The election with the most intriguing potential outcome has seen the dullest campaigning, amid endless media angst about persuading young voters to register.
"I got slightly tired of the endless emotional angst," says Nick Harkaway, author of another acclaimed novel that riffs on superheroes, Tigerman, in which the protagonist dresses up and fights crime to please a 10-year-old boy in his charge.
It is something that cannot be forced and is thereby a source of endless, passionate angst.
Frantic, endless, argumentative rewrites followed, angst and perfectionism battling the urgent realistic need to get one tick from one man in the BBC.
Regardless of all this – the hours and days we spend lost in a funk of brain zaps, endless sniffing and existential angst induced by something as benign as Summer Heights High – we still love taking comedown-inducing drugs.
But the inner self, with its unease, malaise and angst, can absorb endless coddling.
This $185 watch from a Swedish designer incorporate all the class of a 1970s Casio with the existential angst of the endless Northern winters.
Think about it: would you rather work for a boss whose mind is a like a frantic gerbil running on an endless treadmill of worry and angst, or one who is so petrified of reality that they substitute meaningless platitudes and promises for actual plans?
All of this endless commingling of common people -- their thoughts sprawling hither and yon, their angst worn too evidently on their sleeve, their tonsorial habits too varied and non-traditional -- is just so déclassé.
Ms. May's intention here seems to be to suggest that midlife angst, the sense that the rest of one's life will be an endless procession of the same old stuff, is itself an age-old story.
