Sentence examples for existential yearning from inspiring English sources
Notes of existential yearning and a hint of regret.
The show was a recording of Maron's lengthy discussions with fellow comedians about show business, comedy, and existential yearning.
He hasn't lost his earnestness or his existential yearning, but he trades his band's electric rock for acoustic guitars, an occasional mandolin and some unabashed love songs.
For Mullā Ṣadrā, creation represents four journeys: the Fall, in which unity becomes multiplicity is the first, followed by one's earthly journey wherein the pain of separation causes an existential yearning towards one's original abode.
Chris Salveter (of Judson Claiborne) 2/27/10 The haunting timbre of Chris Salveter's voice, paired with his songs about existential yearning and discovery made this session special.
Fortunately, both films share deeper themes: trauma perpetuating trauma, an existential yearning for a meaningful life, and the desire to belong at any cost.
The thirst for fame that burns inside Momma Rose is partly the quasi-existential yearning that haunts any soul hungry for more than the world can give, but it is also born of the all-American glorification of success.
After 30 years of doing the same bad-guy job and never being rewarded for it, Ralph has an existential crisis and yearns to be, for once, the hero.
"Anna in the Tropics" reaches for the artistic heavens -- specifically, that corner of eternity occupied by the plays of Anton Chekhov, where yearning is an existential condition.
I wouldn't even understand there being a permanent one, but at least I wouldn't be plagued with an insistent, existential sense of waste, making me yearn for a giant metaphorical recycling system, probably from Ikea.
Lapsed Latinists, as well as belated would-be Latinists, may be among those most afflicted by the ravelling threat of time — because what could be more apt a metaphor for an existential sense of loss than to yearn to be at home in a language no one really speaks?
