Sentence examples for affirmation of existence from inspiring English sources

The very essence of life, I came to learn during those seemingly endless days, is human contact, and the affirmation of existence that comes with it.

Such formally elegant and conceptually intricate gestures are the basis for many of the works, including the Turkish artist Cengiz Çekil's 1976 diary, in which almost every page is stamped "I am still alive today," a heartrending affirmation of existence during a period of political extremism.

But "Regular Singing" also brings to mind two other plays that opened on Broadway in repertory over the weekend: Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" and Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land," works in which even the most banal talk comes to seem like a sad, funny, futile and magnificent affirmation of existence.

The tenets of Rousseau's civil religion include the affirmation of the existence of a supreme being and of the afterlife, the principle that the just will prosper and the wicked will be punished, and the claim that the social contract and the laws are sacred.

Joe immediately grasps this concept, as any true sex addict would, launching into a description of three separate lovers, each of whom meets, for her, a singular and separate emotional need -- nurturance, animalistic sexual desire, and affirmation of her existence as a human being.

Indeed, not only must the conceptual constituents that define the being of something be distinguished from the affirmation of its existence (as in gnoseology), but also the very essence of something must be metaphysically distinguished from its existence.

Denying the existence of an object is thereby taken to be a primitive mental act, parallel to the affirmation of its existence.

Every barbed remark directed at a non-conformist is also an affirmation of his/her existence.

The overwhelming affirmation of the existence of global warming and its harmful consequences to people everywhere leave the Bush administration no recourse but to accept the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty negotiated in 1997 that committed countries to fight warming.

But as we have already seen in his affirmation of the existence of prime matter, Scotus simply denies the unqualified equation of matter with potentiality and form with actuality.

These grieving women willingly step into the arms of monsters and misfits, instigating, provoking and often welcoming physical and sexual violence as an affirmation of their existence.