ennui

took up a hobby to relieve the ennui of retirement;

By continuously repeating the structure of binary opposition of joy and ennui, Cat in the Rain conveys that gender means the incommunicability between the American couple and the death of their love.

She was overcome with ennui during the long, boring meeting.

The ennui of daily routine was starting to wear on him.

He sought to escape his ennui by taking up a new hobby.

The ennui of winter seemed endless.

She tried to shake off her ennui by going for a walk in the park.

The ennui of waiting in line at the grocery store was palpable.

He felt a sense of ennui settling in as he scrolled through social media.

The ennui of the small town was suffocating for some residents.

She tried to combat her ennui by rearranging her furniture.

The ennui of being stuck indoors on a rainy day was unbearable.

You too would suffer from ennui if you bad to spend months in a hospital bed.

Perhaps from ennui, or malaise, humans often stare at random, inanimate objects for hours at a time.

With yet more billions of years looming ahead they will be struck down with a debilitating ennui.

Only the governess, the tutor and the children were silent, evidently from ennui.

She was in a mood to welcome anything that would in some measure disperse an almost killing ennui.

He had absolutely nothing to do, almost died of ennui, and became a confirmed misanthrope.

But though all interest in life centered in Dmitri Ivanovich, he always suffered from ennui.

But even this diversion failed to enliven after awhile, and the ennui became perfectly unbearable.

While this ennui could also be observed among some newly retired Chinese, a closer scrutiny would suggest a more varied picture.

Julien had derived sufficient advantage from his stay in Paris to appreciate that this was not the frigid melancholy of ennui.