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Recent Examples of ennui The music video moves in reverse, starting with the sisters packing up the car, taking us back through Danielle’s ennui lying in bed alone, to whenever she and Starkey’s character first met, dancing at the club. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2025 Our essayist challenges that notion and encourages us to embrace ennui as a time to rest and rekindle the spirit. Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2025 Like his late father’s homing pigeons who keep returning to their shabby rooftop coop — a holding-pattern image that echoes the ennui of Terry Malloy on a very different waterfront — he’s imprisoned by the limits of his knowledge, the petrified loop of his experience. Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025 Alas, Godwin’s gentle take on the tragicomedy misses the explosive nature of this moment, the desperation these characters feel to change their fate right now or live and die steeped in stifling ennui. Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ennui
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boredom
Noun
  • But Below Deck Down Under has been stuck in a bad cycle all season, where a problem will emerge, escalate, and repeat itself to the point of boredom.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 May 2025
  • Other times, procrastination stems from an emotional source—boredom, overwhelm, anxiety, dread, and so on.
    Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025

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“Ennui.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ennui. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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