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Boredom See also Futility. Aldegonde, Lord St. bored nobleman, empty of pursuits. [Br. Lit.: Lothair] (1821–1867) French poet whose dissipated lifestyle led to inner despair. [Fr. Lit.: NCE, 248] housewife suffers from ennui. [Fr. Lit.: Madame Bovary] in dissipation and isolation, develops morbid ennui. [Fr. Lit.: Against the Grain] thorough gentleman, weary of everything. [Br. Lit.: Hard Times] Russian landowner; embodiment of physical and mental sloth. [Russ. Lit.: Oblomov] uneventful thoughts, marriage best described as routine. [Br. Lit.: The Old Wives’ Tale, Magill I, 684–686] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| His officers affected a superiority over the rest of us, but the boredom of their souls appeared in their manner of dreary submission to the fads of their commander. If, seized by an intolerable boredom, he had determined to be a painter merely to break with irksome ties, it would have been comprehensible, and commonplace; but commonplace is precisely what I felt he was not. And now, pale and cold, the man who had gripped his fingers then and held on to them like a vise, seemed to find nothing except a slight boredom in this unexpected meeting. |
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