Word: ennui
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...role apparently is that of a baby sitter for the brain. While television is considered a "relaxing and enjoyable pastime," it literally functions as just that, a "pastime," an activity for those times when people have nothing better to do. The main reason cited for video ennui is the programming: only 57% of the respondents said that they were satisfied with the quality of entertainment served up by the tube. Others were fearful, moreover, that the programming was a negative influence on their behavior and on language...
...hear that ~ started a limited-run revival of Noël Coward's Private Lives in Boston last week?). 3. Any pair of people who come together, split, come together, split, until they seem to make a profession of it or until their acquaintances move past empathy to ennui...
...autumn of our ennui...
...Contessa de Boca Raton stands, leonine in her splendor, arms akimbo, before a room of unconscious noble men and women. Overcome with the ennui which plagues her class, she had stepped outside for a smoke while the guests of her sister-in-law, the Grafina Spielstein, chattered pointlessly. Her husband, the Duke de Imbroglio is off in search of young children, as he is wont to do after a drink or two. The Contessa has reentered after only a few minutes to find her fellow nobles blitzed on some non-medicinal herb. She is disgusted and lonely. She spits...