Sentence examples for sheer existential from inspiring English sources
In fact, there's something about these familiar narratives that exquisitely embodies the hysterical excess, madness and sheer existential nihilism of the moment.
"Valdés's voice embodies a ferocious vitality and sheer existential appetite that can't be reduced to any ideology," Jennifer Schuessler said here in 2002.
But at her best -- in some passages here and on just about every pitch-black page of "Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada" -- Valdés's voice embodies a ferocious vitality and sheer existential appetite that can't be reduced to any ideology.
Setting yourself up as a self-appointed style court is one way of managing the sheer existential terror of not being able to control everybody and everything at all times.
This, from a citizen of a nation first forcibly grabbed and then reshaped by immigrants, struck me as a statement that was as lacking in compassion for and consideration as it was loaded with sheer existential dumbness.
Its scale may feel Biblical, but it doesn't risk the crises and ecstasies, the sheer moral turbulence provoked by existential menace (cf. "Noah").
And, it absolutely bares on the ability to tackle other existential issues such as climate change by the sheer nature of being able to analyze the real facts, act without bias and, do so swiftly and decisively.
What if its act of terrorism was an acte gratuit, an action undertaken for the sheer hell of it, with no motive other than curiosity or existential self-affirmation by dint of the act itself?
But I have an alternative explanation: Adaline's sheer blandness was excreted into her bloodstream like pus and she became mummified in existential dullness.
Sheer fear, sheer terror.
