Sentence examples for existential seriousness from inspiring English sources
The reductive palette, which many other artists would adopt, was taken as a sign of existential seriousness.
But a lot of what's here carries a strain of critical fierceness and existential seriousness that has been absent from Japanese work for some time.
Calder took everything seriously except seriousness.
"The pace will depend on their seriousness about the existential nature of this threat," said the official, who appeared in the White House briefing room but could not be identified by name under ground rules set by the White House.
For its part Israel will be gratified that Iran, long its "existential" security issue, is now being treated with equal seriousness by western countries and Russia.
Comic-book films rarely inspire auteur directors to really distinctive results, and you wonder whether a superhero – even if he does have existential traumas and razor-edged adamantium claws – will have the touch of intense seriousness that distinguishes Aronofsky from his contemporaries.
Commenting on the recent apprehension of a 16-year-old girl who attempted to travel from London to Syria, UK Home Secretary Theresa May, too, spoke of "the seriousness of the threat... from IS," casting it in stark, existential terms.
Seriousness is his keynote.
