Sentence examples for existential isolation from inspiring English sources

It seems to have been a kind of existential isolation: the house is dark, but is it otherwise empty?

Essential to Camus' existential isolation was the discrepancy between the power and beauty of nature, and the desolation of the human condition.

The photograph suggests a kind of existential isolation and malaise, similar to what Mr. Frank represented in his book "The Americans" (1959).

And until we get to the final scenes, the dominant impression is one of claustrophobia, which sits uneasily with an opera that ultimately deals with existential isolation in vast open spaces.

Mr. Kolirin wrings even more visual humor from this contrast by placing the men in the center of the image and ensuring that they don't move for several beats, which locates them in spatial and existential isolation.

Swedes have so little need to depend upon each other financially - in times of illness or unemployment for example - that their social bonds are becoming more voluntaristic, and a sort of existential isolation comes to the fore.

Winter Song, given its London premiere by the BBC Symphony under Anton de Ridder, hints at humanity's existential isolation as pizzicato cellos and basses doggedly pick their way through a miasma of high strings that drifts like snow.

The shots of him alone at his desk, accompanied only by stacks of work and a radio tuned to classical music, touch on an existential kind of isolation.

The musicologist Karol Berger has claimed, boldly but plausibly, that Schubert's cycle is "our civilization's greatest poem of existential estrangement and isolation".

It's not just the settings — deserted small-town streets and drab middle-class interiors — but also the hackneyed, dead-end themes of alienation, isolation, existential despair.

With her director of photography, Bradford Young, who brings soft beauty to every image, Ms. DuVernay uses long shots, a shallow depth of field and punctuating close-ups of Ruby to put her existential and physical isolation into visual terms.