Word: angstful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...just felt like no one really understood me, or really knew me,” he said. Religious faith eventually assuaged the angst he was experiencing, Lin said...
...conflating depression with angst in her comment “Depressed?” (Mar. 20), Lucy Caldwell told Harvard students dealing with depression that they should relish their misery and use it productively. This is akin to telling someone with a severely debilitating medical condition to enjoy it, because lots of people do their best work when sick...
During two meetings last Wednesday—one with the Faculty Council and one with department chairs—the incoming interim president sought, with apparent success, to dispel the Faculty’s angst about the dean search...
Like J.D. Salinger before her, Sittenfeld portrays Lee’s adolescent angst as palpable and consistently believable, while guiding the reader through the colorful insight of a character who might be otherwise pegged as an awkward outsider. She wonders why she is no longer the confident 13-year-old she was in South Bend. Why has she allowed Ault to change her? She worries what her working-class parents will think when they see her acting so differently...
...mixture of embarrassment, pity and superiority: "I may be a terrible poem, it grins, but at least I'm not a terrible poet. At least I'm not the guy who spent two hours in front of a typewriter coming up with the likes of me." Larry is angst-ridden, to be sure, but charming in a Woody Allen- esque...