Common themes were isolation, urban anomie, and feelings of being emotionally cold and hollow.

Set on the South Side of Chicago, the play takes on an important, if familiar, topic: the fragmentation of families in the face of urban anomie.

More than a passing nod is made to the Stephen Sondheim who wrote "Company," probably the first and best musical about urban anomie.

How many more comedies of commitment-phobia and urban anomie, how much more tongue-in-cheek, "ironic" brutality, would we have to endure?

And, despite the tired "American Beauty" cliches of soulless suburban anomie (there's no urban or exurban anomie?)

Her death became an indictment of urban anomie.

Amid the urban anomie beyond the windshield, not so far away now from the commuter mayhem, the thesis seems no less fruitless than gun control.

"Mood Swing" has one leg in urban anomie and the other in fantasy, a split that is emphasized by Alex Katz's costumes and set.

This sparse meditation on working and urban anomie focuses on a mechanic and a fruit-seller, and employs stray sounds like car engines and dogs barking.

This poet of urban anomie grew up in rural Malaysia, one of seven children born to Chinese immigrant farmers.