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• n  the feeling of being bored by something tedious

• French and Italian cafes ditched the handmade espresso years ago for automation and don't seem to have suffered ennui because of it.
• The trendiest neighborhoods in Tokyo, Seoul and Taipei are filled with disaffected kids playing hooky, their ennui relieved by designer drugs and designer shopping.
• Jake was horribly wounded in the warin fact, he was effectively geldedso he spends his time in Paris getting drunk in cafes, nursing his ennui, bantering with his hard-boiled .

• boredom
• tedium

News & Articles

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• Can Tao Lin see the future?
  Tao Lin offers up an ultra-self-involved, defiantly and egregiously boring story about a social-media compulsive who leads an idle life of passive urban blankness. Tao Lin's new novel, "Taipei," is more obviously autobiographical than previous efforts — about a young, male, Asian American New York urbanite and social-media compulsive paralyzed by a robot-ennui style of depression.
  June 21, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Colin Meloy in Paste Magazine
  Missoula. Shack breakfast, check. Record Heaven, check. Tangerine sorbet from Big Dipper, check. Mild ennui, check,Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy wrote on his Twitter.
• Allan Fotheringham in Ottawa Citizen (registration)
  Ennui on the Rideau,Fotheringham called it.
• EM Cioran in Independent
  The man who knows nothing of ennui,wrote the Romanian philosopher EM Cioran in A Short History of Decay, "is still in the world's childhood."