Word: ennui
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...this frolicsome, inoui comedy from Anouilh is guaranteed to keep you from ennui...
...Whirling Finger. From the moment they crossed the Finnish border, B. and K. were patently determined to keep things dignified. With only the faintest signs of ennui, they dutifully inspected housing developments and a children's hospital, strode through driving rain to lay a wreath on the grave of Finland's late President Juho Paasikivi*. For the first 24 hours they even belied their well-earned reputation for heavy tippling. At the first state banquet in Helsinki, high-living Nikita Khrushchev limited himself to one Martini, and goateed Premier Bulganin clung firmly to a glass of orange juice...
...Senior watches and wonders if he'll control what comes next. As a man in the truck sprays the trees a Junior remembers his 24 hours fighting the Plymouth forest fire, and he wonders why he met so many Harvard students there and whether it was fun, excitement, ennui, or a commentary upon Harvard and a nation...
...rest of the issue is at the usual level: proficiency tempered by ennui. This seems all too natural in a magazine which insists on emphasizing the womb-like quality of undergraduate literature by referring to itself as "Mother Advocate...
Whether because of a discouraged tutor or a group of bored students, tutorial often fails to fulfill its potential. Sophomores interested in exploring their field become disillusioned. Tutors with a sense of mission are wasted, and the already ennui-stricken student sinks deeper into his intellectual stupor...