Word: ennui
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...idles in ennui over his coy stories and precious plays, what can Stefan do to rouse himself from his cursed dilettantism? Like a true Karamazov, he contemplates an ideally perverse murder involving the princess's pubescent daughter. He is saved by, among other things, World War II, which−rest assured−he sits out in the U.S., selling books in a shop in Chicago while his wife and twins are killed by the Nazis. Twenty years later Stefan returns to Europe to commit a romantic crime, have a religious revelation...
Indeed, in his 1976 extracurricular activities, Baker has abandoned politics to write a two-act musical with Composer Cy (Sweet Charity) Coleman about the American family. Baker claims his political ennui is so acute that he pines for ancient villainies. "I miss Nixon," he confesses. "I'd like to get him back. It's possible, you know. He could run for another term...
...ennui of the mystery is relieved, on occasion, by quick intravenous jabs of humor. At one point, Trintignant yells at a demanding male lover, "I gave up women because they're ball breakers - but you're worse!" A beleaguered civil servant, his massive family wedged into a small car for vacation, wonders if a last-minute phone call concerned his ailing mother-in-law; then he hears the old lady pipe up "I'm here" from somewhere in the crowd between the back seat and the trunk. The Sunday Woman does not contain enough of these modest...
Some of Stewart's songs today reflect a life devoted to kinfolk and lazy afternoons. In Easy People the affection and ennui are all but overwhelming...
...upward of 50 reporters, photographers, network-TV cameramen and technicians who accompanied Carter to Plains were at first pleased with the change of pace from Manhattan and the long primary trail. Now, however, they are suffering from advanced ennui and frustration-enhanced by South Georgia's sauna-like summer climate and the bountiful swarms of gnats, chiggers and fire ants. Exulted the Boston Globe's Curtis Wilkie, himself a native of the Deep South, as he prepared to escape from Plains on a vacation: "Free at last, free at last, great God a-mighty, ah'm free...