As Obama put it himself, decades later, "I was leading an ascetic existence, way too serious for my own good".
Sheik Abdul-Rahman and his cousins say they, like many other Sunni Arabs, are still engaged in a fight for their existence, way of life and what they view as their fair share of power in the new Iraq.
"If the traditional music business was in existence the way it existed in 1975, we'd be in fine shape," Mr. Chambers said, explaining why digital distribution has become necessary for his company.
He couldn't stand my haphazard existence, the way I never hung up my clothes or made the bed or opened my mail or ran an errand.
" For Ms. Gerzina, Burnett's love of gardening was a symbolic ordering of her existence, a way of "wrestling with life itself and emerging victorious".
The voyage was a watershed moment for Hawaii, whose people have been slowly pulling their trampled folkways back into existence, the way fishermen in Pacific mythology were thought to have pulled whole islands from the depths.
Ms. Vanzant is able to create these disruptions because she largely erases the force fields people keep around themselves merely by acknowledging these barriers' existence, that way robbing them of effectiveness.
In "Walking Out the Dark" Mr. Brown plumbs the depth of human existence by way of a ritualistic structure derived from his personal experience and contact with contemporary African and Cuban dance idioms.
In her visionary poetry, Dickinson comes close to showing but not telling of that other life located in epilepsy: "And yet – Existence – some way back – / Stopped –struck – my ticking – through".
As we have seen, it is possible to envisage Being as existence by way of the concepts of willing and strife in Levinas.
As the site explodes in popularity, then, what this reveals about users – and perhaps the intolerable nature of modern existence – goes way beyond their naked flesh.
