Sentence examples for existential thoughts from inspiring English sources

Then you have existential thoughts.

A mild comic charge arises in seeing a felt puppet express existential thoughts.

We have a man up there, having these existential thoughts, talking to God, expecting to experience divine grace, and the woman is down below.

(Try not to entertain existential thoughts about how you just spent the last two minutes of your life. Better still, hand the app to your children when they face their next existential crisis).

she seemed self-conscious, as if the endeavour was giving her troubling existential thoughts: questions such as "Who am I?" and "What are we doing?" "I'm having a hard time with this," she said.

They look at each other shyly and touch tenderly during their Paris cinq à sept, exchange some existential thoughts under exquisite chandeliers, and — tant pis — go their separate ways.

Rather than hinting at some challenging existential thought, this calls to mind a boring domestic ritual.

On television, the frenetic energy of the hospital may spell entertainment, but on the page it has become food for the increasingly sober existential thought.

Dr. Kern published books with The Johns Hopkins U. Press (on French Dramatic Theory); Yale U. Press (on Existential Thought and Fictional Technique); Columbia U. Press (on Farcical Laughter); Prentice Hall (on Sartre Criticism).

Mr. Kolitz also wrote several works of fiction and Jewish philosophy, including "The Tiger Beneath the Skin: Stories and Parables of the Years of Death" (Creative Age Press, 1947), "Survival for What?" (The Philosophical Library, 1969), "The Teacher: An Existential Approach to the Bible" (Jason Aronson, 1982) and "Confrontation: The Existential Thought of Rabbi J. B. Soloveitchik" (Ktav, 1993).

The nonstory of two tramps at loose ends in a landscape barren of all but a single tree, amusing or distracting themselves from oppressive boredom while they wait for a mysterious figure who never arrives, the play became the ur-text for theatrical innovation and existential thought in the latter half of 20th century.