Example sentences for: angst

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

  • Like many people, I was baffled when I first read his poems in high-school anthologies: "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" sounded like antique mumbo jumbo in comparison with the up-to-the-minute adolescent angst of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."

  • Pope John Paul II envisions hell as a state of perpetual angst rather than as a fiery pit.

  • 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.

  • The show revolves around the middle-aged angst of New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini).

  • 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.


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