Sentence examples for existential vulnerabilities from inspiring English sources

Thirty-one yeafterfthe the shah's departure, the mullahs' existential vulnerabilities include the oil-related one central to his giving way.

A tragedy like this brings us face-to-face with our existential vulnerabilities -- vulnerabilities to harm, death, and loss -- and the existential vulnerability of all those we love and, perhaps worst of all, the limitedness or our ability to protect them.

The terrifying existential vulnerability of the Iraqi church reminds me that everything is on the line in trusting so audacious a claim.

In the mid-nineteen-eighties, the sense of existential vulnerability was at least as profound as it is today: nuclear winter loomed, the AIDS epidemic was creating true carnage, and what had become known as the "ozone hole" — a gap in the stratospheric ozone layer over the South Pole — had grown larger than the continent of Antarctica.

Emotional trauma brings us face to face with our existential vulnerability and with death and loss as possibilities that define our existence and that loom as constant threats.

The shattering of these illusions by trauma brings us face to face with our finiteness and our existential vulnerability, and with death and loss as possibilities that define our existence and that loom as constant threats.

We need to be able to bring our feelings of anxiety and existential vulnerability into dialogue with our fellow sufferers, so that these painful feelings can be held and better borne within relationships -- what I call a relational home -- rather than being evaded by means of the grandiose, destructive resurrective ideologies that have been so characteristic of human history.

Losey, a master of downbeat Americana, burrows deep into the hidden intimacies of small-town life to capture a wide range of anxieties — the petty indignities and casual brutalities of childhood, the gnawing frustrations and shameless lies that await in adulthood — and presents the child's vulnerability as the existential condition of modern life.

Aggressive and unsteady, it uses Ms. Spears's slick-surfaced songs and desperate vulnerability as the vehicles for an existential meditation on the confused longings and spiritual emptiness lurking beneath so much of our dazzlingly vacuous public discourse.

It also investigated the extent to which two types of existential beliefs moderated the deleterious effects of perceived vulnerability on depressive symptoms and wellbeing.

Hayward is all existential bravado, Hoare a mixture of unctuous charm and vulnerability.