Sentence examples for existential terror from inspiring English sources
The phrase "existential terror" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to describe a feeling of fear or anxiety stemming from the contemplation of one's existence or purpose in life. Example: As I lay awake in bed, I was overcome with existential terror as I grappled with the meaning of my existence in the vast universe.
Existential terror and the salty language it provokes.
Self-esteem provides psychological protection against existential terror.
But there is one place where existential terror still lurks: the White House.
With the absence of all the obstacles you're used to, there's a sort of existential terror.
A stone keep you were tossed into and simply forgotten about, though — this imparted authentic existential terror.
The blend of midlife crisis and existential terror is reminiscent of the films of Ingmar Bergman, but Tarkovsky makes it a world of his own.
A surprisingly persistent misconception, to this day, is that the real Woody Allen must be broadly the same as his movie persona: the fretful nebbish, plagued by hypochondria, beset by existential terrors, anxious to the point of paralysis.
Whether we recognize it or not, each of us is poised between two existential terrors, that of remaining unknown and unseen, our anguish and our joys without witness, and that of being known so completely that we are left undefended.
For a while Dot, who looks like a would-be Princess Diana -- "the perfect face for her era: tight-lipped, pointy-nosed, pink-skinned, blonde-haired" -- is able to keep her existential terrors at bay, but bit by bit she grows increasingly unhinged.
The book sees them travel across the nation a number of times, stopping in Mexico along the way, getting drunk and high experiencing the glories of freedom and the existential terrors of 1950s America.
David Cameron was at it again this week in his attacks on Isis, saying the extremely violent, brutal, terror group posed an "existential" threat to Britain in "the struggle of our generation".
