Word: angstful
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Such anguish has grown palpable. FORTUNE magazine's career-advice columnist, Anne Fisher, calls the angst pouring in from her boomer readers "a continuing lament," and there's evidence that it will soon become operatic. From the mailbox of Fisher's website, askannie.com "I'm learning that being over 40 is not only an obstacle, it's more like a brick wall," writes someone who signs himself "Not Dead Yet." Bob C. thinks "younger bosses see...older [workers] as a menace." Edward, the realist, writes, "Many of us over 40 have failed to constantly update our skill sets...
...Brien--like so many teenagers--high school was a time of angst and self-doubt, as he told members of BHS's Class of 1992 at their graduation...
...more than 2,000 American teenagers who end their lives each year, these are the signs of impending disaster. The suicide rate for adolescents has more than doubled since the 1960s. So the challenge for parents is to be able to tell the difference between normal teen angst and terminal despair...
...lifelong interest in writing. She grew up in an irreligious, working-class household in London. Her father, a onetime photographer, and her mother, a model turned child psychoanalyst, divorced when she was 12. Smith took to writing short stories and poetry during an adolescence she describes as "pathologically angst ridden." She hasn't outgrown the angst: her manner is painfully serious, even defensive, despite the success of White Teeth, which she says "just kind of fell...
...addition, although it has been criticized for its perhaps unfortunate juxtaposition of angst-ridden music and scenes from the massacre, the tape appears to have been developed with noble enough intentions. The fireman who put it together did it to help train fire and police departments across North America against being blindsided by future Columbines. But when the videos were released on Wednesday, the press immediately seized upon the songs by musicians such as Sarah McLachlan and Cheryl Wheeler featured on the tape, and the victims' families cited the sensationalistic appearance of the video as evidence of Stone's insensitivity...