Recreation and religion, and their intertwining, are the DNA of his worlds: the tedium of existence forces us toward "fun"; fun becomes the basis of our faith.
My fear of Barney is more profound than my quest for frights, because Barney's existence forces me to question my credibility as a critic and a viewer.
Perhaps knowingly, perhaps not, they are summoning into existence forces with powers they do not understand and no democracy should allow.
Its "squalid and farcical" view of human existence forces us "to struggle hard" to make his own slowly apparent optimism seem anything more than anodyne consolation.
The Fordo plant also has elevated distrust of Iran because the plant's construction had been kept a secret until Western intelligence confirmation of its existence forced the Iranians to acknowledge the plant in September 2009, just as President Obama and European allies were announcing it.
The AFL's existence forced the conservative NFL to expand to Dallas and Minnesota in an attempt to destroy the new league.
His own continued existence forces him to be a self-reliant creature, and so he becomes a self-preserving, self-regulatory creature as well.
Second, heterogeneity could not be eliminated, its existence forced us to use a relatively conservative random effect model.
Many are fighting for their existence today, either being forced to closed or being run entirely by volunteers.
It may be true, as Duffy says, that new modes of writing are being forced into existence by the busy fingers of the Facebook generation.
■ Son of Saul (winner) ■ Taxi Tehran ■ Youth ■ A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Contemplating Existence ■ Force Majeure Last year was an exceptional one for this category: Leviathan and Ida are contenders for the best film of all time, let alone just not in English and released in 2015.
