weltschmerz
- n sadness on thinking about the evils of the world
- Its tacky sub-pop imagery, its dazed passive-aggressive stance, its fixation on teenage weltschmerz, all entitle it to be seen as a mini-trend, linking up with the wider American .
- Koerner's painting did have the heaviness, the harsh humor and the all-pervading weltschmerz which characterized German expressionism in the 1920s.
- One can see why there's a big self-portrait by Philip Guston, full of weltschmerz and peeking nervously over the top of a wall.