From mystified poets to angst-ridden teens, the question of what exactly love is has troubled us since long before the master songwriter put pen to paper.
Songs are the consolation prize during angst-ridden heartbreak, the unifying vision of what is possible for our world when we join together, the mirror we hold up to ourselves to see the miles traveled and the races won and lost.
Mr. Antonioni was the movies' first diagnostician of what back then was called alienation, anomie, angst and decadence.
At the heart of what might be described as a national angst are the failings of the educational system, a problem that government officials readily acknowledge.
There was all of this angst, like, "What am I going to do with my life?" It was not easy becoming a space engineer.
When the text arrives, the Pavlovian anxiety of waiting momentarily subsides, but the angst over what to make of the content escalates.
But after two years of what seemed to be the return of the German economic miracle the angst has returned.
Because we're more critical of what we're writing, we produce more refined prose, the sentences polished by our angst.
The Wire challenged our perception of what a prestige drama could be at a time when they were uniformly white stories of upper middle class suburban angst.
Researchers into gay and lesbian relationships point out that because of the lack of societal norms for what a relationship "should" look like, homosexual couples had the both the exhilarating opportunity and insidious angst of defining for themselves what coupledom meant.
