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"ennui" Definitions
  1. feelings of being bored and not satisfied because nothing interesting is happening

385 Sentences With "ennui"

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Like its predecessors, but more humanely, the novel tells a conventional story of family rivalries and marital ennui (particularly wifely ennui).
By now, a little ennui or cynicism could be forgiven.
Well, Domino's is here to save you from wedding gift ennui.
Mostly, he seems overwhelmed by the crushing ennui of it all.
It's not just Christian that Ana douses her with millennial ennui.
The one deviation is playing iPhone games to relieve her ennui.
Even the ceremonies to mark the moment speak to the ennui.
The weekly drop was likely due to ennui over interest rates.
Overall, though, it's Troy's obvious ennui that's bringing down the whole party.
It's the perfect pressure to make someone snap out of their ennui!
It might have been more, but the ennui was that overpowering.8.
This time, his characters aren't just battling transatlantic flights and midlife ennui.
But that heady excitement is followed by a bitter chaser of ennui.
Limp Bizkit were big, not doe-eyed boys singing with dishevelled ennui.
Radicals irked him; he regarded them with a kind of princely ennui.
In that sense, Okada captures the ennui that has paralyzed a generation.
Nor does she seem likely to court ennui in the immediate future.
The relentless California sunshine only reinforces Nyles and Sarah's sense of ennui.
Many of the housemates' problems are relatable reflections of global millennial ennui.
Critics and readers were delighted, but ennui sat naggingly on his shoulder.
But it was also supposed to be about existential ennui and entropy.
Sisterhood is a terrain shaped by the ennui that characterizes suburban girlhood.
I think these three terms form a knot of post-modern ennui.
If she's happy now, where will I get my shot of feminine ennui?
It is an existential crisis simulator, an infinite, interactive reflection on mortal ennui.
But this particular dish might just be the antidote to your midweek ennui.
The 7473s have developed a reputation for ennui, the so-called Malaise Era.
He was making a decent living, but ennui was beginning to set in.
The lyrics confront domestic violence, sexism, racial hierarchies, homophobia, the ennui of displacement.
Grumpy Cat, as the name suggests, helped fans channel their frustration, their ennui.
But he pushed through the ennui with Moya's help and recovered his mojo.
But these teams meet so often that ennui is beginning to settle in.
In the waiting room, the mood is a mix of anxiety and ennui.
Of course, Batum is from France, the country that invented the concept of ennui.
Elvia Wilk combines satire, dystopia, sci-fi, and millennial ennui all in one book.
CLOVES is only 22, but she can already tell you a lot about ennui.
It also can also motivate people to change their circumstances and end their ennui.
This very ennui also struck the people in the world of Infinite Jest, too.
With its dreamy mood of ennui, it seems more than just a genre scene.
He conveys a deep feeling of torture, rooted not in pain but in ennui.
El-P makes beats that are chunky and abrasive, full of machine-age ennui.
Her characters are typically and blithely privileged, often afflicted with ennui, if not affluenza.
Does her ennui stem from the dramas themselves, or having to sing about them?
Cinderella's glitter-bombed feet, more than her face, snap him out of his perpetual ennui.
The French at times seem to indulge their ennui as an emblem of national identity.
Finally, your sad exhausted dog will collapse on the bed in a fit of ennui.
Hugh Jackman never stops trying though, making his timeline the perfect antidote to CES ennui.
" The exhibition, he wrote, was too often "undone by a grating aura of chic ennui.
Seven days of skirts can start to blend together in a big blob of ennui.
The unnamed heroine of her third novel is a kind of brand ambassador for ennui.
It isn't a critique of aesthetic or romantic ennui, but an example of intellectual timidity.
And yet, any account of Margaret's existence will leave a sense of waste and ennui.
I can't blame Mr. Ries for my own ENNUI — this is a good, crunchy solve.
With ennui now just a memory, Mr. Krupnick is a member of the town board.
If you are like me, you might read this and feel a twinge of ennui.
" And for a moment I am roused from my ancient ennui and reply, "Why not?
And in terms of capturing that adolescent ennui, it's as good as any movie I've seen.
Where, then, do you go when you want to experience pleasure without the post-act ennui?
Can you tolerate some intermittent head-bashing in the name of American imperialism and/or ennui?
Brexit-ennui has set in with many voters, who just want it to be over with.
Hers is a story often understood to be about corrosive and largely self-inflicted domestic ennui.
Whichever team is the first to snap out of this ennui will usually carry the day.
It's the implied precondition for his tone, for the way, musically, he simulates ennui amid luxury.
There are hints that, before her suburban ennui, Jean has long had, or wanted, another persona.
There's nothing political about that response: Like "Nocturama," it's nothing but an expression of aesthetic ennui.
The form is the natural habitat of the grief-stricken, the betrayed, those enduring chronic ennui.
Speaking of start-up ennui, more tech workers are seeking therapy — with the help of apps.
India is in uproar, in protest, in ennui, in disenfranchisement, in pain, in anger, in suffering.
That comfort with and dedication to youthful ennui is emerging in several places at once lately.
If you have a planet's worth of entertainment in your pocket, it's easy to stave off ennui.
Do you really need another show about upper-middle-class white people dealing with their existential ennui?
He pointed out that this performance comes despite "political ennui, Brexit turmoil and a deteriorating consumer backdrop".
Nissan added to the viewer ennui with a spot about a racecar driver separated from his son.
And yet, our ennui was instantly suspended when we stumbled upon a a single pair of heels.
What his union faced obviously did not fall within the usual range of domestic ennui or strife.
In our ennui and end-of-days malaise, we have elevated suffering to the highest of virtues.
Once something like this has actually happened, all you can do is feel resigned; ennui takes over.
Stop staring at a bowl of balsamic-drenched spinach and avocado and feeling such fuckin' ennui, man?
A keen but ordinary observation can be powerful, especially when it addresses a vague sense of ennui.
SAD ranges widely in severity, from the doldrums Dr. Rosenthal calls the "winter blues" to disabling ennui.
But David Dicko, a French entrepreneur, is among the many taking aim at in-flight entertainment ennui.
They offer rekindled socialism or make-Britain-great-again nationalism as the answer to inequality and ennui.
Millennial ennui–fueled, post-apocalyptic fiction might not have reached full maturity as a self-standing literary genre.
"Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!" he cried, in that voice raddled with ennui and four packs of cigarettes a day.
I tried to eat as mindfully as I had during breakfast, but ennui was beginning to set in.
Battling the ennui of summer, these four girls take control of their fates to create a memorable vacation.
Or can all this, as seems likely, be chalked up to a lethal combination of resentment and ennui?
It's not Nike here — it's just a meat company with some things to say about post-recession ennui.
The aesthetics are similar, naturally, but the show's writing demonstrates the same striking vacillations between comedy and ennui.
Something that would explain the lost chances, the ennui that led to another bout, another stint in rehab.
What could have been a sketch of Cheeveresque ennui is instead a brief and lovely survey of contentment.
The French look upon golf with a certain sense of ennui — they can take it or leave it.
Titled "Pure Desire," it was a study of male adolescence and ennui as seen through teenage Icelandic skaters.
Helping you to get through the profound ennui of the international break, here are some magnificent, spectacular goooooals!
We already know that porn consumption can cause ennui and eventual dissatisfaction within otherwise stable long-term relationships.
She's in her early 20s, and her life is a fog of existential ennui occasionally punctuated by tenuous connection.
Maguire's ennui was broken, from time to time, by the prank calls of colleagues still performing actual spy work.
She admits her ennui at having gone straight from private school to Cambridge, with "skiing and beaches in between".
It's all sun-dusted Stones vibes, loaded with big piano chords, cracked vocals, and a kind of ecstatic ennui.
" He's chosen to make the ennui about not having enough time into something graceful on his new song "Life.
Whether it's his rotund figure or his "mired in the depths of ennui" eyes, BeeJay became an instant star.
It's strange that the word "morality" keeps coming up when one is talking about this laureate of decadent ennui.
She barrels ahead into solutions for our paradoxically harried ennui, including close listening to Mozart and keeping a diary.
What about movies that capture the era's aura of political ennui and paranoia, like "Shampoo" or "The Parallax View"?
Ennui, on the other hand, is sexy and intriguing, at least if it involves Brigitte Bardot or Alain Delon.
Hers is a familiar sort of ennui; at times she comes close to rewriting Joni Mitchell songs ("Hollywood Lawn").
London in October is the wrong time and place for anyone looking to escape autumnal feelings of sadness or ennui.
Click here to view original GIFI've seen a lot of knife-making videos, but none with quite this much ennui.
The election's postmortem pundits offered differing explanations for Trump's victory, including racism, sexism and the ennui of Hillary Clinton supporters.
By Ayana Mathis In our ennui and end-of-days malaise, we have elevated suffering to the highest of virtues.
Yet now, after a few go-go years, there is a sense of ennui in the world of tech conferences.
Is Echenoz making deep points about the omnipotence of the French spy services and the ennui of the average Parisien?
She was sui generis — there's a disaffection and profundity that comes with the cosmic ennui you hear in her voice.
The song follows a bleary synthesizer riff, and although it isn't an especially glum melody, it communicates a precise ennui.
Its latest venture, just north of Grand Central Terminal, drastically improves the state of lunchtime ennui for the midtown masses.
I admit that I am perplexed by the absence of classes meant to instruct us in writing white middle-class ennui.
Channeling Robert Smith, Pavement, and their own Great Plains-ennui, they had a recipe for displaying misery in an uncontrived way.
The narrator, in a fit of ennui, tells of his desire to head to sea as a remedy to his depression.
Yet he didn't carry the "here we go again" ennui or whiff of wariness that often permeates the air around celebrities.
Bojack Horseman, everyone's favorite show about depressed, anthropomorphic animals coexisting with aimless, ennui-affected humans, will return for a fifth season. Cool!
Effortlessly beautiful with an air of mystery and a touch of ennui, she trumped any It Girl America had to offer me.
You need a "DGAF" attitude to start vandalising public property, but whoever did this is on a whole new level of ennui.
Somehow he managed to get almost all of his fall 2016 ideas onto one shoe: velvet, feathers, pearls — with a 1920s ennui.
" Caligula replies with a weary air of menacing ennui, "It took you a long time to perceive that I'm no longer human.
It's a perfect concept, and the bot captures all the millennial angst, ennui, and complex emotional nuance of being alive in 2019.
This swiping ennui resulted in daters collecting countless matches, but having low-quality interactions that didn't lead to an actual in-person date.
If you're feeling unmotivated, lethargic, depressed or just … *loud exhale full of ennui* … here are some books you can read that may help.
Since Hot Fuss (2004), band's synth-rock debut, Flowers has champed at the bit with twitchy, flirty energy with both lust and ennui.
Pehrson's LA is strung out, bloodshot, ennui, and second-hand smoke—a place of predators and sycophants, desperate strivers and the catatonic famous.
Rising unemployment has sowed a deep sense of ennui, altering the town's already frail social fabric and spawning widespread addiction, violence, and resentment.
A mood of mournful ennui prevails, as if the film itself were grieving for real lives lost to Second Life's beguiling lotus land.
I like one-sentence pearls of wisdom about what younger people are going through on topics such as dating, fitness, work, partying, ennui.
Joan and the older son, Kenneth, pair off; they eventually marry and move to California, to live in a state of sunny ennui.
In her brisk, unsoppy course, she touches on topics The Church Times wouldn't dare: infidelity, ennui, resignation, homosexuality and the indignities of age.
She's the beating heart of that movie, turning what could have been a sterile exercise in alienation and ennui into something vibrantly human.
But some of us are drawn to more esoteric delights, to the grand abstractions that hover in the Mediterranean air. Ennui. Tristesse. Amour.
Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust star in Judd Apatow's upcoming Netflix comedy LOVE, a show about dating, romance and ennui in Los Angeles.
Candace is a closed-off character who rarely feels much beyond a kind of soul-crushing ennui, and her voice is relentlessly understated.
I'm not running away to the safety of mom's couch in Chattanooga to exhale into the ennui of manicured lawns and strip mall shopping.
Adulthood is kind of like the Olympics where the main event is trying not to fall apart under the weight of your own ennui.
James Investment Research President Barry James tells CNBC's "Power Lunch" ennui seems to be settling in as the markets appear to be treading water.
She embraces total and utter narcissism as a coping mechanism, hoping that sleeping for an entire year would cure her of depression and ennui.
Even as she uses overcast, muted hues to underscore her subjects' bodily expressions of malaise and ennui, Yiadom-Boakye's canvases affirm painting's tactile verve.
In the pained "Where Does It Hurt" Sattin is so sick with ennui she asks only that he still be there in the morning.
In the space of a song, the London-based pop collective Superorganism often finds its way from joy to existentialist ennui and back again.
General ennui thus crept further as his cabinet underwent a series of scandals that even cost the career of Japan's second female defense minister.
That burst of inspiration, however, translates into self-indulgence, as this gothic thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence descends from intrigue into irritation and eventually ennui.
Post-drink cocktails are the fuel that keeps the hamsters on the hamster wheel through the general ennui of the mind-numbing work week.
"South Brooklyn Casket Company'' (1997) contained short stories described by Publishers Weekly as "reflections of ennui-stricken, globe-trotting, upper-middle-class gay men.
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.
Even our pop culture reflects our national preference for stasis: Drake, the Torontonian rap superstar, is probably best known for introducing ennui to hip-hop.
I did it anyway, waking up later and later the days after, when I felt the consequences like a hangover: a heart-shattering, haggard ennui.
Of course, the great risk of staging a play about crushing ennui and profound dissatisfaction is the possibility of instilling those feelings in the audience.
Last year alone, 200 pieces were reportedly found, a plague of orange shards covering the beach with the embodiment of our collective Monday-morning ennui.
Devon's ennui-filled moment is taking place in a bathroom at Friendly's and it will later cause her to forget her kids at the restaurant.
Another volunteer, Glenn Moores, had been an I.T. contractor when, at the age of twenty-seven, he discerned a future of mortgage payments and ennui.
They are statements on existentialism, time, love, isolation, ennui, angst, interconnectedness, freedom; they raise political questions of incarceration, homelessness, bureaucracy, immigration and citizenship, public space.
A lamb souvlaki wrap is the perfect remedy to your late-summer lunch ennui—although frankly, it's just as delicious any other time of year.
Whereas Dury pleads, "Don't waste your life, Claire," Slaves reverse the tables and tell the tale of ennui from the band's perspective as modern men.
I quite like the idea of making mascots for kind of abstract concepts like a mascot for the feeling of ennui or lethargy or something.
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.
Some infidelities are petty rebellions, sparked by a sense of ennui, a desire for novelty, or the need to know one still has pulling power.
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.
She has "tried to account for those moments of travel ennui or traveler's panic we have all felt," she writes, moments most travel writers omit.
All that noise doesn't quite conceal a league-wise case of ennui; the obvious of the latter adds a sort of mocking poignance to the former.
Sure, your own nuptials may not involve trust issues, infidelity, ennui, or Viagra, but it's always good to go into something with your eyes wide open.
As such, L'Esprit français consumed me with feelings of uneasy nostalgia mixed with ennui for a perplexing "no future" time when nihilism mixed easily with hedonism.
The other is Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 film Le Samouraï, which tells a similar story but with fewer bare-knuckle action sequences and more existential ennui.
Not a shocking-twist TV-style bummer, but a low-grade undercurrent of despair and ennui; the kind of thing that precedes a mid-life crisis.
Say Anything... didn't set box office records, but to many Gen Xers like myself, the movie perfectly captured the ennui that often follows high school graduation.
Trish spent much of the series' 2018 run criticizing Jessica's superhero ennui and ends the season by killing her best friend's unstable mom, Alisa (Janet McTeer).
The crown jewel of my collection of half-completed games that I've always meant to finish but cause a wave of ennui when I consider them?
Emo began as a largely teenage endeavor, and The Get Up Kids' debut album, 1997s Four Minute Mile oozed with pubescent heartbreak and small-town ennui.
Still though, you've got to at least attempt to at least attempt to pretend that working isn't the quickest way to a ennui-induced early grave.
Books of The Times The unnamed heroine of Ottessa Moshfegh's new novel, "My Year of Rest and Relaxation," is a kind of brand ambassador for ennui.
Now, she's forging her own path with deft indie-rock songs about heartache and youthful ennui, which made up "Lush," her debut album from last year.
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.
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. Sure.
But before you give in to a feeling of defeat, try to combat your political ennui with a little comfort TV — classic episodes of The West Wing.
The first season of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's show Fleabag was an acidic, pitch-black comedy about sex, loneliness, and a very specific brand of 21st-century ennui.
Because while hiring a therapist to leisurely stroll through Central Park with you and untangle your ennui may be a luxury, basic mental healthcare should never be.
It's an appealing dream, but it's hard to tell if it's just a brief hiccup due to information ennui, or a real movement in the early offing.
Mr Berninger croons, "I'm not afraid of being alone/ I just don't know what to do with my time" with a familiar mix of ennui and angst.
And then, as they always do, the muscles in your jaw start to clench and you remember, with a sense of resignation and ennui, why you're there.
The general ennui produced by all that waiting around can lead to booze or drugs and other such vices, because, well, sometimes there's nothing else to do.
It still thinks racing games are worth playing alone, but is not a multi-million dollar expression of expert ennui the way Gran Turismo sport sometimes feels.
Around sunset, when pink light trickles through the western windows, it has to be the most pleasant room within a mile for fighting vainly the old ennui.
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.
That an author famous for slick, stylish evocation of drug-addled youth has evolved into a restrained, almost sombre chronicler of professional-class ennui may seem surprising.
His depiction of something so mundane efficaciously taps into both the ennui and the ridiculousness that characterized punk, and provides real insight into what makes him Harry.
But these pesky truths, along with some extreme ennui, are something humans will have to confront if we ever hope to pack our bags and move to Mars.
Office Space is 17 years old, but if you updated the software and slang the characters used, that black, ennui-tinged workplace comedy could have come out yesterday.
The "choose life" speech epitomized college student ennui and the crippling anxiety young adults feel as they get older and try to find their place in the world.
It's a reliable source of ennui in our group chats, and as the elder among my nonbinary pals, I've been giving Jacob and Alok dating advice for weeks.
Now, we have nothing but ennui, self-loathing, and a hateful sense of entitlement to luxuries like 'down time' and 'work-life balance' and 'not getting miner's lung'.
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 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.
The lone sympathetic figure in "The Hunt" is a cool, preternaturally capable blonde nicknamed Snowball, cooly played by Betty Gilpin with studied ennui and a monotonal Mississippi accent.
Will the man who reportedly calls his wife "Mother" and has no temper to speak of usher in an era of ennui after Mr. Trump's reign of trauma?
It's a rare and brilliant glimpse into how pure music can feel when it hasn't been tainted by the gifts of ennui and self-loathing that adulthood brings.
Scene City The palpable ennui surrounding this awards season in Hollywood dissipated Saturday night when Sean Penn hosted the annual benefit for his Haitian relief organization J/P HRO.
Seemingly, Chiara (Benedetta Porcaroli) and Ludovica (Alice Pagani) are drawn to this underworld from a sense of ennui, as well as the desire for sexual freedom and financial independence.
Still, in its own dark and reflective way, it tackles simultaneously the angst and ennui as well as the passion, growth, and aspirations of being an almost-young adult.
The series chronicles the challenges of relationships, mixed signals, parenthood, professional failures, and the ennui of getting what you thought you wanted and finding out it's not quite right.
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 do.
Koike rose suddenly from Japan's widespread ennui surrounding the country's club of gray-haired male elites and became Tokyo's first female governor from the reformist conservative platform last year.
They came to the conclusion that ennui did more harm than it did good for the soul, looking at past research to come to the following points:Boredom is common.
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.
It finds ecstasy in ennui; eroticism among people who rarely make physical contact; and a sense of profound eventfulness in a plot in which, all told, very little happens.
A solo pianist, Richard Toop, fought his way through ennui and fatigue (and probably a kind of dread of failure) to play it all in 24 hours in 1967.
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.
" Existential and physical ennui, as well as a divorce, from the French model and actress Joséphine de La Baume, led him to record his new album, "Late Night Feelings.
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.
As a man of means who can afford to gallivant around Europe coated with ennui and perfectly tailored jackets, he has the luxury of thinking about things like love.
We must listen with care, which requires patience, focus, eye contact and managing moments of ennui productively — perhaps by double-checking one's notes instead of a friend's latest Instagram.
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.
The beat swoops and dips on a pleasant trampoline ride of SoundCloud pop-trap tropes, while the lyrics paint a relatable picture of middle-class ennui and temporary release.
They've all given into ennui at Wayne Security, so Emily's there to get the company back on track with some out-of-the-box ideas and a good pep talk.
Rather than accepting fashion's façade as a space for glamorous escapism or criticizing it outright, Wiseman takes a subtler approach, revealing an air of ennui in all those pretty faces.
Obviously, this has great societal implications, and we are already seeing the downside of screen addiction that is bringing social unrest, depression, and a kind of ennui about human interaction.
Fortunately there is a solution to the ennui afflicting the nation's failsons and faildaughters, who have never gotten a chance to eat bread earned from the sweat of their brows.
"The Boring Book" is anything but: Shinsuke Yoshitake uses a bold design sense and a deceptively simple drawing style to find wit in scenes supposedly showing lethargy, tedium and ennui.
If you're in an underground metal band, you're taking a nuanced approach to personal turmoil and spiritual ennui through examining your dark side and bringing together a better-informed community.
After Ozzy was finally given the boot in 1979 for a lot of really bad behavior, general ennui, and epic levels of alcoholism, Ronnie James Dio came into the fold.
In 1963, George Plimpton braved the ennui and redundancy of professional football's silliest season to train and scrimmage with the Detroit Lions, resulting in the classic sports book Paper Lion.
A rape survivor who has worked as a prostitute and a housemaid, Despentes' unapologetically feminist eye picks out the telling details of contemporary French society's casual ennui and petty hypocrisies.
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.
In a world of ennui-inducing homogeny, the New York-based comedy collective 'Sup is committed to the mission of amplifying the voices of female, queer and gender-nonconforming performers.
This latest "Tales," now on Netflix, steps into the present as Mary Ann — smothered by midlife ennui in Connecticut — returns to the still-magical haunts to celebrate Anna's 90th birthday.
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.
It is Dina — whose wry ennui seems both provincial and worldly — who arranges lodging for the band's members when it emerges they'll be stuck in Bet Hatikva for the night.
As Pepe is created, then coopted by the residents of 4chan and turned into a meme representing ennui, disenfranchisement and white supremacy in turn, Furie takes it mostly in stride.
Will Netflix and Spotify and HBO ever stop providing me with unlimited access to hours upon hours of entertainment to distract from the ennui that awaits me in real life?
But at heart, "IO" is mostly a lugubrious Adam and Eve story, staked on the chemistry between scientists who are almost too swamped in ennui to tend to the garden.
This photo of one, ennui-stricken lifeguard in Rio, which came from a New York Times article about the futility of lifeguards at the Olympics, has been competently paddling around Twitter.
No matter where you are: at work, the airport, on vacation, you're sister's baby's first birthday or just hanging out at home, we know that you've got one, reliable wavelength: Ennui.
It might seems counter-intuitive, for such an intimate, unflinching look at young adult angst and small-town ennui, but Night in the Woods plays even better on a big screen.
The nuanced and deeply drawn character study of teenage ennui and anger charts how Evie Boyd, the 14-year-old protagonist, becomes dangerously entangled in the sisterhood of this cultish group.
In the opening story of Jackson's fervent debut, a group of ambitious young artists and entrepreneurs spend a week in Palm Springs indulging in excess, ennui and angst about the future.
In nearly a quarter-century of campaign coverage at The Times, from New York's City Hall to the White House, I experienced more than my fair share of ennui and excitement.
For three seasons, Bojack Horseman has shown us the trials of a man who just happens to be a stallion—a sadsack depressive living out his middle-aged ennui in Hollywood.
Lana Del Rey, whose sweeping ballads evoke a sepia-toned California full of mid-afternoon cocktails and ennui, spent most of last night on Twitter, offering to physically fight Azealia Banks.
Ness's attempts to inject typical teen romance into his plot just increase this sense of ennui, mainly because they only serve to highlight how little we know any of these characters.
His ennui is, if not exclusively a rich-white-boy problem, then certainly nothing compared with looming climate collapse and other woes weighing on the minds of his 21st-Century peers.
But in Pakistan, where the domestic tone has been one of fatigue over enduring economic crisis and political ennui, the country's military command insisted that India's air incursion had achieved nothing.
And then there was that brief run of "honest" fortunes—think of it as Wonton Foods' existential ennui period—looking to capitalize on the Millennial penchant for dark humor and irony.
It wisely dispensed with in-studio interviews, instead featuring a field segment — this week, a Werner Herzog-like documentary on Jeb Bush's New Hampshire campaign, styled as an existential tragedy of ennui.
A string trio took the stage, playing a selection of pop hits that traced an emotional arc from grunge-era ennui ("Bitter Sweet Symphony") to hopeful ambivalence ("Wonderwall") to soaring idealism ("Imagine").
"The Moors" is the story of the sisters Agatha, all hard practicality, and Huldey, childish and fantastical; their dog, a mastiff with the ennui of longtime despair; and their estate's new governess.
"The working class," that unfashionable monicker for people more worried about their mortgage than their bourgeois ennui, is once again on the lips of politicians, pundits, and campaign hacks across the nation.
Machines can review incidents faster and more consistently; they can detect anomalies across data sets that no person would catch, and they can work 24/7/365 without fatigue, ennui or bias.
That's the concept behind a new social media challenge that the Getty Museum in Los Angeles launched last week to help people overcome the ennui and distress of the COVID-2020 quarantine.
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.
At turns humorously ironic and tragically sincere, the work explored ennui, liminality, and "feminine" consumption, depicting the many objects we mindlessly accumulate in our ongoing attempts at self-soothing and self-care.
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.
Those shafts of light, though, are not enough to lift the creeping feeling of ennui that is starting to pervade what is supposed to be the glitziest, most glamorous competition of all.
I wish they actually made a Peanuts Monopoly in which the houses were all identical midcentury ranch homes and the kids just wandered around the board in a state of existential ennui.
At a raucous Portofino party that almost manages to outshine its guests' ennui, Frank Merlo and his longtime lover, Tennessee Williams, befriend Anja Blomgren, who goes on to become a famous actress.
They're filled with tools and projects, the promise of craft that can rise to art, everything a fellow needs to fill the holes in his life created by corporate culture and American ennui.
And Trump isn't only the most important person on Twitter right now — he also reflects its users' worst (and most common) habits (like, say, maniacal benders full of pure, uncut id and ennui).
Would you be willing to use your hard-earned money to transform Facebook into your one-stop-shop for devastating ennui as well as your favorite entertainment franchises like, say, Game of Thrones?
The fascination with Mr Houellebecq is partly to do with the dishevelled chain-smoking figure himself, who embodies a decadent ennui that the French admire, yet who repels them at the same time.
She is an exhaustive researcher, chronicler, and writer; the fully conceived, extensively worked out backstories she's created for her subjects give their poses of ennui, repose, or patrician melancholy a vast emotional range.
I was feeling crushed and burned out from reading the news for a living, suffocated by a thick film of ennui and despair, when I escaped to rural Oregon and happened upon utopia.
But he also has a fairly narrow skill set that results in fairly repetitive duties and that sometimes has a hand in turning an otherwise thrilling game into a parable of professional ennui.
Hook and Smee and a cigarette-smoking, ennui-dripping Tinkerbell (Susannah Millonzi) all appear, but even with some judicious cuts (better luck next time, Tiger Lily), there's a lot of extraneous goofing off.
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.
That idea was supposed to drive collaboration, but many experts agree it often went too far, with row upon row of desks and workbench-style seating more likely to generate ennui than efficiency.
While in years past, the top GIFs of the year have reflected a collective energy full of uncertainty and ennui, this year's crop, as curated by GIF master Giphy, is considerably more upbeat!
The persistence of their ennui represents the show's central idea: You can do whatever you want to try to forestall your unhappiness, but you can't put off family and all the honesty it brings.
It provides challenging stimulation I can't really keep track of how many projects Lily Herman, a soon-to-be-college grad, has, but I know one thing: This is someone who's never experienced ennui.
There's something about seeing a cat talk about malaise and ennui and all the other fancy French words for intense, life-shriveling boredom that's infinitely more compelling than just another flesh-sack being sad.
Or maybe her story just sounds familiar to any American who has experienced workplace ennui: She underwent rigorous training for a daily grind job and decided that sniffing out bombs was not her calling.
Of course there is dukkha, the Buddhist theory that pain arises out of attachment and impermanence; weltschmerz, the German term for ennui provoked by the clashing of the real world with an ideal one.
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.
In a world where Superman no longer smiles, Archie Andrews is an ennui-filled singer-songwriter and Belle's mother in "Beauty and the Beast" tragically dies of the plague, of course Anne has PTSD.
Set in the 1970s south of France, the film certainly had style in spades, a sun-dappled sampling of huge hats, swank sunglasses, skinny arms, puffy lips, crushing Beautiful People ennui — and not much else.
The extreme subgenres of metal over the last 40 years can be seen as different stages of the ennui cycle: anxious boredom, objectless anxiety (black metal); frantic activity (death metal); numbness (drone or doom metal).
These weren't just a few elegant tears of gentle ennui; this was a full-on combustion of the wretched, my body wracked by guttural sobs so primitive my own mother would have been taken aback.
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.
Employees Only principal bartender Dev Johnson designed this rum-based variation for Thai seafood-focused restaurant Fish Cheek and it's a surefire way to lift you out of whatever modern ennui you find yourself in.
The strip's full title: "The Late Gemma Bovery: A tale of adultery and soft furnishings narrated by Raymond Joubert," hints at Simmonds's humorous and very British reimagining of Flaubert's tale of middle-class marital ennui.
The pair's second outing together feels something like a sequel, though it's really more of a sliding door: an intriguing if ultimately half-formed mash-up of supernatural horror, celebrity satire, and stylized art-house ennui.
However, it's hard for the novel survive on satirical interludes alone, and her attempt to combine satire, dystopia, sci-fi, and millennial ennui feels too tightly packed for a book that is less than 350 pages.
But as the gradual realisation set in that I was the only one to miss out amongst a group of friends easily more populous than a small Bulgarian town, an unusual sense of ennui took over.
I feel like it really captures that moment where you're graduating high school or college and you're trying to figure out what is next for you — that ennui of what the fuck is about to happen?
Marvel wouldn't have had the guts or the clout with audiences to pull off the '70s spy drama of Winter Soldier, or Tony Stark's ennui in Iron Man 3, back when things were first getting started.
In this former fishing village, the place where the Tunisian tourist industry began in the early 1960s, tourism is the only game in town, and the sense of ennui—of thwarted hospitality—is hard to bear.
On that billboard, Prokhorov, the new Russian owner of a middling franchise still in New Jersey, and Jay-Z, the face of this new ownership group, towered over the basketball ennui that inhabited Madison Square Garden.
All of which is to say: three cheers for a summer of falling asleep in the sun and looking out of windows with a feeling of ennui, all to a soundtrack of brand new Beach House.
This tempers the vague melodrama of Yorke's lyrics into the distinctly unsettling jubilation that always happens with modal mixture, and if Radiohead got good at one thing, it's making the mixolydian mode convey a deep ennui.
In April, the guys play Coachella for the first time—the only Mexican band on the bill—bringing their pummeling rhythms, strung-out melodies, and lyrics rooted in quotidian ennui to their biggest US crowd yet.
Organized by the keyboardist Robert Glasper, this band seeks to solve the problem by taking on social issues through its music, though the ensemble's sound hardly feels militant: It wanders from cool confrontation to woozy ennui.
Fleeing a metropolitan ennui identifiable to any millennial, she uses a hefty inheritance from a rich relative to buy 20 acres of raw hillside, settling into the city slicker's fantasy of getting away from it all.
In some ways, that crossover is healthy; it brought certain festivals in line with this generation's genre-hopping listening habits and pushed back against accusations that they'd become infected with ennui and lost touch with their audiences.
She conveys a Millennial's ennui at the expectation that she ought to settle upon a sexual orientation, and her interests—video games, yes; manicures, no—might register as gender-defiant in the realm of dresses and heels.
Sadly, our gig economy world frowns upon R&R; as an adult, it's not socially acceptable to curl up and take a nap at work, no matter how tired or hungover or burdened with ennui you are.
Channeling goth ennui and doe-eyed sweetness in equal measure, Ryder left an indelible mark onscreen in the late 80s and early 90s, when she became a romantic lead and dream BFF to many a female viewer.
Discount stores TJ Maxx, Marshalls and Home Goods — all subsidiaries of parent company TJX — have bucked the ennui gripping most of their peers with bargain-bin prices that other stores just aren't willing or able to match.
Before our multinational art rock collectives and ennui-ridden pop stars took over the charts and our shiny-haired Prime Minister captured hearts and loins across the world, Canada's self-esteem issues were painfully obvious and comical.
It still has his signature style — the same queasy weirdness and ennui of Ghost World, all rendered with clean lines and accessible art that deliberately hearkens back to the cheap four-color comic strips of the 1950s.
From the misery of high-school cafeteria macaroni salad to the forlorn ennui of cold, damp, barely seasoned penne mixed with mushy cucumbers and packaged shredded cheese, the stuff doesn't exactly have a reputation of being super worthwhile.
By the time I actually started a gig at Gawker, I'd experienced so much of the culture of ennui and id that the Gawker I'd moved to New York for spoke to that I felt, well, ready (LOL).
The combo of bean-bag-chair-posture and headphones puts you in an instant state of pre-teenagehood: that time of intertwined cravings for acceptance and junk food, marked by a curiosity soon abandoned in favor of ennui.
I think it just goes to show that a lot of the symptoms that people turn to wellness for like bloat, fatigue and ennui, I personally think that a lot of those are part of the human experience.
She was part of one cultural correction around class and gender in Britain and now we're in another, with disintegrating borders, genders and species categories — even glaciers — in which white European ennui feels almost like a luxury product.
Her journey shifts as she moves from place to place — San Francisco, then Ithaca, then China — and Chang follows her in prose that flows so gracefully across themes of millennial ennui, capitalist disillusionment, immigration, love, and sacrifice. —A.
It made for a samey experience not unlike the increasing ennui around sports games like FIFA—how many times are we going to buy basically the same game with the same creation suite, same physics, and same presentation?
Haunting, mesmerizing and, perhaps most disturbingly, painfully relatable, The Girls is a look at the simultaneous angst, aimlessness and ennui of being a teenager, and how that combination can so easily lead us to places we previously thought unimaginable.
The book's tone is similar to that of Ling Ma's Severance; both combine millennial (or simply self-obsessed) ennui with decay: the Berg, for example, is overrun with mold, and things constantly break down, making life there seem precarious.
Another guest arrives after many years away in the far reaches of the empire: Hesione's sister, Lady Ariadne Utterword, played by Ms. Fraser with magnificently decadent ennui in an exquisitely calibrated comic turn — by far the sharpest on display.
In an interview with VICE, director Lee Chang-Dong explained: Ben, who is part of the same generation as Jong-soo and Hae-mi, doesn't have the same problems of ennui and frustration, at least not on the surface.
Vollmann's prose can be evocative (one character has "hair like ferns and waterfalls") and deliciously incisive (on domestic ennui: "Those housewives' thoughts had been interrupted so many times for so many years that it felt easier not to think").
Or, at least, I wasn't a lunch packer, until one day, in the throes of mid-July ennui, I said to my co-workers, I think I'm going to try to bring my lunch every day for a month!
The governor soon was described in news accounts as Mr. Trump's traveling "manservant," and was caught in TV moments with a facial expression somewhere between ennui and adoration as he stood silently awaiting his future at Mr. Trump's side.
It's an ideal kids movie because it remembers that it has both an adult audience, who is looking for something to break through their crushing ennui, and a younger audience who thinks a baby farting through talcum powder is very funny.
Even a line or two from her doctor about the complex entanglements of genetic, biological, behavioral, psychological, and social factors could've made her illness seem less about ennui and more about a health condition that researchers can't yet fully explain.
In fairness to the English language, the feeling he's talking about is more ennui than anxiety, but the beat and off-kilter music do a fine job of creating that sense of anxiety where the lyrics don't quite close the deal.
SS: There's an elliptical quality to this diatribe that's rare outside of climactic soliloquies on a Shonda Rimes series, but it also perfectly captures the ennui one must experience when one is unquestionably superior than everyone else in their field.
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Her inner world mirrors the one that surrounds her: when receiving the book shakes Morrow out of her emotional sopor, a chaotic painting by Sterling Ruby, downtown LA transplant and patron saint of art world ennui, looms in the background.
Whereas Siegel's film was more interested in the soldier's perspective, Coppola will likely be far more attuned to the material's focus on gender roles and thwarted sexual desire—ample thematic fodder for a filmmaker fascinated by alienation, longing and ennui.
But most memorable are those in which he abandons the narrative games and ennui to write violent, direct tales filled with intrigue and doom in the best manner of Conrad (the writer he most resembles) and even Faulkner (his great hero).
Most nights out drift into nothingness and all that hype and anticipation fizzles out as soon as you leave the house, washing up the next day in a dishwater grey puddle of remorse that crackles like an alka seltzer of ennui.
Super Dark Times, the debut feature film from New Jersey–born director Kevin Phillips, tells the story of hapless teens Zach and Josh, and what happens when suburban ennui and pubescent white male angst collide with an accidental manslaughter by katana.
We're about a decade away from the period Keynes was imagining himself into, and while I don't think it's too early to say the gains he predicted haven't materialized, there is a case to be made that the ennui has.
Just as Natasha Lyonne, the creator and star, consistently finds new ways for her protagonist to die, she also manages to unveil a fresh tale of New York, modern ennui and compassion for the people seen every day but often ignored.
Christ expelling the moneylenders looks as if he is breaking up one of the musical parties, everyone riled out of their ennui by his stinging whip, the figures piling up like a wave away from the force of his righteous fervor.
They've also sustained their brand with a series of canny marketing stunts, selling cow poop, cutting up a Picasso, digging a big hole representing the ennui of a post-Trump America, then selling Trump "bug out" bags and simply asking for money.
The music itself developed in response to a modern understanding of sadness: "chronic ennui," an idea that runs from Evagrius to the 19th-century French Romantic literary critics — Baudelaire, Sainte-Beuve — to the time when Black Sabbath was kicking in to the culture.
A sketch comedy troupe called Teatro Breve was putting on five sold-out shows a week in San Juan, all about living without power, waiting in lines for no reason, and the myriad daily indignities that made up the post-hurricane ennui.
All kidding aside, part of the ennui in the world of gadget blogging comes from the fact that everything is already really good, and most of the improvements we've been seeing, at least on the hardware side of things, feel very incremental.
Even though the book is divided into thematically linked categories, such as dealing with anger or artistic quandaries, the letters often seem to have been baked at the same temperature of urban ennui (which I suppose makes sense, considering New York magazine's demographic).
It's not a bad song, as Billy Joel's touristic Songs Of The Working Class efforts go, although the bleakness of post-industrial Northeast ennui starts dragging you down even before the guitar riffs and literal steel mill sound effects come into play.
Not to get all sappy, but Flanders ended up being, for me, my most well-rounded cycling adventure—not too hard, not too easy, and full of everything that can make travel the silver-bullet antidote to anxiety, cynicism, apathy, and existential ennui.
So there was a certain amount of eye rolling, ennui, exasperation and disbelief when Spieth — with just three holes to finish in a sterling round — paused to consider his options when he hit his ball into a puddle on a cart path.
Underestimate Lana Del Rey at your own peril: While her commercial breakthrough, "Born to Die," was met with dramatically mixed reviews in 2012, she has since developed into one of pop's most sophisticated stylists, slinging subtle tales of ennui and its antidotes.
They stay, trapped by their own ennui, until food and drink run out, until the mask — of who they strive to be in the presence of others — slips, and they wind up slaughtering a sheep and roasting it over a burning cello.
After the initial shock of watching a white man bash in what appears to be another white man's head on a contemporary Western street, Wolfson's VR work feels surprisingly hollow, supplementing the stereotype of a white male interest in violence bred by ennui.
But once upon a time, when I was 7 or 8, I too, dreaming of escape, had written and drawn a book called "Lester the Cat," about an urban cat suffering from ennui who ran off to the countryside and found love.
The songs on "Normal Fucking Rockwell!" were, once again, stately and grand and draped in ennui, but this time she was reaching back to Laurel Canyon for inspiration, rather than borrowing from electronic pop and hip-hop to colour in the background.
In a 2011 interview with Nick Jones for the blog Existential Ennui, Mr. Price recalled receiving what turned out to be a particularly memorable assignment from his editor, Hartford Thomas, to write about the first volume of a little-known author's trilogy.
There are all of the pre-written embargo bits about big titles and high-profile indies, there are the trend pieces and, of course, there's the traditional ennui-laden "who is this event even for" post that accompanies any industry event that achieves critical mass.
There was his 2001 Sundown Salon, a monthly gathering (organized around themes that ran from ''knitting'' to ''political ennui'') which operated for five years at his William King-designed hilltop geodesic domestead in Los Angeles; and 2012's ''Domestic Integrities'' at the Walker Art Center.
This story of 20-something magicians who are drawn to an academy for the magical arts — and then realize magic is never going to make them feel whole — often combines the existential ennui of Mad Men with the wild storytelling inventiveness of Adventure Time.
In "Hot Milk" — think of mother's milk, the milk of human kindness, spoiled milk, "long-life milk" processed to last in hot climates and the breast-shaped marble dome of the Gómez Clinic — Levy has spun a web of violent beauty and poetical ennui.
Whether inspired by the present political situation, or by the urge to play up their seriousness coming out of retirement, or simply from ennui, they've deliberately kept and accentuated their pained, earnest, confessional elements while avoiding satire, spoken declamatory comedy, and automated drum-machine functionalism.
I'm reminded of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust and John Fante's Ask the Dust ("If there's a better piece of fiction written about L.A.," Towne said of the latter, "I don't know about it"), which associate the light of Southern California with ennui.
Poor Tide, which unwittingly finds itself at the lose-lose end of a terrible public relations nightmare, in which it must defend its product against the primal idiocy of suburban teenage ennui, at a time when laundry pods may be plentiful but good sense isn't.
Normal People has been hailed as the "book of the year," with Rooney being called "the voice of our generation" which makes sense, given that the speed bumps of Marianne and Connell's romance—class conflict, anxiety, and miscommunication—characterize so much of millennial ennui.
The opening couplet ("My father is the opposite of a man/It's almost impossible to love him") is pretty indicative what you get throughout, the sort of dry ennui and Oedipal drama that people projected upon Ivanka's relationship with her father since long before the election.
Fresh off the success of his reconceived "Oresteia" and assaultive "1984," Mr. Icke has transposed Chekhov's tale of provincial Russian ennui into 21st-century Britain, with Anglicized names (Vanya, played as a trembling drama queen by Paul Rhys, is now called Uncle Johnny) and Anglo-Saxon obscenities.
Watching the opening scenes of "Saint Frances," it's tempting to steel yourself for what looks like it's going to be yet another parable about the Youth of Today: A vaguely tolerable millennial protagonist dealing with a dash of ennui here and a sprinkling of existential angst there.
Stagnant wages, soaring rents, increased health-care costs, the proliferation of gig economy jobs that don't offer benefits like a 401(k) plan, uncertainty about Social Security, climate change and political instability have left a generation with a sense of ennui about their futures and their finances.
Centered on the lives of three lonely individuals in the capital Taipei, the movie is a direct descendent of films like Hou's The Boys of Fengkuei and Yang's Taipei Story, which examined the alienation and ennui of individuals in the midst of Taiwan's rapid economic growth in the 1980s.
But Cliff has no way of making a connection between this Charlie and the odd-looking fellow he witnessed showing up at the home of Rick's neighbor, Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), or knowing that Sharon's experiencing a less-pronounced version of the same career ennui that's troubling Rick.
Image: Robert J. J. Grand, Facundo A. Gomez, Federico Marinacci, Ruediger Pakmor, Volker Springel, David J. R. Campbell, Carlos S. Frenk, Adrian Jenkins and Simon D. M. WhiteEveryone knows the cure for existential ennui is the Three P's: Pint (of ice cream), Pink Floyd, and Pretty space pictures.
The first, with a foreword from Colson Whitehead, is Mark Beyer's ''Agony,'' a dark, pen-and-ink sitcom of urban ennui that possesses the same universal appeal as the best of the Sunday funnies: long-suffering protagonists who show up week after week to do it all over again.
Morgan Jerkins' essay "Reading Bored White Girls" describes suburban ennui as a kind of map for understanding gendered white psyches, first through analyzing Emma Cline's 2016 The Girls (about a Manson family-resembling cult) and then Jeffrey Eugenides' 1993-cum-1999 Sofia Coppola directed cult classic, The Virgin Suicides.
Lucy, a middle-class Manhattanite attending an elite private school, has battled none of the Nolan family's hardships, nor is she plagued by the acerbic ennui that Holden Caulfield gave voice to in "The Catcher in the Rye," but comparisons to both classic New York bildungsromans nonetheless seem inevitable.
Neither Laundroid, which was invented in Japan, nor FoldiMate, being developed in Israel by an American company, can express existential ennui as Rosey the Jetsons' robot did, or interface with your Roomba or your Wi-Fi-enabled Mr. Coffee to create a seamless automated washing, vacuuming and caffeinating experience.
Tapping into the ennui and anger of the original graphic novel but grafted onto more current concerns, the show and their score are a reflection of this uneasiness, finding acute paranoia, glimpses of beauty, and an unquestionable cool (see: "NUN WITH A MOTHERF*&*ING GUN") from moment to moment.
But there may be a simpler explanation: perhaps the people who participate in such surveys are those whose lives tend to follow the curve, while people who feel miserable at seventy or eighty, whose ennui is offset only by brooding over unrealized expectations, don't even bother to open such questionnaires.
Grace Gummer stands out in this accomplished cast for her portrayal of DiPierro because, even if (as we've seen) she suffers from the same information-age ennui as everyone else, her character is in the business of dragging secrets into the open, not covering them up or creating new ones.
Elsewhere in the show, Jaakko Pallasvuo's Easy Rider comic depicts the artist as a depressed artist, privileged but struggling, as he falls into a fantastical world where a kind of pagan, ecological magic is pitted against the police force, linking the artist's personal ennui with the concept of the anthropocene.
"Alone Together," starting on Wednesday on Freeform, is the latest in an awfully long line of autobiographical comedies about comedy, and it embodies some of the genre's major misconceptions: that comics make good actors, that stand-up comedy is somehow inherently interesting or virtuous, that only comics experience youthful ennui.
Watch the film and the Lion City, as it's known, appears exclusively populated by the immaculately coifed and buffed über-rich (true, there are plenty here) who live in lushly landscaped sprawling homes (many of those about) and jet set to islands to escape the ennui of daily life (it happens).
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — On the 216th anniversary of Charles Baudelaire's death from a syphilis-induced cerebral hemorrhage, the flâneur, poète maudit (cursed poet) of ennui, translator of Edgar Allan Poe, and art critic is the subject of an eye-catching exhibition at the charming Musée de la Vie Romantique.
To me, the Sunshine State was a peninsula of ennui; I lived in a beach town called Hollywood, Florida, also known as Hollywood, Not California, and even though I lived in a neighborhood populated by outrageous figures—my mom claims Timothy McVeigh held me as a baby—I found my life dull.
Why a euphoric ode to mid-20s ennui by a group who take their name from a low-grade Swedish vodka resonated with me, an eight-year-old, front crawling indifferently through the ASA curriculum, is either bleakly prophetic or a simple testament to the universal resonance of its three opening notes.
Couple that with Generation X ennui and their LA base (the band's home for decades, despite writing songs about how much they hated it), and by the time Keenan and Jones met with drummer Danny Carey and bassist Paul D'Amour, Tool became a dour band that reflected the angsty spirit of the early nineties.
Art history is indeed rife with tales of swaps gone terribly awry, most infamously when Édouard Manet took a knife to the painting his old friend Edgar Degas had made for him in the 210s — a portrait of Manet and his wife, Suzanne, that perhaps all too accurately conveyed a sense of marital ennui.
You know these guys, you recognize these rooms, you've been to their parties, you've lived their ennui, and it doesn't take much doing to get you back into that headspace – particularly when director Jason Orley is so good at nailing the details, like the way Zeke and Mo puff up for each other when they're around girls.
Director Ang Lee and screenwriter James Schamus explore much of the same suburban ennui territory American Beauty would mine two years later—right down to the brightly-polished surfaces and overwhelming sameness; one of Lee's best images finds Ben on the platform of the commuter train amid a sea of businessmen, identically attired in their natty trench coats.
There was a vogue for the transplanting of Shakespearean tragic motifs into Russian soil, exemplified by Turgenev's "Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District" (1849) and "A Lear of the Steppes" (1870), although Leskov's novella-length tale claws deeper than Turgenev, beyond his lyricism and ennui, and enters an elemental wildness that seems touched by the witchery of Shakespeare's original.
" Sports Illustrated tennis writer Jon Wertheim was more sympathetic—noting that Tomic's ennui might be related to having a notorious tennis father—but also called Tomic's persistently halfhearted performances "disgraceful" and speculated that his press conference might have been a "cry for help" by a 24-year-old tennis pro possibly suffering from "a touch of mental illness.
Last week plans for a Brexit television debate between Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn were shelved—partly because arguments over the proposed rules and format swiftly sank negotiations, but also because of a general sense that the British public, deep in a state of bewildered ennui, would rather watch the reality show I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!
Reporter and newly minted author Jill Filipovic puts that sentiment into clear-eyed perspective in her new book, The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness, which is about exactly what it sounds like, and is a must-read for any woman who has ever suffered the particular ennui that comes with knowing a deck is stacked against you and that you feel powerless to reshuffle it.
"Sofia," a dizzy expression of longing for a female friend, generates heartache from the gauzy, pastel interweaving of pattering drums, rosy arpeggiated guitar chords, sudden bursts of electric noise, and a gentle melody that encompasses both playfulness and ennui; toward the end, her voice breaks down, multi-tracked into competing murmurs and sighs — the sound of someone who views her own desires at a distance as she's losing composure.
" And here are more resonant themes that will recur through the next 50 years: "the melancholy of lost time … the stealthy tiptoe of our approaching mortality … and of course, angst, ennui, the banal horrors of everyday life, arbitrary and unpredictable turns of events, cruelty to children (a governess kills her charge's pet canary), the cruelty of children (a little girl bashes her big sister's head in with a silver salver) and murder most foul.
The fictional town, Ennui-sur-Blasé, is totally Wes Anderson-ified, as are a few key characters: Saoirse Ronan pops up with crimped hair and a mysterious aura around her; Wilson rocks a tiny navy beret; and of course, there's Timothée Chalamet, who plays young revolutionary Zeffirelli, caught bathing in a tub with a towel turban on his head by McDormand's Lucinda Krementz, a journalist for the titular fictional magazine, The French Dispatch.
In Ben Wheatley's action comedy Free Fire, his ultra-capable nice guy exterior betrays a sly psychopathy; in Tom Ford's queasy thriller Nocturnal Animals, his model-perfect alpha male husband radiates a dreaded mid-life ennui; and in Call Me by Your Name, Hammer's outwardly jock-ish Oliver is initially ogled as a sex object and treated as an airhead by Timothee Chalamet's Elio, only for the character—and the actor—to gradually reveal unknown depths.
Proust's essay, gracefully translated by Jennie Feldman, takes the form of an imaginary journey to the Louvre, "through the La Caze room and the gallery of eighteenth-century French painters," where the author projects himself as a docent attempting to open the eyes of the imaginary "young man of modest means and artistic inclinations" to the work of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, whose canvases transform everyday life — the source of the young man's "unease and ennui" — into visions of transcendent beauty.
WHERE TO START: The soft-power power pop anthem "Thinning" Snail Mail singer-songwriter Lindsey Jordan was only 17 when Habit was released this summer, but she already seems to have the whole middle-age angst thing down cold: "I've been down countless halls/And once you've seen one it's like you've seen 'em all" she sings on "Dirt," one of six deceptively low-key gems on this EP. Full of braided guitar lines and quietly triumphant choruses, Habit is smart-kid ennui that's almost too relatable—no matter your age.
While its individual causes-based campaigns continue to be created and disseminated across social platforms, it is facing competition of two kinds: that of the platforms themselves (specifically, Facebook, which is using its billions of users to grow its own causes-donations platform rapidly: in September it passed the $2 billion mark in fundraising for causes); and that of user ennui, where people have been facing up to a kind of fatigue when it comes to too many individuals asking for money, and sometimes not for the most worthy of causes.

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