(1) Politicians, he says, need to find a language to capture the "angst and anomie".
(2) Just how much of that angst could have been avoided had I thought about switching to a better pill way back?
(3) The criteria for the assignment of patients to lithium treatment were derived from a study by Angst.
(4) When Johnson or Congressman Earl Blumenauer – who is pushing for extension and reform of the Siv programs – talk about the situation, their articulate exhortations carry undertones of angst.
(5) Nobody does inner turmoil better than Phoenix, who's excelled at angst ever since his troubled teen in 1989's Parenthood, and he's exceptional in Her.
(6) Enough also to awaken some deep-seated Democratic angst rooted in the trauma of 2000, when some blamed Green party candidate Ralph Nader’s presence in Florida for costing Al Gore the general election and sending George W Bush to the White House.
(7) The first Labour MP I spoke to today put it well: “As our standing and his standing has got worse, Labour MPs talk of little else.” Party introspection, angst and fear were always on the cards for this period – it just wasn’t meant to be Labour that would suffer.
(8) Berlin, running the eurozone show increasingly and certain to shape the policy responses of the next few years in what is chancellor Angela Merkel's third and probably final term, is ridden with angst about France, and the lack of reforms being undertaken by the lacklustre François Hollande , France's least popular president ever.
(9) The witching-hour timing bespoke both political calculation and personal angst.
(10) Irrespective of which will win, four of them can be categorised, as austere arthouse ( Amour ), the higher whimsy ( Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Life of Pi ), and customary US family angst ( Silver Linings Playbook ).
(11) Girls, the HBO series about bratty Brooklyn hipsters , got a kicking when it first aired from people who weren't sure they wanted to watch privileged young white women musing on their existential angst, or whether they might be up the duff, or if they just, kind of, like, accidentally smoked crack.
(12) But amid the inevitable angst today about the future of the US automotive industry, it is worth remembering that Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection is the great second chance in American capitalism.
(13) Most will betray the angst of damage limitation rather than a recognition that one era has ended and the new is not yet born.
(14) Simmering with unspoken angst, it seems this scene is going to be a typical one for players of The Sims 4, the latest in EA’s multimillion selling series of open-ended life simulations.
(15) The findings largely support the hypothesis of a continuum from mild and short to more severe, longer lasting depressive syndromes, but they do not exclude heterogeneity of RBD (Angst and Dobler-Mikola 1984b).
(16) I think angst can be a good thing, but not if it eats you up.
(17) Fourteen-year-olds existed 400 years ago, but teenagers, with their angst and rebelliousness, their rage and Ritalin and very own version of Vogue magazine, are a fairly recent construct.
(18) She said the risk of a house prices crash and vast numbers of people losing their homes was causing her “appreciable angst”.
(19) Mmmm, OK, I think I'm getting over my post-colonial angst; that's my bag, the big one over there; lead on, Ang.
(20) You can feel the angst and yearning in it when it’s slowed down like that.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘It’s impossible to be vulnerable’: how Moonlight reflects being a black gay man in the US Read more Ali devised other ways to get into character, too.
Ennui
Definition:
(n.) A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.
Example Sentences:
(1) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
(2) Best of the bunch is 2006’s Tempbot , which beautifully satirises the spirit-crushing ennui of office environments by imagining a robot struggling to connect with homo sapiens co-workers who often seem as bereft of humanity as he is.
(3) It is important that the spirit of rainbow nation is extracted from the ennui of an increasingly jaded and complacent African National Congress, which, as with so many post-liberation ruling parties, is in danger of losing its moral compass.
(4) Nonetheless, the utilitarian fiction of Mr Fairweather and His Family was a superb piece of socially useful work I treasure to this day and I remain eternally grateful to its titular and nonexistent, ennui-ridden antihero Mr Fairweather, the Josef K of prescriptive childcare literature, for normalising my early years.
(5) They have turned mealtimes into the focus of every ounce of existential angst and middle-class ennui they can muster.
(6) Allen became famous only four years ago, yet already she has the ennui of a jaded veteran.
(7) Paras Anand, head of European equities at Fidelity Worldwide Investment The ECB’s strategy has as many shortcomings as potential benefits and it is hard not to feel a sense of, if not disappointment, then ennui at today’s announcement.
(8) But then there was always the "faceless record button", and the fear of ennui.
(9) If the films are extended games of he-loves-me-he-loves-me-not between glamorous stars (including Marcello Mastroianni , Jeanne Moreau and Alain Delon ), they also all share a sense of ennui and drift.
(10) Instead a combination of ennui at the ease of the group, added to fatigued resignation about England’s prospects when they get to France, conspired to rob Roy Hodgson of what should have been a moment of quiet triumph.
(11) Also showing will be Youth, an English-language drama directed by Paolo Sorrentino , featuring Michael Caine as an ageing composer plagued by ennui.
(12) And another example of Apple Maps inspired existential ennui: @ guardian It's decided the small town I live in is actually on a tiny deserted island 10 km west of here #iOS6maps — Tsana Dolichva (@Tsana_D) September 20, 2012 We'll be updating this blogpost as we receive further examples.
(13) She details whales banging their heads against their tanks and grinding their teeth on the walls, floors and bars until their teeth break or are worn to the pulp, allegedly because of boredom, frustration and ennui.
(14) Too many explosions, searching dead bodies for intelligence, hours of ennui and minutes of terror, lots of blood, holding the dying, all this and more had taken a toll.
(15) Occasionally we did so, although we often stumbled, as if out of ennui, against lesser sides.
(16) The opening sequence of Glue captures this ennui in unsettling, semi-hallucinatory fashion.
(17) Muscular and psychological rigidity, weariness, ennui and anhedonia may be the only clues to the presence of alexithymia.
(18) The effect is to induce a terrible ennui, a defeatist sense that, no matter how much evidence there is that something is unacceptable, we accept it anyway.
(19) The collection of sullen Keanu Reeves models is the work of Japanese company idk: "a remarkable instance of 3D mini ennui moving to the mass market," as 3Ders put it.
(20) And in those tiny moments of rest between the ennui of shadow cabinet meetings, there's a helpful spin doctor who can press a promotional copy of the Sun into your hands."