Sentence examples for core existential from inspiring English sources

For the future of liberal democracies, even beyond the threat from violent jihadis, this may be the core existential issue.

These questions of meaning, identity and aloneness are core existential, and therefore spiritual, concerns.

Resolving these wildly differing core existential issues "would be more difficult to achieve now than in 2000 (when Camp David II collapsed) considering the Israeli and Palestinian leadership seem more divided and radicalized after the second Intifadah and 9/11".

When the emphasis is on bodily changes, surgical reconstruction, wardrobe changes and the like, which are a major part of an actual gender transition, the core existential issues are minimized.

While either axis would undoubtedly rejoice in Israel's removal from the map, the core existential threat it faces comes from the Iranian axis and its quest for nuclear weapons.

Pitching wildly between the lyrical, the silly and the violent, the novel has "moments that take us to the core of existential American solitude," Sven Birkerts wrote here in 1998.

Polls to priorities, to its existential core, college football is a sport defined by time, place and perspective.

But rather than contending with Hemingway's pared-down, sculptural, quintessentially modernist prose, he fought with the essentially postmodern assumption behind it: that what was written first had to be lived — and picked up on the essentially modernist, existential core of the experience that Hemingway lived and wrote, which is the presence of death.

Conley: Development psychologist Erik Erikson suggested that each of us has an "invariable core" or an "existential identity" that is an integration of the past, present, and future.

The wounded feelings are always being created by the protective, controlling, addictive behaviors we engage in to avoid the painful, existential core feelings.

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