angry young man
Example Sentences
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Indian cinema's, and especially Bollywood's, fixation with the macho hero goes back to Amitabh Bachchan's "angry young man" image of the 1970s.
From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026
“I wanted to give him a bit of an angry young man, James Dean phase,” Jenkins says.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2023
To understand the gap between how Nitram saw himself versus how others perceived the inarticulate, angry young man, Kurzel assigned Jones tasks: film himself with a video camera, doodle in a diary.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2022
Link is an angry young man who is impulsive and questioning his identity.
From Salon • Sep. 8, 2021
In Chicago Conklin found an angry young man at police headquarters, and the name of this young man was John North.
From The Just and the Unjust by Bracker, M. Leone