Sentence examples for an existential predicament from inspiring English sources

It's an existential predicament".

The book goes on to show and analyze, in detail, Roosevelt's valiant struggle to lead a purposeful life in the face of an existential predicament he did not understand.

With brisk wit and impressive visual brio, "Bolt," directed by Byron Howard and Chris Williams from a script by Mr. Williams and Dan Fogelman, explores an existential predicament that it also shares.

Now, buying out Microsoft, NBC heads firmly into the internet news business: arguably, a more precarious existential predicament even than television news.

Success did not seem to ease Mr. Pekar's existential predicament.

I keep thinking about the existential predicament of working for Time Inc in 2014, as it gets ready to spin out of Time Warner, away from the safety of luxe cable assets, and relaunch itself as a lonely print enterprise.

Indeed, many of the most impressive capabilities of plants can be traced to their unique existential predicament as beings rooted to the ground and therefore unable to pick up and move when they need something or when conditions turn unfavorable.

In hide-and-seek, it's a tragedy if you are not found: this turns out to be the existential predicament of the refugees who populate Ariane Mnouchkine's pageant of the uprooted, "Le Dernier Caravansérail (Odyssées)." The saga, which has a Homeric sweep, is told in two parts and sixty-two scenes over six hours.

This sojourn in 1816, and its aftermath, are the focus of Howard Brenton's bold, freewheeling play 1984 Bloody Poetry, which is revived now by Tom Littler in a production which does richly textured justice both to its rumbustious comedy and its sensitive insights into the tragic existential predicament of this second generation of Romantics.

His themes are diaspora and absurd existential predicaments.

At a deeper level, however, Kennedy's speech was about the nuclear threat, the pursuit of peace over war, and the U.S. relationship with the Soviet Union, because those were the existential predicaments of the second half of the 20th century.