Sentence examples for existential themes from inspiring English sources

But he always tackled big and existential themes.

Few in the mainstream "Stronger In" campaign bother to grapple with such existential themes.

Her novels expound the major Existential themes, demonstrating her conception of the writer's commitment to the times.

Perhaps in response to postwar realism, he abandoned symbolism for direct language and existential themes in the volumes Quaderno gotico (1947; "Gothic Notebook"), Primizie del deserto (1952; "First Fruits of the Desert"), and Onore del vero (1957; "Honour of Truth").

Stoppard's work has long focused on grand, existential themes, so the subject is fitting: when conversation turns to the Hard Problem, even the most stubborn rationalists lapse quickly into musings on the meaning of life.

Billed as a comedy, the show has a polarizing protagonist and touches on dark, existential themes with lots of Mr. White's brand of often hard-to-watch humor (the kind he displayed in the 2000 film "Chuck and Buck") mixed in.

The monitoring of the lives of others in an age of warrantless wiretapping is an existential theme here, if only lightly touched on.

One existential theme that recurs throughout is that Ms. Rodham views herself as an "actor," meaning a student activist committed to a life of civic action, which she contrasts with Mr. Peavoy, who, in her view, is more of an outside critic, or "reactor".

The experience of anxiety also yields the existential theme of the absurd, a version of what was previously introduced as alienation from the world (see the section on Alienation above).

Among the finest of these ambitious works is the drybrush oil drawing on unprimed paper, "Omnia vanitas" of the late 1640s/early 1650s in which the artist deals with the existential theme of transience.

Lyrically, the album generally discusses sexual and romantic themes, with existential subject matter on some songs.