Sentence examples for existential plague from inspiring English sources

Caregivers for Alzheimer's patients, in trying to help their loved ones, experience a range of symptoms that are like an existential plague themselves: exhaustion, depression, insomnia, mind-boggling stress… all while in the midst of the long process of watching someone they knew their whole lives disappear gradually before their eyes.

Like Camus, who published his existential novel The Plague in 1947, making the pestilence a metaphor for fascism, Winsor highlights the relation of the plague to the corruption, cruelty, decadence and exploitation of Restoration London.

But he hasn't covered all his tracks, and the existential questions that plague his celebrity are intensified when he falls in love with Stewart's old girlfriend.

Dogs shame each other for using the word "bitch," pigeons note the subtle flavor of buffalo mozzarella, a bedbug justifies his recent decision to pierce his ear er, antenna but Animals also use the perspectives of characters to explore the existential questions that plague us all.

All the existential questions that plagued Iraq before the surge remain unanswered.

He survived two suicide attempts, and lived for many years in rural Vermont, where through working the land he found an antidote to the depression and existential torments that plagued him.

Upon receiving the opportunity to interview and observe Stodden, I decided to answer the plaguing existential quandary: What is the actual reality of a reality star?

But in recent times it seems to have also become plagued with existential angst as the implications of human ingenuity begin to be (dimly) glimpsed.

By Andy Borowitz Of all the existential questions that have plagued me over the years, none has been more persistent than this: Am I hot or not?

The anxious perfume that saturates this production is a compound of the passion, terror and existential ambivalence that have plagued humans for as long as they have been able to think.

"Nature's Nether Regions is a long-overdue look at the genitals of birds and bees (and everything in between), while Where Do Camels Belong? is the existential question which has plagued philosophers for centuries.