Word: angstful
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...midst of all this rich success, did 67.6% of Japanese respond to a recent Cabinet Office survey by saying that they felt anxious about their daily lives-the highest angst level recorded since the poll began nearly 40 years ago? Perhaps because they're looking beyond the next club opening or quarterly report, toward a national future that is anything but certain. Despite the country's economic recovery, Japan is still pinned beneath $6.9 trillion in public debt, and that's 1.5 times the nation's GDP, the worst ratio in the industrialized world. A widening gap between rich...
...year-old boys are—but he is not intended in any way to arouse the reader. Harry’s sexuality is just as much as part of the growing process, and just as much a source of reader empathy, as is his cracking voice and teen angst...
...stuff was downright unseemly for a city with Chicago's supposed reputation for Heartland amiability - perhaps a frustrated sign that Chicagoans knew deep down their football team wasn't as good as the Colts? - and it sounded even hypocritical coming from folks whose town carries its own Second City angst...
Problem is, indie movies are getting as predictable as Hollywood's. Sundance movies have devolved into a genre. The style is spare and naturalistic. The theme is relationships, beginning in angst and ending in reconciliation. The focus is often on a dysfunctional family (there are no functional ones in indie movies) that strives to reconnect. Within this genre are a few subspecies: the family breakup film (The Squid and the Whale), the finding-your-family-at-school movie (Half Nelson, Brick), the gay drama (Mysterious Skin). Way too frequently, the family goes on a trip. Given the typical Sundance pace...
...military force alone. The sad truth is that there is no such thing as a united Iraqi people, nor does it appear that there can be a truly representative Iraqi unity government in the near future. If large portions of the Iraqi people cannot even hold back sectarian angst to carry out a proper execution, we fail to see how the Bush administration’s solution of more bullets, more armor, and a “surge” of 20,000 to 40,000 troops will facilitate democracy, stability, or functional institutions. It’s not time...