Word: angst
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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...
...Tibetan co-stars. "I have to stay here," the young Dalai Lama says when offered a chance to escape the Chinese. "Saving others is my path to liberation." Pitt's response is admiration mixed with yearning. Seven Years speaks to our own situation as outsiders, filled with angst and ego, looking for something different, listening for the sound of horns and chanting...
...have to wade through crowds of angst-ridden high schoolers, but seeing "The Wall" synchronized to a light show is quite an experience...
...make what could have been the year's grossest cinematic moment, into something that's as disturbing as it is oddly poetic. But it is not representative of the film as a whole, which mixes elements of film noir and moralist western, with a hint of '50s teen angst. It is one of a few good scenes that connect both visually and emotionally in a convoluted, excessive jumble...
...then we saw in her too some larger allegory. She mirrored our personal anxieties, and the perennial anxieties of the young--for it is hard to believe she was 36 years old. She was truly a cliche of the age itself. Much of the angst of this troubled fin de siecle was indexed in her brief life. Wars and poverty, sickness and prejudice, uncertainty and despair--this daughter of an earl, this mother of a putative King of England was paradoxically familiar with them all: and when the end came, it was a properly symbolic end as, with her playboy...