Sentence examples for existential role from inspiring English sources

In hiding, too, literature played an existential role.

I wanted to tell Tosia, 'Don't give up too soon.' " In hiding, too, literature played an existential role.

Her death, at eighty-two, marks the end of an era in the divided, then reunified Germany—an era in which literature played an existential role.

Her death, at eighty-two, marks the end of an era in the divided, then reunified Germany — an era in which literature played an existential role.

He has the requisite terseness for the existential-cowboy role, and he never overplays his hand.

The text spoke to the first author and her pre-understandings (existential and professional role as a district nurse) made the text understandable.

Calling for a "new existentialism," John Haugeland (1998) has explored the role of existential commitment in scientific practices as truth-tracking practices.

Yet in today's crowded marketplace of international organisations, the Commonwealth is caught in an existential crisis about its role.

But while the UK is sucked into an existential debate about its role in the world, the question that really matters in the short term is whether this weekend's deal will safeguard the euro.

As with earlier problems concerning the role of existential quantification in supervaluationism, one can debate whether this is a consequence to be embraced or an untoward consequence undermining the theory being advanced.

With both federal research institutions and private companies pursuing artificial intelligence breakthroughs at breakneck speed, the federal government is frankly having a bit of an existential crisis about its role in research efforts and the priorities it has for what AI research should look like.