Word: angst-ridden
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...self-discovery. Fewer still if I knew that journey was heading for an existential train wreck. And in the first few pages of Geoff Dyer's Yoga for People Who Can't be Bothered to Do It, the warning signs that I am entering an author's exercise in angst-ridden navel gazing are all there. A quote by Nietzsche on the fly page. A preface that starts with a snippet from Auden and ends with a disclaimer: "Everything in this book really happened, but some of the things that happened only happened in my head; by the same token...
There are plenty of thoughtful, angst-ridden Evangelicals, of course; the President's simple swagger isn't merely a consequence of his religious faith. He has long disdained the tortured moral relativism he first encountered at Yale. He doesn't come from the most introspective of families. And he has recently found an intellectual home in the secular evangelism of the neoconservatives, who posit a stark world of American good and authoritarian evil. But George W. Bush's faith offers no speed bumps on the road to Baghdad; it does not give him pause or force him to reflect...
...There are plenty of thoughtful, angst-ridden Evangelicals, of course; the President's simple swagger isn't merely a consequence of his religious faith. He has long disdained the tortured moral relativism he first encountered at Yale. He doesn't come from the most introspective of families. And he has recently found an intellectual home in the secular evangelism of the neoconservatives, who posit a stark world of American good and authoritarian evil. But George W. Bush's faith offers no speed bumps on the road to Baghdad; it does not give him pause or force him to reflect...
Dramatic, hauntingly glamorous and sometimes surreal, Wilson’s selections feature Lynes’ trademark dark foregrounds with subjects lit from just behind the head. In one classic image, dancer Martha Graham stands with her arms placed above her head in an angst-ridden pose. Another, of Tennessee Williams, shows the playwright gazing off to the right in a black sweater with torn sleeves...
DIED. FREDERICK KNOTT, 86, angst-ridden playwright of Dial M for Murder who wrote for money but hated the craft; in New York City. Dial M, a clever, tense mystery that focused on law enforcement's attempts to break down the alibi of a man who has killed his wife, started as a TV special and later became a successful play and a 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film...