Word: ennui
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...bored with boutique hotels? Does the phrase "designer accommodation" fill you with ennui as you contemplate the unvarying Minimalism and terrible pretension that it so often conjures up? Then Swedish artist turned hotelier Mikael Genberg can help you. Located in Västerås-one of Sweden's oldest cities and just 100 km west of Stockholm-his Hotel Woodpecker and Otter Inn will bring out the inner child in any jaded traveler...
...thick layers. It's all meant to create an impact from a distance, though, and Tate Modern provides plenty of space for this to happen. When talking of Hopper's work, admirers and experts invariably use words like melancholy and alienation. Certainly, most of his paintings project isolation and ennui. Even when his subjects are meant to be cheery, like his beach scenes, the sun is shining but it casts deep shadows. Many of his motifs are infused with a sense of solitariness: single people in rooms, lone houses by roads or railroads. House by a Road (1940) has windows...
...Election, a novel about a vicious race for class president at a New Jersey high school that became a satisfyingly nasty movie. He didn't invent the notion that high school sucks, nor is he breaking new ground when he reveals that American suburbs are petri dishes of ennui and alienation. But he shows admirable zeal in prosecuting the case, and he comes as close as anybody to answering a not unimportant question: If the suburbs are the perfect community, the incarnation in grass and sunlight of American affluence, then how come life there is such hell...
...video-nerd one-upmanship, Vol. 2 is a relationship movie, a character study. It focuses on a handful of ornery but ordinary folks--the three remaining killers--and the flashes of rancor, jealousy, ennui and humor that illuminate their lives in the moments before the Bride tries to end them. The two brothers even achieve a reflective acceptance of their guilt. As Budd tells Bill, "That woman deserves her revenge. And we deserve to die." A pause. "Then again, so does she." Well, nobody's perfect...
...gorgeously schizophrenic rendition of “People in the City,” Dunckel and Godin got in touch with their inner paranoid android, swinging wildly between rock stomp and tropical synth. But I suspect that their android is just suffering from a mild case of ennui, because Air is having way too much sex to endorse Radiohead’s apocalyptic prolepsis...