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Schadenfreude (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː d ən f r ɔɪ d ə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. Tooltip literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.
Misery lit is a literary genre dwelling on trauma, mental and physical abuse, destitution, or other enervating trials suffered by the protagonists or, allegedly, the writer (in the case of memoirs).
Annie Wilkes is a character originating from Stephen King's 1987 novel Misery, in which she acts as one of the two central characters and main antagonist.In 2022, King picked her as his personal favorite character among all those he created in his literary career.
Aibohphobia – a humorous term for the fear of palindromes, which is a palindrome itself. The term is a piece of computer humor entered into the 1981 The Devil's DP Dictionary. [48] Anatidaephobia – the fictional fear that one is being watched by a duck. The word comes from the name of the family Anatidae, and was used in Gary Larson's The ...
Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of the Blackstone Group, has serious concerns about whether the U.S. economy can handle another term under President Joe Biden.
Misery is a 1990 American psychological horror thriller film [4] directed by Rob Reiner from a script by William Goldman, based on Stephen King's 1987 novel of the same name, The plot follows an author who is held captive by an obsessive fan (Kathy Bates) who forces him to rewrite the finale to his novel series.
For a movie billed as a relationship comedy — or rather, a “situationship” comedy, as modern-day dating arrangements go — writer-director Sophie Brooks’ “Oh, Hi!” starts off rather ...
winter misery index AWSSI February 19 2025 A mild winter: In contrast, a swath of the nation's West, upper Midwest and northern New England have had a much milder than usual winter, so far.