trauma

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In the e-zine the band's guitarist The Edge, said if Days of Ash was about "a world in trauma", then Easter Lily is about where the band goes for "strength to walk through this world".

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

We are the product of their trauma, from their parents.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

The “duck and cover” drills are always treated as the baby boomers’ comic trauma, but it wasn’t so comic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Psychological trauma, social fragmentation, and economic dislocation are persistent scars that can span generations.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026

“Mother, I must attend to my bowels. They are revolting against the trauma of the last twenty-four hours.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole