He has an arc that doesn't just consist of angsting like a fuckhead through 90percentt of the game and then learning to treasure his friends in time for the big confrontation at the end.
Far from it: under the cleanliness there is a current of angst, like someone weird softly reading aloud from Kierkegaard's Fear And Trembling.
This track record has secured Hanks's reputation as an actor who does angst like nobody else.
Mr. Bujalski's earlier films of hipster angst, like "Funny Ha Ha" and "Mutual Appreciation," owe an obvious debt to "Slacker," but this new effort, set at a computer chess tournament in 1980, is described as a visual and thematic departure.
No show understands teen angst like this one, and teens will see themselves and their own challenges reflected in a freak, a geek, or both.
For angst, like uncertainty, is now haunting Greece.
There was only Oasis and Pulp, then just angst like Travis and Coldplay.
That misperception may be partly due to the fact that the 1992 movie of the same name that engendered the series was disposable nonsense, or that WB is also home to a number of fatuous young-adult shows, slick, unconvincing portraits of adolescent angst like "Dawson's Creek" and "Felicity".
Entrepreneurs build up small businesses with their blood, sweat and angst, like journalist Om Malik did with GigaOm and lawyer Michael Arrington did with Techcrunch.
No one does internal angst like Del Toro, or scary, sinister smirks like Hopkins.
