"existential uncertainty" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to a feeling of uneasiness that arises from questioning one's purpose or existence. For example, "The pandemic has brought about feelings of existential uncertainty for many people."
But it was Pinter, more than Beckett, who put postwar existential uncertainty into a domestic context.
"And once that black and white is challenged, it brings us all into this crazy zone of existential uncertainty".
They returned not home, but to a permutation of it, one with an existential uncertainty that is no abstraction.
In this thoughtful, seriously imbalanced comedy, Wendy Wasserstein takes her archetypal heroine (most famously embodied in 1988 in "The Heidi Chronicles") into the fog of menopausal, existential uncertainty.
"She was our generation, and not only that, she was offering us what we wanted," said Mr. Morrison, who gave new lives, full of angst and existential uncertainty, to discarded DC characters like Animal Man and the Doom Patrol.
It does not do away entirely, as was Woolf's intention, with conventional narrative structure — scenes are set with relatively familiar descriptive modes of places, objects, how people are seated — but her doubts mature into a sort of existential uncertainty.
His argument – that political and even existential uncertainty over Vietnam and an apocalyptic arms race provided the perfect backdrop for a cultural flowering – is augmented with a fever dream-like assortment of archive clips.
It was a time of existential uncertainty for Asio, after Whitlam – who had long been suspicious of the agency's scrutiny of some public officials and their staff – announced a royal commission into intelligence and security.
Even when I chafed at its hypocrisies, it somehow always seemed sure, a nation that knew what it was doing, refreshingly free of that anything-can-happen existential uncertainty so familiar to developing nations.
Yet while this Nietzsche, played by Gary Wilmes, is beset by the existential uncertainty that traditionally bedevils Mr. Foreman's characters, an ember of self-awareness, even self-confidence, glows beneath his bleary exterior.
"I believe that the intelligence failure and the sense of existential uncertainty that the war brought served as important lessons for the military enterprise, the understanding of the importance of its mission, and the great responsibility that rests on our shoulders," he wrote.
