Word: ennui
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...Australia is in its 16th successive year of economic growth, and unemployment and interest rates are the lowest since the '70s. "This is the first defeat of a government in decades where there was no evident anger or public rage," said former Liberal Senator Michael Baume. Instead there was ennui. Many voters were tired of Howard, and unexcited by Treasurer (now Opposition leader) Peter Costello, 50, who was due to take over from Howard in 2009. There were also concerns about small interest-rate rises, new industrial relations laws, health care and education, and - in a period of drought - water...
...poor audience members at President Drew G. Faust’s installation ceremony, drenched by downpour—auguring perhaps the Heavens’ displeasure with the proceedings—and subjected to all the platitudinous ennui, could observe the new administration’s explicit hostility to tradition. Our Puritan founders, though bigots themselves, were thrust into stocks by the likes of President Faust and University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71and pilloried for their apparent prejudice against women’s liberation and atheism—the two talismans of the nascent Faust...
...little crazy. In a long scene that shocks and sickens, they break into an Iraqi home, rape a girl and slaughter her family. An antiwar splatter movie, Redacted ain't subtle. What De Palma is going for, and achieves, is a mix of edgy ennui and hysteria that could be close to the daily lot of soldiers in Iraq...
...similar, if not more stringent, policies. The British banned the hoary pastime of Sir John Walter Raleigh last July; smoking indoors now carries fines of ?600 for the offending party, and twice that for the publican. The formerly indomitable French, for whom smoky left-bank cafés and ennui are cultural staples, will follow suit beginning January 1, 2008. And cannabis-fans in the once surreally tolerant Netherlands will have to take their joints down to the banks of the canals and out of the world-famous coffee houses by next July...
...think I am, owning a pool? Or worse: Who do the neighbors think I think I am? Thanks to the theme from The Beverly Hillbillies, swimmin' pools will always be synonymous with movie stars--a sign of self-indulgence, of idle-rich ennui. When Liv Ullmann said, "Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool," she wasn't paying the town a compliment...