Instead, their lyrics focus on suburban teenage ennui, school shootings and, as the group's name implies, the hypocrisy of religion.

The album's lyrics, though occasionally difficult to decipher, deal with issues like apathy and suburban ennui in blunt but poetic language.

"Hysterical Blindness" is a tale of suburban ennui that could have been just another slice-of-life comedy about the search for love and meaning in the land of malls.

"We live in Ossining," said Carly Steif, a flutist in the jazz ensemble, with an air of suburban teenage ennui.

Sofia Coppola directs Kirsten Dunst and Kathleen Turner in an adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides's novel about suburban teenage ennui.

A scorching indictment of establishment bureaucracy and suburban ennui alike, Sandy Does Swindlehurst is also a fabulist piece that underscored Freville's work as a modern humorist.

Will it be about suburban ennui?

Early scenes of her stoned friends sprawled around a fancy living room, drinking, sniffing cocaine and mumbling fuzzily about their discontents offer a devastating vision of youthful suburban ennui.

For when you feel like wallowing in those late-summer blues: ten novels about suburban ennui.

Using that as a starting point, I wanted to capture suburban ennui, parody TV sit-coms and also take a look at odd relationships.