Sample Sentences forennui (auto-selected)
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You know, I might do this thing out of pure spite ....or out of ennui.† (source)
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With so little to do and all the time in the world to do it, the Count's peace of mind continued to be threatened by a sense of ennui—that dreaded mire of the human emotions.† (source)
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Nevaire again must I be deegneefied and full of ennui.† (source)
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During my youthful days discontent never visited my mind, and if I was ever overcome by ennui, the sight of what is beautiful in nature or the study of what is excellent and sublime in the productions of man could always interest my heart and communicate elasticity to my spirits.† (source)
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It keeps us from ennui and mischief, is good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and independence better than money or fashion.† (source)
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The rain washed off a coat of ennui that had enveloped the Piazza.† (source)
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His initial reaction is one of ennui: there is a ritual dance to be gone through, and it is one that bores him.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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She used to tell the great man her ennuis and perplexities in her artless way—they amused him.† (source)
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Ennui.† (source)
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I have a great many ennuis; I feel vicious.† (source)
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I see coming an age of sexual catastrophe—a violent increase of bondage, increased violence and guilt, increased disgust and ennui.† (source)
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That is one of my ennuis.† (source)
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Quel ennui!† (source)
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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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