Word: ennui
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...definition, a bore is someone whose presence or persistence creates in others a galloping case of ennui, an urge to hide in the nearest closet, a yearning to down another martini. The ranks of the world's bores are not limited by hierarchy or elitism: they include both the heroes of the minute, beaming amiably across the tube, as well as the inglorious Miltons who prattle on about stamp collecting. Institutions can be boring, like the Organization of American States, and so can events. Is it possible for even the most politicized Italian to care any more about those...
...came across wooden, a" fugitive from a high school rhetoric class, arms shooting out stiffly, phrases as self-conscious as the morning after. Keeping his eye on November, not wanting to alienate anyone, Tunney tried to keep it moderate, walk that middle line. Only that's where the ennui...
...efficient, the goals so bold and growing ever bolder, that a degree of hubris had developed. It was not so much frail human flesh against the vast challenge of space as it was technicians remembering the sequence of switches to throw. The world could be forgiven a touch of ennui...