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Angry Young Man

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Angry Young Man (plural Angry Young Men)

(literature) Any of a group of mostly working-class and middle-class British playwrights and novelists who rose to prominence in the 1950s, their works being characterized by harshness, realism, and disillusionment with traditional norms.

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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. Billie Joe Armstrong

Jackson Pollock who pioneered splatter painting, dispensing with a paint brush altogether, soon became lionized as the angry young man in a large spread in Life Magazine. Source: Internet

The film was a sharp contrast to the romantically themed films that had generally preceded it and established Amitabh in a new persona—the "angry young man" of Bollywood cinema. Source: Internet

His obituary in The Times in 1962 described him as "an angry young man of the generation before they became fashionable", and who '" remained something of an angry old man to the end". Source: Internet

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