Word: weltschmerz
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Supermarket shoppers perusing the publication rack must have felt a dose of Weltschmerz as they waited for their frozen peas to be scanned. “Is God Dead?” read the Apr. 8, 1966, cover of Time Magazine, rendering the question in red typeface on a stark black background. The Nietzschean challenge emerged in the context of an immense cultural despair. Faced with a world so complex, so seemingly contradictory, a vocal group of American theologians—described in the magazine’s lead story—was seeking to radically re-envision a Christianity...
...happier here. Next time you’re fretting about your GPA or your upcoming consulting interview, just remember: You’re in Cambridge, but you’re also in the universe. In the long run, we’re all dead. Enjoy a little Weltschmerz...
...This Weltschmerz and wariness seeps through Gone, from its opening shots of a media maelstrom in a poor part of Affleck's hometown of Boston to its final scene of a man coming to terms with the consequences of decisions he's made. None of the characters are innocent to begin with, but they lose whatever naiveté they have in the course of the film. Yet Gone Baby Gone has a lightness and humor to it. At one point, Ed Harris' police detective dismissively suggests that the young-looking Kenzie should forget the case and get back...
...synthetic, I’ll look like a tool, but then again, I need my section credit.” At the risk of playing the part of the German philosopher (every section has at least one, brimming with analogues to the Hegelian dialectic and quotes from Schopenhauer about Weltschmerz and the will), I make my paltry contribution...
...energetic performances by Richard Dreyfuss and Daryl Hannah, the actors stand around doing exposition--or, alternatively, miming puzzlement. The largest offender in this regard is Danny Huston, who plays the lead, an investigative reporter turned private eye, and is loxlike in his lack of any emotion aside from Weltschmerz...