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angst
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  • I felt a surge of angst.†   (source)
  • I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.†   (source)
  • That's called existential angst, or dread, and is as a rule only a stage on the way to new consciousness.†   (source)
  • Upstairs, the bedrooms were the same, Paul's room a shrine to adolescent angst, with posters of obscure quartets taped to the wall, ticket stubs pinned to the bulletin board, the walls painted a hideous dark blue, like a cave.†   (source)
  • Then he'd babble on and on about teenage anger and angst being normal but that only I could choose how it would have an impact on my life …. blah …. blah …. and since this was an "emergency" he'd probably want me to draw something that represented my inner child or whatever.†   (source)
  • But the angst over People was nothing compared to the shock waves that rocked the Camp on September 20.†   (source)
  • Because all this angst would be completely unnecessary if you could see how I feel right now!†   (source)
  • Easy enough, while struggling with stacks of books, piles of paper, and mounds of adolescent angst.†   (source)
  • Frustration and angst.†   (source)
  • And what he says next isn't self-pity or angst or melodrama.†   (source)
  • For instance, at Jackson at lunch, due to the cramped cafeteria, lack of coveted picnic tables, and general angst, there was always some kind of drama going on.†   (source)
  • The angst-jest screed on Collateral Damage, critics called it.†   (source)
  • "Angst" was "anxiety," "Furcht" was "fear," "Schreck" was "fright."†   (source)
  • Ricki felt oddly moved by the sight of this man's angst.†   (source)
  • She was sick at heart, and scared so badly that there was little joy in living and every day just brought a new round of trouble, angst, fear, once again.†   (source)
  • Now, I know that today young people fancy themselves perpetually moody and angst-ridden, but let's pretend we're not, shall we?†   (source)
  • He is prone to depression, as many assassins are, but his ability to turn angst into rage makes him even more dangerous.†   (source)
  • His surname as he pronounced it then sounded like the beginning of angst; it would be years before he was used to hearing Chang rhyme with twang.†   (source)
  • I perspired in the humid cocoon of my angst, worrying about my theft and my present near-destitution, worrying about my novel and how I would ever get it finished, worrying whether or not I should press charges against Morris Fink.†   (source)
  • ...suffering teenage angst.
  • Katherine felt angst-ridden as the memories flooded back.†   (source)
  • So no one wants topay for a look at another person's angst," laughed Tyrena.†   (source)
  • According to Kierkegaard, angst is almost positive.†   (source)
  • Mr. McDaniels's energetic cheer faded, replaced with grim-faced angst.†   (source)
  • It would be unfair to subject them to his angst.†   (source)
  • This never happened to me in Florida, this oh-so-high-school angst about who likes whom more, and I hated myself for letting it happen now You don't have to care about her, I told myself.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel took to drawing on the walls and ceiling of their apartment, and did amazingly dead-on caricatures of teachers and classmates and scribbled musical references and racial epithets, turning their apartment into a mad tapestry of race-tinged, twenty-year-old angst.†   (source)
  • I pantomime excellent health, existential angst, regret, and an enormous sense of loss, all via a single nod.†   (source)
  • A person who lives at the aesthetic stage can easily experience angst, or a sense of dread, and a feeling of emptiness.†   (source)
  • When people realize they are alive and will one day die—and there is no meaning to cling to—they experience angst, said Sartre.†   (source)
  • You may recall that angst, a sense of dread, was also characteristic of Kierkegaard's description of a person in an existential situation.†   (source)
  • If there was anything remarkable about Anne, it was that her angst and worries were the same ones characteristic of young people today.†   (source)
  • Not only did she remember them from her own life, but she'd watched her children as they'd struggled through the angst of adolescence and the uncertainty and chaos of their early twenties.†   (source)
  • I'm passing through the courtyard on my way to my favorite empty bathroom where I can get twenty-five minutes of uninterrupted angst before heading to Shop.†   (source)
  • In the morbid, nervous mood I was in, the pictures of the merry chiropractor and his friends brought me as far down into bottomless despondency as I had ever been, and I prayed for Sophie to arrive and help relieve my angst.†   (source)
  • …a great deal of these leakages from my youthful psyche, saving only a hundred pages or so with nostalgic value, including the stuff on Leslie and a nine-hundred-word treatise—surprisingly witty for a journal so freighted otherwise with angst and deep thoughts—on the relative merits, apparent friction coefficients, fragrance and so forth of the various lubricants I had used while practicing the Secret Vice, my hands-down winner being Ivory Flakes well-emulsified in water at body…†   (source)
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