Word: angstful
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...angst? In a healthy economy, long-term rates should move higher as short-term rates move higher. That's how lenders get compensated for the extra risk that comes with longer payback periods. A 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rightly carries a higher rate than a 15-year mortgage, which rightly carries a higher rate than a 10-year mortgage...
Perhaps the most frustrating expression of Quadling angst in recent memory came this October, when Quad United Against Library Discrimination (QUAD; the “Library” is cunningly omitted) staged a protest outside of the “Party in Lamont”. Having Lamont open 24 hours while Hilles’ hours are shortened, QUAD claimed, constituted unfair treatment of Quad residents...
...father of the Theater of the Absurd, Ionesco is hardly writing of angst-ridden and fantastic Kafkaesque metamorphoses—in fact, quite the contrary is true. By the end of the play, it is the single remaining human form that seems grotesque in comparison with the peaceful and contented converts...
...hard to beat Chinua Achebe's The Trouble with Nigeria. Written during the country's rowdy 1983 election campaign, the book, just 68 pages long, is an outpouring of frustration at Nigeria's problems. You only have to read the contents page to tap into Achebe's angst. The author - best known for Things Fall Apart, a powerful work of fiction that almost half a century after its release still tops lists of Africa's greatest novels - uses blunt prose to deliver the message in Trouble. Chapter headings telegraph his views: "False Image of Ourselves"; "Social Injustice and the Cult...
...roll, hating his mom, and watching Green Day perform “Jesus of Suburbia” on TV (so meta it hurts). This thrilling lifestyle is cut short about halfway through the video, as his girlfriend leaves him; he gets into fights, and assumes a general aura of angst. Never fear, for Jimmy’s life rebounds by the bridge of the song; at least the director has a vague acquaintance with the track, more than can be said for most “story” videos. In an unprecedented display of teenage rebellion, Jimmy runs away...