Sentence examples for existential agony from inspiring English sources

An elegant international machismo offers itself as a palliative for life's existential agony.

While scholars have attributed to the work hidden meanings from political subversion to existential agony, Carroll maintained that it was intended simply as nonsense.

The father of the family is first seen staggering through a glitzy shopping mall in the city, convulsed with physical pain and existential agony, clutching his stomach.

And Mr. Wilson, the aesthete par excellence of avant-garde theater, is a celebrated creator of images that find the elegance in existential agony.

In the tawdry life and violent demise of Bob Crane, star of the television sitcom "Hogan's Heroes," Mr. Schrader has found a subject well suited to his preoccupations with sex, pornography and the existential agony of self-deluded men.

Some of Mr. Queenan's accounts of his travails as a Phillies and Eagles fan are highly amusing, and at his best he articulates with perfect pitch the existential agony of the die-hard fan in all its absurdity and genuine heartache.

Yet Mr. Quinto pierces the sympathetic core of a character tormented by his own failings and by the existential agonies of living in Ronald Reagan's America.

I had stood cloaked in the existential agonies of the Vision, son of a robot and grandson of a lord of the ants.

Her new world of existential vampire agony leads to an attack by domestic cats and spontaneous combustion.

""A return to entheogens for the treatment of psycho-existential suffering may signal that medicine has come full circle to embrace the earliest known approach to healing our deepest of human agonies".".

"A return to entheogens for the treatment of psycho-existential suffering may signal that medicine has come full circle," Blinderman wrote in a commentary published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, "to embrace the earliest known approach to healing our deepest of human agonies, by 'generating the divine within.'".