schooled by 'Normal Heart's' pioneering gay playwright 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z It isn’t a critique of aesthetic or romantic ennui, but an example of intellectual timidity. ‘Under the Silver Lake’ Review: Andrew Garfield Gets Lost in a Haze of Pop-Culture Allusions 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z And also, of course, shot through with longing, ennui and existential anguish. \| 'Le Amiche': A 1955 Antonioni Movie Gets a Film Forum Run 2010-06-17T21:57:00Z Said wrestling match takes place within a deep, pleasantly atmospheric fog of interwar glamor that makes it actually rather pleasing: heiresses and bohemians, cigarettes and alcohol, fatalism and ennui, garrottes and sleek, deadly period handguns. My Book-Buffer for June and July 2012-07-03T18:40:01Z The images come at you thick and fast, even as they talk of inertia and ennui. New band of the day – Parquet Courts (No 1,442) 2013-01-30T18:17:10Z The collision of violent spasms and art-film ennui leave the viewer’s brain bloody but unfilled. Only God Forgives: A Red Light for Ryan Gosling 2013-05-22T18:15:59Z About a year ago, I found myself overcome by ennui. I’m the woman you met on Ashley Madison: How the rush of infidelity led to affairs online 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z It is in the classic high Italian style of Fellini's La Dolce Vita and Antonioni's La Notte: an aria of romantic ennui among those classes with the sophistication and leisure to appreciate it. Cannes 2013: The Great Beauty - first look review 2013-05-21T07:10:06Z Chekhov’s quest to inoculate himself against ennui offers lessons for writers working in our current climate of desensitization. Weekly Culture Review: Pulitzers, Kendrick Lamar, and More 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Gimlet-eyed couplets in that vein predominate in Sleaford Mods’ music, which homes in on the gloomy ennui of lower- and middle-class British life. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The visual style of television became much faster and jumpier to stave off visual ennui. Design Notebook: Frustrating as They Are, We Still Can’t Live Without TV Remotes 2012-05-30T22:55:39Z As a visual of 2020’s stay-at-home misery, it should hang in a museum, where, with its subtle range of suffering and ennui, it can beguile visitors for centuries to come. Perspective \| Shows like ‘Celebrity Watch Party,’ ‘Ultimate Tag’ and ‘Labor of Love’ only seem like TV’s bottom of the barrel 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z I find taking a sip of highly Instagrammable bottled water is a really effective way to wash away the ennui. The mystery of the influencer and the Instagrammed motorcycle accident 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The same might be said of Stone’s characters, who together form a rogue’s gallery of late American alienation and ennui. Remembering Robert Stone 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z A patron of the arts who imagined herself an actress, Margaret proved incapable of masking ennui. Review \| Princess Margaret’s beauty and arrogance are on parade in ‘Ninety-Nine Glimpses’ 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Rising levels of parental ennui present a challenge, as these film-makers prepare to release their sequel. ‘I must have watched it 50 times’: a Frozen dad prepares for the sequel 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z As the weeks turned into months, ennui set in. Perspective \| Ask Amy: Woman’s last name becomes pressing concern for future in-laws 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z By the time first person has switched to second and then finally to third, a kind of ennui creeps in: "She gets out the scrapbook and they say / Did we really live like this?" Will Furniture finally enjoy the comfort of success? 2010-07-13T15:27:00Z The song is built on one of Aaliyah's previously unreleased vocal tracks, with a verse by Drake, in which the rapper brags about his watch, expresses his ennui, and appears to diss Chris Brown. Aaliyah's family deny involvement in posthumous album 2012-08-08T12:01:33Z “Slow Horses” moves on waves of ennui and disappointment, and on the bitter joy of expertly honed sarcasm. An International Buffet, From Elena Ferrante to ‘Slow Horses’ 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Enter a new boy, a stranger booted from a posh academy, who scrawls “NIHILISM” on the cover of his notebook and elevates the group’s ennui into something more profound. If Nietzsche Were in High School 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Then comes the rejoinder, a stirring lamentation from the trumpeter Marcus Wyatt, just as deflated, but refusing ennui. The Playlist: John Prine Comes Home, and 10 More New Songs 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Not as extreme as Kevin Shields and co, obviously, but with that blend of melody, ennui and a sheen of guitar noise. F&M playlist 2011-02-17T21:45:00Z Did we really need another show about the nebulous ennui visited upon the privileged? ‘Togetherness’: What? An unhappy married couple? In Los Angeles? Again? 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z In two novellas about Japan’s growing population of alienated and emotionally remote youth, the celebrated playwright Okada captures the ennui that has paralyzed a generation. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Her life as a housewife shifts between gradients of exhaustion and ennui until Tomiko, her mother-in-law, asks her to run an errand. She Tumbled Into a Hole, and Her World Broke Open 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Filled with lurches from effervescence to ennui, this Annie is a mish-mosh pit that encourages indulgent viewers to dive in and have fun where and if they can find it. Review: Annie Is Surprisingly Sit-Throughable 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Its songs primarily deal with the anxiety, frayed relationships and ennui that crop up in one’s mid-20s, a preoccupation that juxtaposes strikingly against such brash, self-assured music. Dude York’s personality shines through on new record 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The unnamed heroine of her third novel is a kind of brand ambassador for ennui. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Can you wonder that connoisseurs sag from ennui? Captain America: Been There, Saved That 2011-07-22T19:45:00Z My early curiosity built to a cozy level of admiration, then drifted off into ennui. Review: 'Fifty Shades of Grey': Where's the Wicked Whiplash? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z As Justino contends with the ennui of his job and his impending separation from Vanessa, he contracts a mysterious fever; at the same time, a strange animal roams through the nearby rainforest. ‘The Fever’ Review: Tropical Maladies 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Anxiety defined our national mood back in the autumn of 2020, making the limited series a brilliant antidote to the ennui that gripped us back then. Nicole Kidman is ready to Goop you now in Hulu's hollow "Nine Perfect Strangers" 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z This is a book, then, about a time, a place and a particular mood, which veers between intensity and ennui. Tractor Boys by Martin Bogren – review 2013-07-07T13:00:01Z We simply watch these daft noblemen and women play charades, dance and trade riddles in a desperate attempt to stave off ennui. ‘Barococo’ Review: Fop Till You Drop 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Yet perhaps it also speaks to an ennui I doubt I am alone in experiencing. This was the year of not watching any Oscar bait ... but hey, at least "Eurovision" was fun 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Once I was released from the yoke of corporate ennui, I naturally had a bit of time on my hands and the freedom to spend it as I wished. Drowning in commitments? It's time to stop giving a damn 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Yet he didn’t carry the “here we go again” ennui or whiff of wariness that often permeates the air around celebrities. Charlie Hunnam: Pushy When It Counts (Picky, Too) 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Charyn’s Salinger is an empty vessel, collecting ennui and experiences, despairing for some way to clarify it all in fiction. Review \| By the end of 2020, we were supposed to have more J.D. Salinger. Instead we have ‘Sergeant Salinger.’ 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z A better snapshot of liberalism’s ennui would be hard to imagine. Art in Review: Rey Akdogan’s ‘Night Curtain’ at Miguel Abreu 2012-10-11T22:52:06Z The difference here is that the ages are in the 30s, with each character representing a different stereotype of pre-midlife ennui. Television Review: Navigating Bromances and Romances 2011-02-07T23:25:55Z His best movies arose directly from the suburban ennui of the Eisenhower era he grew up in: atom-bomb drills in school, the Bomb itself, 1950s television, consumerism, mindless conformity. They Live: John Carpenter's action flick needs to be saved from neo-Nazis 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Fendt is more interested in tracing the architecture of their ennui than considering its cause or consequences, and the movie observes their leisure with a warm gaze. ‘Outside Noise’ Review: Walking and Talking in Vienna and Berlin 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z I suppose we ought to care whether this is exhaustion, death or sheer ennui. Dance Review: When Brecht and Weill Danced, Revisited 2011-05-12T22:00:13Z The performance on Wednesday, sensitive though it was, did carry some of that sense of ennui. Luigi Nono’s Harsh Music Inspires Reflection and Action 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Yet six fictional years after she flew to Reno with him, Betty lives in a fog of ennui, defined by her role as a wife and mother but yearning for more. Women of 'Mad Men' make a strong impression amid their fight for change 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Rock can convey ennui just as effectively, too: think of the climax to The Graduate and the scene on the bus where Dustin Hoffman finally ends up with Katherine Ross. Score draws 2010-12-04T00:05:00Z The idea of office ennui is nothing new — in 1853, Melville wrote of Bartleby, the clerk who one day decided he preferred not to do his job anymore. Are More and More People Working Meaningless Jobs? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z His wide appeal, many admirers say, lies in an ability not just to invoke the deep existential concerns of much endurance-based performance art — anxiety, ennui, other discomfort — but also to push beyond them, toward joy. ‘The Visitors,’ by Ragnar Kjartansson 2013-01-06T04:59:41Z But ennui explodes into passion as one chorus bleeds into another, until the song's climax: "Come on you big bad world and entertain me." Will Furniture finally enjoy the comfort of success? 2010-07-13T15:27:00Z It’s New York as a July rooftop party or a rat scurrying from a garbage bag, ennui ballads crooned into an intercom, bleeding through the crumbling plaster of the adjacent apartment. ‘The essence of life is kind of a nostalgia anticipation sandwich’: Philosophy 101 with Julian Casablancas 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z While some of his recent panels are clearly about life under quarantine, others fit into his usual themes of ennui and social awkwardness. A Pandemic Gives the Funny Pages a Jolt of Reality 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z The resulting character is an antidote to the just-passing-through sense of travel ennui. Historic firehouse to hot hotel: Repurposed buildings revel in their colorful pasts 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z But if the Seinfeldians liked to talk about nothing, the scientists upstairs were focused on a very particular something: New York’s doom, not from ennui, but from weather. Sandy recovery: Walls won’t stop superstorms 2012-11-06T19:20:00Z Bored teenagers dealing with the world at large may have more devices in-hand now, but that tumult of emotions and ennui remains the same. Saint Etienne looks to the past but limits the nostalgia 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z The comic relief on her new debut album, “Young Forever,” is “Tired of California,” a sweet-voiced summation of the attractions, superficiality and ennui of aspiring to stardom in Los Angeles. Queen’s Unearthed Lament, and 6 More New Songs 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Damon’s schlubby everyman Paul finds downsized life no shorter on ennui or existential aimlessness than before: his romantic and professional circumstances take a drastic dip alongside his property portfolio. High-concept satire Downsizing is dwarfed by its white saviour narrative 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Contemporary viewers will probably feel ennui, such images — and juxtapositions of images — being readily accessible on the Internet. Art Review: ‘Robert Heinecken: Object Matter’ Is on View at MoMA 2014-03-20T12:00:01Z Bored New Jerseyites Phil and Claire Foster decide to head into the Big Apple in a bid to pep up their marriage, which long ago fell into a pit of suburban ennui and routine. You review: Date Night 2010-04-26T14:24:00Z One is Miranda, played by Selma Blair, whose face is a catatonic mask of indifference and ennui. Dark Horse – review 2012-06-28T20:30:01Z But the ennui hanging over these heroes never slows down the action. "The Old Guard" mixes Charlize Theron and immortality for a fresh take on overdone superheroes 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z And so we are forever inundated with shows about people for whom the Southern California sunshine is just another layer of self-centered, hard-to-afford ennui. How Netflix’s ‘Flaked’ is just one more drop in L.A.’s ocean of hipster miseries 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Distinct cinematic visions and bold narrative experiments help distinguish the second week of New Directors/New Films, trumping the more familiar festival-ready drifting stories and generic youthful ennui. New Directors/New Films Festival Highlights Bold Narrative Experiments 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z The irritations and ennui that set in during unstructured play time for grown-ups are wittily conveyed, as is the sense of social selves melting into primitivism. ‘The Adults’ and ‘99 Breakups’ at the FringeArts Festival in Philadelphia 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z There’s nothing political about that response: Like “Nocturama,” it’s nothing but an expression of aesthetic ennui. Review: Bored, Beautiful Terrorists With a Taste for Luxury Brands 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Throughout all the teenage ennui, he watched movies made by the likes of Scorsese, Jarmusch and David Fincher, which told stories that challenged him and suggested that there was another world. Fit for stardom: How Adam Driver went from US Marine to Hollywood heartthrob 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Moment to moment, murder and mayhem were committed, followed by elation and ennui. Dance Review: Keely Garfield?s ?Twin Pines? at Danspace ? Review 2012-01-23T22:08:42Z He also directed a mini-movie called “Remember Now,” as an artistic meld of smoldering passion, the ennui of gilded youth touched with the essence of “La Dolce Vita.” Fashion Films Become the Hottest New Accessories 2010-05-17T10:55:00Z Daria’s sister Quinn, who at first glance appears to have it all together as a popular mean girl, is nevertheless riddled with existential ennui. Daria: the 90s cartoon that nailed American feminist teenhood 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z These anti-fashion looks were also born out of the collective ennui of fashion insiders searching for something more authentic. Perspective \| Fanny packs. Prairie dresses. Luxury shower shoes: Is fashion trolling us or what? 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Instead Jaeger lays bear the spiritual ennui of a leisured civilization without real purpose. Review \| Muriel Jaeger, a trailblazing science fiction author, deserves a new look 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z The Steps Reunion on Sky Living kicked it off, providing a thrilling mix of ennui, Technicolor flashback and bitter recrimination. Nostalgia TV: a comfort blanket when times get tough 2013-04-11T11:23:51Z There is summery ennui all over this one – think Factory if it had opened an office on Venice Beach. New band of the day ? Craft Spells (No 1,002) 2011-04-11T15:59:29Z The north meant aggression, the gothic, the "sadically mad cruelties of the Northern Middle Ages" and the "Northern tortures of ennui and indigestion". Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z All three suffer from ennui and neglect in the countryside; all three seek solace in affairs that end badly. In Russian Plays, Don’t Mention the War 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Yet, despite his positivity, Dev seems to think his life requires ennui or existential fretting to be worthwhile. In Aziz Ansari’s ‘Master of None,’ a new definition of Netflix-and-chill 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z There are a number of explanations for our ennui. Why are we so bored? 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z And too often, unfortunately, it is undone by a grating aura of chic ennui. 'Doug Aitken: Electric Earth': Why MOCA's big new show has too few sparks 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Here the ennui sometimes seeps into the narrative in a way that leaves stretches of the movie enervated and galumphing like a corpse. Review: 'Warm Bodies' could use more heat 2013-01-30T17:16:04Z On the surface, the movie, based on a novel by Amy Koppelman, looks like another case of suburban ennui, between Laney’s big SUV and bigger house, the school lunches and the family dinners. Sarah Silverman switches to drama. But she’s still making people squirm. 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Episode 11, The Jet Set, in which Don drifts in a Californian villa with a rabble of Eurotrash is like a Slim Aarons print come alive with ennui. The Sopranos to Blackadder – what are the definitive series of the best TV shows? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Nothing is bothering him other than, perhaps, mild ennui. 8 Years After ‘The Night Circus,’ Erin Morgenstern Has a New Novel 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The narrator of “Marshlands,” a writer, is being driven mad by ennui. Experimental Literature That Tests Family Bonds and Routines 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z If a chef's not keeping the kitchen alive with new dishes, that's one thing; it's another to kill off old favorites from the ennui of those who've already had their fill. Brennan’s in New Orleans Walks the Tightrope of Tradition 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The exhibition, he wrote, was too often “undone by a grating aura of chic ennui.” Move Over, Neptune. Doug Aitken Has Another Big Idea. 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Otherwise they’re a jittery lot, at least when they shake off their ennui. \| 'Uncle Vanya': ‘Uncle Vanya’ With Cate Blanchett at City Center 2012-07-22T18:31:05Z The royals here are just fops who, with or without Moses, might have died out on their own, of inbreeding or ennui. REVIEW: Don't Let Your People Go See Exodus: Gods and Kings 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z The track is bubble gummy pop with a hint of reggae, and it’s packed with little hooks and ever-changing effects, but nothing breaks through the ennui. Sky Ferreira’s Dazzling, Defiant Return, and 11 More New Songs 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The whole work is an evocation of young womanhood, compelling in its blend of awkwardness, ennui and burgeoning forces within. ‘Rosas Danst Rosas’ Revisits a Choreographer’s Early Work 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z And Williams, so good in An Education, is an enthrallingly intelligent and seductive combination of ennui, sarcasm and ambition. You review: The Ghost 2010-04-19T13:02:00Z On Kill the Messenger, Cuomo complains of "no fun", as though he's the first sentient being to experience ennui. New band of the day: The Orwells (No 1,519) 2013-05-24T15:02:04Z The Girlfriend Experience is riddled with ennui and existential dread. The new normal: why television has chosen to humanize sex workers 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Not that any of these awards were unarguably deserved, but their contrarian choices relieved the other groups' lockstep ennui. Colin Firth, 'The Social Network' Take Early Oscar Lead in Critics Awards 2011-01-07T17:45:00Z Oh, my poor, sweet television darlings, I hope you’re in the mood for lots of sighing and vague feelings of ennui this fall. Perspective \| 10 new shows to check out this fall, including ‘Murphy Brown,’ ‘Camping’ and ‘Forever’ 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Jude Law and Rachel Weisz in 360, 'a film that reflects the lives of people who confuse the ennui induced by jet lag with authentic Weltschmerz'. 360 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:33Z A few of the more polished passages bring to mind what Didion could do at her height — the literary journalism from El Salvador, the defining pieces about California’s culture of ennui. Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ is a reminder of what the journalist could do 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z That same year came Leiber and Stoller's last great song, Is That All There Is?, a masterpiece of ennui in the style of Brecht and Weill, inspired by a Thomas Mann short story. Jerry Leiber obituary 2011-08-23T17:58:52Z The ceremonial jitteriness of each performance, underscored by restless percussive jazz, conveys both endless ennui and uneasiness. Theater Review: Toshiki Okada?s Under the Radar Entry at Japan Society - Review 2012-01-07T00:33:21Z “There’s a certain ennui,” he said, eyeing the canvas one recent spring day. Eric Fischl Goes Back to His Future 2013-05-15T23:11:56Z O’Connor presents Charles as a kind of Hamlet-on-the-Thames, stooped under the weight of his own ennui, by turns annoying and sympathetic. ‘The Crown’ Has Had Its Scandals, but There’s Nothing Like Diana 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Still, by the end of the show there is a feeling of fatigue and ennui, exemplified by the languid women who never look the painter in the eye and by interiors that become claustrophobic. Exhibition Review: At the Victoria & Albert, Muses Let Their Hair Down 2011-04-11T14:37:06Z For Ballard, this was a faux English nationalism; one signed up to by those whose mass-mediatised ennui was ever on the point of exploding into violent anomie. Will Self walks through Britain's flag-waving heartlands 2013-03-07T11:31:01Z The one deviation is playing iPhone games to relieve her ennui. ‘Swallow’ Review: Objects in Stomach May Be Sharper Than They Appear 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Given a chance to get out of bed, Noodle would often “crumple with ennui.” The Year in Limbo 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z Evans drew, in part, on her own childhood for Stuart's loneliness and ennui at the start of the book. Lissa Evans's small change from TV to books 2011-07-08T15:50:08Z The hour dramatizes the talking points of the political present: race, health care, the struggle of small businesses, the general ennui that this election cycle has produced in many voters. “Horace and Pete” Is Louis C.K.’s Most Audacious Independent Creation Yet 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z In yet another show of Ronson’s eclectic contacts list, venerated author Michael Chabon contributed lyrics throughout the record, and his work infuses Ronson’s compositions with a sort of sordid California ennui. Review: Mark Ronson's 'Uptown Special' is at the Mercy of His Collaborators 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z A variation on pitting pseudo-socialites against strivers, the series follows seven gallerinas who’d do almost anything to break into the city’s art world — as long as they don’t have to crack their ennui. The Week Ahead: Aug. 12 — 18 2012-08-11T03:44:19Z But on uphill loops, as the movie pauses to catch its breath, it is also a dry-eyed contemplation of millennial ennui in a hypercompetitive, winner-take-all climate. Review: ‘Victoria,’ a Nonstop Flight Through the Streets of Berlin 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The lyrics confront domestic violence, sexism, racial hierarchies, homophobia, the ennui of displacement. Elza Soares, a Revered and Fearless Samba Legend, Brings Her Throne to New York 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Wampach played up this troubling idea of passivity by presiding over a false intermission, handing out drinks and popcorn with well calibrated ennui. David Wampach in Queer New York Festival at Abrons Center 2012-06-13T21:19:11Z His autopsy of the current liberal ennui is not particularly trenchant or surprising, but it’s certainly amusing. The Plight of the Aggrieved, Rich Manhattan Liberal 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z There is a chaotic energy to the characters — who drink and party around Platonov, a local Casanova, to evade ennui in a Russian province — that makes it especially well-suited to young actors. In Paris, Young Theater Makers Swing Big 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The once terrifying, now domesticated father of three finds himself at the beginning of "Shrek Forever After" grappling with the kind of existential ennui that only a frantic kid's birthday party can inspire. "Shrek" returns to form 2010-05-21T12:01:00Z If “Parenthood” were cynical, or if “Thirtysomething” were less ponderous, you’d get something like “Tangle,” an engrossing and talky drama about a few suburban families who are nursing some serious ennui. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z What better way to fend off ennui than to develop newer, cleaner ways to melt the eyes? Don’t call him the Walt Disney of Japan: How animator Hayao Miyazaki became a cultural icon by doing everything Pixar doesn’t 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z When a summer storm brings an arcane circus to a Midwestern town, two lads are torn from their humdrum ennui into a fantastical realm of bearded ladies, malevolent carnies and the infamous Illustrated Man. Salman Rushdie, Diana Gabaldon and other authors reflect on the books they find most transporting 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z A mood of mournful ennui prevails, as if the film itself were grieving for real lives lost to Second Life’s beguiling lotus land. Cao Fei Captures Modern Malaise in a Series of Inventive Videos 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Encapsulating the seesawing ennui and excitement of city life, numbers such as “The Ladies Who Lunch,” which was explicitly tailored for Stritch, and “Another Hundred People” have become cabaret classics. Sondheim and the City: In a Rethought ‘Company,’ a Woman Wavers 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z All of this was happening in Hollywood, at a time when many of the greatest artists and intellectuals of Europe were languishing there in spectacularly productive pools of ennui. Man Ray inserts the human factor into the equation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Two of his sons lent a hand on separate tunes, with the award for sangfroid going to toddler Mac for rattling a tambourine with impressive ennui. Paul Weller ? review 2010-12-12T22:00:00Z As with yesterday's chap, delicacy, dolour, feyness and ennui are the order of the day. Trophy Wife (No 876) 2010-09-28T15:47:00Z He was, after all, the least complex of the four lost souls at the heart of The Good Place, so the ennui of eternity was bound to creep up on him relatively quickly. The Good Place: was this the most devastating TV finale ever? 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Her characters are typically and blithely privileged, often afflicted with ennui, if not affluenza. Why Hasn’t Sofia Coppola Gotten the Respect an Auteur Deserves? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z I continued pulling, and after the adolescent novelty of possessing a medical justification for my ennui wore off, I quit the Prozac. My secret hair pulling 2012-09-09T00:00:00Z And just because Alex's life seems awfully good doesn't mean he doesn't suffer from his own form of ennui. Please Give: As Good As It Gets 2010-04-29T23:55:00Z The social consciousness and sense of political engagement crucial to the original 2 Tone scene is absent, replaced instead by longing and ennui. New band of the day ? No 1,058: Razika 2011-07-08T15:22:50Z Rarely does ennui or regret look so lovely, so aglow in golden light. "Big Little Lies" is back to stare at the sea 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z The problems are similar, even though they cover different phases of disrepair: “Satisfaction,” on USA, is about a well-off couple driven apart by midlife ennui. It’s Ennui Time on ‘Satisfaction’ and ‘Married’ 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Just when it seemed he was lost forever in the mirage of his own ennui, a great white whale of a Chevy zooms toward him — and he pursues it with zeal. Mad Men Watch: How Much Damage Did You Do, Peaches? 2013-05-06T09:45:54Z It’s strange that the word “morality” keeps coming up when one is talking about this laureate of decadent ennui. In Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Serotonin,’ the Provocative Beat Goes On (and On) 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z “The Savage Detectives” really got to me, these children acting as bohemians and this ennui. Playlist: Worldly Influences On a Young Artist 2011-07-22T18:47:47Z A growing feeling of sweatpants-induced ennui may be partly accountable for sales. We Have Reached Peak ‘Exercise Dress’ 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z That said, the song provides one last moment of weirdness: Cameron-a-likes and illuminated feather boas both roaring along, word-perfect, to a disco version of a Pink Floyd song about rock star alienation and moneyed ennui. Scissor Sisters 2010-06-23T20:30:00Z Frears delivered power, intrigue and sexual menace with this story of elegant cynicism set in 18th-century France – a parable of the arrogant ennui that prefigured the revolution. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Are their motives racist, homophobic or the nihilistic ennui of a hopeless generation? Avignon festival week one roundup: Complicite is masterful, Camille captivating 2012-07-19T13:16:45Z Although sprightly in tone and merciless in its put-downs of the younger generation, this is really a play about postwar ennui, the sterility of the City and the banality of suburbia. The Breadwinner – review 2013-04-24T11:56:16Z When Is This It came out, the title seemed to function both as a sneer of ennui as well as a pre-emptive joke about anticlimax. The Strokes: no Spinal Tap 2011-02-27T00:03:00Z It was part of the ennui that came over this country. America’s response to coronavirus pandemic is ‘incomprehensibly incoherent,’ says historian who studied the 1918 flu 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z His description of the “day-to-day abstract humiliation” of not having a driver’s license until he was 26 is a painfully honest account of the toll that ennui takes on black social mobility. His Blog Explored Notions of Black Masculinity. His Memoir Explodes Them. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Seattle’s combination of intensity, intimacy, angst, and ennui, worked particularly well in the 1990s. Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z More than aimless ennui, “Cody,” the Los Angeles band’s fourth album, from 2016, had the sepia tint of earned nostalgia, and it opened the door to a new career phase. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z That question is paralyzing for the fictional Harry, who has sold his Internet company for $100 million, but is stuck in an unhappy marriage and suffering from ennui. Zach Braff in Paul Weitz?s ?Trust? at Second Stage 2010-07-29T21:38:00Z He works for an investment company and lives on a cul-de-sac, but the novel doesn’t traffic in easy suburban ennui. ‘The Slippage,’ by Ben Greenman, and More 2013-04-24T21:29:52Z Zeke struggles to envision a promising future — the result of both standard adolescent ennui and a lackluster support system. How Baz Luhrmann captured the essence of hip-hop in Netflix’s ‘The Get Down’ 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z When you’re not dying, though, when your problem is a persistent rash, a dull exhaustion, snot, ennui, I see clearly the benefits of a homeopath with her chair and sympathy. Homeopathy won’t cure you – unless you have a little faith 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z It is, according to his label, "a dramatic homage to the Apocalypse, existential ennui and Paul Simon's Sounds of Silence". Sufjan Stevens Delights People with surprise EP 2010-08-23T11:12:00Z Boone’s version is set in the 1990s and wallows in Gen-X ennui. ‘The New Mutants’ Review: Maybe All the Cool Super Powers Were Taken 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z The movie pays homage to the French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville, who specialized in stark crime stories, suffused with ennui and populated by emotionally distant antiheroes. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in November 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Even the show's supervillains, when not trying to destroy the planet, struggle with marital problems and existential ennui. TV from the outer limits of the EPG 2013-02-23T06:00:00Z But it is: Using Dustin Hoffman as his marvelously witty vessel, Nichols dramatizes youthful ennui with a skill rarely seen in American cinema. The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z His 1920s-inspired collection — “The Great Gatsby” without the decadence and ennui — lit up the last morning of New York shows with a pastel prettiness. Special Report: Fashion: Reviews Spring/Summer 2012: Ralph Lauren, Proenza Schouler 2011-09-15T16:56:47Z We were beset by ennui in the way of the sisters in Nancy Mitford’s “Pursuit of Love,” endlessly speculating about what time it was. Vacation Reading, Unpacked 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z With its dreamy mood of ennui, it seems more than just a genre scene. Watteau’s Peacefully Bittersweet War Scenes 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z She was to interior space what painters of the sublime were to the natural world, an explorer and an adventurer, charting new realms of ambition, desire and ennui. Review \| Suzanne Valadon modeled for some of the world’s greatest artists. Then she became one. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The weights of fashion and inherited culture are, of course, quite different; likewise the burdens of dictatorship versus those of democratic society, or the force of pride amid poverty versus a prideful ennui. The Meaning of Leopard Print 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z If you're still reading this you're either really looking forward to it or unable to turn the page because of the ennui. TV highlights 12/04/2013 2013-04-12T06:00:05Z Let’s not go there, you and I. Unless I’m mistaken, “Prufrock” is a statement of the very ennui — the perception of a diminished world unable to satisfy a hungering sensibility — that afflicts Gil. \| 'Midnight in Paris': Kicking the Old Ennui With the Lost Generation 2011-05-19T14:22:17Z The world Ms. Breach conjures is awash in romance and nostalgia tinged with ennui. Joyce Breach Performs Standards at Don’t Tell Mama 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z But Sittenfeld doesn’t shy away from poking at the soft spots of a person’s psyche, the painful longings for something exquisite to cut through the ennui of even the most comfortable lives. The Heroines in Curtis Sittenfeld’s First Story Collection Are All Grown Up 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Hours are spent trying to get the right drum sound, and the desultory banging of a single drum contributes to the mood of ennui. Review: In ‘Tu Dors Nicole,’ the Daughter Loafs While the Parents Are Away 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Or Eiffel 65's hit Blue, whose lyrics of suffocating bourgeois ennui are set to a tune that compels your arms to thrust either side of your head. Is this the most depressing Europop anthem of all time? 2010-05-06T14:20:00Z The types and tropes were all there—mean girls, jocks, bullying, upper-middle-class ennui, idiotic or abusive parents, delusional teachers, a bad-boy crush—but they were relentlessly amplified, turned into grotesques. “Heathers” Blew Up the High-School Comedy 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z It is more a memoir of millennial economic ennui, a clever illustration of navigating impostor syndrome and the gig economy, since Hindman literally takes gigs as an impostor violinist. Pretending to Play the Violin 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Sizable net worth is no remedy for ennui, a truth Tyler, the Creator and Vince Staples made central themes of their most recent work. Review \| Tyler, the Creator and Vince Staples show how fame doesn’t always lead to happiness 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z But the greatest display of adult ennui came in “Is That All There Is?” If only I knew what the lyrics meant 2012-09-16T17:00:00Z Jay’s ennui is punctuated by the receipt of a series of Facebook messages from a former lover, the titular Katerina, who at first uses an alias to contact him. James Frey Has Written His First Adult Novel in a Decade 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The songs evoke the smell of damp school sweaters and the ennui of suburban bus shelters, as well as the money scraped together to buy Dr. Martens boots. The Memories in Dolores O’Riordan’s Fierce, Fragile Voice 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Sofia Coppola's portrait of LA ennui, Somewhere … Scandalous torture-porn shocker A Serbian Movie … In a month... This week's new films 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z Cue the Labor Day ennui: we have somehow “missed out” on the summer that everyone else was having! Why You Feel Depressed on Labor Day 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Titled “Pure Desire,” it was a study of male adolescence and ennui as seen through teenage Icelandic skaters. Grace Ahlbom: Photographer of the Skateboarding Set 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Nor does she seem likely to court ennui in the immediate future. Review: The Bloom Is Still on Claire Chase’s Monumental Project 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Set against reality's politics, Elliot's character embodies the overall ennui politically active people fear will doom us to another four years of chaos and pain . . . which remains a possibility. Beyond flashy big names, "The Politician" showcases how voters are bamboozled, swayed, and disgusted 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Their children, meanwhile, are manic and restless, trying to combat the ennui of summer with adventures that often end in injuries. Four Movies About Summer to Stream Now 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z This is the term of people who believe their ennui is epochal. An Epic Takedown 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z He retired in 2013 and did not want to succumb to the ennui that envelops many ex-astronauts who feel that their best days are behind them. He Stayed Grounded by Writing a Thriller Set in Outer Space 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Still, you heard no signs of wear or ennui. Music Review: Philharmonic Returns to New York; Glenn Dicterow Is Soloist 2012-05-21T21:48:51Z And yet, any account of Margaret’s existence will leave a sense of waste and ennui. Mad, Bad and Difficult to Know: The Life of a Rebel Aristocrat 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Perhaps the end of time; “Restless Eye” at moments brings to mind the deliciously strange and sulky ennui of a movie like “Melancholia.” Dance Review: ?Restless Eye,? by David Neumann, at New York Live Arts 2012-03-26T22:22:50Z The ennui is linked to entitlement; in this family, everyone was too busy grabbing for what he or she wanted. ‘Transparent’ review: A family’s dysfunction is disrupted by Dad’s big news The first half-hour or so of 13 Hours captures the ennui of guys sitting around waiting for stuff to happen, even as they’re hoping against hope that nothing will happen. Review: Michael Bay Ups the Blunt-Trauma Quotient with '13 Hours' 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z And it’s a faux-1970s European study of a couple in meltdown on the Mediterranean, high on self-conscious ennui and retro-couture; short on dialogue, or positive reviews, it turns out. Here's looking at me: Does Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea qualify for Hollywood’s Hall of Vain? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Seydoux looks absolutely at home in the past; with that paleness and those sleepy pillows of flesh under her eyes, she resembles the melancholy young women in Manet paintings, heavy with absinthe and ennui. Léa Seydoux: ‘For Bond, you have to be up for it. I had to work, to get fit’ 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z But he no longer fears the ennui that follows a small-town upbringing, nor that of middling indie fame. Feels like Devon 2011-04-01T23:01:00Z Undercover of the Night is good fun and free of the ennui that sits so heavily on latterday Stones material, though the lack of specificity in the lyrics was derided on the track's 1983 release. Readers recommend: Songs about the police - the results 2011-03-24T16:42:45Z In television terms, ennui tends to set it right around the third season of a show. The Season 3 itch: FX’s “Fargo” is still very good, but is that enough to keep this relationship hot? 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z “Run,” which introduces the first of its seven episodes on April 12, opens with Wever’s Ruby, neck-deep in ennui in a Ralphs parking lot. In ‘Run,’ a Romantic Comedy That Breaks Free 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z His most recent film with Almodóvar, Pain and Glory – a loosely autobiographical work in which he played a film director stricken with ennui – won much acclaim and an Oscar nomination for Banderas. Antonio Banderas reveals he has coronavirus on 60th birthday 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z Irons plays a jaded criminal mastermind and jewel thief who sets out on a solo round-the-world sailing trip to forget his ennui, and finds love in Morocco. The Cannes film festival in my head 2010-05-11T09:53:00Z An attenuated mess of a black comedy, partly in rhymed couplets and lacking even a scabrous sort of gleefulness, strands a theatergoer for 90 minutes in a restless state of ennui. Review \| Nathan Lane and Adam Driver are both starring on Broadway. Only one of them gives us a good time. 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z If you want ennui, you're still better off sticking with the French. Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke 2010-10-04T12:08:00Z What’s frequently missing is the generation’s more subtle and artful expressions of indecisive lassitude — the built-in alienation, the lifelong romance with ennui. Perspective \| These TV shows have figured out Gen X’s greatest gift to society: Grouchiness 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z He doesn't quite give it the full Baker Street, but the music is in the same area of airbrushed ennui and varnished perfection as Roxy Music's Avalon. New band of the day – No 1,304: Diana 2012-07-09T15:08:14Z Harun becomes a stranger in his own country, which is caught “between Allah and ennui.” ‘The Meursault Investigation,’ by Kamel Daoud 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Despite the outdated references to AZT breaks and pre-post-millennial ennui, the spirit of Jonathan Larson's show remains as immortal as... well... How do you measure the revival of "Rent"? 2011-08-12T19:59:00Z Stimulation could lead to ennui, and vice versa. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z But mainly it's about francophilia – the solution to much American ennui has after all been to head for Paris. Valentine's Day: let's hear it for Hollywood's odd couples 2013-02-14T08:01:01Z To watch the second season you wouldn’t know that the Pacific is on the verge of rising up to swallow the Monterey Five’s playground; their lives are flooded with enough ennui as it is. Where did the "Big Little Lies" spark go? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Still, though I hate to say it, that old ennui crept up on me whenever Mr. Hodge wasn’t onstage. Theater Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ With Douglas Hodge 2012-10-12T02:00:00Z There’s no groping through layers of musty language to find our connection to Chekhov’s little band of privileged malcontents, stricken with ennui as the Russian Empire sleepwalks toward its end. ‘Uncle Vanya’ at the Pearl Theater 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z To fan his imaginative flames — and quell workplace ennui — Carrió relies on his passion projects housed at pepcarrio-lab.com. T Magazine: Seizing the Day 2013-04-18T19:14:51Z I’m thinking here of the high-tech maneuverings seen in “Silicon Valley,” the privileged lifestyles of “Entourage,” the hipster ennui of “Girls” and the cutthroat Washington of “Veep.” Review \| In a better world, we’d be talking about ‘Insecure’ as much as we talked about ‘Girls’ 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z All three women married for money and status, and lived unhappily with neurasthenic mothers, chilly in-laws, unfaithful husbands, disappointing children, loneliness, depression and ennui. French High Society During the Belle Époque 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Like so many of the other nominees, this one left me with a good-not-great case of ennui. Sorry, best picture front-runners: She’s just not that into you. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z She then sings a song about the ennui of middle-aged womanhood and her disillusionment with the bourgeoisie who surround her privileged 1970s Manhattan life. Anna Kendrick: The First Time I Made a Movie (at 16) 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The problem with treating ennui like an action sport is that you begin to seem completely humorless, even if that isn’t really the case. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-17T22:03:49Z Mr. Jean-Raymond jolted a weary fashion press out of its customary ennui and, what’s more, proved himself to be the worth the trip. 2018: The Year in Stuff 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Making multiple murders feel like just another manifestation of mortal ennui can be a conscious artistic choice of course. \| 'Bonnie & Clyde': ?Bonnie & Clyde,? With Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan - Review 2011-12-02T03:37:52Z Alcoholism probably contributed to his sense of emotional dullness and spiritual ennui. Review \| The De Young Museum tries, and fails, to trace Paul Gauguin’s ‘spiritual journey’ 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z His third book “Life After God,” a short story collection, evoked contempt from one reviewer for rehashing the same “self-pitying, small-scale ennui of Generation X.” Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z New to the Seattle emporium of all things weird and wonderful, these tiny vinyl Goth Cats make darkness and ennui cute in Emo Cat, Skeleton Cat, Bat Cat and Caped Cat designs. Stocking stuffer gifts 2023 \| Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z A fatalistic ennui is spreading among young Chinese, who talk about "lying flat" or leaving the country in search of better prospects elsewhere. Xi Jinping arrives in the US as his Chinese Dream sputters 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z As a teen experiencing ennui and sadness he would listen to Miles Davis and Bill Evans on YouTube. Secret shows and a cult fandom are behind this jazz phenomenon in L.A. 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z His filmography is riddled with a brazen attitude toward everything from fame and crime to racial segregation and sexual revolutions, anarchy and ennui. John Waters gets celebrated in a fancy museum? Stranger things have happened 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z “The more we make it a social norm for everyone to do, perhaps we will get beyond some of this vaccine ennui, vaccine hesitancy, and the political aspects that still surround these decisions.” Should I get a COVID-19 booster? 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z As Britpop matured, a sense of ennui and depression kicked in. Britpop: What prompted the end of the genre that gave us Blur and Pulp? 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z Could go on to win: The hearts and minds of anyone who loves to wallow in ennui. Emmys 2023: Drama power rankings 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z “Aloners,” a portrait of a South Korean call center employee, explores grief and modern ennui. Your Monday Briefing 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z “The Late Americans”: This novel is about envy, sex and ennui in grad school. The Sun Is Calling 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z This, of course, is not a new kind of ennui. A Week With the Wild Children of the A.I. Boom 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z He assumed a tone of detached but prophetic ennui for the next 40 minutes. The day Martin Luther King and James Baldwin came to Beverly Hills 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z In an essay about seeing Black Flag for the first time, he wrote about the suffocation of suburban ennui. John Albert, punk pioneer and chronicler of L.A.'s underbelly, dies at 58 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Some say the resulting cultural ennui from this predicament has given rise to the popularity of zombie movies, lack of sense of humor, bland pop music and politicians who lack bladder control. We went nuts over a balloon! Thank you for saving us, Rihanna 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z They are heavy with lyrics about romance, nostalgia and ennui, and feelings of longing and not belonging. For the versatile Ari Voxx, music is an expression of the ineffable 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z The story features several character cameos from folklore — all from the Western canon, unfortunately — along with a few solid wink-wink-nudge-nudge jokes thrown in to keep parents from drowning in a pool of ennui. Review \| ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’: A serviceable, not stellar sequel 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Then again, my own finale theory emphasized the season’s disaffection and ennui. Let's break down that 'White Lotus' finale: Our biggest surprises, disappointments 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z During the first act setup, we get to know our boozy Santa, filled with holiday ennui and cynical about the capitalist consumption of Christmas. Review: 'Violent Night,' wholly night, not so calm, not so bright 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Matthew B. Tepper, a professorial figure relaxing, bookless, on the far couch, said he would probably pick a book before leaving but was fighting a bit of ennui. Beloved L.A. book emporium the Iliad bounces back after a mysterious fire 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Ms. Powell ultimately pulled herself out of “a tailspin of secretarial ennui,” as she put it, to become an early star of food blogging. Julie Powell, food writer behind ‘Julie & Julia,’ dies at 49 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z While tripping, Grant reassesses his past: Chapters ping-pong across time from his vaudeville days to his childhood to the talkies to middle-age ennui, jumbling the narrative to evoke Grant’s search for a logical arc. Review: Cary Grant takes acid. Fiction ensues 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The collective mood of the typical industry audience may best be described as impatient ennui. Perspective \| Serena Williams insists audiences see her, not just her stats 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z He embodies the flaws and ennui of his demographic, but Wayne doesn’t know what to do with him. Review \| In ‘The Great Man Theory’ a middle-aged man can’t shift out of neutral 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z But wait, there’s also “ennui,” “UFOs” and “serial killers.” Why these delightful, eccentric quilts at BAM are exactly what we need right now 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z But what fills these 20- and 30-something Parisians with ennui is the seeming incongruity between the beauty of these concepts and the casual cruelty and speed with which young people seek them out. Review \| ‘Paris, 13th District’: A movie on love and sex, without much to say 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z It’s the ennui Cain says she grappled with her whole life until she began to accept its creative possibilities. Review \| In a relentlessly positive culture, a defense of melancholy 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z And we witness a world rattled by climate change, where the robots will outlive us, but they, too, are straddled with ennui, spending hours in stasis “like any discarded thing would.” The video game of 2022 so far: 'Norco,' a masterpiece of interactive storytelling 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z The French poet once wrote that boredom or ennui was the worst fate one could experience — worse than many of the grim topics that Tyler used to rap about. Review \| Tyler, the Creator keeps reinventing himself in concert 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Consider this theory: that the current office ennui was simply the inevitable backlash to the punishing culture of the previous decade’s #ThankGodItsMonday culture. The Age of Anti-Ambition 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Pandemic-inspired ennui, blockbuster profits and a war for talent across the industry have accelerated the job churn at the country’s big banks. Wall Street opens wallet to keep talent. It’s not always enough. 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Pandemic-inspired ennui, blockbuster profits and a war for talent across the industry has accelerated the job churn at the country’s big banks. Wall Street Opens Its Wallet to Keep Talent. It’s Not Always Enough. 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Rather like the play Waiting for Godot, this period combined drama, farce, ennui, absurdity - and some choice language. Tory MPs continue to play the waiting game 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z I wake up each morning, confront my various screens and think, ”Is this fretful ennui a symptom of Omicron?” Column: January ennui has never felt worse than this year. We need masks. But also ice cream 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Didion's works were insightful, confessional and tinged with ennui and skepticism. Writer Joan Didion, chronicler of contemporary American society, dies at 87 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The original film was obviously also a product of its time, riffing on tropes about corporate cubicle workers, virtual reality utopianism, and 20th-century ennui. The Matrix Resurrections is more interested in being self-aware than being good 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z The conflicting messages from officials have amplified an already roiling mix of anxiety, fatalism, ennui and distrust. Perspective \| Omicron won’t keep us from ending the pandemic. We’re doing that ourselves. 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z As Zauner chronicles high school suburban ennui and her months as caretaker to her mother during chemotherapy, she expands on piercing details of her lyrics to bracing early songs like “In Heaven” and “Rugged Country.” In prose and in song, Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner searches for connection and meaning 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z The genre of the teen soap gets a pulpy makeover — and channels adult ennui — in Showtime’s new supernatural thriller “Yellowjackets.” Review \| ‘Yellowjackets’ and ‘Sex Lives of College Girls’ are very different shows. But they’re both razor-sharp on female friendship. 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z At the most desperate of junctures in a season swiftly slipping into ennui, USC’s freshman quarterback stood in the shadow of his own end zone, a half-empty Coliseum laid out before him. Drake London's injury overshadows USC's victory over Arizona 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z It is an opera about caring but not doing, about environmental ennui, which just may turn out to be our biggest threat of all. Review: The global warning opera 'Sun & Sea' is justifiably the hottest ticket in town 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Pollsters report that women in focus groups register a "sense of growing political ennui." Democrats hit the panic button. Is it too little too late for Joe Biden? 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z This sense of growing political ennui among women comes through in focus groups, says Democratic pollster Celinda Lake. Opinion \| More women are tuning out politics — a danger sign for Democrats in Virginia and beyond 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z The dour F minor key and abrasive strumming give the gift of broad, atmospheric ennui to those who want to stew. Why I Keep Listening to Green Day’s ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z If anything, this bleeding of political talking points into local, nonpartisan races is worse than voters’ usual ennui. Adults get ‘F’ on teaching racial history in schools 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z A lack of motivation after a year and a half of pandemic ennui may also be curtailing how much a subset of workers is accomplishing. Want a Can’t Miss Productivity Tip? Forget About Being Productive. 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Yet the ennui is not just a matter of pandemic chaos and the numerous scandals in the prelude to the Games. The 1964 Games Proclaimed a New Japan. There’s Less to Cheer This Time. 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z This spring, I wrote an article about languishing — the stagnation and ennui between the valley of depression and the peak of flourishing. Opinion \| There’s a Specific Kind of Joy We’ve Been Missing 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z “There was a sense of fatalism, ennui, disillusionment with the world that I think was much more closely related to the war.” In visions of post-pandemic life, Roaring ’20s beckon again 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z I was a melancholy indoor girl myself, and Rose perfectly articulated my teenage ennui: “the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter.” ‘Titanic’ Is My Favorite Movie. There, I Said It. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Zach Braff added the film “will cleanse your brain’s palate from the overwhelming dread and ennui and melancholia it may or may not be feeling.” ‘My Octopus Teacher’ wins the Oscar for best documentary 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z Yes, we’re stuck in this flat place of ennui and isolation a little longer. Editorial Roundup: Minnesota 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The result is a collective sense of ennui — one that is shaping what we do and what we buy, and even how productive we are. The Boredom Economy 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z And so, most of the posts on the subreddit radiate with a strong wistful ennui in lieu of any firmware updates on the horizon. Microsoft killed the Zune, but Zune-heads are still here 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z We must shake off the ennui, break the fatigue. Opinion \| Our leadership is hapless. But individuals can outsmart the virus. 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z But as Giles and others noted, any display of ennui by a former spymaster like Putin, especially one staged in front of state TV cameras, was probably highly calculated. Embattled Belarus president has a sit-down with Putin. What's next? 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z A risk that I must fight my indolence and ennui for. Pictures of Themselves: The 2020 College Essays on Money 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z The idea of sun-kissed beaches of dazzling beauty and monotonous uniformity left us limp with ennui. The Perfect Ending to Our Pandemic Honeymoon Road Trip 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Feeling that “grand ennui setting in,” Booth created a TikTok account and began sharing “dumb videos” with his old comedy friends from California. These creative quarantiners turned their homes into the bars and restaurants they were missing 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z When the Black Lives Matter protests began after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis and statues were getting toppled across the country, they were jolted out of their pandemic ennui. Perspective \| Change the world? Two students start with their neighborhood and find it’s not so neighborly. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z But it’s more than ennui or physical stratification. Sex during lockdown: are we witnessing a cybersexual revolution? \| Ciara Gaffney 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z But they provided a glimpse into how desperate retailers and marketers are tailoring their sales pitches for newly homebound consumers, who are fluctuating between panic and ennui while scrolling through their Facebook and Instagram feeds. Don’t Mention the Virus! And Other Marketing Tips 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z "I'll find a way to deal with the ennui. Guests and weird concepts included." Pop stars live-stream concerts to combat isolation 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z To avoid technology-induced ennui, only hold video meetings when absolutely necessary. Working from home? Video conference call tips for the self-isolating 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z A score that destines young doctors-to-be to a life of ennui in a job they do not enjoy, because they could not match into the competitive specialty of their dreams. A Major Medical Licensing Exam Is Going Pass/Fail, and it's About Time 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Lucas is 27 years old, and still one of the senior players in a Tottenham core that for all its apparent fatigue and ennui remains strikingly young. Spurs ponder where it all went wrong but this is as vital a moment as ever \| Jonathan Liew 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Even the ceremonies to mark the moment speak to the ennui. Britain’s Brexit Shrug: Just ‘Get On With It’ 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z That’s why there is none of the jaded cynicism or “seen it all” ennui of western literary audiences. Books, Bollywood and barbs: the magic of the Jaipur literature festival 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z In the waiting room, the mood is a mix of anxiety and ennui. Welcome to Qatar’s Falcon Hospital. Please Take a Number. 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Temporarily relegated to the sidelines by the spectacle of impeachment dominating the House, and lulled into inactivity with legislative action at a near standstill, the Senate has become a den of ennui. Amid Rancor in House, It’s Quiet in the Halls of the Senate. Too Quiet. 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z The song follows a bleary synthesizer riff, and although it isn’t an especially glum melody, it communicates a precise ennui. Beck Is Home 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z There was a dispiriting sense of ennui in the night match. Alexander Zverev makes it sixth time lucky against Rafael Nadal at ATP Finals 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z The thought of having to spend the morning listening to her fills me with a crushing ennui. Faking it: could I go from being an introvert to an extrovert in one week? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z With Fitbit, it’s that same feeling — but with the added ennui of remembering that inside Fitbit are the remains of another innovative but failed startup: Pebble. Google is buying Fitbit: now what? 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z From coast to coast there was general ennui about both the campaign and the candidates, and at various points in the contest both major parties seemed to be leaching support. Justin Trudeau wins tight Canadian election, but he'll need a coalition to govern 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z But he pushed through the ennui with Moya’s help and recovered his mojo. Rafael Nadal Shows Why the Young Guard Will Have to Wait 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z The match between the former champions, each of them fighting late-career ennui, is a gift of a quirky draw. Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams put 15-year feud on line at US Open 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z It’s a perfect concept, and the bot captures all the millennial angst, ennui, and complex emotional nuance of being alive in 2019. The Twitter Emoji Mashup Bot is now available as free iMessage stickers 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z “Lady in the Lake” works well on several levels - as a look at the mid-1960s and a view of racism, sexism and the intersection of ennui and ambition. Review: Laura Lippman’s new stand-alone novel is superb 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z You get a small surge of dopamine from gathering a few online likes before existential ennui sets in once again. Is FaceApp an evil plot by 'the Russians' to steal your data? Not quite \| Arwa Mahdawi 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z The Dodgers own a comfortable division lead; the Angels induce insomnia and ennui. Why the Minnesota Twins could sustain their astounding start His most recent features — “To the Wonder,” “Knight of Cups” and “Song to Song” — are wispy, fragmentary tales of romantic ennui and moral drift, full of visual beauty but absent a comparable sense of transcendence. Cannes: Terrence Malick’s ‘A Hidden Life’ is a return to form and a spiritual call to arms 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z I have been doing the crossword in The Post since high school five decades ago, but in recent months there has been a sense of ennui with the daily puzzles. Opinion \| Readers critique The Post: A picture-perfect example of ‘gender discrimination’ in the media 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z For those with that cash to spend on a new phone, is it exciting enough to break the global ennui? When will you next buy a phone? 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z But Helen’s ennui is palatable - vanishing only when she volunteers in a “living museum” that recreates life in the mid-1800s for visitors. Jennifer McMahon’s ‘The Invited’ is a powerful novel 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z We should be thankful that the Zurich Classic, if only in spirit, attempts to break this ennui. Is the Zurich Classic’s team format still fresh in Year 3, or is it already tired? - Golf Digest 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Both are quirky and dryly funny, with a distinctive style that blends aloof New York art-punk and European ennui. New video: The animated ‘Mirai’ will resonate with kids and even more so with parents 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z When Ricky Gervais’s hit comedy series was looking for the US equivalent of the UK’s Slough as a symbol of dead-end ennui, it settled in Scranton. Joe Biden: can a veteran centrist win in the polarised age of Trump? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z They offer rekindled socialism or make-Britain-great-again nationalism as the answer to inequality and ennui. Opinion \| The Official British Policy? Mayhem 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Less Than Zero harnesses that ineffectuality with minimalism, compressing ennui into dread, and then into horror. The dark brilliance of Bret Easton Ellis, by Ottessa Moshfegh 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Critics and readers were delighted, but ennui sat naggingly on his shoulder. Russell Baker, Times Columnist and Celebrated Humorist, Dies at 93 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Newcastle, meanwhile, are gripped by gloom and ennui as they pine for someone to buy the club from Mike Ashley. Newcastle United v Manchester United: Premier League – live! 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Jean-Raymond jolted a weary fashion press out of its customary ennui and, what’s more, proved himself to be worth the trip. What CBD, Juuling and prairie dresses tell us about 2018 \| Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Club-branded Albert Camus outfit supplied by United’s official existential ennui partner? Klopp and Liverpool sense chance to inflict killer blow on Mourinho \| Barney Ronay 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z It was a revolt against the ennui of postwar social conservatism as much as capitalism. Never before have I seen blind anger like this on the streets of Paris \| John Lichfield 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z He plays Ben, a handsome and wealthy Gatsby-type whose ceaseless pursuit of fun indicates a pervasive and gnawing ennui. Two years after 'The Walking Dead,' Steven Yeun's film career is 'Burning' - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Occasionally, I felt disagreeable emotions like sadness, anxiety and ennui. My dream of a green Cascadia paradise goes up in smoke 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Her big, round eyes telegraph ennui, and while there are moments of Rudolph’s trademark physical zaniness, the show also reveals her particular skill for imbuing small gestures with anguish. How Maya Rudolph Became the Master of Impressions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z In the space of a song, the London-based pop collective Superorganism often finds its way from joy to existentialist ennui and back again. This Week 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Leave it to Russia to serve up the melancholy: toska translates as yearning or ennui. 10 of the best words in the world (that don't translate into English) 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Will future generations wonder at this crisis of despair and ennui, and at the broad search for chemically induced numbness? Opinion \| We owe our children a big apology 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Complementing Graeber’s sharp analysis of white-collar ennui, the journalist Sarah Kessler reports on the burgeoning gig economy in “Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work.” Review \| Are you stuck in a pointless job? You are not alone. 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Instead, Watson beat his ennui and the medical issues that cost him 20 pounds, and came back to win at Riviera, the WGC-Match Play and the Travelers. Announcing the PGA Tour “Mid-season” Awards - Golf Digest 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Around about day four of any given heatwave, a certain seen-it-all-before ennui beds in, because wasn’t the year before last exactly like this, only more so? Middle-aged in a heatwave? I wouldn’t wish it on a dog \| Zoe Williams 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Germany will collapse into a vicious cycle of criticism and blame-assigning and then a profound sense of ennui previously seen over the last year in Italy, the United States and the Netherlands. Germany’s World Cup Is Saved in the Blink of an Eye (and Flick of a Foot) 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z As Team Venture and the Fraternity of Torment reunite at the museum opening, Professor Impossible stumbles through the background, his destructive ennui mirroring the mounting tension between the attendees of Jonas Jr.’s big shindig. After The Incredibles 2, watch this Venture Bros. episode 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Weed seemed an antidote to my adolescent angst and ennui, without the sloppiness of alcohol or the jaw-grinding intensity of stimulants. Legalizing marijuana is fine. But don’t ignore the science on its dangers. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z When Lipa tried the track she infused it with something new, a battle-weary languor that made it a timely anthem of millennial ennui. Dua Lipa: ‘Pop has to be fun. You can’t get upset about every little thing’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z The March for Science was a riposte to the US administration’s ennui around research; it aimed to reify the fundamental, multidimensional importance of science in tackling global challenges and advancing knowledge. The deep past of megafires, big data’s Achilles heel and behind the scenes of the March for Science: Books in brief 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z On The Ride he finds ennui in expensive dinners, and emptiness in airport security compliments. Drake’s progress: the making of a modern superstar 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z As a jaded travel writer, someone who has stayed in many soulless hotels and eaten in many overpriced restaurants in many disappointing places, I’m completely at ease with a certain exquisite idleness and ennui. What I figured out about America’s future from visiting Trump resorts throughout the world 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z In previous centuries, those suffering from ailments and ennui could travel through forests and up glaciers, by train and horse, to drink and dip in therapeutic waters. In Search of Lost Time in Europe’s Sanatoriums 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Lyrically, she depicts the angst and ennui of teenage life through the distancing filter of technology: "There's something so affecting / In the reflections / On my screen". Meet the band whose house is a hit factory 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Baxter canvassed for Hilary Clinton and found the political ennui of younger women surprising. For Meredith Baxter and Sharon Lawrence, paths cross in 'The City of Conversation' 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z But it’s well worth reading for anyone wondering what the next generation of social software might look like — how it might avoid triggering the ennui that today’s platforms to. "Time well spent" is shaping up to be tech’s next big debate 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z So if “The Breakfast Club” remains unusual for taking suburban teenage ennui seriously, you might also need to be a teenager to stay on its wavelength. The '80s teenage angst fest 'The Breakfast Club' gets a high-class video release 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z That said, I think it’s been more a case of West Ham excellence than Chelsea ennui. West Ham United v Chelsea: Premier League – live! 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z The brightest spot in my annual ennui is watching another creature’s delight in October’s harvest. Perspective \| How can I eat local when winter vegetables are so sad? 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z But perhaps these rappers’ ennui goes wider than mere Xanax, and into a numbing effect of our wider culture. The death of Lil Peep: how the US's prescription drug epidemic is changing hip-hop 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Put your ennui to one side and embrace the Northern Irish dream; if you can’t be inspired by Michael O’Neill and his players, football isn’t for you. Northern Ireland v Switzerland: World Cup play-off first leg – live! 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Embodying contemporary ennui, Rabbit considers himself fulfilled when he manages to merely “muddle through.” ‘Millard Salter’s Last Day’ is winning novel 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z A heavy ennui hung over the four performers until they began to count to five and ring small gold bells at a frenetic pace. Peggy Piacenza’s ‘The Event’ weaves dance, short film, song 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z London in October is the wrong time and place for anyone looking to escape autumnal feelings of sadness or ennui. Bowers & Wilkins PX review: wireless noise canceling nirvana 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Something that would explain the lost chances, the ennui that led to another bout, another stint in rehab. Opinion \| When an Epidemic Is Personal 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z She wants to be a good mother and companion, but ennui roils off her. Sarah Bailey’s ‘Dark Lake’ has solid character development 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z The coolest models tend to emit a certain ennui and Hameline is probably the coolest in fashion right now. Model of the moment Paul Hameline: “I don’t know why people would want to look at me" 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Certainly, none of the competitors were complaining about any feelings of ennui at an event with a bright future. Here's hoping an old-school tournament spiced up with a new-school venue can catch on - Golf Digest 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Directed by Alethea Jones and written by Julie Yaeger Rudd, this scabrous take on suburban ennui hits a lot of familiar notes with its story of bored mothers getting together to cut loose. New video: 'Colossal' is saved by the top-flight cast of Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis and Dan Stevens 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z The time-capsule elements might hit the sweet spot for some viewers, but they don’t deepen or even comment on the story’s layers of ennui, infidelity and resentment. Jenny Slate stars in tired '90s-set family dysfunction comedy 'Landline' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z There was no tension, just ennui for the loser, relief for the winner. Graceful Roger Federer transcends statistics to rebuild mystical aura \| Kevin Mitchell 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Still, it cuts through the aging slacker angst and millennial ennui to get to something earnest and authentic underneath. ‘Band Aid’ review: Quirky marital tale finds its rhythm 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z As for Irene, Brown shifts almost invisibly from cheery homemaker to suburban prisoner, and it’s hard to imagine Rebeck’s monologues of ennui and despair in better hands than these. Review: Strong cast lifts the family pathos in ‘Downstairs’ at ACT 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z A predictable but quirky relationship comedy, “Band Aid” cuts through slacker angst, millennial ennui and the hazards of watching your friends mature as you flounder. SIFF 2017: Highlights of the film festival’s second week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Ailing with illness and ennui, heartbroken and bored, Justin Vernon packed up his life on a whim in 2006 and drove 18 hours through the night to his father’s hunting cabin. Prison, casket or Taj Mahal – where's the strangest place an album was recorded? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Hers is a story often understood to be about corrosive and largely self-inflicted domestic ennui. Mai Der Vang’s and Airea D. Matthews’s Striking Débuts 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z "If anything it's going to do more to perpetuate election ennui." 'Strong and stable' - Why politicians keep repeating themselves - BBC News 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z So when Martin, a rail employee, announced upcoming attractions in Manitoba, the members of the Scenic Car Social Club shook off our ennui and pressed our faces to the window. It’s Canada’s 150th anniversary. What’s the best way to celebrate? All the way. On the railway. 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Despite their constant stream of banter, a sense of ennui dances around the edges of their activity, sometimes tripping into full view. Review \| ‘Night in the Woods’ is great, and a lesson for all game creators in how to develop characters 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Though she grew up on the East Coast, singer, songwriter, guitarist and transplant Aimee Mann long ago earned her place as the poet laureate of a certain brand of Los Angeles ennui. 'The saddest, slowest, most acoustic' record: Aimee Mann announces a new album 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Author Emma Flint captures the loneliness, struggles and ennui of the residents of working-class Queens in the mid-1960s, especially the women who, for the most part, are stay-at-home moms. Book Review: ‘Little Deaths’ by Emma Flint is mesmerizing 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The absolute winner is “Two Friends,” which explicates on a pair of the narrator’s departed friends, with his ennui and angst screaming at creation at the unfairness of it all. Train, Colin Hay and others unveil new albums 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Eden Hazard, for bouncing back so bravely after a painful season-long battle with existential ennui. The Fiver Christmas Awards 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The election’s postmortem pundits offered differing explanations for Trump’s victory, including racism, sexism and the ennui of Hillary Clinton supporters. Donald Trump’s election is the death of America’s labor unions 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Attempting to live on a constant high guarantees ennui and desolation. Music for the stilted generation: the Weeknd's deconstruction of modern life 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Zosia Mamet is pitch perfect as Julia’s best friend Cleo, a photo editor filled with ennui, and the group of pals wile away their brunches and Hamptons dinner parties happily tapping away at their phones. Art meets commerce in 'Goldbricks in Bloom' 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Gus the Polar Bear in Central Park died at 13, of ennui. ‘World’s Saddest Polar Bear’ to Get a Temporary Reprieve From Home in Chinese Mall 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z We didn’t have this sense of ennui or dissatisfaction during the growth years of the Reagan presidency in the 1980s or the Clinton presidency in the 1990s. The Trump Opportunity 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Confined to his apartment and living off cereal, gin and ennui, he’s a refugee in New York City, unable to head home and stuck between life and death, shrinking into grief over a lost love. Lazarus: ‘A jukebox musical for people who are too hip for We Will Rock You’ 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z We expected our political process to provoke antagonism and ennui. Forget fear and loathing. The US election inspires projectile vomiting \| Barbara Ehrenreich 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Mrs. Clinton leads Trump among voters experiencing ennui; 45% of her voters are “very enthusiastic” to 53% of his, ABC reports. Hey, Trump Could Win! 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House combined the ennui of the “Feminine Mystique” generation with the intrigue of the horror genre. 9 New Books to Read for Halloween 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Yet this young Dutch artist was painting ennui in the 1650s. Clipped wings: the tragic true story of The Goldfinch 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z “Keeping Up with the Joneses” is ostensibly about suburban ennui, and the fear that embracing the American Dream may mean giving up on life. Spy comedy ‘Keeping Up with the Joneses’ plays it safe, delivering few laughs 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z As you probably know, there are five traditional Irish toxins: anger, ennui, liquor, lust and languor. A dad, a son, an eighth-grade science project. Stand back. 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z I sometimes see Paxman working in the London Library; he is usually intense, and friendly, probably because I once implied he was a feminist in print, and said his face was ravaged by ennui. Jeremy Paxman: ‘I never felt I belonged anywhere’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z On the one side, there are those expressing their fabulously downbeat Brummie ennui on Twitter: “2016 carries on its reckless march toward societal collapse: cereal cafe to open in Birmingham,” tweets Hinkypunka. Cereal Killer cafe: what will Birmingham make of its new hipster hangout? 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “The Girl on the Train” is a dour piece of suburban miserablism, a peek under the attractive surface of lazily entitled upper-class ennui that reveals dysfunction and seeping pathology underneath. ‘The Girl on the Train’: Even Emily Blunt can’t enliven fatally dreary whodunit. 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z As before in history, however, the long period of stasis also brought a gormless ennui. Only true liberalism can thwart the demagogues \| Nick Cohen 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z The vague existential ennui that passes for cosmopolitan citizenship on the Continent is apparently indistinguishable from an indifferent shrug. How ISIS Built the Machinery of Terror Under Europe’s Gaze 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Fragmenting time and space, the Italian master created a potent new language for storytelling, and in the process charted a topography of modern ennui. Michelangelo Antonioni's melancholy classic 'La Notte' gets a stunning restoration 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z McMinn also started using an optical sorter technology, designed by a French firm to remove imperfect grapes, stray stems and other ennui from the harvest. This is how your favorite wine gets made: Forget Uber — tech pioneers are chasing the perfect Cab 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Piller’s enthusiasm is almost universally shared by her L.P.G.A. peers, contrasting sharply with an epidemic of ennui on the men’s side. Women Carry Golf’s Torch Where Men Are Reluctant to Go 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z It brought welcome freshness to a sport where some of the biggest stars at times ooze can’t-be-bothered ennui. Column: 24-team Euro 2016 a wacky success 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z There are some in France who will look forward to the next three and a half weeks with an early sense of ennui, being bored with the party. Clashes of England and Russia fans in Marseille exposes failure of planning \| Barney Ronay 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Some of Mrs. Clinton’s stalwarts in the Media are becoming anxious over their own ennui. Hillary Wins the Media Primary 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z But lyrically, things feel a lot heavier, with violent accounts of faltering relationships and twentysomething ennui. On tour with Pup: crowdsurfing, cysts and dead chameleons 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z It is perhaps the ultimate existential ennui expressed in two words. ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ celebrates 30th anniversary at FerrisFest in Chicago 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The adage that our presidential election is a nose-pinching exercise — or a choice between lesser evils — doesn’t approach the rising level of ennui flooding the American street. A nose-holding word to the disaffected: Vote 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Calling the move surprising, Johnson inadvertently coined a droll catchphrase that captured the asphyxiating ennui of the Nets this season when he added, “It’s not that bad here.” Joe Johnson’s Escape From the Nets Leads to the Playoffs 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Families will need to be active in helping to prevent opioid use in their children, with efforts at more family time and modeling behaviors to manage frustration, ennui and physical pain. Better Than a War on Drugs 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Yet now, after a few go-go years, there is a sense of ennui in the world of tech conferences. At SXSW, a Shift From Apps to Innovation 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z It's the perfect pressure to make someone snap out of their ennui! 15 new trailers you should watch this week 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The young man, we soon learn, has blinded six stable horses, a morbidness that shakes Dysart from his ennui in an attempt to understand the demons beneath the otherwise-normal boy’s exterior. ‘Equus’ at D.C.’s Constellation Theatre Company has Ross Destiche shine as Alan Strang 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z However, letters from Phillips over the past year depicted a grim existence behind bars – anger, ennui, alienation and an ever-present threat of violence. Death of ex-NFL player Lawrence Phillips: how did promising life unravel? 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “People’s premiums going through the roof with Obamacare, so lot of economic ennui.” Fox’s Geraldo Rivera: “What is clear is that the nation was not ready for a black president” 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z The BPS opened up new avenues of research and made it apparent that boredom was about restlessness as much as apathy, the search for meaning as much as ennui. Why boredom is anything but boring 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Nissan added to the viewer ennui with a spot about a racecar driver separated from his son. Super Bowl 50 Commercials Are Expected to Have a Lighter Tone 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z In the cover photograph for her 1975 album, “Horses,” she trades conventional symbols of femininity for dark pants, a white shirt and ennui. Warhol and Mapplethorpe: Exploring Gender as Disguise and Identity 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z If the human version fills you with ennui, this version starring a giant fluffball and a tiny kitty will definitely turn you into a fan. Watch Cats and Dogs Remake—and Improve—Holiday Movie Classics 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z With George still not cured of his earthly ennui, Clarence, with some heavenly assistance, shows George what bucolic Bedford Falls would be like had he in fact never been born. Best Christmas films to watch this year 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The last budget debate of the Obama era will go out in a blaze of ennui on Friday, and good riddance. The Last Obama Budget 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z There’s that Sunday morning ennui, and people are maybe a bit more brutally honest or a bit more open as a result. How Jamie Hodari, Workplace Entrepreneur, Spends His Sundays 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The effect is to induce a terrible ennui, a defeatist sense that, no matter how much evidence there is that something is unacceptable, we accept it anyway. From Fifa to guns, let’s stop accepting the unacceptable \| Jonathan Freedland 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z But peeling back layer upon layer of exquisite ennui reveals nothing but emptiness, sprinkled with stilted sentiments. Angelina Jolie directs husband Brad Pitt in lackluster drama ‘By the Sea’ 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z So their current status, as a synonym for ennui, is not in keeping with a culture established over 141 years of toil, and accordingly, the people are not happy. Aston Villa 0-0 Manchester City: Premier League – as it happened 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Little wonder that Mr. Duchovny’s lyrics delve deep into his psyche and plumb the ennui of middle age. David Duchovny tours debut album ‘Hell or Highwater,’ discusses ‘X-Files’ revival 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z But what's truly noteworthy about Silverman's bid for thespian legitimacy is that she holds her own in this addiction drama, finding nuance in a movie that's constructed almost entirely of empty clichés about suburban ennui. In 'I Smile Back,' Sarah Silverman's desperate housewife has nuance 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z We boast to the French and Americans of our joy in the kind of ennui that could stun a team of oxen. Pakistan v England: first Test, day four – live! 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Watching her deploy her poker face while Guthrie asked if she understood how bad the emails looked, it was almost possible to see a glint of existential ennui in her eyes. The “Today” show exposes the media’s most asinine Hillary meme: Why their “likability” fixation misses the point 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z So their current status, as a synonym for ennui, is not in keeping with a culture established over 141 years of toil, and accordingly, the people are not happy. Aston Villa 0-0 Manchester City: Premier League – as it happened 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Along with the beer chugging, pot smoking and sexual high jinks one would expect, "Red Oaks" also delivers some ennui. Coming-of-age comedy 'Red Oaks' is, like, totally sincere about the '80s 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Juno handles this existential crisis with wisecracking ennui. Ellen Page Goes Off-Script 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z We boast to the French and Americans of our joy in the kind of ennui that could stun a team of oxen. Pakistan v England: first Test, day four – live! 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Concerned everyone else’s life is fine and dandy while you slip into ennui and feelings of inadequacy? The Log Lady will be sorely missed. She was Twin Peaks' greatest hero \| Hannah Jane Parkinson 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z The young woman expresses a sense of ennui as she lounges on a velvet chair, dressed in satiny shorts and polo shirts, shoeless in ankle socks. Armani creates new direction on runway, launches new book at Milan Fashion Week 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Now, several generations later, that marvel of concrete innovation has fallen into disrepair, due in part to political ennui and neglect. California Editorial Roundup 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z They promised a life beyond our teenage ennui. Welcome back Winona – the exotic outsider all 1990s girls wanted to be \| Bidisha 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Yorkshire’s isolated landscape and the distance between farms add to the detectives’ ennui. ‘In the Dark Places’ has solid, multilayered plot 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Those range from how boring Mars is, ennui over being stuck on a planet with nobody to talk to, general humorous commentary on life, and even a mixture of science promotion. A Sarcastic Mars Rover Shows Us Why Robots Matter 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps you've noticed that the word "annuity" sounds similar to "ennui." Or you've been alarmed about the reputation surrounding certain types of annuities. Why Annuities May Earn Investors' Respect Now 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z He's a shambling mess — potbellied and sleepy-eyed, with a well-used flask of single malt in his pocket and a bad case of writer's block to go with his bad case of the mumbling ennuis. Review: Irrational Man and the incredible shrinking worldview of Woody Allen 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The first half closed out with the hit “Subdivisions,” as Mr. Lee simultaneously played keys and bass while crooning of the rural ennui of malls, conformity and prefabricated houses and lives. Rush 40th anniversary tour makes New Jersey stop 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z “I’m particularly interested in glamor, but I’m also interested in despair and unhappiness, consumer culture—a modern version of ennui.” Behind TIME's Plastic Surgery Cover With Miles Aldridge 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z It might break us out of the ennui that has descended, where we feel powerless.” Can Mars One colonise the red planet? 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Turning its second club competition back into a straight knockout would probably help alleviate the boredom and ennui. Football: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z He pitched a tent in his suite and pretended he was camping in the woods, but even that didn’t take away the ennui. Willie Nelson: ‘I’ve bought a lot of pot, and now I’m selling some back’ 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z She didn’t quite muster Resnik’s level of disdain or Lansbury’s ennui, but she created a Madame all her own, with a tinge of Joan Crawford fierceness. Review: Catherine Malfitano takes on a Sondheim grande dame 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The routine is anchored by the midday arrival of relief trucks from an India-based charity with vats of rice and lentils, a festive and crowded occasion that relieves the ennui of waiting and lifts spirits. Nepalis find community in tent city, but few resources 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z By the time she was 30, she had four children, a mansion and a case of ennui that felt terminal. Where Would the Kardashians Be Without Kris Jenner? 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z She spent ten years as a banker but after her daughter was born ennui set in and she decided a change in direction was called for – she became a winemaker. Born-Again Banker Makes Winning Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z Spring hasn’t technically sprung, certainly here on the East Coast, where we are still mired in historically harsh layers of ice and ennui. The Five Riskiest Spring TV Launches 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z The Republicans’ ennui in the Obamacare debate continued a strange start for the new majority. With another Obamacare repeal vote, GOP sets ‘world record in political futility’ 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The American people don't like to see ennui in a withdrawn president – think of Teddy Roosevelt's exuberant personality. Obama Golf Game and Approval Ratings on the Upswing 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z The future-past of Ascension look a lot like our present, with more tasteful lingerie and a stifling sense of ennui. In SyFy's new series Ascension, the future ends in 1963 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Not only because it will save you the ennui of a hundred thousand Instagrammed turkeys, but because your family will like you better for it, too. Holiday PSA: Unless you want your family to hate you, turn off your cellphone And about the only sane thing we can do is turn to our French friends, who've suffered from ennui for centuries. Chicago Bears fans have a French disease called ennui 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z For whether you say Italian cinema is an art of dreams or an art of family life or an art of ennui, it has always, in every case, been an art of beauty. Hollywood on the Tiber 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z But there are a two reasons to believe that this ennui may be of a more permanent nature. With so many issues off the agenda, no wonder the midterms are a turn-off 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z But the answer Ascension finds is as perplexing as it is frustrating: it'd look a lot like ours, but with more tasteful lingerie and a stifling sense of ennui. In SyFy's new series Ascension, the future ends in 1963 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z In any case, there are few snacks that better complement binge drinking and late night nihilistic ennui than Frito pie. Dunkin’ Donuts is back in the UK. But is it filling the hole? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z If you look at old black-and-white French movies, like those from Francois Truffaut, you'll find the face of ennui belonging to an actor named Charles Aznavour. Chicago Bears fans have a French disease called ennui 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Saakashvili changed into red shorts for the photo, taken opposite a coffee shop where bearded men sat on the stoop in studied ennui. Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia’s Ex-President, Plots Return From Williamsburg, Brooklyn 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z More plausible explanations are the desire to escape the ennui of home and to find an identity. It ain’t half hot here, mum 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z A couple of times, in line at a grocery store or coffee shop, instead of taking out my phone to stiff-arm the creeping ennui, I’d look around instead. Patton Oswalt: Why I Quit Twitter—And Will Again 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z In a Guardian preview from a season past I used the word “ennui” to describe the collective feeling of the club’s supporters, and I’m using it again. Sporting Kansas City and Dom Dwyer seek to exploit raw state of the Union 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z "Bears Coach Marc Trestman's endless lecture about how his team might improve their play if each player 'looked inside' produced an unbearable ennui." Chicago Bears fans have a French disease called ennui 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z South California All the fun of Disneyland with all the ennui of the Inland Empire. Billionaire Tim Draper's Mad Plan to Blow Up California 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z But even the words “reverse merger” inspire ennui and besides, Zayo wanted to recapitalize and show more organic growth, I was told at the time. Zayo Expects An Autumn IPO 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Through that, I realized that convention doesn’t always mean ennui, or selling out – and that great things can be realized through even the most commonplace tasks. 'You can work for other people and still be a #GIRLBOSS"' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Irony and ennui can be stretched too tight. London's restaurants: a grotesque display of opulence 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z According to the American Heritage Dictionary, ennui is defined as "listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; boredom." Chicago Bears fans have a French disease called ennui 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z As such, Hodgson has already been asked how he plans to alleviate ennui in Rio de Janeiro, where England will be based for the group stages. Can players really be bored at a World Cup? 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z Yeah, sure, we live in a fog of late-capitalist ennui where it’s become passe — maybe even boorish — to point your fingers and cry “sell-out!” Grammy advertisements tell us more about state of music biz than the show itself 2014-01-28T01:01:00Z
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