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  • "Ennui" is a nice mix of boredom and depression, transcending both in their fusion.

    Damn it...part deux. wendigomountain 2008

  • I wanted to use the word Ennui but did not know if it was a word many people would know.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Brendanw 2010

  • I wanted to use the word Ennui but did not know if it was a word many people would know.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Brendanw 2010

  • This death-in-life comes sometimes to the most earnest men, to those whose life is fullest of energy and excitement It is the reaction, the weariness which they name Ennui, -- foul fiend that eats fastest into the heart's core, that shakes with surest hand the sands of life, that makes the deepest wrinkles on the cheeks and deadens most surely the lustre of the eyes.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

  • 'Ennui' Presents a Hurdle for Rebound Target jumped 7.6% and Saks rose 6.7% after each reported a smaller profit decline than expected.

    Banks, Retailers Help Markets Rebound 2009

  • ANYway, if you like Sylvia more than I do, go read "Ennui" that's the poem.

    Sylvia Plath 2006

  • ANYway, if you like Sylvia more than I do, go read "Ennui" that's the poem.

    Archive 2006-11-01 2006

  • Great Regulars: 'Ennui', the newly discovered undergraduate sonnet by Sylvia Plath read it in full here, is very much about craft, about delivering a tough resonant argument.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Rus Bowden 2006

  • Great Regulars: 'Ennui', the newly discovered undergraduate sonnet by Sylvia Plath read it in full here, is very much about craft, about delivering a tough resonant argument.

    Great Regulars: 'Ennui', the newly discovered Rus Bowden 2006

  • Poetry & Poets in Rags: Great Regulars: 'Ennui', the newly discovered

    Great Regulars: 'Ennui', the newly discovered Rus Bowden 2006

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