Word: ennui
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...comes the movement to divest from the Soviet Union, led on campus by the conservative bellwethers over at The Salient, where the gradual onset of Reaganite ennui has provided a healthy indicator of the stagnation and anti-intellectualization of conservative and neo-conservative thought...
...strange device: Michener imagines a committee appointed by a Texas Governor to investigate the state's history. Every time the story begins to gallop, accounts of the get-togethers slow the narrative to a plod. Even in Super-America, apparently, the only dependable result of committee meetings is ennui...
More significant, however, was the dismally low attendance at event after event, as though some pervasive national ennui had set in. Said one Vatican official, after observing the paltry crowd at an Amersfoort youth rally: "I have never seen anything like that." John Paul's four-day Dutch sojourn indicated that there are indeed distinct limits to the power of his personal charisma and that his attempt to reconcile Dutch Catholics with his conservative agenda for the church has had minimal success...
...with, although he will be the first to deny it. As genuine and visceral as the excitement of the packed race is--in recent years the Derby has fielded more than 20 horses--the feeling doesn't come close to guaranteeing against a post-race anticlimax ranging from basic ennui to outright collapse...
...Hewitt deliver the most uneven performance as Gaston. The playboy with a coeur has always been a difficult one, especially when further tainted with heavy ennui. Jourdan never allowed this boredom to turn to bitterness, but like so much else in this production, the bitterness, but ershadows the sweet. Jourdan made even boredom elegant; Hewitt practically expectorates the chorus "It's a bore" as if he were sending his garcon back with some ill-prepared pleasant...