Word: ennui
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Then too, there is Europe to consider. Finally, after centuries, a purely European war is unthinkable, but the peace has difficulties. Rough times for Europe in 1985: high unemployment, signs of racism, terrorism, ennui. So far all the dreams of a unified Continent have resulted in a relatively successful economic alliance but not a political entity...
Melinda and Melinda, written and directed by Woody Allen, is nothing new: well-dressed and self-absorbed New Yorkers cope with the particular ennui of having too much money and too much free time...
...dimensional and, perhaps worse, there is so little differentiation between them that all seem to be minor versions of Woody Allen. The actors pick up on this, and the result is a cast of profoundly self-absorbed Woody reincarnations who expound on the themes of marital infidelity and ennui from within the safe confines of mouth-watering Manhattan apartments...
...word), The Great Destroyer is just as bare and beautiful as the rest of their albums. The music, although not conducive even to foot-tapping, rewards patience and silence with a beautifully austere, wintry texture reminiscent of Duluth, even in a scene saturated with New York swagger and California ennui. The perfect complement to a cold, listless winter day, Low’s music becomes more beautiful as it becomes more familiar, their maudlin, Mormon message piercing to the bone of even the most jaded big city hipster...
...Theft were undeniably the most forceful and most enthusiastic on Dylan’s part, but the final encore of “All Along the Watchtower” truly clinched an exceptional performance. In a song so popular and so-often played, there was not a hint of ennui in the delivery: it was a heart-stopping rendition of one of the greatest imaginative ballads of all time. Bob Dylan and his Band played the song, as they did most of their set, with the energy of a first-performance but the mastery of four decades of experience, proving...