moroseness

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Noun
  • This is a show heavily interested in the way paranoia turns us all into weapons of mass destruction in our communities, especially when everyone’s looking to escape the ennui of their small-town blues.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
  • December ennui is a universal experience, and this film makes no effort to hide the fact that we’re all destined to suffer from the Holiday Blues at one point or another.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The sentiment is notably devoid of any sense of boredom or burnout from the 22-year-old who signed his first recording contract at 15.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Hegel even worried that the world would reach a state of global boredom.
    Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Call them novels of masculine tedium.
    Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
  • What rescues the film from tedium are the characterizations, which are well-drawn even under the briefest circumstances.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At New York Fashion Week, beauty acted as a moment of reprise from the hopelessness many are feeling in the current state of the world.
    Essence, Essence, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The film certainly steers clear of Emmerichian overdrive, but it is suffused with hopelessness — on both an intimate and an epic scale.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Maybe there will come a time when Reid is comfortable publicly sharing stories about his sister and the despair the family has endured with her loss.
    Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But the show's greatest asset is its stars, whose endearing real-life friendship pierces through the play’s inherent despair.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Trailing by two scores in the fourth quarter, Dart shifted into desperation mode.
    Dan Duggan, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Okane is desperate at the prospect of losing both her true love and her one defender, and her desperation gives rise to extravagant and harrowing drama.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Moroseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moroseness. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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