The crucial creation of a movie is in the existential act of the director in the composition of the image, which includes working with the actors.
He puts his face, his body, his voice, his own life into his film as an existential act of self-assertion against his effacement by the regime.
It was an existential act, its own justification in a context in which the creative imagination was under extreme pressure in a country in crisis.
His words fell off his tongue in a steady deadpan, almost as if he were engaged in an existential act of alienation.
If we are able today to write literary works with confidence and without apology, it is only thanks to the efforts of our libertarian predecessors; writers who made writing into a an existential act.
Ms. Hartigan, a friend and disciple of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, subscribed to the Abstract Expressionist notion of the painterly brushstroke as existential act and cri de coeur but, like de Kooning, she never broke entirely with the figurative tradition.
The most famous, or infamous, version of this philosophy was Mr. Mailer's controversial 1957 essay "The White Negro," which seemed to endorse violence as an existential act and declared the murder of a white candy-store owner by two 18-year-old blacks an example of "daring the unknown".
This is a book whose implied narratives beguile, whose uncompromisingly eclectic images dazzle, and whose spiritual core commands the existential act of Attention; you must purchase this book, and read it, and treasure it, for a work this perfect comes along but rarely.
Emma Stone playing, Jill, the student who is smitten with Abe, begins to get an idea of what is happening when she discovers a copy of Crime and Punishment and realizes soon after (when an innocent man is charged with the crime) that the existential act "opens the door to murder".
Even her greatest act of existential courage ended in farce.
