Sentence examples for existential shock from inspiring English sources

To these comments, Herzog adds his own sense of wonder and existential shock.

"It was like an existential shock and one that he never recovered from.

"There is real existential shock here,'' said Sheila Smith, a Japan expert with the Council on Foreign Relations who is currently in Tokyo.

The class, he said, had left many students with an existential case of sticker shock.

In comments addressed more at national leaders than at the MEPs to whom he was speaking, Juncker said that improved cooperation and solidarity between the member states and with Europe's institutions would be essential if the union was to survive existential challenges and the shock of Brexit.

Nesbitt graduated rapidly and convincingly through mild concern, disbelief, shock, despair to existential desolation.

Director Calvin Reeder's work is a mix of underground shock horror and existential atmosphere.

Returning from war and back to the "normal" world was beyond a culture shock, it was an existential soul-shaking shock.

While many politicians pay lip service to the existential urgency of the climate crisis, as soon as another more immediate crisis rears its head — war, a market shock, an epidemic — climate reliably falls off the political map.

Existential compromises fascinated Crane.

Cattrall: "It's existential".