Word: ennui
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...novel, Bonjour Tristesse, puts aside bored yawning, Sagan style, for well-bred panting, Hollywood style. In the book, precociously world-weary Dominique ho-hums her way through a pair of parallel love affairs, finding no lasting happiness or pleasure in either of them-only a wan, temporary escape from ennui. But Hollywood's Dominique (French Actress Christine Carere) is as pert and wholesome as a cheerleader in love with the football captain. So what if she spends a week on the Riviera with her beau's uncle? She really falls in love with him, doesn...
...ease the ennui of story after story on agriculture reform and steel production, People's Daily offers no sports page, no comics, no Peking Tom gossipists. Instead, the paper prints letters from readers complaining about such matters as the size of bicycles ("I am 4 ft. 10 in. tall, and I've been waiting for a suitably sized bicycle for years"), and leaky fountain pens exported to Russia ("The consequences could be bad''). Occasionally, someone will attack a minor partyman. Item: an 'official named Kuo Pei-cheng was accused of keeping a 14-year...
...American "Leveling" Philosophy, the equating of equal opportunity with "sameness"--came Herschell Podge. His teachers were underpaid, and his school turned most of its limited funds into a complex hierarchy of extra-curricular activities, the financing of a football team and rereleased motion picture entertainment for lunch period ennui. If Herschell were a colored boy, he wouldn't get decent school facilities in a good many sections of the South. If Herschell came from a Plains state, his high school probably couldn't offer a course in physics...
...first struck by the lushness of the tropics and the tepid warmth of the climate punctuated daily with tropical downpour--until the luxuriance creates a sort of ennui...
...course, much more than financial improvement is needed to take the futility and ennui out of military life and make it an attractive and respectable career, but the "green pastures plan" could put an end to widespread feather-bedding, and to small and unnecessary jobs in which no one could take pride...