What's the difference between angst and turmoil?

Angst


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Turmoil


Definition:

  • (n.) Harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion.
  • (v. t.) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.
  • (v. i.) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He deploys a zero-risk strategy aimed at keeping his rightwing political base behind him, while convincing the public that he alone could lead the country in times of regional turmoil.
  • (2) A six-month uprising by the rebel group M23, led by war crimes suspect Bosco "the Terminator" Ntaganda, has caused fresh turmoil in eastern Congo and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
  • (3) The centre-left PD party, for example, is in turmoil - with leader Pier Luigi Bersani resigning over the weekend after both his favoured candidates for the presidency were rejected.
  • (4) However, following the management turmoil that engulfed the BBC in the autumn as it struggled to deal with the Savile scandal, there have been calls for the role to be reinstated.
  • (5) What we are witnessing is the collision of two imperfect storms: the Conservative party’s turmoil over the future of taxation, and the transformation of the economy.
  • (6) With the eurozone unravelling and world markets in turmoil, threatening even the meagre recovery the UK economy had achieved since the onset of the credit crunch, he repeatedly evokes a mood of national emergency to explain why the coalition he forged with David Cameron is the right government for the times.
  • (7) Running ITV is likely to prove a tough challenge given the ongoing turmoil in the advertising market, with some advocating that the company needs a turnaround specialist or a leader who will enable the company to exploit digital technology.
  • (8) They watch her life crumble as she's subjected to further turmoil through pregnancy or marital crisis.
  • (9) It demonstrated the turmoil facing Lucas, a £6m talent whose desperation to impress increases with every sporadic appearance, that the Kop began chanting Alonso's name after 36 minutes.
  • (10) Against the backdrop of market turmoil, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned that global growth will be weaker than previously expected .
  • (11) Against the backdrop of a faltering global economy, turmoil in the country’s stock markets and overcapacity in factories, Chinese economic growth has slowed markedly.
  • (12) The public, buffeted by weather fluctuations and economic turmoil, has little time to analyse decadal changes.
  • (13) British officials played down the turmoil in the NTC, insisting it was linked directly to the investigation into the killing of Younes.
  • (14) Yet while its problems are well documented, it's often difficult to get a sense of what it's like for the artists caught up in the turmoil.
  • (15) Alex Wynaendts, chief executive, said the deal would "strengthen Aegon's position during this period of uncertainty and unprecedented economic turmoil" and provide an improved capital buffer.
  • (16) But, since then, it has fallen to around $1,660 (£1,047) defying predictions – and the hopes of speculators – that it would continue to hit new peaks during the ongoing financial turmoil.
  • (17) While political turmoil could make London's townhouses an even more attractive safe haven for wealthy Russians and Ukrainians, a spokesperson said: "We've seen no real change and nor do we expect any."
  • (18) The majority of these children come from Guatemala , Honduras and El Salvador – three of the many countries ravaged by civil strife, drug wars and economic turmoil precipitated by US political and military intervention over several decades, as well as free-trade regimes and the corporate plunder of Latin America's natural resources.
  • (19) Efforts to unite the disparate groups have until now been lost in a myriad of competing ambitions and decades of political turmoil.
  • (20) Political turmoil in a state western counter-terrorism agencies have been able to rely on would also have "far-reaching consequences for the Arab-Israel relationship and regional instability", a former senior intelligence official said.