Sentence examples for existential desire from inspiring English sources

But modern Sweden is infused by a moral logic that seeks to balance the deep existential desire for individual freedom and social cohesion.

Despite the practical aspect of this, when we embrace it with an existential desire for self determination, it can only be misleading.

Her Odette is a woman torn between opposite existential desires: she needs the prince to love her (so that she may be free of her condition as a part-time swan) and she needs too to keep escaping from him.

These individuals appeared to be largely unmovable in their views of ET, probably because the theory has become such a mainstay of their worldview as social-science students that, even if they would like to reject it when confronted with existential threat, this desire is negated by a compulsion to affirm ET as an important worldview component.

He closely associates love and desire with existential confusion.

ANGELS walk among us, at least in Wim Wender's satisfyingly existential drama WINGS OF DESIRE (1987).

Cohen's first collection of stories is as lyrical as it is economical, closely associating love and desire with existential confusion.

This first collection of short fiction explores romantic experience mainly in a male, heterosexual milieu in academia, upscale suburbs and the Upper West Side, closely associating love and desire with existential confusion.

Mr. Selick is hardly a doctrinaire Freudian, but he does grasp the intimate connection between fairy tales and the murky, occult power of longing, existential confusion and misplaced desire.

For Leah, this is both existential condition (witness her desire to remain 18 forever as a way of not forestalling but denying death) and social reality: childless, relatively uncommitted despite being married, she drifts through her life like a spirit or a wraith.

Three Monkeys, in 2008, was the first, a marvellously taut existential drama about denial and desire in which a politician's driver takes the fall when his boss kills a pedestrian while asleep at the wheel.