Sentence examples for existential adventure from inspiring English sources

What's missing from the movie is the existential adventure that it implies — the confrontation with death, the overcoming of pain.

In Collins's vision, the life of a black person — in particular, of a black woman — is a perilous existential adventure.

What's missing from the movie is the existential adventure that it implies the confrontation with death, the overcoming of pain.

The point isn't to be smug about the ignorance or insensitivity of the movie critics of 1954, but, rather, to turn the mirror on criticism itself, which, if it's worth anything, looks at the current cinema with the future of the cinema in mind and seeks the existential adventure of considering, understanding, and exalting what, in the moment, will be enduring.

We were just two guys sticking our hands in the dirt, growing vegetables for the first time on this small plot of land, but the whole experience continually revealed itself as this surprisingly existential adventure.

He replaced the actor chosen for the lead, Ben Johnson, with himself and proceeded to embark on a series of existential adventures which left even the nouvelle vague well behind.

The frontier is internal; the adventure is existential.

We trudged through first grade adventures, childhood existential crises (what if I'm not always happy?!) and life experiences I had never been through myself but found ways to empathize with through these characters.

Set in England, this family drama opens out into an adventure story with existential overtones.

It's a strange, bold, dark book that manages to be a rollicking adventure and an existential treatise at once.

For all the real-life daring that went into this improvisational adventure, the sense of the existential, of the moment-to-moment and real-time immediacy, is strangely missing.