weltschmerz

Synonyymisanakirja: weltschmerz

weltschmerz

1. surumielisyys, elämään kyllästyneisyys, maailmantuska.

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• maailmantuska

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Weltschmerz

• puhekieltä world-weariness World-weariness; an apathetic or pessimistic view of life; depression concerning or discomfort with the human condition or state of the world.

• 1938, W.S. Heckscher, “http://www.jstor.org/stable/749995 ‘Was This the Face…?’” in the Journal of the (w) I, № 4 (April 1938), page 297:

Here we have it at once, blended though it may be with the new elements of purging humour and all-embracing Weltschmerz, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

• 1947, "http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,793597,00.html Art: Berlin's Best," Time, 28 Apr.:

Koerner's painting did have the heaviness, the harsh humor and the all-pervading weltschmerz which characterized German expressionism in the 1920s.

• 1973, w:Thomas Pynchon|Thomas Pynchon, Gravitys Rainbow'':

A man-to-man touch then on his buttoned epaulet. A middle-aged smile full of Weltschmerz.

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