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ennui
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  • The rain washed off a coat of ennui that had enveloped the Piazza.†  (source)
  • His initial reaction is one of ennui: there is a ritual dance to be gone through, and it is one that bores him.†  (source)
  • Ennui.†  (source)
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  • Something I must do, or ennui will rain upon me in buckets.†  (source)
  • The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed; there is no winter, and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis vanish; all duties even; nothing fills the proceeding eternity but the forms all radiant of beloved persons.†  (source)
    ennuis = feelings of being bored by something tedious
  • It's my ennui—"It's just, yeah, no other way to get around it.†  (source)
  • She used to tell the great man her ennuis and perplexities in her artless way—they amused him.†  (source)
  • Quel ennui!†  (source)
  • I have a great many ennuis; I feel vicious.†  (source)
  • The teacher must always be on the attack, looking for new ideas, changing worn-out tactics, and never, ever falling into patterns that lead to student ennui.†  (source)
  • That is one of my ennuis.†  (source)
  • Like most others in the camp, the doctor himself seemed caught in a state of increasing agitation, the protracted stretch of waiting and inaction and ennui causing flares of anxiety and disruption.†  (source)
  • You toil of painful and choked articulations, you meannesses, You shallow tongue-talks at tables, (my tongue the shallowest of any;) You broken resolutions, you racking angers, you smother'd ennuis!†  (source)
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