Sentence examples for The same ennui from inspiring English sources
With typical EDM crudity, the chorus is basically just Posner going "sad song", but there's something quite touching about the dumbest musical movement in history finally experiencing the same ennui as us adults.
Director Ang Lee and screenwriter James Schamus explore much of the same suburban ennui territory American Beauty would mine two years later right down to the brightly-polished surfaces and overwhelming sameness; one of Lee's best images finds Ben on the platform of the commuter train amid a sea of businessmen, identically attired in their natty trench coats.
"Everything's going on but it's still boring," says Bell at one point, in the same tone of adolescent ennui that Michael Chin, 22-year-old currency analyst in Cosmopolis, sighs: "High school was the last true challenge".
They suffer from the same sort of chronic ennui that Greene's characters do, but their malaise inclines them not toward spiritual angst but toward nihilism and sullen rage.
Problem 1: Yes or No? (the people of Ennui have the same word for yes & no--yes) Problem 2: Expressly for You (when two trains will meet) Problem 3: Murder Ahoy! (who murdered Wilbur W. Waterfall) Problem 4: The Odd Ball (which iron cannonball is the heaviest) Problem 5: Safari (cannibals & missionaries cross a river from N.J. to N.Y).
But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
Does this ennui extend to playing the same role every night in the theater?
It is a portrait of adolescent ennui that risks producing the same effect in the reader.
I know the hits, essentially, and I follow the spectacle and social-media jaw-droppers with the same mixture of fascination and eye-rolling ennui as most of us.
This is no time for ennui, apathy, "they're all the same" political disillusion or alienation.
