Word: angstful
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Then again, perhaps his persistence was rooted in the sentiments of his protagonist, Duncan Thaw, an angst-ridden young painter who observes that “Someone might work and work at a thing, not because they were encouraged, but because they never learned to enjoy anything else...
...famous politician with amnesia (Palombella Rossa, or Red Wood Pigeon) or a local priest with anger-management issues (La Messa è Finita, or The Mass has Ended). Moretti's serial use of a humorous, self-referencing onscreen persona - and one plagued with late 20th century, middle-class angst - has drawn inevitable comparisons to Woody Allen. But whereas Allen tends to distance himself from his onscreen characters, the Italian director milked the connection. In his two features from the 1990s, Moretti played the part of a Roman filmmaker named Nanni Moretti trying to make a movie. But La Stanza del Figlio...
...soothe you with lines like “I will pick you up, like you for I, I thought this thing, I can’t replace.” Or at least he would, if Angels and Airwaves weren’t too busy boldly going where no angst-ridden alt-rockers have gone before. They are on a mission of the utmost importance: to play their song on a spaceship. A planet looms impressively off to one side. The whole thing only goes to show that, contrary to popular wisdom, adding...
...assigned to them—from invigilating exams to providing academic advice—keeping an eye on students’ well-being is naturally a high priority. But, as well as filling in a once-a-term evaluation, proctors have been told to relay both their gratitude and angst to the admissions office for admitting both their “favorite” students and those labeled the more “problematic” types. The admissions office in turn can use this feedback as a way of aiding judgments about how students in certain groups?...
...also looking back, the tension of what’s lovely and needs to be preserved,” Streep says.“Prairie” addresses that tension on several levels, notably by casting the budding multi-media sensation Lindsay Lohan as Streep’s angst-ridden daughter. The 19-year-old drama queen earned the respect of the veteran cast, in spite of recent negative press attention for her eating habits and partying.“I think it’s very hard to be her, offscreen, but I think it’s very...