Word: angst
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...quick pace of the songs and the energetic guitar riffs would be appropriate at the next on-campus party but do not camouflage the serious tone of the lyrics, which would not seem out of place in the newest piece of teen-angst literature, if such literature were more literate...
Newspaper angst is now focused on the Los Angeles Times, where I was editorial and opinion editor in 2004 and '05. Long the industry's leading example of needless excellence, the Times has had bureaus around the world, a huge Washington staff and so on. Yet it had a near monopoly in its own town and made little attempt to compete elsewhere. So what was the point...
...There’s something for everyone: sentimentalists can wallow in the perennially doe-eyed expressions of actresses whose roles were so depressing they committed suicide; action fans can get a hai(-ya!) from Jet Li’s fighting antics; and brooding emo-types will enjoy plenty of angst-ridden stories in the ridiculously long two-volume coursepack.Don’t worry if the only thing you know (and ever care to know) about Chinese culture is kung fu—Wang is a recovering Bruce Lee fan and the course is basically tailored for beginners. Don?...
...foreign correspondent and prolific writer, in perhaps the most authoritative of Italian portraits, described a country resigned to a downward spiral in his classic book, The Italians. Barzini paints his people as peddlers of "ruses to defeat boredom and discipline, to forget disgrace and misfortune, to lull man's angst to sleep and comfort him in his solitude." Severgnini uses much finer brushstrokes in his interpretation of Italians' shortcomings, which borders on praise. In Crema, where he's still based, he pauses in his tour to point out the different shades of the cathedral's stonework: "It has taken seven...
...show, you worry that there's not enough angst, so you create a 12-step program for fictitious problems. But in reality, you lost a brother when you were 12 and both parents before you were 20. Do comedians have to have a tough life in order to be funny...