Word: ennui
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal with undergraduates' every concern. Knowles' failure to consult undergraduates in the appointment of Professor Lewis was a simple mistake, and unless the staff cites other specific examples of Knowles being "hopelessly, and unapologetically, out of touch," it should not be construed as evidence of any Ivory-tower ennui. --Tehshik P. Yoon...
...Hamilton, where the bleakness of the scenery--that bond which ties it to the other three rural hockey hotbeds of the Empire State--is matched only by the Red Raider fans' indifference. You have to generate your own energy to win at Colgate: the home crowd's eternal ennui won't help you along...
Ordinary mortals may find themselves succumbing to a kind of ennui auguste by the time they come to the end of the exhibition. But this has always been part of the experience of scaling Mount Poussin. "Some people blame him for having gone a little too far in his austere and precise manner," wrote the poet Charles Perrault in 1700, "but others maintain that these defects are nothing other than beauties which are a little too great for unaccustomed eyes." Among those "others" have been most of the best French artists of the past two centuries -- not only the classicists...
...scheme -- to the red telephone, awning, sweater, and so on. Kieslowski has a fashion photographer's showy sense of pictorial alienation. He'll isolate Valentine (as in Valentine's Day, heart, red; get it?) in a corner of the film frame or pose her in an attitude of anxious ennui. It's the most literal-minded form of movie expressionism: meticulous, handsome, remote...
...they feel a let-down from their first year, in which everything was exciting and fresh. As sophomores, they have acquired a "Been there, done that" cynicism that makes them doubt that any truly new experiences await them. Others, however, take a far more negative attitude than this general ennui. They may even feel that much of their life was just plain bad, and they begin wondering why they are living their lives in this way when it makes them so unhappy...