angry young man
Example Sentences
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The 41-year-old royal misfit has long struggled with the monarchy's strictures, shaking off the angry young man and "playboy prince" tags only to find himself at loggerheads with his closest relatives.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
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
No,” he continued, turning away from the angry young man with cool contempt, “old Uleeta has no son.”
From The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
