Sentence examples for existential weight from inspiring English sources

For him drawing seemed to carry existential weight.

Lily may have weathered a crisis, but it had the existential weight of a feather.

It is hard not to be shaken by the passionate honesty and existential weight of this work.

I'd assign her pilgrimage more existential weight if I didn't know, from her acknowledgments, that it was inspired by friends at a party in 1998.

Indeed, it's stillness more than anything else that tempers this volume; its quiet, forceful poems carry an existential weight that belies their small size.

It lends existential weight to even the simplest, most banal rituals — walking from room to room, looking out a window, reclining on a bench, gazing up at the sky or hearing the splash of water and the echo of footsteps.

Without raising his voice above a murmur, this artist-thinker gives the condition of exile an existential, universalist weight.

I can't think of another movie in which the question of what to do for the summer carries such existential and even epochal weight.

Nolan and Plageman tend to see surveillance as a kind of existential condition — "a crushing weight," as Plageman puts it, "that's just over us all of a sudden".

What stops her from collapsing under the weight of existential angst is a robust sense of humour, which also ensures that the darkness of her novels' subject matter never overwhelms readers.

5) Your level of grooming, body weight, self-esteem and/or existential angst must NOT vary more than plus or minus 10percentt from your normal state in your passport photo.