Sentence examples for existential grief from inspiring English sources

Mazzantini's message -- that those most alien to us may assuage our existential grief -- is no less ridiculous; no less true either.

This was a time when the helicopters flew over LA dumping malathion on the medflies, but it's an earthquake that strikes in the middle of their mischief, covering up the murder and blanketing the city in existential grief.

The suggestion that one must either give in to existential grief until it numbs you or embrace God as the only Salvation is IMHO untrue.

These and other findings (like this one about how FB damages romantic relationships) add to the widespread existential grief among the 500 million people who use FB, and many I-told-you-sos from the millions who do not.

3. "Tokyo Story" (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953) - Contrary to popular belief, Ozu's tale of parental abandonment and existential grief in postwar Japan is not the inspiration for Pixar's "Toy Story"; it is, however, the third greatest film of all time, according to Sight & Sound.

Events like this one and other phenomena that have followed – bi-weekly E. coli outbreaks in Scotland, Instagram's gamification of lunch, Jamie Oliver's incessant fat-tongued haranguing of schoolchildren – have undermined our confidence in British food, making us peer with existential grief into both ourselves and our fridges.

When you are unwilling to feel the deep existential feelings of loneliness, heartbreak, grief and helplessness over others, you may abandon yourself to avoid these feelings -- by staying in your head rather than being present in your body, by numbing out with substance and process addictions, by judging yourself or by making others responsible for your painful feelings.

This existential moment comes to grief pages later when he is eaten by a passing blue beast with a snappy jaw.

Though Johnson and Robert Kennedy remained poisonous political rivals, the grief and existential soul-searching precipitated by his brother's assassination transformed a thuggish attorney-general and protector of the family crown into a champion of the underdog, regardless of colour and class, for the rest of his short life.

To have so much and still feel grief is an existential torment all its own.

As the novel progresses, it becomes not only an intriguingly original existential mystery but a nuanced portrait of grief and parenthood, marriage and intimacy, and the boundaries erected to protect and defend the self.