Mr Obama's ennui is striking given the otherwise intense traffic between Washington, DC, and Brussels.
Still, going on the how-to-retire circuit can create its own sense of ennui.
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No Next Big Thing--the fabled "killer app" that drives every boom--has yet emerged to offset it this customer ennui.
Still, markets are going through a period of ennui, not despair, he said.
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Amid this customer ennui, no Next Big Thing--the fabled "killer app" that drives every boom--has yet emerged to offset it.
The result is a hypnotic, thumping ode to love and death, performed with an air of ennui Gainsbourg would likely have appreciated.
And they star in his ads, modeling the fashions with a self-conscious slacker ennui and the latest hairdo: spiky, streaked or both.
So if the vocation goes (and they can evaporate in the face of changing circumstance, family crisis, or sheer ennui) so should the politician.
Is it ennui that leads investors to pour into tech IPOs like Pandora and LinkedIn at levels that reminded everyone of the last tech bubble?
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China's leaders think a little faith can help the country grow--by serving as a bulwark against social unrest and the ennui Chinese call huise wenhua, or gray culture.
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Yet Johnson's vice-presidency was marked by humiliation, loneliness and ennui.
This 10-minute film loop features an ordinary house filled with ordinary people slowly burning, the occupants not even noticing their own destruction as they go through the motions of living draped in thick ennui.
Vanya shakes off his complacency by dusting off a play he's written and gets everyone to perform it Spike cloddishly interrupts the show with his cellphone and Sonia snaps out of her ennui by putting herself out there at a fancy party.
These debates still seem to be mainly the preserve of the usual euro-suspects, and are treated with rather weary ennui by many MPs, but tension over a whole series of EU issues is rising, and they could yet result in serious problems for the government.
And the sense it had given him, of union with nature and of the spiritual basis of all creation, convinced him that he had found a sacrament for the modern age: the antidote to the ennui caused by consumerism, industrialisation and the vanishing of the divine from human life.
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There's something almost uncomfortable about a band that has squeezed so much clever wordplay out of so many emotionally messy situations the band has released nine albums in the last 10 years, in the process tackling subjects from Sept. 11 to artistic ennui that they're almost bound to hit the occasional sour note.
Brought into the prospering family business (a tannery) by his father-in-law, Pierre spends his days in comfortable ennui and his nights in sexual frustration (revealed in a jaw-droppingly strange and clever dream sequence), which he hopes to cure with his comely new secretary (Nicole Kalfan), his contemplated pursuit of whom builds to a giant wind-up toy of ludicrously intricate complications.
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