"existential predicament" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a difficult situation or dilemma that a person is forced to confront. For example: Corbin was struggling to make sense of his existential predicament as he weighed the pros and cons of his major life decisions.
It's an existential predicament".
Success did not seem to ease Mr. Pekar's existential predicament.
Now, buying out Microsoft, NBC heads firmly into the internet news business: arguably, a more precarious existential predicament even than television news.
Indeed, many of the most impressive capabilities of plants can be traced to their unique existential predicament as beings rooted to the ground and therefore unable to pick up and move when they need something or when conditions turn unfavorable.
The book goes on to show and analyze, in detail, Roosevelt's valiant struggle to lead a purposeful life in the face of an existential predicament he did not understand.
With brisk wit and impressive visual brio, "Bolt," directed by Byron Howard and Chris Williams from a script by Mr. Williams and Dan Fogelman, explores an existential predicament that it also shares.
His themes are diaspora and absurd existential predicaments.
At a deeper level, however, Kennedy's speech was about the nuclear threat, the pursuit of peace over war, and the U.S. relationship with the Soviet Union, because those were the existential predicaments of the second half of the 20th century.
Because noir stories so frequently focused on a character's attempt to prove his innocence of a crime, authors like Cornell Woolrich ("The Black Curtain") and John Franklin Bardin ("The Deadly Percheron") found amnesia a useful method in their novels for upping the existential ante on the hero's predicament: the sufferer can't even prove he's not guilty to himself.
By giving affirmation, listening to patients' stories, being there and trying to help patients move forward, healthcare professionals can support them in gaining greater existential certainty in their uncertain life predicament.
Together, they constitute an existential vise — the wretched grip that enforces our predicament".
