Example sentences for: angst

How can you use “angst” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On both counts, prewar anti-clericalism and postwar apocalyptic angst gave the Surrealists and Dubuffet, respectively, historic urgency lacking in the gratuitous neo-primitivism of Ofili.

  • This is our best defense against postmodern angst: To critically look at and anticipate the cultural and social changes spurred by the rapid development of technology

  • Not for them the teen British and American angst, rebellion and outrage expressed by such band names as The Sex Pistols, The Nipple Erectors, The Slits (all-girl, ho ho Hemingway), The Dead Kennedys, The Butthole Surfers, Kid Kommode and the Bidet Boys, Pogue Mahone (now knows as The Pogues since being dropped from the BBC's playlist because some scholar told the BBC that pogue mahone meant kiss my arse in Irish), and so on.

  • It has overcome its penchant for "overblown, chest-beating angst," according to Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone , with its most mature album to date, which features clever, self-mocking lyrics and bears the influence of '70s supergroup Led Zeppelin.

  • In arty circles, he's famous as the highbrow exhibitionist who wrote and starred in My Dinner With Andre , but there's more to Shawn than grandiose nerd angst.


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