How to Use existentialism in a Sentence

existentialism

noun

• The types of jobs that live outside of the corporate world seem like a way out of the existentialism for Kpenkaan, too.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2022
• How to make peace with action in the grip of existentialism?
  — Lorraine Hansberry, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2023
• As is often the case, existentialism saves the day here.
  — Michael Nordine, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
• A few minutes of this kind of moody existentialism here and there can add flavor to a stylish genre picture.
  — Noel Murray, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
• And that’s exactly the idea The Good Place tackles—via existentialism, of course.
  — Anne T. Donahue, Marie Claire, 31 Jan. 2019
• In that light, the dizziness and anguish of existentialism were out of fashion.
  — Janet Maslin, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2016
• This way of thinking is what used to be called existentialism, and Mr. Dylan is one of its great products.
  — Adam Kirsch, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2016
• And the history of ideas leading up to existentialism is full of fine-tuning and tangents.
  — Janet Maslin, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2016
• Jazz was so much the language of existentialism--the idea of living in a state of improvisation.
  — Esquire, 29 Jan. 2007
• Work has not remained unscathed, as the pandemic brought into question the purpose of a 9-to-5 and gave rise to a greater existentialism and feeling of malaise.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 18 June 2023
• Other parts of the speech, though—and even that inspirational line, in context—boast a bleak and bracing existentialism.
  — George Blaustein, The New Republic, 2 July 2020
• Ready for another trip to Barbie Land (with a splash of existentialism)?
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• This adage comes from Soren Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher, poet, theologian and the founder of existentialism.
  — kansascity, 30 June 2018
• The first two episodes blend time-travel hijinks and lively existentialism for a very promising start to this latest Disney+ MCU series.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• There’s a fresh kind of writing present in the novel—a spontaneous, ecstatic side of Beauvoir that was reined in by the more dutiful side of her existentialism.
  — Lara Feigel, The New Republic, 26 Nov. 2021
• Herzog has always been attuned to the ways in which survivalism functions as a form of existentialism.
  — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 16 June 2022
• This was always a show about a midlife crisis; the concerns of the children and grandparents orbit Dre’s version of existentialism.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2022
• The philosopher, known as the father of existentialism, saw the world as unavoidable suffering.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2023
• This masterpiece of barroom existentialism cuts gloom with just enough hope to keep the quarters pumping into the jukebox.
  — Rj Smith, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
• Such were the emotions and pretensions of middle-class teenage existentialism in the suburbs of mid-1970s America.
  — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• Movies do existentialism really well, because a glance, a gesture, a mood can often reveal so much that words can’t.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2024
• Camus may have earned his existentialism in the French Resistance.
  — Jack Miles, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2014
• There’s timeless beauty mixed with existentialism at the Louvre, which has mounted a vast survey of the still life genre and how objects communicate.
  — Amy Verner, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2022
• Start with the word salad of Marxism, anarchism, and existentialism.
  — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 4 June 2020
• But Why? has a similar effect: Its concise setting and action, through the simple passage of time, refresh the concept of existentialism.
  — Armond White, National Review, 11 Oct. 2023
• An absurdist indie that pairs existentialism and everything bagels, released way back in March last year, is not just heading for a few possible wins at the Oscars on March 12.
  — Jake Coyle, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2023
• Smaller companies like Jasper, which sells its generative AI tools to business users, are now faced with tech existentialism.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
• These extended from themes such as existentialism and Marxism to modernist techniques like streams of consciousness.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, WSJ, 27 May 2022
• A lucid joint portrait of the writers and philosophers who embodied existentialism.
  — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2016
• The works of 28 other renowned contemporary artists who explore existentialism are displayed throughout the galleries, such as Henri Matisse and Gerhard Richter.
  — Melania Hidalgo, The Cut, 12 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 10 Aug 2024