Weltschmerz
Example Sentences
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This is even more surprising, given that what the German novelist Jean Paul christened Weltschmerz has seemingly been in steady decline for the last 10 years.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2016
The crass Buck is less interested in discussing Tony’s sudden bout of Weltschmerz than he is in ushering him off to the Japanese restaurant where their dates await.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2011
Bloch's first New York exhibition in 37 years, which includes some of the Blaue Reiter works, reveals that the early, brooding Weltschmerz never left him.
From Time Magazine Archive
But what impresses Wagnerites is his ability to color Wagner's mystical, mountain-glade poetry with just the right shade of Teutonic Weltschmerz, his solemn evocation of all the Nibelungenlied's nature-nourished gnomes and demigods.
From Time Magazine Archive
If this can be asserted of genius in general, it must be even more particularly and widely applicable in reference to a combination of genius and Weltschmerz.
From Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Wilhelm Alfred Braun
