This denotes stylish world-weariness in the un-dead as well as the plain old living.
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But, if visitors to Iran are struck by anything, it is the dominant mood of weariness.
There are some over-used phrases that can induce weariness in the most fresh-faced of hacks.
The government's durability stems less from deft manoeuvring than from a collective weariness at the endless political turmoil.
Earlier in the week, Clark was really showing the strain, when, first thing Wednesday morning, she confessed her weariness.
And there was weariness -- after so many false alarms, some soldiers said that leaving seemed almost a relief.
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It could be encouraged in its defiance by gathering evidence of world weariness.
Perhaps it was seizing on a general weariness as well as wariness in the Senate over the whole issue of filibusters.
Students and parents, meanwhile, have expressed weariness and worry about the threats.
Labour will decide that on a case by case basis, depending on the importance of the issue and the weariness of their troops.
Our collective weariness is the subject of several new books, some by professionals who study sleep, others by amateurs who are short of it.
So, amid the voter apathy and the weariness with the Washington scandal, the Republican majority on the local council may be regretting its anti-Clinton crusade.
Now, without doubt, Mother Earth is starting to show her weariness.
Correspondents detected some weariness among the public after so many strikes.
"The sense that I get is weariness, " said Eman Al-Nafjan, one of Saudi Arabia's most prominent bloggers, while describing the online reaction she's encountered so far.
Songs may tell of young love, the hard work and weariness of the farming life, the foibles of men and women or the joy of singing.
"There are some noteworthy absences due to the need to manage the weariness of some players who played a lot of games during the season, " added Lievremont.
Up a flight of stairs, away from the organised shambles of the downstairs office, cigarette smoke and weariness hangs around the impressively rumpled figure of Caleb Faux.
The Democrats owe their majority in large part to war-weariness.
Perhaps there is less demand for Mr Powell's exquisite world-weariness.
But there is an overall weariness of war, and a growing acceptance that the Taleban, who promised to unify the country under their rule, have failed to do this.
And since Colombia's current mood is one of utter weariness with endemic rebel violence and a rejection of any further appeasement, Ms Betancourt faces, at best, a long captivity.
But despite weariness with violence and a marked drop in the insurgency from 1996 to 1999, recent years have brought only political drift and corrosive alienation among most Kashmiri Muslims.
Yet weariness of it, a change of American leadership, the emergence of other pressing problems and a widespread suspicion that the terrorists' capability was exaggerated have made it less prominent.
The former Porto captain is on a speakerphone and has been on the road for at least four hours, so there is a temptation to put his claim down to weariness.
And we look for that fine day when we will see him again, all weariness gone, clear of mind, strong and sure and smiling again, and the sorrow of this parting gone forever.
Americans do not share old-world cynicism and world-weariness.
The Republicans' crushing loss of both houses of Congress in the mid-term election of 2006, thanks in large part to war-weariness, crops up only in passing, as a possible impediment to the planned surge in Iraq.
As these industrialised countries, struggling with budget deficits and (in some cases) public war weariness chose to sit out foreign crises more often, the world seems to be becoming a less predictable and more volatile place.
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