Word: angst-ridden
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...three essays reflect increasingly focused arguments concerning the validity of the placebo effect and its growing popularity in the realm of modern medicine. Among the topics pinpointed are the clinical bases of the placebo effect and the "nocebo phenomenon," in which the mere expectation of sickness may cause the angst-ridden patient to hurtle towards death. Even though the articles start to resemble entries in a medical journal, compelling statistics--such as the 12 percent increase in "normal" U.S. suicide patterns following Marilyn Monroe's suicide in 1962--snatch the reader's attention whenever the discussion of endogenous opioids approaches...
...have to wade through crowds of angst-ridden high schoolers, but seeing "The Wall" synchronized to a light show is quite an experience...
...recently stumbled upon the solution to all the woes of Generation X. I think that I've finally found a way to silence the litany of whining alternative rockers. My idea may seem a bit bold, but visionary concepts often are. I propose that we gather up he angst-ridden masses and send them of as canon-fodder for a great big world...
...angel image. She played an angel in one of her first paying gigs, a music video for Soul Asylum. She played the angelic sister, Beth, in Little Women, and in her most widely known role to date, on the TV show My So-Called Life, she was an angst-ridden teen called Angela. Now, amid the racy urban grime of Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, she wears white, has a room full of china angels and dons wings for a party. But she insists, "I'm human. I think people see me as sweeter and softer...
When we heard that MTV's "The Real World" wanted to recruit at Harvard for a Boston season, our minds began to whirl. Harvard students have many attributes, not least among them their ability to digress at length upon angst-ridden topics. Give them a camera, and hey, you might never get them to shut...