(n.) A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.
Example Sentences:
(1) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
(2) Best of the bunch is 2006’s Tempbot , which beautifully satirises the spirit-crushing ennui of office environments by imagining a robot struggling to connect with homo sapiens co-workers who often seem as bereft of humanity as he is.
(3) It is important that the spirit of rainbow nation is extracted from the ennui of an increasingly jaded and complacent African National Congress, which, as with so many post-liberation ruling parties, is in danger of losing its moral compass.
(4) Nonetheless, the utilitarian fiction of Mr Fairweather and His Family was a superb piece of socially useful work I treasure to this day and I remain eternally grateful to its titular and nonexistent, ennui-ridden antihero Mr Fairweather, the Josef K of prescriptive childcare literature, for normalising my early years.
(5) They have turned mealtimes into the focus of every ounce of existential angst and middle-class ennui they can muster.
(6) Allen became famous only four years ago, yet already she has the ennui of a jaded veteran.
(7) Paras Anand, head of European equities at Fidelity Worldwide Investment The ECB’s strategy has as many shortcomings as potential benefits and it is hard not to feel a sense of, if not disappointment, then ennui at today’s announcement.
(8) But then there was always the "faceless record button", and the fear of ennui.
(9) If the films are extended games of he-loves-me-he-loves-me-not between glamorous stars (including Marcello Mastroianni , Jeanne Moreau and Alain Delon ), they also all share a sense of ennui and drift.
(10) Instead a combination of ennui at the ease of the group, added to fatigued resignation about England’s prospects when they get to France, conspired to rob Roy Hodgson of what should have been a moment of quiet triumph.
(11) Also showing will be Youth, an English-language drama directed by Paolo Sorrentino , featuring Michael Caine as an ageing composer plagued by ennui.
(12) And another example of Apple Maps inspired existential ennui: @ guardian It's decided the small town I live in is actually on a tiny deserted island 10 km west of here #iOS6maps — Tsana Dolichva (@Tsana_D) September 20, 2012 We'll be updating this blogpost as we receive further examples.
(13) She details whales banging their heads against their tanks and grinding their teeth on the walls, floors and bars until their teeth break or are worn to the pulp, allegedly because of boredom, frustration and ennui.
(14) Too many explosions, searching dead bodies for intelligence, hours of ennui and minutes of terror, lots of blood, holding the dying, all this and more had taken a toll.
(15) Occasionally we did so, although we often stumbled, as if out of ennui, against lesser sides.
(16) The opening sequence of Glue captures this ennui in unsettling, semi-hallucinatory fashion.
(17) Muscular and psychological rigidity, weariness, ennui and anhedonia may be the only clues to the presence of alexithymia.
(18) The effect is to induce a terrible ennui, a defeatist sense that, no matter how much evidence there is that something is unacceptable, we accept it anyway.
(19) The collection of sullen Keanu Reeves models is the work of Japanese company idk: "a remarkable instance of 3D mini ennui moving to the mass market," as 3Ders put it.
(20) And in those tiny moments of rest between the ennui of shadow cabinet meetings, there's a helpful spin doctor who can press a promotional copy of the Sun into your hands."
Melancholia
Definition:
(n.) A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors took multiple serum samples for measurement of melatonin between 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. in seven male depressed patients with melancholia and five healthy male control subjects and found that melancholic patients had a significantly lower rise of melatonin.
(2) The patients were categorized according to DSM-III as suffering from either minor depression (including dysthymic disorder, 300.40; adjustment disorder with depressed mood, 309.00; atypical depression, 296.82) or major depression (without melancholia, 296.X2; with melancholia, 296.X3; with psychotic features, 296.X4).
(3) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
(4) This study reports an open clinical trial in which seven of eight outpatients (88%) with melancholia responded to phenelzine treatment.
(5) Speaking at a press conference following the preview of his latest film, Melancholia, von Trier expressed sympathy for Hitler, remarked that Israel was "a pain in the arse" and jokingly confessed to being a Nazi .
(6) With the Extracted Criteria, initial insomnia, early waking, anorexia, weight loss, loss of libido, and worsened mood in the morning were all significantly more common in melancholia than in non-melancholic depression, while increased appetite was more common in non-melancholia.
(7) The first, or maybe, occurrence of the word "melancholia" is found in a French mediaeval book "Knight Yvain" (12th century).
(8) Patients with endogenous depression (melancholia) as defined by each of ICD-9, DSM-III, RDC and Newcastle scale demonstrated a reduced prolactin response to 60 mg oral fenfluramine when compared with non-endogenous subjects.
(9) We performed the DST in 95 depressed inpatients to determine whether abnormal DST results were associated with individual symptoms of depression, latent behavioral "factors," melancholia, or severity of depression.
(10) Neurotic subtyping was significantly negatively associated with DSM-III melancholia.
(11) In this study an evaluation of the inter-rater reliability of the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, the Melancholia Scale and the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale has been carried out.
(12) We also studied a group of depressed patients without melancholia (n = 11) with mean age 65.2 years, and found a similar, but less pronounced, alteration of the FVER.
(13) The Danish director was thrown out of the festival for dim comments made about Hitler at the press conference after his film Melancholia , although the film itself bizarrely remains in with a chance of prizes tonight, with its star Kirsten Dunst having particularly impressed Robert De Niro and his jury, I hear.
(14) This kind of acting is in fact also observed in melancholia, psychoses and prepsychotic states, depressions with jealousy, borderlines and the actors of "accompanied suicides".
(15) Non-suppression was found in most of the diagnostic categories, but there was a highly significant association with the DSM-III classification 'major depressive episode with melancholia' (52%) in comparison with the ICD group 'manic-depressive illness-depressed' (29%).
(16) The DST may be useful as an adjunct to the diagnostic and monitoring process in primary depression with melancholia.
(17) In psychiatry cocaine was used--also on Freud's recommendation--as an euphoriant excitant in cases of melancholia, both physical and psychic exhaustion and of cachexia.
(18) Our findings support the descriptive validity of the DSM-III melancholia diagnostic category, although the DSM-III criteria are too conservative and include nonrelevant symptoms (e.g., diurnal variation, anorexia-weight loss) whilst excluding some important items (e.g., loss of energy, cognitive disorders).
(19) The thyrotropin (TSH) and prolactin (PRL) responses to TRH were studied in 15 female depressed patients with melancholia (nine unipolar, six bipolar) during an electroconvulsive therapeutic course.
(20) Non-suppression of cortisol after dexamethasone was associated with blunted TSH-responses only in melancholia.