Sentence examples for existential misery from inspiring English sources

"Goose and Tomtom" foreshadowed the literary freedom and the existential misery of Rabe's masterpiece, "Hurlyburly" (1984).

"Beset by negative thoughts", he explores our culture's various panaceas for existential misery: porn, meditation, exercise, a gratitude journal.

Our wanderer's existential misery is for the first time confronted with real distress, unchosen and stoically borne.

The pages showing Callie running to the baseball field to meet the boy she likes only to find an empty playing field encapsulate young-adult existential misery.

Also take as read the German-owned island, the existential misery of our Tongan waiters, the enforced "native entertainments" on a Sunday evening, and the Americans next door who had brought their own TV.

It's a staggering record: seemingly an almost meaningless nursery rhyme at first listen ("Su-pah-pah! trou-pah-pah!"), but soon revealed to be a tightly wound coil of existential misery, gift-wrapped then tied neatly with the prettiest of bows.

Every so often, Atoms for Peace relocated the songs' existential miseries into the middle of a carnival — as it did during "Unless," with Mr. Refosco working wonders on a tambourine while Mr. Yorke moaned lines like "I know it's useless".

There simply isn't a perfect way to cope with the existential angst, the misery, the loneliness and the all-consuming sadness induced by loss.

Filming on location, Rossellini devotes as much attention to the Italian settings and their cultural treasures as to the characters wandering among them; at Pompeii, the entwined bodies of lovers blasted by Vesuvius put an existential spin on Katherine's misery.

Bogged down by stylistic gimmickry, "Look Both Ways" aims for existential drama but succeeds only in reminding us that misery loves company.

Smile through the misery and the pain and the thousand existential crises you'll face every time you turn up to a club to play records to empty rooms.