The phrase "a mode of existence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a particular way of living or being, often in philosophical or existential contexts.
Example: "The artist embraced a mode of existence that prioritized creativity and self-expression above all else."
Alternatives: "a way of life" or "a state of being."
As a coffee-table topper, her epigrammatic prescriptions and sepia-toned photos are quaint, and she writes that she intends to share "a mode of existence and attitude about life".
This memoir mourns a mode of existence that was endangered at the time, is a near-impossibility now, and was perhaps never much more than a dream: a life of the mind, lived for and among and with constant reference to books.
The Mendes Wood gallery from São Paulo, for example, offers a concentrated look at the Brazilian Conceptualist Paulo Nazareth, an artist who has, over the past several years, turned a life of being constantly on the move, often on foot, living nowhere and everywhere, into an extended performance piece about ceaseless downsizing as a mode of existence.
It ended with a commandment in capital letters: "DON'T LIE! DON'T PARTICIPATE IN LIES, DON'T SUPPORT A LIE!" The lie, wrote the author of "The Gulag Archipelago", had become "a mode of existence" in the USSR, "incorporated into the state system as the vital link holding everything together".
In the so-called Pyramid Texts (c. 2400 bce), the dead pharaoh seeks to fly up to heaven and join the sun-god Re on his unceasing journey across the sky, incorporated, thus, in a mode of existence beyond change and decay.
The overman represents a form of life, a mode of existence, that is to blossom from the communalized, moralized "last man" of the nineteenth century.
For a writer's language, far from being a mere means of expression, is above all a mode of subjective existence and a way of experiencing the world.
Few medieval texts so effectively communicate the Neoplatonic conception of the existence of a number of planes of being that differ according to their ontological priority, the derivative and inferior ones constituting a reflection in a grosser mode of existence of those that are prior and superior.
In roughly the past 20 years India has changed from being a Nehruvian nation-state - an experiment and ideal in democracy - to a portable mode of existence, as well as a form of self-justification for a curious mixture of free-market opportunism and a slyly conservative provincialism.
Depending on their location and size, insertions and deletions can have a significant effect on the structure and function of proteins, resulting in significant diversity and reflecting the adaptation of an organism to a specific mode of existence or environment [ 12, 13].
To begin with, he adopted what is known as the fictum-theory, a theory according to which universals have no "real" existence at all in the Aristotelian categories, but instead are purely "intentional objects" with a special mode of existence; they have only a kind of "thought -reality.
