Word: angst-ridden
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...complex interplay between characters demands much from the actors in a play that finds room for both comedic and dramatic moments. For the most part, the cast pulls it off. Kramer delivers as Clive, nailing the desperate, angst-ridden teen with a deliberately exaggerated performance, allowing for ambiguity concerning how much of his persona is affectation and how much is real anguish...
...currency. At the same time, U.S. President Barack Obama announced he would be skipping an E.U.-U.S. confab in Spain in May, frustrated, it appeared, with the endless summitry that goes with accommodating the E.U. Little wonder that Europe finds itself in one of its periodic bouts of angst-ridden self-doubt. And little wonder that the rest of the world is asking questions: What does Europe stand for? Where does it fit into a world that seems set to be dominated by China and the U.S.? Would anyone notice if it disappeared? (See pictures of immigration in Europe...
...tapped into his audience's shared experiences, hopes and worries, the need for a little escape, a little realism and a few moral lessons. I'm not part of his target audience - just as, I imagine, most of Perry's fans can't relate much to the glib, angst-ridden, upper-middle-class white professionals who populate so many of the plays that New York critics write encomiums to. But the crowd leaves Perry's show on a communal high. All Noel Coward gave me was a Champagne hangover...
...those boring birthdays between 18 and 21 (I’m still legal but still not legal enough to drink!), but it seems like two decades of life should mean something. After all, I’m no longer a teen, so I guess my angst-ridden days are far behind me. I used to think that coming to college was supposed to mark my transition into adulthood, but in many ways, it feels like this college has caused my transformation to inch along at an interminable pace...
...newspapers. They aren’t people who are going anywhere in particular. They have picked ordinary professions—woodworking is popular, featured in three of her stories—and retired to small towns in Canada. There, they grapple with the same issues that much more angst-ridden writers labor over—only with less fanfare...