Sentence examples for existential longings from inspiring English sources

They're full of restless journeys and existential longings, with a few hints of romance.

So even though kids are great -- they satisfy our existential longings, and we love them, and it's one of the most profound experiences -- they are stressful for marriages.

From pared down fashions of the street to the needle-worn fingers of the genius ateliers, the fluid prose and existential longings of its literary heroes, to the directness of its people and the Haussmann-ised regality of its design, Paris and its inhabitants often evoke a hyper-romanticised, microcosmic world of simple beauty that, still, seems the envy of so many.

Periodic intrusions of authentically terrible Italian pop songs add to the sense of vaguely existential longing.

And I think it's a profound existential longing that we all share now and that we have to confront.

What's nice about existential longing is its one-size-fits-all quality -- how universal it is and how elastic it can be.

Snapshots of existential longing -- Keith Richards meets Richard Ford -- generally do not threaten the sales of Eminem and Beyoncé, but the Fountains are trying to take the novelty out of their act.

Channel Orange has themes of unrequited love, sex, and existential longing.

She summed it all up in an existential longing: The bottom line I think...is some kind of thirst for love (sighing).

Romeo's existential loneliness and longing were defined with considerable tonal subtlety, eventually combining with the brilliant revelries at the Capulets' Ball to intoxicating effect.

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.