(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."
Tedium
Definition:
(n.) Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) After about half an hour, we were positively praying for a major pile-up just to relieve the tedium.
(2) He loved the excitement and the glitter of his post, but could never really accept the hours of drudgery and tedium that the job of Liberal leader involved.
(3) Lineker points out that the accusations of tedium are at odds with the basic tone and tempo.
(4) What I actually did was marry the mind-numbing tedium of a second-rate reality show, with the plodding boredom of a sub-standard pub quiz.
(5) Introduction of computers and image analysis systems are gaining faster momentum in order to quantitate the assessment of cells for diagnosis and prognosis, and this system aims to relieve the operator from the tedium of microscopic observation and reduce operator bias and human error.
(6) Whatever door of perception that pill is machine-gunning off its hinges, blathering on about the experience through clenched teeth is tedium squared to anyone sober.
(7) So what was he thinking to give up his former life for the tedium of the backbenches?
(8) Rob and co are casting around for a future – and, more immediately, for ways to kill the tedium of the present: sex, drugs, diving into silos filled with wheat grain and getting pulled out on the point of suffocation, that sort of thing.
(9) 9.06am GMT 35 min: This match has reached almost Osieck-levels of tedium.
(10) Both men spend 24 hours a day in their mosquito-infested cells, sleeping on the floor with no books or writing materials to break the soul-destroying tedium.
(11) Batty said court orders did not offer sufficient protection to women and children affected by domestic violence, and the court system typically saw family violence “as a tedium in their workload”.
(12) The duration, monotony and repetition entailed in the reading of each file echoes the normalisation of the violence and tedium endured by refugees in indefinite detention,” she said.
(13) An important advantage of the procedure is that the normally tedious calculations involved with distortions have been computerized, thus eliminating the tedium of repeated calculations.
(14) It will, say scientists, provide invaluable data on how a crew would cope with the difficulties and inevitable tedium of long-duration space flight.
(15) That's how it often operates in the US – long stretches of tedium interrupted by the odd spark of conflict.
(16) 5.28pm BST 27 min : A lovely reverse flick from Pirlo relieves the tedium.
(17) This new approach avoids the tedium, time and expense involved in the widely used saliva hemagglutination inhibition assay.
(18) On day six you take one look at the menu and stab yourself in the eye with a fork BECAUSE YOU CAN'T TAKE THE SODDING TEDIUM ANY MORE.
(19) However, ergometric studies in this regard have been hampered by the tedium of physiologic data collection and analysis.
(20) Some people thrive on strife and stress, while others prefer total tedium.