This mixture of anxiety, anomie, alienation and anger is creating a 'perfect storm'

Young Anomic White Novelists

we, like diminished kings or rigidly insecure presidents, are reduced to being overwhelmed by info and interpretation, or else paralyzed by cynicism and anomie, or else--worst--seduced by some particular set of dogmatic talking-points, whether these be PC or NRA, rationalist or evangelical, "Cut and Run" or "No Blood for Oil"

today’s subforties have very different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without even once having loved something more than yourself

America suffers from anomie, an absence of shared norms, as well as alienation--Durkheim as well as Marx

With three kids to support, he dare not venture down the road of anomie and irony and entropy, the Beat road that Kerouac blazed and Pynchon followed.

A techno-pop score, the first unmotivated music in any Jia film, provides a sense of voluptuous anomie, while shots of an empty highway add to the sedated sci-fi quality.

No, a one-man show was the rite of passage that would change my life, rectify years of anomie and assure my appearance in Life magazine.

Durkheimians would here resort to the concept of anomy, signifying a less-than-normal condition of deficient social integration

As the two sides act on mutually incompatible ideas of what is theirs by right, one emphasizing the entitlements of citizenship and the other those of property and market power, inflation may also be considered an expression of anomie in a society which, for structural reasons, cannot agree on common criteria of social justice

the lovesick mosquitos choose their mates haphazardly like the bleary-eyed anomic patrons of a west side singles bar

The fashionable words for this state, in the late twentieth century, are alienation and anomie

From adolescent traumas to adulthood indignities, their anomie has been overdetermined

overcome cultural narcissism and reckon with the anomie of civil war

Wallace finds another way of resisting apocalyptic postmodern anomie