Sentence examples for existential wrestling from inspiring English sources

In the process, however, the Kings trashed the closure Alicia achieved after Will's death: all that existential wrestling, the realistic depression, the truth that she'd had to confront that, before Will died, he had hated her.

She saw the film almost exclusively in terms of gender politics, praising its "liberating vision of identity as a performance space, an existential wrestling ring, if you will, in which each of us, if only given the opportunity, can cavort freely in the mask and colored tights of our choosing".

Here's Dargis, in 2006, praising "Nacho Libre" for the film's liberating vision of identity as a performance space, an existential wrestling ring, if you will, in which each of us, if only given the opportunity, can cavort freely in the mask and colored tights of our choosing.

Similarly, Chance's colorful depiction of drug, mixtapes, and existential wrestling shows that religiosity is not limited to the pious.

MANY of Lears's rogues are charming, and I enjoyed learning that board games were introduced to keep young potential gamblers entertained at home, that America added bluffing to the game of poker and that the 1950's existential theologian Paul Tillich wrestled in private with a wild and guilt-plagued sex life.

It switches among memoir, stream-of-consciousness journal and night life survival guide, wrestling with such existential questions as why so many prostrate themselves before the vulgarities of the city's club scene.

You get the impression of someone exercised by the memory of her adoption at a young age, someone wrestling with deep existential doubt while trying to live life to the full.

Because in today's America – wrestling with serious existential doubts about the possibility of harmonious inter-race relations, and beset by the legacies of ill-judged frontier wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere – a film that glorifies settler colonialism evokes a celebrated past and thus becomes a vehicle for present-day celebration.

Just as The Ninth Configuration, with its visions of a lunar crucifixion, wrestled with the existential loneliness of the godless void, so Gravity presents space as a yawning limbo from which only transcendence (philosophical, religious, musical) can save us.

Perel praises the efforts of all these non-monogamists "to tackle the core existential paradoxes that every couple wrestles with — security and adventure, togetherness and autonomy, stability and novelty," and she is careful to remind the squeamish that many of these "romantic pluralists" succeed in maintaining rather higher standards of loyalty and honesty than do their monogamous counterparts.

"What is football actually?" he pondered at one point, as if wrestling with a deep existential complexity.