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Emotional turmoil; painful sadness. quotations examples
I've begun to regret that we'd ever met / Between the dimensions. / It gets such a strain to pretend that the change / Is anything but cheap. / With your infant pique and your angst pretensions / Sometimes you act like such a creep.
1979, Peter Hammill, Mirror images
Harry's adolescence is theatrical and gaudy, and many of its key scenes have a lurid and camp quality that is appropriate to the exaggerated mood-shifting and self-dramatizing of teen angst.
2007, Martyn Bone, Perspectives on Barry Hannah, page 3
A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety. examples
third-person singular simple present angsts, present participle angsting, simple past and past participle angsted
(informal, intransitive) To suffer angst; to fret. quotations examples
In the second scene, the camera switches to the father listening, angsting, dying inside, but saying nothing.
2001, Joseph P Natoli, Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture, 1996-1998
She'd never angsted so much about her head as she had in the past twenty-four hours. Why the hell hadn't she just left it alone?
2006, Liz Ireland, Three Bedrooms in Chelsea