Sentence examples for existential conundrum from inspiring English sources

What for Hawthorne is an existential conundrum becomes, in Doctorow's hands, a good-­humored jog through Cheever country: perfectly well written, dutiful and lifeless.

But it plainly identifies the existential conundrum that's been driving this series from the beginning: the task of defining Israel's national identity.

The black-and-white images, the sunglasses and cigarettes might impart, to modern eyes, a period flavor, but the basic existential conundrum of life in the media spotlight has hardly changed.

"I only ask because, working in a sixth form college as i do, a student has just handed me an ineptly constructed questionnaire which appears to pose that very existential conundrum.

It's ultimately an existential conundrum that blames nature itself as the source of deadly madness, and even the scene that Kael called "arguably — Hitchcock's worst scene," the psychiatrist's explanation at the end — has a profound place in the schema: the doctor can diagnose and explain a phenomenon that he's seemingly powerless to foresee or cure.

It dramatises bereavement and ruthlessly confronts the desolate survivor with an insistent and overwhelming question: "Where is God?" Lewis's answer to this existential conundrum resonates through the rest of the book with a kind of tangible fury: "Go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find?

The songs take their time but never ramble, as Mr. Toth faces his existential conundrums with something like equanimity.

But "Breaking Bad" is at times weighed down by its ideas, and by the metaphor of chemistry for getting at life's existential conundrums.

I've always been really insecure about what I do, but those existential conundrums are really circuitous and – what's the word?

"The Social Network" does not delve into the impact of social networking as a phenomenon, glancing only obliquely (and not always convincingly) at the existential conundrums of identity on the Internet.

Very little actually occurs in the course of "Vidas Secas," which has led some critics to compare it to the existential conundrums of Samuel Beckett, set in a similar barren world in which the characters, inexplicably, are driven to keep on keeping on.