The author of four novels, he is in the doldrums of his mid-fifties: long divorced, lonely, despairing, and frustrated in his attempts to write a new book.
This time, the President sounded angry and frustrated in much the same way that a private citizen might, at a loss to suggest a way forward.
In my psychotherapy practice I see a lot of clients who are anxious, sad and frustrated in their relationships.
"We were angry and frustrated in 1989," he said, "and we're frustrated and bewildered in 2002.
While Bee Wise is perhaps too blandly utopian for modern tastes, tales such as Making a Change, in which an overwrought young wife and frustrated mother-in-law collude in a rearrangement of their daily lives, remain sharply perceptive.
His teachings, if heeded, would produce a crop of young fogies of a grotesquely detached and frustrated rectitude — in short, a crop of preternaturally young critics, artistically neutered in advance.
But both managers pronounced themselves frustrated in a tale of missed opportunities.
For example, people can feel upset or frustrated in a traffic jam.
Likewise, Mr. Bell, playing the child of a bullying and frustrated miner (Gary Lewis) in an English coal town on strike in the 80's, redirected his aggressive energy by secretly studying ballet.
Our exhausted and frustrated soldiers are in a hideously difficult environment they're not familiar with, dealing with a culture America only dimly understands, where our desperation for any intelligence has reduced us to recruiting Saddam's old spies, whom we didn't trust in the first place, and where we're so strapped that soldiers may have to face back-to-back yearlong overseas tours.
