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conundrums 49 Dostoevskian 49 profundity 49 subtextual 49 insolvable 49 impermanence 49 rumination 49 Herzogian 49 Lacanian 49 irresolvable 49 doubleness 49 Oedipal 49 deracination 49 absurdist 49 thuddingly obvious 49 neuroses 48 metafiction 48 existential anguish 48 lonesomeness 48 moral dilemmas 48 psychological underpinnings 48 anomie 48 deux ex machina 48 Therein lays 48 unnamable 48 ennui 48 murderousness 48 ambivalences 48 perpetual adolescence 48 Absurdist 48 otherness 48 evanescence 48 nihilism 48 pensiveness 48 adolescent angst 48 ineffable 48 insubstantiality 48 everydayness 48 solipsist 48 thumos 48 unfulfilled desires 48 messianism 47 Oedipus complex 47 rootlessness 47 self actualizing 47 unbearable lightness 47 boundlessness 47 loneliness 47 biblical allegory 47 objective correlative 47 formlessness 47 inwardness 47 existential quandaries 47 fleshly 47 interiority 47 millenarianism 47 ruminations 47 bleakly comic 47 dialectic 47 metaphorical 47 problematics 47 Conradian 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neediness 45 wishfulness 45 monomaniac 45 neurotic 45 transcendent 45 Bildungsroman 45 unnameable 45 Jewishness 45 incommunicable 45 Kantian 45 Messianism 45 meta textual 45 documentarylike 45 moral dilemma 45 dukkha 45 ineffably sad 45 absurdist humor 45 catharsis 45 inner torment 45 enfeeblement 45 aloneness 45 animality 45 tragicomic 45 incommensurability 45 aching loneliness 45 Dr. Melfi Lorraine 45 loneliness alienation 45 limn 45 threnody 45 dualities 45 clashing civilizations 45 attitudinizing 45 puzzlements 45 knottier 45 epiphanies 45 dilemmas 45 poetics 45 contraries 45 Altmanesque 45 discursive 45 serio comic 45 Chekhovian 45 unsolvable 45 archetypally 45 avoids sentimentality 45 Beckian 45 unresolvable 45 formless 45 epistemology 44 idealization 44 delusory 44 inconsolable grief 44 cogitation 44 irresolution 44 moral ambiguities 44 liminality 44 monologuing 44 Hemingwayesque 44 Israeliness 44 Metaphorically 44 Europeanness 44 irreducible 44 ponderable 44 Freudian theory 44 darkly comical 44 pragmatics 44 epiphanic 44 mundanity 44 Lasdun 44 contemplations 44 strange juxtapositions 44 Hegel dialectic 44 fleetingness 44 absurdist comedy 44 quiddity 44 inseparability 44 grand guignol 44 postmodern pastiche 44 Chandleresque 44 reified 44 outsiderness 44 ludic 44 Weltschmerz 44 subconsciousness 44 phantasmal 44 imperial overreach 44 surrealistic 44 Faustian tale 44 autobiographically 44 dadaist 44 Guattari 44 commonplaces 44 Simone Weil 44 quasi mystical 44 slackerdom 44 essentialism 44 freakiness 44 similes metaphors 44 Erich Fromm 44 moral quandary 44 reductively 44 Weltanschauung 44 quasi autobiographical 44 virgin whore 44 ominousness 44 comically absurd 44 atomised society 44 individuation 44 neo Ottoman 44 melancholy 44 naturalistic worldview 44 dialectically 44 catastrophizing 44 hyperreality 44 mundaneness 44 commodity fetishism 44 vitalism 44 readerly 44 antiheroic 44 teleology 44 repetition compulsion 44 mimesis 44 dualism 44 internalized homophobia 44 cosmogony 44 moral quandaries 44 rivetingly 44 Amar Kaul 44 neurotics 44 paranoias 44 naïf 44 ineluctable 44 Ophüls 44 essayistic 43 premonitory 43 Lynchian 43 Kubrickian 43 childhood traumas 43 allegories 43 dialectical 43 idée fixe 43 mordant humor 43 pseudo intellectualism 43 ponderings 43 auteurism 43 irreconcilability 43 transcendentalism 43 absurdity 43 philosophising 43 hyper individualism 43 utter inanity 43 inexpressible 43 amour fou 43 Platonic 43 foreignness 43 emotional catharsis 43 archetypal 43 metafictional 43 unintelligibility 43 Arthur Schopenhauer 43 uninflected 43 Manichaean 43 self reflexive 43 subtext 43 supernatural overtones 43 Hegelian dialectic 43 irresolvable conflict 43 Postmodernists 43 Materialists 43 warring impulses 43 maudlin sentimentality 43 religio 43 abstract notions 43 Cold Souls 43 reductive 43 constructivists 43 '#s psychedelia 43 transcendant 43 Apollonian 43 Anouilh 43 neuralgic 43 post structuralist 43 apocalyptic 43 nouveau roman 43 repressed sexuality 43 antinomy 43 experiencer 43 Herein lays 43 dreaminess 43 spiritual emptiness 43 emotionally stunted 43 Hitchcockian 43 antipode 43 trans generational 43 catharses 43 allegorical tale 43 imaginary 43 conceit 43 theatrical artifice 43 eternal 43 knowingness 43 disjunctions 43 unflinching realism 43 Manichean 43 nihilistic 43 von Trotta 43 simplicities 43 sociological 43 inexorable logic 43 intellectual 43 O'Rowe 43 tragical 43 naive idealism 43 Eurabian 43 grandiose fantasies 43 positivist 43 seemingly unsolvable 43 sublimity 43 jarring juxtapositions 43 unlived 43 eschatological 43 raw nerved 43 ideational 43 transfigures 43 Homeric epic 43 philosophical musings 43 interrogative 43 inconsequence 43 impassivity 43 Wherein lies 43 intractability 43 moral 43 sheer absurdity 43 dryly witty 43 moral vacuity 43 nuclearized Iran 43 exilic 43 pathological narcissism 43 gratuitousness 43 nature morte 43 elegiac 43 Python esque 43 changeless 43 gestalt 43 primordially 43 darknesses 43 dystopian vision 43 archetypical 43 Baudrillard 43 essentialist 43 Thanatos 43 protagonists 43 tragi comedy 43 Kore eda 43 Cotard 43 Žižek 43 incomprehensibility 43 bottomless depths 43 phantasmagoric 43 socio politico 43 unreason 43 wonderings 43 ressentiment 43 pointlessness 43 originary 43 overfamiliarity 43 intuited 43 temporariness 43 eternal truths 43 weighty 42 expressionist 42 eros 42 phantasy 42 inner demons 42 psychoanalytic 42 masturbatory fantasy 42 humor pathos 42 turpitude 42 Socratic dialogue 42 adolescent awkwardness 42 Jewish peoplehood 42 foregrounding 42 quarterlife crisis 42 unrepressed 42 urgencies 42 emancipatory 42 paranoid delusion 42 kairos 42 belabors 42 Thematically 42 absurdism 42 metaphorical meanings 42 morality 42 uncanniness 42 unipolarity 42 liminal 42 unanswerable 42 EM Cioran 42 moral ambiguity 42 Nature abhors 42 easeful 42 costumed vigilante 42 Dadaist 42 seeming randomness 42 G dly 42 essentialness 42 Jungian archetypes 42 knee jerk anti Americanism 42 illuminative 42 escapism 42 illusionism 42 othering 42 artifice 42 universal truths 42 phantasm 42 Rabbi Soloveitchik 42 ineffable mystery 42 demiurge 42 postmodernity 42 sociopathy 42 cosmic 42 postmodernism 42 semiotic 42 sophistries 42 fanatical fundamentalism 42 Monica Vitti 42 woundedness 42 obsessive preoccupation 42 ironist 42 weltanschauung 42 Husserl 42 simplemindedness 42 aleatory 42 phenomenological 42 Nietzche 42 Lyotard 42 subtexts 42 introspective 42 effaces 42 shapelessness 42 offhandedness 42 philosophize 42 miserablism 42 dreamworld 42 humanness 42 collective subconscious 42 pantomimic 42 elemental 42 moral obtuseness 42 Übermensch 42 dybbuk 42 clichéd 42 La Moustache 42 literal mindedness 42 Pinteresque 42 facetiousness 42 bashert 42 Faulknerian 42 Kavenna 42 impressionistic portrait 42 existential emptiness 42 Javier Marías 42 littleness 42 escapist fantasy 42 beatitude 42 morality tales 42 unbearable heaviness 42 allegorically 42 intellectualization 42 universals 42 Mobius strip 42 ethical conundrums 42 neo Ottomanism 42 purgatorial 42 Thereby hangs 42 conundrums 42 Existentialism 42 subjectivist 42 human frailty 42 darker undercurrents 42 queerness 42 unknowable 42 agon 42 phantasms 42 singularity 42 self abnegating 42 foreshadowings 42 jouissance 42 Freudianism 42 paradoxical 42 melancholia 42 intellectualizing 42 unbearably sad 42 utopian socialism 42 introspection 42 Otherness 42 earthly existence 42 loneliness boredom 42 Dantean 42 enervation 42 aimlessness 42 Hegelian 42 philosophizes 42 fetishization 42 etymological 42 Capra esque 42 ponderousness 42 neurasthenic 42 Zen koans 42 grotesqueness 42 Manichean worldview 42 religionist 42 historiographical 42 Nihilism 42 homoerotic subtext 42 hopelessness helplessness 42 dualistic 42 temperamentally inclined 42 subconscious 42 unfulfillment 42 paranoiac 42 nonlinear storytelling 42 Stuhlbarg 42 irreconcilable contradictions 42 dreamscape 42 introspectively 42 auteurist 42 Shakespearean proportions 42 incommensurable 42 nameless narrator 42 triteness 42 narrative coherence 42 mawkishly 42 Treslove 42 preachiness 42 hokiness 42 strangeness 42 prefiguring 42 sublime silliness 42 Henckel von Donnersmarck 42 utopian ideals 42 Sovietism 42 ideologic 42 illimitable 42 Utopianism 42 nebulousness 42 chosenness 42 Homo economicus 42 Etzioni Halevy 42 wistful melancholy 42 rampant misogyny 42 mordant 42 Elric brothers 42 mindscape 42 plot contrivances 42 philosophical naturalism 42 joylessness 42 Oedipal complex 42 unasked question 42 Existentialist 42 causeless 42 unsatisfyingly 41 œuvre 41 filmic 41 Marxist dialectic 41 Twilight Zone ish 41 solipsism 41 implacability 41 Godardian 41 neo isolationism 41 neshama 41 darker impulses 41 woolgathering 41 Felliniesque 41 Hobbesian 41 atavistic 41 scientific rationalism 41 frivolousness 41 philosopher Hannah Arendt 41 transpersonal 41 declinist 41 foreordained 41 Jürgen Habermas 41 literary allusions 41 societal 41 distractedness 41 throughline 41 laceratingly 41 eschaton 41 dialectical materialism 41 perplexity 41 self actualization 41 po mo 41 alienation 41 darkly ironic 41 ravishment 41 omnipotent omnipresent 41 temporality 41 Zionist expansionism 41 stark realism 41 Cinematically 41 unutterable 41 tormented souls 41 Larry Gopnik 41 idealising 41 Ballardian 41 allusion 41 negritude 41 narrative 41 artspeak 41 avant gardism 41 disjunction between 41 somber underworld Jetsons 41 thoroughly engrossing 41 Richard Linklater Slacker 41 visceral immediacy 41 elliptically 41 incoherency 41 romantic yearnings 41 Baruch Spinoza 41 protagonist 41 idealizations 41 esoteric 41 Socratic questioning 41 vapidness 41 hyperreal 41 preoccupations 41 ruminative 41 Kierkegaard 41 uptightness 41 Svich 41 poetic 41 repressed desires 41 unrelieved 41 unflinchingly honest 41 powerlessness 41 ominous foreboding 41 reactionism 41 blackly funny 41 Americanness 41 familial discord 41 accumulates Shourd 41 Wellesian 41 postcolonialism 41 Victorianism 41 macrocosm 41 dualisms 41 orientalism 41 spiritual 41 psychodrama 41 heteronormativity 41 introversion 41 veers perilously close 41 Fermi Paradox 41 angsty 41 seemingly irresolvable 41 darkly satirical 41 ripping yarn 41 philosophical treatises 41 self lacerating 41 monstrousness 41 sophist 41 Rugged individualism 41 Cameronism 41 Sartre 41 midlife crises 41 confronting 41 demoniacal 41 AJAXWorld Magazine liked 41 graspable 41 intertextuality 41 suburban ennui 41 fabulism 41 irresistibly drawn 41 Lovecraftian horror 41 mismatched lovers 41 depthless 41 unaffecting 41 reductionism 41 Appelfeld 41 discontents 41 lovelessness 41 unspoken truths 41 punctiliousness 41 Strangelovian 41 memento mori 41 anatomical physiological 41 anthropologic 41 Vertov 41 mythic 41 unquestioning allegiance 41 declinism 41 sensate 41 psychoanalyzing 41 Pensacola Fla. Jena Passut 41 determinists 41 corporeality 41 inextricably entangled 41 blankness 41 holism 41 dystopias 41 Kehlmann 41 uncinematic 41 unappeasable 41 surrealism 41 epistemic closure 41 MovieRetriever 41 millennialist 41 Virilio 41 unuttered 41 macabre fascination 41 narcotized 41 Merleau Ponty 41 bildungsroman 41 Mutually Assured Destruction 41 utter uselessness 41 soullessness 41 preconscious 41 deftly sidesteps 41 gnosis 41 tragi comic 41 Parmenides 41 idealized notions 41 plangent 41 sententious 41 illusional 41 subjectivities 41 millennial 41 transcendentalist 41 folie à deux 41 maximalism 41 artificiality 41 fretfulness 41 instrumentalization 41 raison d' état 41 dichotomies 41 autobiographical monologue 41 rhetorical 41 ambiguousness 41 hopelessly intertwined 41 hellishness 41 Paul Virilio 41 perfervid 41 abjectness 41 liminal space 41 psychoanalytic theory 41 metaphysic 41 philosophical rumination 41 quirkyalone 41 timeless fable 41 dailiness 41 filmmaker Neil LaBute 41 bi polarity 41 gnosticism 41 deftly captures 41 Larry Gopnik Michael Stuhlbarg 41 Judeo centric 41 admonitory 41 choiceless 41 inherent contradictions 41 cartoonishness 41 aperçu 41 desolating 41 unanswerable question 41 maladjustments 41 meta narrative 41 melancholic 41 ill omened 40 datedness 40 excursus 40 positivistic 40 acuteness 40 unsettlement 40 slapstick silliness 40 apocalyptical 40 existentialist philosopher 40 delightfully wicked 40 communality 40 foregrounded 40 portentous 40 sadnesses 40 Stavans 40 acedia 40 Bob Dolgan Have 40 utter impossibility 40 Satan incarnate 40 Wieseltier 40 bathos 40 weirdnesses 40 Hogarthian 40 affectless 40 madonna whore 40 unquestioning belief 40 inexhaustibly 40 postmodernist 40 character arcs 40 Soren Kierkegaard 40 Treplev 40 ratlike 40 opiated 40 cosmological 40 self exculpation 40 endless repetition 40 Sherie Rene 40 staginess 40 philosophical underpinning 40 faddishness 40 overfamiliar 40 Brooksian 40 sounding corny 40 Russianness 40 fictive 40 Hazel Motes 40 Batuman 40 escapist fiction 40 seeming contradictions 40 Shakespearean drama 40 abstruse 40 Mitteleuropa 40 superficialities 40 nothingness 40 fin de siecle 40 deliciously subversive 40 war famine pestilence 40 hermeneutics 40 moral exhibitionism 40 referents 40 Suffused 40 psychopathologies 40 spiritual yearnings 40 unending 40 human fallibility 40 somnambulist 40 Naivete 40 utter disinterest 40 sexlessness 40 overweening pride 40 barrenness 40 egoic 40 unbridgeable divide 40 fatalism 40 futuristic dystopian 40 narcissistically 40 sentimentalizes 40 navel gazing 40 strangely symbiotic 40 mordantly funny 40 obliviousness 40 delicious ironies 40 genuine pathos 40 knottiest 40 deftly woven 40 Aristotle Poetics 40 epiphany 40 terminological 40 depersonalisation 40 psychological traumas 40 Martin Heidegger 40 protag 40 liberatory 40 lovesickness 40 fevered imagination 40 reflexivity