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
  • Bringing the iconic Mattel doll and her all-pink world to life, the film explores themes of girlhood, existentialism, feminism and toxic masculinity.
    Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
  • 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

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