bore." This verb was borrowed into Middle English by around 1275 asanoien,ourannoy.The Old French verbanoieralso gave rise to a noun, variously spelledenuiandannui,meaning "chagrin, sadness." The Modern French form of this noun,ennui,came to mean "boredom, lassitude," and it was with ...
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good life, the, n. 1. holidays and vacations and partying and retirement and other leisure activities touted as the meaning of life. Its over-hyping is the primary cause of the haunting aimlessness and depression that so characterize our civilization. See morale....
DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on...
In July 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the CERN Large Hadron Collider announced the observation of a Higgs boson at a mass of around 125 gigaelectronvolts. Ten years later, and with the data corresponding to the production of a 30-times larger number of Higgs bosons, we have...
samesentimentsofapathy, discontent with thecountry’sleadership, and war weariness that had brought down the Asquith government. Not only had Britain’s supreme military effort in 1916 failed, but the war had lost its meaning. The British commitment to defendBelgium(which had brought Britain into ...
I really would like to see empirical research done on 2 mountains concept and also on how the four major goals of life are related, but distinct. Also taking a cue from Hinduism, howhappiness < success < integrity < meaning and Joy < Impact < Morality < Transcendence.I am intuitively remi...
greatly enhances their self esteem. If they are made to feel like a vital part of the company, regardless if their work of a large magnitude or trivial, they will strive to do what is best for the company overall, not just themselves. Consequently, their work adds meaning to their life....
In this realm of life, reality brings forth the true meaning of magic, and its tenets are always correlated without recourse to romance and wishful thinking. This is where faith departs and certainty begins. Understand only that there is no such thing as death, that the mind is not held ...
The aim of this paper was to be “evidence-informed” rather than “evidence-based”, meaning that evidence is understood as “contextually bound but also individually interpreted and particularised within that context” [60]. Therefore, we took a critical approach to reviewing the literature [61...