Volpe began to dabble in somewhat edgier fare, beginning with Pippin, a dark and existential musical inspired by the story of Charlemagne’s rebellious son. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was life reduced to a set of rules, an existential life, a life clarified by the eyes of fathers. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given the existential threat posed by a German bomb, few harbored any qualms about the Allies using theirs first. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As described in chapter 4, many people labeled criminals describe an existential angst associated with their pariah status, an angst that casts a shadow over every aspect of their identity and social experience. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was an uncomfortable time for Livermore, which was suffering through another in a long sequence of existential crises. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Either Google is having an existential crisis, or I am. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Quite an existential dilemma that parrot has put us all in,” Mom says, smiling at him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I pantomime excellent health, existential angst, regret, and an enormous sense of loss, all via a single nod. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Is he saying the right things, or is he letting all his doubt and existential angst shine through? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was a veritable existential identity crisis, a male stripper with more aliases than a covert CIA agent. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He maintained, for example, at one time that all existential propositions are meaningless. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She also plays with to be, the quintessential^ existential verb, to engage our existential puzzlement: Would I then be someone else or would I just no longer be?... The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

McCandless wasn’t some feckless slacker, adrift and confused, racked by existential despair. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a businessman, pronounced ztfynessman in his case, a hardworking, earthbound professional, more concerned with inbreeding among the lions than any over­arching moral or existential scheme. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I like a suit somebody died in. It’s very existential.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was this tunnel that these two kids kept crawling through over and over and they never seemed to get tired, which made me think of Augustus Waters and the existentially fraught free throws. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But could he find his way, existentially, back to the board? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Many experience an existential angst associated with their permanent social exclusion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the boldest avant-garde comedy I saw this year were two solo shows by Natalie Palamides — “Laid” and “Nate” — which co-opted the spirit of 1980s performance art in service of existential clowning. Best Comedy of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

But does anyone ever pause to think how trying it must be always to speak that way, or that such articulateness might be — gulp! — a hard-fought existential commitment? | 'A Delicate Balance': Voices Pitched to a Fine-Tuned Hollow Sound 2010-08-24T22:05:00Z

The Hawkins brothers have an envelopingly moody visual style that strives for offbeat touches, at times easily conjuring the existential threat in desolate areas. Heist flick 'Bad Turn Worse' runs out of juice 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

In an odd way, this suits the play’s theme of existential isolation. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

The former was a murky, enigmatic piece about the existential contortions of love and desire, largely lost to history. How Thatcherism politicised the arts in Britain 2013-04-09T10:51:09Z

Duran’s opening number, sung with bravura intensity that Henry sustains throughout, asks knotty musical questions of identity like, “What if I’m based on an untrue story?” and promises “an existential dive into my soul.” Review: ‘The Wrong Man’ Sets a Universal Nightmare to Music 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

She vacillates between the cold, righteous Alexis Karenin and the shallow Count Vronsky, and neither man seems adequate to the force of her passion, which is finally less erotic than existential. The Carpetbagger: Box Office Heroines 2012-12-07T15:00:34Z

It’s an existential documentary that thrusts viewers into the world of the fight, in which Greaves reports on the action as well as on the reporting of that action. The Muhammad Ali Documentary That Gets to the Existential Heart of Boxing 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

“All of them, even the horrific ones, are an existential record of my life.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Amy Tan — Unintended Memoir’ and ‘Vax Live’ 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

For me, that willful ignorance was a psychic barrier between joyful excess and existential regret. Perspective | My month without social media: Less hunger, more time — and who cares about food trends, anyway? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

For the rest of his teenage years, Kodak continued on this path, returning time and again to themes of hopeless circumstances, existential frailty, perseverance blended with nihilism. Kodak Black Grapples With Tough Questions in His Music, but Nowhere Else 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Shadows encroach upon even the lighter-spirited of the plays, but “Fragments” does cull as much vivid comic light from these mostly late works as it does existential darkness. | 'Fragments': ?Fragments? at Baryshnikov Arts Center - Review 2011-11-15T22:05:03Z

Schrader had experienced something of an existential crisis prior to writing Taxi Driver. Taxi Driver: the awkward teen of US cinema 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

The authors see Ahab’s determination as “the wicked core of his monomaniacal monotheism,” and they understand the novel as a stirring critique of the modern search for an existential foundation. Books of The Times: The Classics as the Antidote to Modern Malaise 2011-01-04T01:18:40Z

He called climate change an existential crisis in river towns where people regularly bail water out of their basements. How a middle school principal used the Ocasio-Cortez playbook against a 16-term incumbent 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

The show was “Company,” a musical about a 35-year-old in the midst of an existential crisis, and as Coughlan left the theater, she saw a towering Times Square billboard. The Secret Is Out on This ‘Bridgerton’ Star 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

Financial concerns, ageing, a sense of mortality are all factors, along with what Tyler calls “an existential search for purpose. People start to become aware that life doesn’t go on for ever.” 'You will have an emotional reboot': the ultimate guide to stress at every age 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

Somewhere between December 25 and January 2, tradition states that we should perform an existential U-turn. New Year’s resolutions are a scam: Your anxiety makes the 1 percent mega-millions 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

After a while, it becomes clear that the tightrope is also a metaphor, standing for the existential risk inherent in every serious instance of playing. Movie Review: ‘Peter Brook: The Tightrope’ Follows the Theater Director 2014-01-30T23:35:57Z

A young woman, fleeing from some obscure menace, races out of a house into a bleak, stark, existentially empty landscape. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z

But deciding to run for president — especially in a cycle that is expected to serve up all kinds of nasty — comes with its own existential dread. ‘Considering it.’ ‘Looking at things’: How 2020 Democrats mastered the coy art of mulling 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

I grapple with the existential crisis a little bit, so I could relate to Warren in that situation. “American Animals” could change how we tell true crime stories 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z

A: This boils down to a basic existential question. A Minute With: Icelandic writer on setting a musical in an elbow 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

Rather than directly confronting the existential horror of our environmental catastrophe, McKay has taken an allegorical approach in “Don’t Look Up” with a world-destroying comet. ‘Don’t Look Up’ Review: Tick, Tick, Kablooey 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

“It’s an existential question for many of them.” The end of Big Bird? He’s survived the budget ax many times before. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

My personal favorite is New Jersey Diners: Open 24 Hours, which seeks “the existential truth of this 3 a.m.-coffee-and-cheesecake conundrum.” It's Not Too Late to Hit the Road 2010-08-01T03:11:00Z

You don’t so much interview Lyonne, I quickly learn, as herd her conversations like existential sheep. Natasha Lyonne: ‘There’s a fighter in me that wants to survive’ 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z

I couldn’t find my favorite wine opener the other day, and suddenly I was engulfed in an existential crisis. Bottles are only the start of a wine drinker’s collection. It’s the gadgets that pile up. 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

The title nods to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1936 essay “The Crack-Up,” which chronicled the author’s own existential crisis. How the Fleet Foxes Frontman Got Out to Get Back In 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Age tends to creep into their talks as a rueful metaphysical truth and blunt existential fact, but that same night Mitch also gets stoned with a young guy in a club bathroom. ‘Land Ho!’ Sends Men of a Certain Age to Iceland 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

The mood is more existential, and the lyrics are often more oblique; some songs are named after Shakespearean women, like “Ophelia” and “Cleopatra.” Review: The Lumineers Return, Weary and Disillusioned 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

He still shares the existential worry of how to spend a day. Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

Henrik Ibsen’s fairy tale of man’s search for self — plus trolls — arrives in a new, modern-day adaptation from the existentially oriented playwright Will Eno. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Semple brilliantly conveys a whole array of angst — self-deprecation and existential dread and a panic attack of neuroses — while simultaneously packing in a liberal dose of levity. Maria Semple's 'Today Will Be Different' will make you actually laugh out loud 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Excised from this epic were all his talk about debt burdens and runaway spending and the existential future of the country. Paul Ryan’s small, sad goodbye 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Her work is everything Rivera’s art is not: small in size and suffused with personal emotion and existential torment. Review: ‘Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit’ 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

The melody is sweetly ornamented, with bright rivulets of harpsichord, as Hope narrates the plangent letters, full of existential angst, she writes to pop divas like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. Review: In ‘You Us We All,’ a Symbolic Hope Writes to Pop Divas 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Listen to enough of this palaver and you’ll develop a case of existential wooziness that brings to mind James Stewart in full panic mode in “Vertigo.” Review: ‘D Deb Debbie Deborah,’ a Dizzying Subversion of Identity 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

The social dimension of his work, he insisted, was secondary to the existential conflicts animating his dramas. Sam Shepard, the cowboy playwright who rewrote the rules of the American stage 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

If we are able today to write literary works with confidence and without apology, it is only thanks to the efforts of our libertarian predecessors; writers who made writing into a an existential act. Literature does not stop at national borders 2013-02-27T13:59:46Z

As he theorizes a culprit, an existential policier plays out against a background of strikes and demonstrations, under constant state surveillance. ‘Illustrious Corpses’: A Mafia Thriller Heavy With Metaphors 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Everyone, the play suggests, needs to find and “occupy” their own niche in life — an existential space as unique and precise as the thicket of abstract artworks we see Nevelson move through. Review | At Theater J, Albee’s ‘Occupant’ takes a lifeless look at the life of Louise Nevelson 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

They are mirror images of one another, existentially speaking. 'Meth and modernism': The understated 'Columbus' offers a complex portrait of small-town America 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

It’s a poignant meditation on existential anxiety and spiritual aspiration. Chelsea Galleries, Like a Box of Chocolates 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Forrest doesn’t turn down the money, but his delight in performance is found in the doing, in the immediate existential energy of standing and delivering in the heat of the moment. Review: “The Old Man and the Gun” Is a Peak in Robert Redford’s Career 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

In 2018, he delivered an existential shrug for the ages: “Life is but a b----.” An equally exquisite cut from 2015 simply asked, “Remember?” Review | Galcher Lustwerk understands the rhythms of real life 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Because last weekend I spent an hour and a half clambering through nearly every branch of an existential phone tree. Seeking Pandemic Theater? Your Call Will Be Answered Shortly 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

“After Love,” the first feature by the director Aleem Khan, envisions the act of mourning as an existential crisis, a passage through the eye of a storm. ‘After Love’ Review: The Other Woman 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Some fended off the ensuing self-consciousness and existential dread with humor. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

One takes the audience on a deep-sea swim through existential angst as its protagonists wrestle with the reality-altering impact of what they're doing to eradicate a vicious evil. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z

Have you spent any time in the past 22 months worrying, in an existential way, about whether President Trump tried to scuttle a federal investigation into Russian interference at the core of America’s political process? Perspective | William Barr seems to believe Donald Trump is too emotional to be guilty 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

“What am I doing?” she said to herself, in a moment of existential reflection. Up Close : Grace Hightower De Niro: The TriBeCa-Rwanda Connection 2013-07-17T18:59:15Z

The back half of the season took on the eerie solemnity, existential panic, desperate fealty and forest sequences that made “The Sopranos” cinematic, literary and philosophical. ‘Atlanta’ Skips a Grade 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

That's kind of existential, but I don't think it happens a lot in television. "Democracy is never perfected": David Simon on his new HBO series and the 2020 "s**tshow" election 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

In contemporary literature, at least, nannies and existential dread go together like peanut butter and jelly. Love ‘Mary Poppins Returns’? You’ll Love These Books, Too — No Matter How Old You Are 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

An existential fantasy starring Oscar winner Christoph Waltz as an eccentric computer genius trying to discover the meaning of life, The Zero Theorem is set to enter pre-production in Bucharest over the next few days. Terry Gilliam secures funding to shoot The Zero Theorem 2012-08-16T10:24:09Z

Rats, pigeons, bedbugs and other creatures with whom we share New York City discuss their existential dilemmas, which will probably sound familiar to New York humans. Television This Winter: 20 Shows to Keep on Your Radar Screen 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

One artist, Joseph Kosuth, places clocks with hands running at different speeds alongside existential quotes from philosophers in neon. A Gilded Age Setting for a Huge Art Show 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Maybe they always suspected that Kelsea, a willfully chipper zealot in an aqua-blue sweatband, was one professional stumble away from existential crisis. Review: In ‘The Last Class: A Jazzercize Play,’ Clutching to the Past 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

This existential play deals with hope, healing and our willingness to turn celebrities into our own personal deities. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

The further we read into this tale of Toby’s marital discord, the more we realize that Libby is trying to work out something about her own existential plight. Review | ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ — and so is modern marriage 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

Don’t dismiss it as easy watching, though, because Chomski summons a real sense of existential dread. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

But for its existential brilliance, and the way Williams subtly parried the humor back, this moment from the Woody Allen hit is one of the great ones in his sparkling career. Robin Williams dies: Six of his movie quotes that matter most 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

His ardor is coupled with an existential hat crisis. Cycling Caps Return as a Fashion Statement 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

This show offers a bracing Continental alternative to all the Scandinavian-ish existential gloom. Times Critics Share Last-Chance TV Picks 2013-12-26T21:26:10Z

She is steeped in a broad lexicon of existential issues that burn her like lit cigarettes. Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Malina” Is the Truest Portrait of Female Consciousness Since Sappho 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Re: Not Sure: I'll also plug here that pregnancy is existentially demanding. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Give your feelings some time to gestate 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z

All of this background puts any concert under a kind of existential filter. Review | BSO, after choppy summer, embraces fate and voodoo in exuberant opener 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

The thing about Eurythmics music is that there was a kind of surreal, existential twist in the lyrical content and also in some of the ways that we presented ourselves. Q&A with Annie Lennox: Why the singer doesn’t listen to music 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

He called the shakedown ring "a cancer attacking at Bolivia's heart" and creating an "existential crisis" for Morales. Sean Penn in direct appeal to Bolivia's leader 2012-12-12T21:31:06Z

As the president-elect dominates the news, I fall into a pit of existential angst. How to be more positive this year: 'Trump makes this much harder' 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

While he says that it will be “many, many years” before jihadist terrorism “withers and dies,” he believes that it does not pose an existential threat like World War II or the Cold War. Review: Peter Bergen’s ‘United States of Jihad’ Surveys Homegrown Terrorism 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

If you’re really diving into that and reckoning with all of that, it is existential. Moriah Evans: Communitarian, Feminist, Dance Maker 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Matthew Weiner’s long-running fable of existentially traumatised ad men finished only last year, but it does seem a long time ago. Can Matthew Weiner bring the Mad Men magic to Amazon? 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

It’s the coldly burning focus of life and death, the seeming existential center of the universe that Sully’s job places in his hands. Clint Eastwood’s “Sully”: A Heroic Pilot’s Existential Burden 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Despite this existential time bomb ticking away in the background, the couple appears happily married until the day Marlin packs a suitcase and moves out without any explanation. Review | ‘Edge Case’ begins with a husband’s disappearance and turns into much more 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

To rectify that, I think people have created art to express the existential dread rooted at the center of girlhood and growing up. Teen girls are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore on screen 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z

In that regard, "Beatlebone" is more an existential novel than a rock 'n' roll one, and it's so good for so long that it doesn't really matter when it unravels in the end. John Lennon imagined in 'Beatlebone' (or is he really?) 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

“Last Sentinel” may remind fans of literary fiction of the Dino Buzzati novel “The Tartar Steppe,” which painted the existential futility of a remote outpost waiting in vain for the enemy to show up. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

It’s much harder, I find, to get viewers interested in shows that feature a much more subtle form of darkness — the rain-cloud moods that are more about existential dread, universal loneliness and human grief. Perspective | In an age of anger and outrage, the best TV shows take a different path: They’re sad. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

The production’s strange combination of comic shtick and existential weariness makes it feel rather like a long-running sitcom being filmed before a live audience that knows its characters’ signature tics and flourishes by heart. Theater Review: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ by David Mamet, With Al Pacino 2012-12-09T03:00:00Z

But over the years, I have been drawn to the character on a more existential level. ‘Wayne’s World’ & Me 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

The world’s greatest existential threat, destroyed by a fiercely competent woman. Ranking the Deaths in the Final ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

The movie reaches its existential apotheosis in the confrontation between Mastroianni’s character and a priest in a dark prison cell. ‘The Stranger,’ Made All the More So in the Person of Mastroianni 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Yet, despite his positivity, Dev seems to think his life requires ennui or existential fretting to be worthwhile. In Aziz Ansari’s ‘Master of None,’ a new definition of Netflix-and-chill 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

His music poses big socioeconomic and existential questions. The Changing Sound of Baltimore 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

His work is cool and calculated like Pop from the ’60s, but it’s generous, too, veering toward the lightness of a given situation — from a kiss to a modeling session — rather than the existential darkness. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

He is one of the most important playwrights of the last half-century, savagely deconstructing the American zeitgeist in innovative language charged with vernacular speech and weighted by existential dread. The real Sam Shepard behind the man we think we know 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

It is because he has long thought that “architecture is more important than architects,” and because he believes that “we’re facing two existential crises: social inequality and climate collapse.” David Chipperfield Wins Pritzker Prize 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

In-betweenness – that state of neither fish nor fowl, mortal nor spirit - is also fascinating, and is of course the existential state of the immigrant. EC Osondu's top 10 immigrants' tales 2011-01-26T15:26:49Z

The "free" aspect was just as much existential as monetary. Don't underestimate the chemical generation 2013-05-24T12:30:01Z

“It’s an existential exercise to tangibly see yourself breathing.” Smokers Might Be Lighting Up More 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z

“Symphonists after Mahler are expected to end in grief and existential angst, but this is more like the serene floating of a composer reflecting on life from his old age.” The Hilarious, Heartbreaking Life and Music of Malcolm Arnold 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

The internet's ubiquitous copying capacity may be an existential threat to intellectual property law. Was Andy Warhol's portrait of Prince copyright infringement? How this case could reshape IP law 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z

Its contents are “set against the kinds of frustration and injustice, existential and political, that Asghar has seen or known,” Stephanie Burt writes in her review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

The transracial Martin’s insistence on a kind of existential blackness prompts a consideration of race by Kelly, a failed academic grieving over the accident that took the lives of his Chinese wife and their daughter. Jess Row’s ‘Your Face in Mine’ Explores ‘Racial Reassignment’ 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

“She approaches the great existential subjects — emptiness, loneliness, meaninglessness, death and boyfriends — as if they were a collection of bad habits. That’s what makes her writing so funny. And so sad.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Then there is the nagging existential question of Will It Define Me?, as a long-running sitcom might an actor. Is Roland Mouret More Than a One-Hit Wonder? 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

What made this episode so effective was that both Carol and Morgan arrived at the Kingdom beset by their own existential crises. The Walking Dead: season seven, episode two – The Well 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

There are several genres nimbly folded into “The Skin I Live In,” which might also be described as an existential mystery, a melodramatic thriller, a medical horror film or just a polymorphous extravaganza. | 'The Skin I Live In': ?The Skin I Live In,? Directed by Pedro Almod?var ? Review 2011-10-13T17:05:56Z

Somewhat perplexed by the existential implications of the setup, I returned another day with a dashing playwright friend to help parse it. Critical Shopper: Shopping at The Apartment in SoHo 2014-05-07T15:12:05Z

He highlighted Walker Percy’s existential 1961 book The Moviegoer in particular when explaining his vision for the 58 pieces he curated for the show. Prospect.3 Notes for Now Launches in New Orleans 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

The most memorable thread of the last 12 months had less to do with clothes than existential self-doubt. The Year’s Top Stories From the Fashion World 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

He added later: “There is a dreaded existential moment in every production in which Sheila looks up and says: ‘What’s this film about? Television: Sheila Nevins: The Force Behind HBO Documentaries 2010-06-12T03:52:00Z

A few years later he would crystallize the themes in “A Delicate Balance,” his drama about a prosperous American family beset with existential panic after a years of repression, booze and bad faith. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

In a play that is as emotionally attuned to its characters as it is capacious, Parks presents freedom as both an existential puzzle and a historical wound. Suzan-Lori Parks' 'Father Comes Home From the Wars' is an entrancingly intimate drama 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

But Long Beach Opera had its own existential issues Saturday night by putting its money on Broadway. John Adams' 'Ceiling/Sky' remains earthbound 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

That realization expanded into an existential uselessness throughout the day. Adventures at the Clown Palace: Stand-up comedy helped me confront my depression and cultural taboos 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

It’s a quasi-religious fable about a man haunted by the past and facing a profound moral and existential crisis in the present, and it’s a dazzling display of virtuoso cinematic technique and showboat performances. “Birdman”: Michael Keaton heads an all-star cast in a crackling showbiz satire 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

For a preschool girl, a Cinderella dress is nothing less than an existential insurance policy, a crinolined bulwark to fortify a still-shaky sense of identity. Is Pink Necessary? 2011-01-21T19:14:59Z

But we didn't because we were swamped with other things — work, binging "Succession" so you finally know what all the memes are about, existential dread, just existing amid a pandemic. A procrastinator's guide to Thanksgiving 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

It’s a way of being, one which is inseparable from the artist’s personal bearing, from the artist’s way of thinking and living—the artist’s existential mark, which distinguishes art from the mere transfer of information. The Best Movies I Saw at SXSW 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

He continues: “A lot of things that you see, like the rise in suicides amongst older white men in America, has to do with the way labor has been stripped of dignity and existential value.” The Truth About Killer Robots: the year's most terrifying documentary 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

Is this an elaborate existential joke, or some kind of moral test? Viewing Party! Let’s All Watch ‘Groundhog Day’ Together! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Rich Memphis soul — organ chords, deliberate triplet drums, pointed guitars — carries deep existential uncertainty in the latest Drive-By Truckers song, rooted in the pandemic and looking beyond it. The Blockbuster ‘Drivers License,’ a Possible Reply and 7 More New Songs 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z

This dangerous and radical movement views multiracial cosmopolitan democracy as an existential threat. "American Carnage" isn't about Donald Trump: "I don't think the Trumps are that interesting" 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

Love triangles, trapezoids and pentagons quickly collapse into existential loneliness and supernatural weirdness. Perspective | A hotel room more interesting than the cosmos: In praise of the downsized concept album 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

“It’s sort of an existential experience for me,” Mr. Fox said about having outrageous acts from his past exaggerated for comedic purposes. | Television: ‘Ben and Kate,’ a Sibling Series With Real-Life Inspiration 2012-09-07T21:09:40Z

And yet the end of the movie is an existential and emotional cliffhanger. Cross Cuts: The Hard Work in ‘Before Midnight,’ Amour’ and Other Films and Shows 2013-06-19T15:15:49Z

The role of Yelnikoff was originally written in the 1970s, and intended for Zero Mostel; he's an archetypal Allen protagonist, eking humour from despair as he peers over the existential abyss. Larry David: 'I'm cranky' 2010-06-25T23:02:00Z

To desecrate is one of punk’s existential tasks. Protest music?s odd conservative turn 2012-05-21T15:38:00Z

He interrupts himself to say, conscientiously, “My problems compared with global issues, or anybody else’s, are very small. Even that I have time in my day to think about the existential.” Adam Driver: ‘Compared with the military, acting isn't that difficult’ 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

Producers in Tuscany had existential problems at that time. 20 Wines Under $20: Reds for Winter Moods and Foods 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Eventually, the Italian contingent, largely existential or postmodern, rose up against us. Margaret Thatcher: we disliked her and we loved it 2013-04-09T05:00:00Z

But most people — particularly anxious New York types — probably have spent some time pondering a more existential question, which he puts bluntly: “What the hell is happiness, anyway?” Rubin Museum’s ‘Happy Talk’ Pairs Entertainers and Scholars 2012-09-20T22:35:42Z

So you both owe each other ungrudging acknowledgment of each other’s existential concerns. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: His risky sport endangers his life, and his wife wants a parachute 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

The two men now in a run-off for mayor of Lewiston perfectly encapsulate opposing political responses to issues forcing this country into a collective existential crisis. As Maine goes, so goes the nation: Will this small city’s mayoral election predict a Trump victory in 2016? 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

America’s police are under existential threat from organizations and movements such as “Black Lives Matter”. The ghouls have won: The first night of Donald Trump’s RNC was a political death cult 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

“It’s an existential feeling. I don’t know how to put it. What is love? It’s kind of that same thing. I’m meant to be here. All I know is that.” Style Invitational Week 1451: Could have said it worse ourselves 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Such silliness aside, “Termination Shock” deals brilliantly and innovatively with our era’s most pressing existential matter — while delivering stratospheric gigatons of carefully engineered delight. Review | Neal Stephenson’s ‘Termination Shock’ is another prescient page-turner 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Conflicts with Mirella often send her there, bitter fights about sexual propriety and autonomy that turn on existential, generational concerns. The Transgressive Power of Alba de Céspedes 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

This is a conceit that Kelman would never countenance – a breach of the character's existential consciousness which confirms some greater and abstract hierarchy, even that of "novelistic structure". Waterline by Ross Raisin ? review 2011-07-13T09:05:02Z

What lends a special, tickling poignancy to Mr. Hansard and Ms. Irglova’s songs is their acceptance of loneliness as an existential given. Theater Review: ?Once,? With Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, at Jacobs Theater 2012-03-19T02:00:10Z

It’s proof that Whitters knows how to extract maximum existential truth from words, sounds and the nothingness that surrounds them. Review | Hailey Whitters made the year’s deepest country album. Just look beneath the surface. 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Many of her former colleagues viewed the company with suspicion, if not contempt, as a would-be monopoly and an existential threat. Best Sellers Sell the Best Because They’re Best Sellers 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z

I was presented with two existential options: Be bored cross-eyed by the limited options of a rural hamlet or figure out what might make Eagle special. A Road Trip to the Fiberglass Frontier of Northern Wisconsin 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

The new materialism is philosophically crude, morally deficient, evolutionarily regressive, existentially stunted and plain dumb. Lionel Shriver: 'If you're thin, you are a kook; if you're fat, you're a failure' 2013-05-11T07:00:27Z

Between them, Mr. Schnabel’s vibrant “Hope,” from 1982, conjures a diffuse existential unease grounded in European motifs. Painting From the 1980s, When Brash Met Flash 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

This, however, may be too prosaic a way of describing the ensemble: for Ricciotti, it "expresses the existential question of architecture, which is the difficulty of living". Museum of the Civilisations of Europe and the Mediterranean (MuCEM) – review 2013-06-08T23:05:15Z

Desperately seeking relevance, orchestras grapple with existential questions. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra unexpectedly cancels summer season 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

“I love ruminating about the big existential questions,” he says. Nick Offerman: 'Trump is about to be presented with a gory butcher's bill' 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

These could be divided up — spiritual, sexual, existential, emotional — but he specialized in tracing the entanglement of those categories of experience. ‘Hallelujah’ Review: From Leonard Cohen to Cale to Buckley to Shrek 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

They stirred from the pages of “The Sheltering Sky,” Paul Bowles’s existential 1940s novel of the unraveling lives of three Americans traveling in the North African desert. Morocco, From Coast to Desert 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Since nobody needs a qualified electrician to tell them how to push a plug into a socket, Mr Mann wonders whether it is referring to existential doubt, and that an electrician might help. Simon Hoggart's week: festival folks flip between jokes and soaks 2011-08-19T20:00:00Z

In the liner notes of his new recording, Mr. Trifonov calls these pieces “existential meditations,” and he has added a second disc to encompass Liszt’s other solo-piano études. Classical Music to Come: A Finnish Star, Minimalism and Wagner 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The L.A. artist’s closest touchstone may in fact be Philip Guston, whose late work employed a roughhewn graphic style to paint brilliant images of existential dread and loneliness. Full-frontal absurdity: The world of Louise Bonnet's fleshy, surreal portraits 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Beckett's Happy Days, written in 1961, is a one-woman play steeped in existential despair. Anderson to perform in Streetcar 2013-09-27T12:18:55Z

Decades of high school lit seminars, let alone the gradual opening of the playgoing class’s eyes to the world’s inequities and terrors, have transformed it from an enigmatic museum piece into an existential tchotchke. Review: ‘Waiting for Godot’ in the Bleakest Zoom Room Ever 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

But as she shares entries from her journal, Rapp’s creation seems just as steeped in youthful existential alienation as her postwar predecessor. ‘Edge of our Bodies’: a teen lost in reality, memory 2014-04-03T21:26:07Z

His work is spare and existential, often focusing on the interior lives of rather solitary characters. Where to start? A guide to Fosse’s work. 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z

Every two weeks I have one depressed day where I wrestle with existential questions of “What is life?” What Has Lockdown Meant for L.G.B.T.Q. Artists and Writers? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

None of them, surely, will boast so antic and mesmerising a setting as Marat's existential ocean of bleached gravel and twisted rocks; an emotional topography that stretches as far as the eye can see. Waiting for the Sea – first look review 2012-11-09T17:05:27Z

It sounds nice in theory, but by midday on 28 December, usually while watching Mrs Doubtfire on Channel 5, I tend to slip into an existential crisis. ‘No tricks. No mantras. I just want to learn how to do nothing’: my quest to stay still 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

Movies cheered up because of their kid audience, but a lofty 19-year-old despair had been Kael’s motor – another sign of existential turmoil. The warrior critic: in praise of Pauline Kael 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

"The pictures are pretty, the music is pretty, the existential voice-overs are pretty: but after almost two hours of wistful, message-larded prettiness, Malick's latest visual symphonic poem has us squirming in our seats," Marshall wrote. Malick confounds Venice critics 2012-09-03T09:25:58Z

The originality of found images, found objects, found places, and, so to speak, found people is existential. “The Jinx” and the Blight of Documentary Reënactments 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

She is bravely attempting to contextualize 21st-century horrors within the sort of existential framework in which Thornton Wilder and Edward Albee specialized. Review: ‘This Flat Earth’ Traces Childhood Fears No Parent Can Allay 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

And where a pandemic is causing financial and existential distress for institutions like Morris’s around the globe. Mark Morris, one of the world’s leading choreographers, takes dance to Zoom 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

Tolstoy left the world in an existential panic, saying: "One must speak out from the top of Golgotha and affirm the truth by suffering and, better yet, by death." John Tavener: 'The days of seven-hour pieces are gone' 2013-07-01T18:00:01Z

Given the strife and animosity in the wake of the George Floyd killing, and the existential questions Americans are now debating, how do we even begin to talk about wine? Why Wine? Why Burgundy? Why Now? 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Apparently, enough people are in the throes of contemplating human existence that Dictionary.com proclaimed “existential” as its 2019 "word of the year." 'Existential,' 'Climate Emergency' chosen as Words of the Year 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Of course, a ritzy pad is no protection against existential angst. Theater J’s ‘The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife’ 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

The panic that animated that kiss pressurizes this section, in which a kind of black comedy alternates with existential dread. Stepsisters, Lovers and Gender-Bending Artists, Now Celebrated in a Novel 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

A constant state of existential dread really makes those pounds come off! Style Invitational: A RIP-roaring year — write an obit poem 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Changes One” began with the existential beauty and mystery of “Space Oddity,” Major Tom admiring Planet Earth while sitting in a tin can, far above the world, and floating off into the beyond. Growing Up with David Bowie 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

She wanted to support a cause, but it was women’s reproductive rights, not the existential crisis of American fashion. Seeing the Oscar Challenge to Fashion Week and Raising It One 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

“I took away a lot more of my existential brooding on death that I haven’t really figured out yet,” he said. Norm Macdonald Rises Again on Comedy Central ?Sports Show? 2011-04-05T15:46:02Z

I still like the idea of critics doing their learning in public, but this was an existential flub. Perspective | I was wrong about Young Thug 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

“Supreme City” has none of the existential darkness of “Boardwalk Empire”; here, even notorious gangsters like Frank Costello come across as charming if complicated ne’er-do-wells. ‘Supreme City,’ by Donald L. Miller 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

In his third feature, “Scarecrow,” from 1973, a sort of existential road comedy starring Pacino and Gene Hackman, he looked to the performances by these fierce actors to pound away at the frame from inside. Early Meryl Streep and Peak Alan Alda in “The Seduction of Joe Tynan” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Payne’s take on the workaday travails and existential anguish of generally humdrum middle-class Americans is insightful and tartly compassionate, although detractors often see his films as mocking or contemptuous. Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

The fears of the wealthy seem to be of a more existential nature. Why Don’t Rich People Just Stop Working? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Gorey’s work, in turn, has imprinted itself on the consciousness of generations of oddballs and bookworms, who have found in his offbeat world a measure of existential solace. Edward Gorey Was Eerily Prescient 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

It is a confident 45-minute sashay through vulnerable devotionals and existential reflections, tuneful folk and handclap soul. Kevin Morby Chases Ghosts, and a New Album, in Memphis 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

Instead, beginning with the indelible third episode—titled “Pancakes, Divorce, Pancakes”—the show dove into startling existential depths, combining surrealism with a devotion to emotional continuity. Rate Culture 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Over the next years, Ms. Reinsve and Mr. Trier ended up having deep conversations about love, choice and other existential matters. Renate Reinsve Steps, Reluctantly, Into the Spotlight 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

Had "Need for Speed" been more like an existential 1970s gear-head movie — like "Two-Lane Blacktop" or "Vanishing Point" — it could've been a nice little B-picture for Paul to use to start building his film career. 'Divergent,' with Shailene Woodley, ventures into the future 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

That dearth is especially problematic now, given the existential threat posed by our growing entitlement state. Can the Benjamin Rush Society Bring Free-Market Ideas to Medical Schools? 2011-11-03T17:04:58Z

“So how do we solve these existential problems — the rise of fascism, coronavirus, climate change — if we don’t agree on the facts? This is fundamental.” Filipino journalist reflects on Nobel Prize win at Harvard 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

But something special does happen here; the show lives in consciousness of its own construction in a kind of existential but also dramatically meaningful way. 'Community' is back in session, this time on Yahoo Screen 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

Shopping Palace in its opening weeks caused existential questioning: How long would the lines be? At Palace, Facing the Unbearable Being of Lines 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

It's a weightier undertaking than Alien, an existential horror picture that didn't attempt to raise the big religious, cosmological and teleological issues that are thrashed out here. Prometheus – review 2012-06-02T23:07:09Z

His band uses electronics to toss in the odd percussive loop or synthesizer swoop; his guitar playing is laconic but pointed; and his lyrics mingle existential fears with his blandishments. CMJ 2014: Son Little and Sons of an Illustrious Father Offer Roots Variations 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

But the expression on Ms. Kendal’s face suggests that Sheila might well be thinking along just those existential lines. London Stages, Full of Cheating Hearts 2013-07-18T12:00:01Z

But the violence is generated by an existential rage. Arts & Leisure: ‘Denial,’ ‘Bofors Gun’ and the London Revival of Rage 2012-06-17T00:00:31Z

It’s no less than an attempt to dance existential philosophy. Dance Review: Sean Curran Company at the Joyce Theater 2013-02-01T22:53:53Z

As with his other two features, Spurlock's moment of existential crisis is never far away and in this case the question centres on artistic integrity. Morgan Spurlock for sale. Buy, buy, buy 2011-01-24T15:02:37Z

It's a qualified statement in a piece that at its considerable best offers the existential disquiet of Will Eno's Thom Pain and the comic misanthropy of DC Moore's recent Honest. The Maddening Rain 2010-09-05T20:30:00Z

Mr. Nolfi has made assorted, um, adjustments to the original story — David’s world doesn’t disintegrate, it pauses like a stuck clock — though his largest shift is turning a metaphysical speculation into an existential crisis. | 'The Adjustment Bureau': Creepy People With a Plan, and a Couple on the Run 2011-03-03T20:00:07Z

That was a very curious thing about Warhol: he drained the juice out of any sort of existential confrontation. When Walter Hopps Met Andy Warhol and Frank Stella 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

Both Yorke and Graham Greene, who was an air raid warden, were fairly convinced they wouldn't survive the war – which solved all sorts of existential problems. The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War – review 2013-01-18T09:00:02Z

In most cases, this isn’t an existential threat to the country – although it’s terrible for a thousand other reasons. Jim Carrey, dangerous idiot: What celebrity anti-vaxxers have in common with climate deniers 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Boot minutely describes a disillusionment that wasn’t only “painful and prolonged” but “existential.” In Two New Books, Unhappy Conservatives Ask: What Now? 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Cimino’s aestheticism overrides moral judgment; his visual music turns even bad times and evil doings into aspects of beauty, a sort of existential contemplation of universal wonders. Postscript: Michael Cimino, 1939–2016 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

“I am like the opposite of everyone,” he declares, finding “his problem … incurably existential: He was born in the wrong century.” How Did a $2 Billion Trove of Art End Up in a Random Attic in France? 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

But when a friend’s 50th-birthday party turns amusingly violent, existential navel-gazing ensues. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Divorce,’ ‘Insecure’ and the Second Presidential Debate 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

The nonprofit society, he told employees in a staffwide meeting in Washington, faced “enormous and real existential risks” if it didn’t sell the properties. Peril cited in National Geographic sale not evident in financial disclosures 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

Proper maniacs are too disturbed to complete a Sudoku, let alone conduct an intellectual game of cat-and-mouse with an existentially minded detective. Charlie Brooker 2010-07-11T23:04:00Z

Mr. Ovenden’s tenor rings out thrillingly in his big aria of existential angst in the second act, as he exults in his first experience of human love. | 'Death Takes a Holiday': Set Aside That Scythe, and Let?s Put on a Show 2011-07-22T02:01:27Z

The work calls to mind the famous existentially tinged quote by the French writer Albert Camus: “There is only one really serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

It’s not just site or contemporary historical amnesia but also the exhaustion of a process — too much of a good thing and particularly when it’s triggered by the existential crisis of too-much-ness. Nari Ward Shows the Power of Objects at the New Museum 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

In the face of Lanzmann’s existential void and moral paradoxes, Nemes offers a tale of ordinary decency applied in indecent circumstances. “Son of Saul” and the Ungraspable Horrors of Auschwitz 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Late at night, on the sofa, when the existential dread dropped by, it was nice to have these emergency workers on call. When the World Feels Like a Disaster, ‘9-1-1’ Is on Call 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

For him art-making seems to have been a form of existential busywork, part child’s play, part labor, part meditation. The Materials Man of the Emirates 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

No, not the battle of good against evil or the existential angst of the lonely hero. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

But the fact that she actually became a top-selling superstar prompts a more existential question: Who does hip-hop belong to now? White echoes: Rap, race and Iggy Azalea 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

To these comments, Herzog adds his own sense of wonder and existential shock. Cave of Forgotten Dreams ? review 2011-03-24T22:49:00Z

The crime she really concerns herself with is an existential one: the legacy of America’s original sin. Attica Locke left Hollywood to write novels. Now she’s found success in both worlds. 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

There are many surprises delivered in the Coen brothers’ existential western anthology, whose six separate stories — unrelated except for a shared theme of human mortality — include two with twist endings worthy of O. Henry. The 10 biggest movie surprises of 2018, from Melissa McCarthy to ‘Mowgli’ 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Unwaveringly committed to its singular vision, and softened by Matthew Chuang’s lushly seductive images, “You Won’t Be Alone” ponders more than one existential question. ‘You Won’t Be Alone’ Review: Season of the Witch 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Burnett, 59, is a self-contained, acerbic, existential atheist with an earring, while Mr. Evans, 63, is an outgoing, verbose, practicing Christian with the gray beard of a philosopher. Want to Find Fulfillment at Last? Think Like a Designer 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

The documentary begins in the present day, as both the glossy and its founder are facing existential crisis. ‘Ahead of the Curve’ Review: The Business of Lesbian Identity 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

As with many existential questions, the answer is not an answer, but instead, another question: What is flour, anyway? For the fudgiest brownies, skip the flour 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

"Bardo" is sure to be seen as pretentious and self-indulgent — and how can an existential film about a filmmaker not be? Surrender to Alejandro Iñárritu's Netflix movie "Bardo," a surreal "chronicle of uncertainties" 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

It also plays a key role in "La Sapienza," opening Friday, a fictional movie that explores how Borromini's architecture changes the life of a contemporary architect who himself is suffering from an existential crisis. Baroque architect reaches across centuries to influence another in 'La Sapienza' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

To alter the rules of the existential game, it redefined the possible. Art Review: ‘Yoga: The Art of Transformation’ at Sackler Gallery 2014-01-02T22:01:19Z

The analogy isn’t perfect: In that play, the crises of white America are of a more existential variety. Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Fairview' at Woolly: Both serious and a hoot - The Washington Post 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

And the new season of “Black Mirror” fills me with existential dread, but I can’t stop watching. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 5: Who’s the Real Hero? 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Along with being fascinated by the existential implications of work, Terkel was intrigued by each vocation’s logistics and vocabulary. ‘Whore of New York’ Reflects on Sex, Love and Labor 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

In a wide-ranging interview with Salon, Miller discussed it all, from the aquatic to the existential. "Why Fish Don't Exist" explores eugenics in the US, a Hawaiian murder plot, and the meaning of life 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act.” Magazine Preview: Ellen Barkin Is No Uptown Girl 2011-04-22T14:15:12Z

This sudden leap from the mundane to the existential—from caloric intake to inner serenity—is signature @SoSadToday; there really is no distance between the two things, Broder seems to be saying. The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

One of the favourite hangouts for the existential and beatnik crowds was the basement nightclub La Rose Rouge in the Rue de Rennes. Nikos Papatakis obituary 2011-03-08T18:36:25Z

I think there might have been an existential terror there.” ‘Marlon Brando was my idol but he turned into a monster. He sabotaged my film’ 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

Politics has morphed from being about what we believe to who we are; disagreement has curdled into existential threat. Perspective | The Trump cult has obliterated the line between citizenship and fandom, with deadly results 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

If you’re afraid of dentists or demanding fiction, back away because “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour” is a brilliant mess of a novel that drills at a raw nerve of existential dread. Book World Joshua Ferris’s ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’

But even more, it's an existential issue, the realization that once enough time passes we all become figures of fiction, birth and death days long forgotten beneath the press of years. Ali Smith has double vision in 'How to Be Both' 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

He is a poet of puzzles and an auteur of ideas, and in his removed existential musings, he describes his characters’ pains and griefs dispassionately, as a means toward their intellectual awakening. Review: Bringing Borges to Life in ‘Footnote for the End of Time’ 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z

The theater wasn’t the only one in an existential crisis. Chicago Improv Was Dead. Can New Leaders Revive It? 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

The elegiac quality of “All the Pretty Horses,” with its existential cowboys, surprised some of his admirers. Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

“This is going to end in its current form. It’s almost existential, theological, right? Things die.” ‘On Being’ Is Leaving Public Radio for a Podcast Future 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

“WandaVision” is about a pair of superheroes who end up battling an existential evil, same as all superhero stories, except its world-ending adversary is grief. "Loki" speaks to Marvel's biggest concern – if only the studio will heed it 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

Rose is an assertive 9-year-old, though given to existential maundering: “Why am I a little girl/Where am I a little girl/When am I a little girl/Which little girl am I.” Theater Review: In ‘The World Is Round,’ Girl Decides to Climb Mountain 2014-04-22T02:00:01Z

If you do love the long days filled with hours and hours of light, the start of summer should spark a more existential crisis. Summer means a parade of long, sunny days, and it’s actually the worst 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z

While Ms. Damian stays close to the documentary record, she also uses delicate, hand-drawn animation to tease out emotional and existential nuances in what otherwise might have been a simple journalistic account of injustice. Critic?s Notebook: New Directors/New Films at the Film Society of Lincoln Center 2012-03-20T22:30:26Z

The $32 session takes 45 minutes to an hour, and the astrologer will send your results in seven to eight months, not ideal for those with an impending existential crisis. Himalayan refuge: Tibetan traditions find a second home in India’s Dharamsala 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

When it comes to getting lost in the gloaming of existential nothingness, there’s no place like home. Review: Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano Go Mano a Mano in the Riveting ‘True West’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

As five weeks turn into seven and Anne’s belly swells, “Happening” becomes an existential thriller. ‘Happening’ Review: An Abortion Story, an Existential Drama 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

The American film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum thinks of the film as an “existential western that essentially focuses on the hero’s endurance”. My streaming gem: why you should watch Locke 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

And no other movie has tapped into my own existential fears as much as this one. Why I'd like to be … Jason Miller in The Exorcist 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

That existential question will be explored in the bizarre new dark comedy on Netflix, “Living with Yourself.” Netflix's best new releases in October, from the "Breaking Bad" movie to "Big Mouth" 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

The jumps, I am more or less convinced, are there to keep you counting your steps, which distracts you from how hard and existentially pointless it is to run on the spot. Fit in my 40s: Canada's Air Force fitness drills are a retro, noisy tonic 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

She sees but doesn’t always know, and while you may grasp the situation, Wandel also shrewdly withholds information, which puts you on the same uncertain existential level as Nora. ‘Playground’ Review: A Creation Story 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

If you were a moviegoer in the 1980s, you were constantly presented with imaginative questions that seemed cosmic and existential. It Came From the ’80s 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Constraint and existential defiance are in continuous opposition. Kafka Fragments – review 2013-04-01T10:55:02Z

The Fabric is an initiative born out of frustration with an industry that can be daunting to enter, confusing to navigate and existentially overwhelming for people of color. Fashion needs more powerful black voices — so Ethan Miller created a new way to help 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

White sounds genuinely bewildered, frustrated and existentially saddened that this is still the dominant theme of his public perception at the moment. Today, we are all Jack White's tour guacamole 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

Such comments seem a matter less of false modesty than of existential necessity, and jibe with her definition of herself: “I’m a pretty antisocial Socialist.” Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

The director Kantemir Balagov crams his frame with people — a celebratory dinner is a bravura example of his use of cinematic space — a choice that captures the existential push and pull of identity. 11 Movies You Need to Know at New Directors/New Films 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

The result: the creation of artificial memories in her mind, not achieved via implant but by Rachel’s existential longing to make sense of her being. Thanks for nothing, Facebook: #FriendsDay is our latest reminder that curated selves are becoming “more real than real” 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

At first he resists her, arguing that he has a responsibility to stay in Newark, but as more of his young charges fall sick, he tumbles into a full-blown existential crisis. Books of The Times: When Polio Disrupted the Playground 2010-10-04T17:16:00Z

That said, I'm just glad that it's making me feel something other than pandemic-induced existential dread. The only thing my quarantine brain wants to watch right now is sketch comedy 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

Ms. Farber’s staging for Signature Theater seems to complete this metamorphosis, clearly placing itself within the tradition of existential rather than political drama. Review: After Apartheid, Who Are ‘Boesman and Lena’? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

His character is an Everyman with a dead-end job who, like Segel, faces an existential crisis. In ‘Dispatches From Elsewhere,’ Art Imitates Art Imitating Life 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

It was a sign of Hardy's desperation that he turned to the psychic for help in a murder investigation which seemed to be run more as an existential challenge than a process of evidence gathering. Rewind TV: Broadchurch; The Politician's Husband; Super Sunday; The Wright Way – review 2013-04-27T22:45:01Z

Prior to that, we see them lost in the existential void of a vast blue-screen movie set. Antonioni Project ? review 2011-02-02T18:35:06Z

Above all, he understood the existential facts of life – that all of us live between a past that is constantly slipping away and a future in which we shall die. Permanent Present Tense: The man with no memory, and what he taught the world by Suzanne Corkin – review 2013-06-27T07:00:18Z

Is there a specific example of that in the performance — of aligning with your exploration of existential dread? Cherdonna Shinatra takes her subversive clowning to Frye Art Museum with ‘DITCH’ 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

As much as the band acknowledge an almost existential turmoil, Vampire Weekend, it seems, are finally having fun. Vampire Weekend: 'People tried to pretend we were rich idiots' 2013-05-03T10:30:00Z

This isn’t entirely his fault, since this production dispenses with the moody solo and much of the Act II business that usually establishes the Prince’s existential aloneness and intangible longing for his ideal woman. Dance Review: ?The Sleeping Beauty? From American Ballet Theater 2010-06-15T22:47:00Z

For me, “Do the Right Thing” took the police from an intellectual threat to an existential one. Spike Lee Saved My Life 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

If there's sleight-of-hand here, it's the brilliant way in which Marías transforms a homicide into a literary and metaphysical meditation on existential questions. Lincoln, Argo, Capote and the intricacies of weaving fact into fiction 2013-02-19T15:55:29Z

The cream caramelizes, you lose track of where its butterfats end and the egg whites begin, and everything is so delicious it makes you forget all deep existential concerns. The absolute best way to fry an egg, according to 42 tests 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

As for the existential crisis, we could choose to resolve it in 2012, at the next presidential elections. Is France in the grip of an existential crisis? 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z

Now, as wealth becomes more concentrated, tax laws change and a younger generation develops new philanthropic priorities, museums — like other nonprofit organizations — are confronting what, if unaddressed, could become an existential crisis. Museums Special Section: Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons 2014-03-19T20:40:58Z

For most of the characters, such mismatched marriages and growing existential disenchantment are inescapable elements in life. Your next box set: A Dance to the Music of Time 2012-10-04T15:00:01Z

As he guides readers along a Nefertiti to TikTok continuum, he shows how cultural exchange and innovation help societies address some of life’s most existential questions. 13 New Books Coming in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

We know this moment, the Saturn return, the scrabbling existential crisis you have in your late 20s. Plot Twist: Your Big Secret Crush Is Also Your Housemate 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

I think it’s in part a way for me to avoid the larger existential questions, but I also think it’s a good approach. Meet the 52 Places Traveler for 2019 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

“Battlestar Galactica,” after 9/11, turned a breezy 1970s space opera into an ambitious story about politics, religion and the ethics of survival in the face of an existential threat. This Fall, Everything Old Is TV Again 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

It is both a survey of the population and an existential measurement. A Dying Father, His Son and One Last Road Trip 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

Thus is existential dread updated and digital animation given unusual gravity. Galleries Shift Shape to Survive in a Changing Art World 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

On the face of it, tackling the warring sides of science and the spirit seemed a good fit for the writer-director, who continues to be drawn to existential themes. 'I Origins' looks polished, but story is out of focus 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

It's an existential variety show -- dramatic, life-threatening, philosophical and legal. Fox renews "Cops" for 23rd season 2010-04-20T11:41:00Z

"When I was 14, I had – let's call it an existential crisis," he says. David Hoyle: divine director 2010-03-24T15:39:00Z

Has the relationship between the police and the policed eroded to the point that we’re all more vulnerable to a true existential threat? 'Fear the Walking Dead' Recap: Saddest Birthday Party Ever 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

On a more existential level, it’s about taking risks and trying new things and problem-solving and finding new ways to approach something. Want to Take Great Travel Pictures? Jimmy Chin Has Advice 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

But if movies are in existential limbo, at least there are still movie stars. What Did That Oscars Show Say About Movies? Our Critics Puzzle It Out. 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

Despite the existential threat of 1990s-era litigation, both companies are doing well. Juul is the new big tobacco? Wave of lawsuits signal familiar problems 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

This year, the Oscars underscore an existential question: What do movies mean? Perspective | This year, for once, the best sound Oscar might not go to the loudest movie 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

He expressed both an existential crouch and a howl of reason, an appealing position in that era. Barry Crimmins’s Hard Truths 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

So much of television’s existential despair today is centered on the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles, home of the film and television industry, 4 million people, gridlocked traffic and the Kardashian clan. Save yourself! Leave Los Angeles now: TV’s prestige comedies say living in the City of Angels will destroy you 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

One stars Maria swimming naked at a motel pool, an existential defiance that scandalizes the owner of the establishment. How Cinemax's "Jett" does nudity — and plenty of it — right 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

I did not know this at first, but I can see now that the inextricable intertwining of two existential wounds is at the heart of my work. Natasha Trethewey: By the Book 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Maxwell does endow his characters with some consciousness of their existential loneliness. Review: In ‘Good Samaritans,’ They Sing and Dance, but This Isn’t ‘La La Land’ 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

He’s mulling the idea of writing about the pandemic and the “strange existential chambers” created by lockdowns. Booker winner Damon Galgut laments South Africa’s gloom 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

These conflicting themes — God, murder and sins of the father — drive the film's existential conversations. 'Ned Rifle' a high mark in Hal Hartley's bizarre world 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Polley returns repeatedly to a scene of her father reading aloud his version of the Polley family’s story of “us,” a document he wrote in a time of existential crisis. Stories We Tell: Sarah Polley’s Meta Masterpiece 2013-05-10T03:30:03Z

By turns touching and gravely disturbing, “Gates” is a passionate declaration of independence — political, cinematic, existential — from Micheaux, the first African-American filmmaker. Film Treasures, Streaming Courtesy of the Library of Congress 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

Gerwig ends her film with some answers to Barbie's existential crisis that involves her coming to terms with being "good enough." In "Barbie," of course Ken hijacks the journey of empowerment in a misguided tour of the patriarchy 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z

Nézet-Séguin controlled the vast structure finely, but passages that should prove overwhelming were here brilliantly effective without carrying the vehement charge of existential angst they need to convey. LPO/N?zet-S?guin - review 2011-01-21T18:05:38Z

This more balanced perspective — a bridge between soul-crushing existential dread and cautious happiness — is one major reason why Trouble is more approachable than some of its predecessors. The National Breathes Confidence on Trouble Will Find Me 2013-05-23T11:00:22Z

The most interesting artists go right for the big, uncool existential stuff, which is what Bruce Nauman does in a transfixing half-century retrospective that fills much of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Perhaps it’s a glimpse of something existential in scope, something not merely socially constructed. After spending 2 years in solitude, I know something about loneliness. So why is New Year’s still so rough? 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

There was still plenty of existential musing, though: in “Boy in the Bubble,” in “The Obvious Child,” in “Slip Slidin’ Away.” | Paul Simon: Many Roads to Salvation in Paul Simon?s Latest Show 2011-05-11T07:54:29Z

The camera, he said, was often a device less for communication than for a kind of existential defense. Lewis Baltz, Photographer of American Landscapes, Dies at 69 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

The vision of a man existentially alone conjures up countless cowboys traveling through innumerable westerns and summons up the shock of the half-buried Statue of Liberty in “Planet of the Apes.” Movie Review: ‘Oblivion,’ With Tom Cruise 2013-04-18T22:11:58Z

The existential proximity of “get well soon” and “R.I.P.” inspires a funny riff. Theater Review: ‘The Vandal’ by Hamish Linklater, at the Flea Theater 2013-02-01T03:00:00Z

That’s fine — I’m a fan of existential concerns — but what about the way we live? Air travel, literature and its discontents 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

But they also move the show further away from its quaint existential moments to a more uneven, and less interesting, zany kids’ cartoon model. ‘Strange Planet’ Review: An Alien’s Guide to Being Human 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z

His cruelty, selfishness and shortsightedness are somehow inseparable from his loyalty, his steadfastness and his existential courage. Review: Beneath the Bombast, ‘Fences’ Has an Aching Poetry 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The frontier is internal; the adventure is existential. Finding emo: why the metaphysical mouldbreaker Inside Out will send kids out of their mind 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Is there something particularly dark and intense about the world of Batman that feeds into a kind of existential malaise for actors who find themselves trying to embody its main players on screen? Ben Affleck's Batman was hard to like – but the man himself deserves some empathy 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

But he wasn’t sure how to make McIntyre’s existential loneliness feel palpable to theatregoers. Into the forest 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

People grappled with large existential questions about the purpose of life, problems of inequity and the health of the planet. A Venice Biennale Informed by the Pandemic Will Spotlight Women 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

If you are inclined to object that my list is itself a farce, you will likely still concede that the most worthy alternative shows are also tales of murder, meltdown, and existential despair. My Favorite TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

In the upstate New York village of Lake Placid, home to the Winter Olympic Games in 1932 and 1980, it is much more than an existential question. In Lake Placid, Olympic Sports and Spirit 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

If you ever found yourself in a similar existential crisis in the middle of the refrigerated section, allow me to answer your questions, and put at least some of your dairy-driven anxieties to rest. Eggs are found in the dairy aisle, but does that actually mean they’re dairy products? 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

And it is a confrontation with the intransigent mystery of our existential condition. Keeping the faith in Tarell Alvin McCraney's 'Head of Passes' 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Hoffman’s characters exist, more often than not, in a state of ethical and existential torment. An Appraisal: A. O. Scott on Philip Seymour Hoffman 2014-02-03T17:36:07Z

But those movies share at least two common traits: Each has a plot in which a pregnancy poses an existential threat to a family, and each was shot by Charlotte Bruus Christensen, the Danish cinematographer. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Black Narcissus’ and ‘My Psychedelic Love Story’ 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

But the year before, Cannes was fairly shocked when Tim Burton's jury picked the existential Thai film "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives." Palme d'Or race wide open at Cannes Film Festival 2013-05-25T12:22:08Z

The sheer enormity of the times has contributed to a sense of existential fury—of a challenge to modern life as a whole—in the year’s best movies. The Best Movies of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

But as the night progressed, the existential terror beneath the surface kept peeking through, as the doomed god vacillated between accepting his fate and resisting it. A New Wotan Reigns in the Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Ring’ 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z

Nor does he capture his daring, existential fear or ruthless, even dangerous commitment to confessional comedy. ‘Dark Meat on a Funny Mind’ Examines Richard Pryor 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

But after his death these same questions become existential, and she comes to realize that the love of her life is partly to blame for the fact that she’s never really found herself. Sue Miller’s ‘Monogamy’ Begins With an Ending 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

In its most trying incarnation, situational boredom has the potential to develop into something like existential boredom, in which one is forced to question not just the point of an event but of life itself. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z

These gun-toting settlers in knitted skullcaps viewed Rabin’s decision to transfer parts of the West Bank to Palestinian control as an existential threat — a forfeiture of their biblical birthright. ‘Killing a King’ Examines Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

From an existential point of view there’s a lot to grapple with, and what’s going on outside at the moment is possibly far more interesting than what might be going on inside a writer’s head. 'Over one hour everything was cancelled' – how coronavirus devastated the film industry 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

A moving, at times hilarious and at others mystifying riff on love, loss and existential anxiety, “The Leftovers” was based on the 2011 novel by Tom Perrotta, who created the series with Mr. Lindelof. Damon Lindelof on the ‘Leftovers’ Finale, Mark Linn-Baker and Preserving the Mystery 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

And once Yank starts to think, he’s as much of a goner as any of the anguished existential heroes who would populate Western literature in the succeeding decades. Review: A Mesmerizing ‘Hairy Ape’ Brings Existentialism to Park Avenue 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

It is an existential condition in the city. Indoor Karting: Grand Prix New York and Pole Position Raceway 2012-12-20T22:27:52Z

Two-Lane Blacktop was an existential odyssey that set off for Washington DC only to blow it, memorably, on an airstrip in Tennessee. King of the road movie: Monte Hellman on his new film 2010-09-16T21:29:00Z

“We all have an existential crisis. We have to figure out a way to create and find joy in making wine.” Another Variable in the Winemaking Process: Climate Change 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

What’s at stake feels nothing less than existential, with the result reflecting not just Hollywood’s collective self-image, governing taste and vision of the future, but the definition of film itself. Perspective | An existential question animates this year’s Oscar race: What, exactly, is a movie? 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

More than anything, Rima aches with an existential loneliness, a desperate longing to discover other people like herself. Review | For Earth Day, a beloved but often overlooked love story 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

An existential Italian thriller that explores a dangerous game of deception in the years just after World War II. Set in and around Lake Maggiore, it depicts a deadly romantic triangulation. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

You can spend days indoors without really seeing the sea, which induces a deeper, more existential stir-craziness than on your typical boat-bound voyage. T Magazine: The Biggest Boat 2010-12-01T14:00:00Z

Dr. Jauhar writes about his mounting existential issues, which neatly parallel those of the medical profession. In ‘Doctored,’ Sandeep Jauhar Examines a Broken System 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

As I wrote in the book, Donald Trump comprises the gravest existential threat to the republic since the Civil War. Writer Greg Olear on “Dirty Rubles”: Trump is “gravest existential threat” to America in... 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

The first word in that album title crops up often in modern jazz’s solo-piano literature, almost like an existential cry. Lonely Voyage of Player,Piano and Audience 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z

There was a striking lack of rebelliousness, “bad attitude,” negativity, and existential angst. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z

I also really liked the doll’s pink-and-white-checked apron and the general air of existential blankness. Kim Gordon: By the Book 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The playing-Death-at-chess metaphor of The Seventh Seal is so easily parodied that many forget, or never find out, how nimble, poetic and drily funny Bergman’s existential fantasy is. Streaming: curate your own Max von Sydow season 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z

“How stable and open to discussion German democracy really is has not yet been put to the test in a truly existential crisis,” Jähner writes. Rubble and Repression: An Intimate Look at Germany in the Decade After Hitler 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

And if success or gustation or family is not enough to avoid the traps of existential despair, what is? Chasing Anthony Bourdain’s “perfect little things”: Kitchen work and what I hungered for 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

The overwhelming message broadcast by these shouty sites is that the white male is under cultural and existential threat. After Black Panther and Wonder Woman, Batgirl needs a female director 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

Frustrated but Loving Boyfriend My guess is that the choices your girlfriend is making about sex are her way of guarding against the existential threat of abandonment. She’s afraid of sex 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Yet bottling it up makes me feel an existential anger that I have a hard time channeling since I don’t know my place. How Can I Cure My White Guilt? 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

It’s all right to acknowledge that day-to-day life exists, even in the face of existential crisis. John Scalzi's 10-point plan for getting creative work done in the time of Trump 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Leaving became an existential challenge — if we chose to leave behind such bliss, would we ever again rediscover it? For hikers, Yosemite National Park rewards originality 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

After all, “what women want” is, theoretically at least, one of the existential questions at the heart of fashion. Tommy Hilfiger, Diane von Furstenberg, Carolina Herrera, the Row and More Show at Fashion Week 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

“His music acknowledges an existential loneliness,” Mr. Reid said of Hendrix. Music: Beyond the Jimi Hendrix Experience 2010-02-27T03:40:00Z

Phoebe would ring me at odd hours with abstract, almost existential questions. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

It is its exploration of the existential crisis that ensues when one’s public identity and private self-image are utterly shattered. A solid, wrenching ‘Richard II’ at Seattle Shakespeare Co. 2014-01-16T21:34:58Z

Malick moves them into a middle ground between the theatrical and the existential. Terrence Malick’s “Knight of Cups” Challenges Hollywood to Do Better 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

But it's such an existential novel in a lot of ways. Great Gatsby film opens Cannes 2013-05-15T18:37:09Z

But “Girls Trip” is also funnier; it’s also more appealing because it knows that there’s more at stake existentially for women, and especially for black women, than out-grossing men. Review: In ‘Girls Trip,’ Women Giddily Under the Influence 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Fast forward five years into my career and I’m on the verge of an existential crisis, approaching 30 and alone. How I wrote a song with Bob Dylan: A 57-year collaboration about my home state of Wisconsin 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Agonizing over what could have been a universal indulgence, part of that much ballyhooed tyranny of choice once cited as the Millennials' existential scourge. Unlike the shows that came before it, "Insecure" has always been about hustling one's way to success 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

But here I was, at my first wellness retreat, trying to appreciate a bowl of berries and tail-spinning into existential dread. Shh. It’s Breakfast Time. 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

“Bless the Beasts and Children” plays like an existential “Bad News Bears.” ArtsBeat: The Gay Film That Changed Your Life 2012-03-16T15:00:11Z

Mo writes of visceral pleasures and existential quandaries, creating vivid characters. A glance at the Nobel Prize for literature 2012-10-11T11:54:11Z

Hitler was gone, but the atomic bomb had introduced an existential threat of a kind we continue to face, and there was no guarantee of a happy ending. What Isaac Asimov Taught Us About Predicting the Future 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Jejune Stars rattles off an exuberant chorus that lodges immovably in the mind, and elates, despite articulating an existential crisis precipitated by the weather. Bright Eyes: The People's Key - review 2011-02-10T22:20:01Z

It’s not easy to make such a bureaucratic monster sympathetic, but by plumbing Zeiger’s existential crisis, Hofmann manages to reach his essential humanity. Review | ‘The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures’ is a story that John le Carré might have written for ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

Now, Walker may be helping to usher in a new moment, a new consensus, to replace the existential crisis of purpose the arts have experienced for a quarter-century or more. Perspective | A voice for the arts, and social justice, joins the National Gallery of Art board 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

For one Israeli commentator, the story was true and demonstrated the cruel existential choice presented to the Jewish people by the war. Reareading: Jacqueline Rose on Khirbet Khizeh 2011-03-12T00:06:57Z

It is, at its heart, the story of an aging actor who needs to reinvent his career and his close friendship with a stuntman suffering his own subtle existential crisis. The problematic history in Tarantino 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

And for the first time we crossed an existential “filter” threat off our list. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z

There's an obvious similarity in the existential dilemmas of these men and the two tramps in "Waiting for Godot," by Pinter's mentor and model, Samuel Beckett. Theater review: 2 excellent one-acts open ACT Pinter Festival 2012-07-30T22:51:02Z

There is no ingratiating “About Me” section, for example, but, instead, a page with the existential header “Who Is Is,” subtitled “self-pollution.” Shelley Jackson, Author and Advocate of the Monstrous 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

In this existential acting exercise of a play, directed by Paul Takacs, Mr. Fosse puts two men in a boat, instead of just one. Theater Review: ‘I Am the Wind,’ by Jon Fosse, Features Men Alone at Sea 2014-01-17T02:00:01Z

I remember the sound – the sounds, plural – bombarding me from the far side of some emotional, existential, hallucinogenic and sexual checkpoint along the road towards the rest of my life. The London years 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z

A tete-a-tete in the lighting booth raises existential questions: “How far do we push that moment of narrative into a story, with the light?” ‘Ballet 422’: A young choreographer’s nervous rise at New York City Ballet 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

His writing is spare and existential, often focusing on the interior lives of rather solitary characters. Where to start? A guide to Fosse’s work. 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z

While he isn't the brightest bulb on the theater marquee, his penchant for waxing philosophical reveals a man in the depths of an existential crisis. With "Maxxx," O-T Fagbenle subversively takes on pop culture's soft-serve cultural appropriation 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

And on a more existential level, does a Karen ever know she’s a Karen? Perspective | Who’s the most galling, captivating character on our screens this summer? It’s Karen — and she’s everywhere. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

The existential consequences of throwing off the yoke of religion is debated in many countries. Getting into Valhalla 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

When a dramatic event occurs in one of his novels, it’s usually as a prelude to a string of rambling anecdotes or some lengthy existential musing. The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Sylvain Helaine, now 35, began covering his entire body in tattoos after going through an “existential crisis” at 27 years old while working for a private school in London, according to Reuters. School teacher says he lost kindergarten job over tattoos: Report 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

There our hero explains how realising the gimcrack nature of Ikea-like consumerism led him to choose another more spiritually enlivening lifestyle path, namely getting beaten crapless by strangers suffering the same white-collar existential malaise. ‘Choose Facebook, revenge porn, zero hours': what does the Trainspotting speech mean today? 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

I recently spoke with the Columbia University professor about the consolations of a scientific perspective when confronting existential angst. In this global crisis, there’s one consolation: the beauty of the universe 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

And in the middle of it all, agonizing over treatment protocols and watching his patients struggle with tremendous existential and physical pain, was the author himself. Review: Siddhartha Mukherjee’s ‘The Gene,’ a Molecular Pursuit of the Self 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

As rock, pop, country and other formats migrated to FM, AM stations faced an existential crisis. Rush Limbaugh is ailing. And so is the conservative talk-radio industry. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

His wide appeal, many admirers say, lies in an ability not just to invoke the deep existential concerns of much endurance-based performance art — anxiety, ennui, other discomfort — but also to push beyond them, toward joy. ‘The Visitors,’ by Ragnar Kjartansson 2013-01-06T04:59:41Z

A self-styled Prince of Darkness, an atheist who fears he is “irretrievably consigned to perdition,” Jack gives off a raffish existential allure. Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

The POW condition, it is made amply clear, is a kind of pressurised parody of normal life – with the added existential twist that it is a condition everyone is extremely anxious to escape. The Barbed-Wire University by Midge Gillies – review 2012-06-12T10:37:18Z

The statues are meant to pose big, existential questions. Antony Gormley poses lofty questions in the Austrian mountains 2010-07-30T16:35:00Z

To perform — to act out, to pretend, to take on a new and unexpected personality — is above all to lodge an existential protest against the standardization of life. Review: In ‘Toni Erdmann,’ Dad’s a Prankster Trying to Jolt His Conformist Daughter 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

The work responds to Munch’s most famous work, and although there is plenty of existential angst in the Royal Academy show, there is no sign of “The Scream.” Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch, Leaning Into Pain 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

Joe is a man in existential conflict, struggling to contain his alcoholism and violence; he's a man trying to do the right thing. Why Joe just might change Hollywood's bad dad trope 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

What we’re talking about is how trauma can lead to a deeper, more existentially meaningful and fulfilling life, and that in turn may lead to greater happiness further down the road. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z

But his fact-and-fantasy images of existential violence and degradation, past and present, are in an old allegorical mode. He Spoke Out During the AIDS Crisis. See Why His Art Still Matters. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Her affectation, after all, is an existential choice. | 'The Select (The Sun Also Rises)': ?The Select (The Sun Also Rises)? - Review 2011-09-12T02:01:06Z

After visiting a sick friend in hospital, the couple attend a supercool party attended by everyone who is anyone, but who are all secretly discontented and on the edge of pure surfeit and existential nausea. Jeanne Moreau: the intelligent, complex star who lit up the French New Wave 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

Large pump bottles of hand-sanitizer were stationed just beyond the metal detectors, which now greet guests at every show — remnants of last year’s fears, both real and existential. Perspective | Paris Fashion Week begins with coronavirus anxiety — plus latex, feminism and flashing neon lights 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

“Nurse Jackie” has the advantage of being able to discern actual crises from existential ones. Showtime’s ‘Happyish’: A dark, profane dramedy without any heart 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

He confronts his own shortcomings yet won't give up, establishing community with likeminded individuals and tackling existential questions with rapier wit. Lollapalooza Day 3: Rain, more rain, and a Foo Fighters finale 2011-08-08T05:32:00Z

And perhaps most significantly, she too is fumbling, a little blindly, around the problem of her privilege, which she is aware of but not yet existentially troubled by. ‘Fake Accounts’ Examines the Alluring Trap of Our Online Personas 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

Can you talk about developing these metaphysical aspects of your story and the more existential concepts in the film? Netflix's existential "Shine Your Eyes" searches for a man who "inhabits the world of fiction" 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

Narratives of ascent, by their nature, must begin with deprivation, oppression and existential dread. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

I feel like an existential drag saying that. Foodie fatigue 2010-12-27T06:00:00Z

But she also excels in bringing across the character’s underlying existential dread. Review: A B-Movie Starlet Becomes an Opera Diva in ‘Acquanetta’ 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

In all of these programmes, "darkness" was as much about an aversion to light bulbs as an existential mood.  Down with dark: why screen drama needs to lighten up 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

That is the central existential tenet of “Standby,” a heavy-handed musical about the afterlife running at the New York Musical Theater Festival. ArtsBeat: New York Musical Theater Festival Report: ‘Standby’ 2013-07-24T16:21:19Z

Here, too, the more or less hellish world of the near future is mostly the backdrop for the existential questions of its human tenants. Josh Kline: Living in the Ruined World 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

On some pages, the figure contemplates existential questions or the vagaries of fate. A Diary From Inside the Gulag Meets Evil with Lightness 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

In the existential crisis that ensues, a new self emerges — or a series of selves, with multiple answers to the question “Who am I?” Bharati Mukherjee, Writer of Immigrant Life, Dies at 76 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

She falls in love with an older Democratic campaign strategist, a handsome and cynical semi-hack, who sees earlier than anyone else the existential threat to American life posed by Trump. With ‘Doxology,’ Nell Zink Delivers Her Most Ambitious and Expansive Novel Yet 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

Times of struggle — whether personal or collective, political or existential, or all of the above — can be humbling. How to make an El Presidente, a Cuban drink with a rich history 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z

It sounded like an existential crisis, an appeal to personal bravery, a reassuring anthem of empathy. Growing Up with David Bowie 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

The story started as a high-stakes mystery, but morphed into an existential meditation on people’s resilience in the face of certain death. In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

In his philosophy, humans have mutated into the planet’s most dangerous predators, representing an existential threat to all forms of life. Art Rooted in Nature Blooms at TEFAF 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

As the historian Maria Morris Hambourg wrote, in a Metropolitan Museum catalogue, Penn’s “existential portraits” were meant to be jarring and brutal, both for the sitter and for the viewer. An Irving Penn Portrait for the Coldest Days of Winter 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Her characters live in weird corners of the imagination, where uninhabited desire and grim existential queries abound. ‘Mud/Drowning’ Review: 3 Fools, 3 Kooks, 2 Bizarre Plays 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

The much-admired director of existential gangster pictures, Jean-Pierre Melville, makes an appearance as himself, the first of such cameos in a Godard picture. 50 years of Breathless 2010-06-05T23:04:00Z

But seeing these productions back-to-back had me thinking about acting not only as a delicate and commanding art but also as an existential condition, in which gender is always partly a matter of performance. How She Survives: Strategies for Women on London Stages 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

In Ó Cadhain’s view, the threat to the language from government neglect and emigration was existential, and the outlook bleak. The Irish Novel That’s So Good People Were Scared to Translate It 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

And then I’d have a lot of existential dilemmas — ‘What is the point of this? People are starving.’ The Quitters Club: “Let’s Give Up on Our Dreams . . . Together!” 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

But the film also takes on an existential dimension. "It's America's genre": Thandiwe Newton defends her land in "God's Country," a modern-day western 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Later in the season the story darkens as the church faces possibly existential threats from inside and out. Review: ‘The New Pope’ on HBO: Faith, Hope and Sponge Baths 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

In his positivist vision, both progress and existential doubt have the breathless optimism of a TED Talk. MoMA’s Daydream of Progress 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

If only Don himself was as pleased as we are, but no: in a matter of hours he’s blitzed in his bedroom and on his balcony, existentially lost. Mad Men Watch: In the Name of Love 2013-04-29T09:45:14Z

"No single headline has captured the national zeitgeist of existential dread combined with ridicustupulocitiness better than this one," Stephen Colbert joked on Thursday. "The Masked Singer" may not normalize Rudy Giuliani, but its a crime to even try to make him cuddly 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z

Being able to ask such a question suggests relative privilege—it’s the kind of existential quandary that only vexes those with enough distance to look back at where it all began. Chinese Food and the Joy of Inauthentic Cooking 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

Now he’s facing an existential crisis that freshly minted stars have often encountered: How do you maintain that man-of-the-people vibe when you’re literally living in a mansion on a hill? Can Luke Combs, Country’s Everyman, Grow Up Without Losing Touch? 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

“You are dealing with women’s existential desire to start a family,” Ms. Selvaratnam said. These Companies Really, Really, Really Want to Freeze Your Eggs 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

But it leaves further frustration and existential questions in its wake. The endless siege: The Tehran hostages are still seeking compensation and closure 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

It’s been nine months and a day since Trump announced his candidacy and I’ve found myself deep in the throes of existential crisis. “Ted can’t win!”: Donald Trump goes on yet another yawn-inducing Twitter tear 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Part modern-day Job, part existential Charlie Brown, part long-suffering hero out of Bernard Malamud or Ian McEwan, Golding was a man for whom things constantly went wrong, yet he resolutely soldiered on. Books of The Times: ?William Golding,? the Lighter Side, by John Carey 2010-07-06T23:03:00Z

If you’re lucky enough to experience the coronavirus not as a medical emergency or occupational hazard but a source of existential despair, there is a cure, and the cure is Facebook. The Pandemic Ad Salutes You 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

The rise of streaming and decline in theatrical attendance thrust the industry into another existential crisis even before the pandemic; it’s worse now. For the First Time Ever, I’m Optimistic About Women in the Movie World 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Maybe the poet’s job is to press us on the large, existential questions, we reflected later that night, after roast lamb and red wine in town. Climbing the summits of Irish literature

As is often the case with wine, this raises existential questions. The Profound Modesty of Good Dolcetto 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

“Tubman’s actions reveal the existential stakes of Wright’s and Seward’s agitations. Her freedom journeys made their words flesh.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

In many ways, the relationship at the center of “The Patient” is a metaphor for both the lengths Jews will go to extend empathy toward their oppressors and for the existential toll that takes. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

There is a gloomy existential cloud over every interaction as Edie gets thinner, unexpectedly no longer a kitten. How do I explain death of our cat to my two-year-old? | Eva Wiseman 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

He becomes an amateur detective and forensic archaeologist, and also, without quite realizing it, a man digging himself ever deeper into an existential hole. Review: ‘Digging for Fire,’ a Comedy by Joe Swanberg 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Fahrenheit 11/9 Rated R for language and an enveloping aura of existential dread. Review: In ‘Fahrenheit 11/9,’ Michael Moore Targets Trump, and Us 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

A fan of Cusk’s bracing work, I spent a happy afternoon poring over pictures of her current home on an estate agent’s website that I frequent, being also a fan of existential pain. Fallen out with the neighbours? Time to build a ‘spite house’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

She put that quality to use in “Russian Doll,” an existential mystery about a woman who is continually reliving her death, set in a contemporary New York City that felt haunted by its past. Review: ‘Poker Face’ Is the Best New Detective Show of 1973 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

This existential dilemma permeates the narrative, adding metaphysical speculation to the assorted mysteries that will follow. ‘The Fifth Heart,’ by Dan Simmons 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man. Albert Murray, Essayist Who Challenged the Conventional, Dies at 97 2013-08-19T16:57:56Z

The narrator speaks of her existential depression and her awkwardness as a teacher, “my uncertainty, my unimpressive exterior, my lack of training, my lack of confidence and command.” Books of The Times: Lydia Davis’s ‘Can’t and Won’t’ 2014-04-01T19:40:25Z

Johnson: Students I know who identify as Hebrew Israelites share common characteristics: mostly Black men, many of whom searched in the assigned readings answers to existential questions about "manhood" and God. "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

Sully isn’t cut along the cynically frayed lines of assorted current screen heroes, with their nihilism lite and butchery, nor does he fit the existential mode, the man in revolt, like Jason Bourne. Review: Sully Landed the Plane. Then He Had to Endure the Spotlight. 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Isaac, wearing a deadpan expression that wavers between the soulful and soul-sick, plays Llewyn, a New York folk musician groping to find his existential way in the turbulent wake of a tragedy. Critic’s Notebook: Coen Brothers’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Is Popular at Cannes 2013-05-19T20:30:52Z

She explores M.A.M., or “Middle-Aged Madness,” the existential distress that was once known as a midlife crisis but now crests a decade or so later. “Is There Still Sex in the City?” and the Decline of a Particular Fantasy Life 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Arthur also praised the existential dialogue between the two main characters, who forged a professional and personal relationship despite their seemingly opposite personalities, philosophies and lifestyles. ‘True Detective’ second season rumor mill grinds on 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

It's not an existential question, but sums up the elemental qualities of Orton's music; her hapless between-songs persona contrasts with the powerful figure in them. Beth Orton – review 2012-11-28T14:38:14Z

Such existential questions I leave to those with higher powers than mine. An Edification Vacation 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Rather it is the existential challenge to the messy democracy we’ve devised. Critic’s Notebook: Changes Needed After Hurricane Sandy Include Politics 2012-11-19T23:00:17Z

Personality and emotions, one’s existential situation, were of no interest to the failed doctor. “I should be among the dead”: Young, white, and economically advantaged, I was hungry for meaning and found heroin instead 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Is he on the verge of an existential crisis too? Zach Braff in Paul Weitz?s ?Trust? at Second Stage 2010-07-29T21:38:00Z

No matter how many Lady Macbeths I see go mad, no matter how many Hamlets I watch have existential crises, I am always game for new productions of Shakespeare. A Smorgasbord of Shakespeare, With Some New Trimmings 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lazar also steps out of the play and wanders up the aisle to deliver a pitch-black commentary on the existential darkness and the futility of hope. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z

Bannon himself noted the effectiveness of the campaign — and the existential threat it posed — in “The Brink,” a documentary about his post-Breitbart political activities. Whatever happened to Breitbart? The insurgent star of the right is in a long, slow fade 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

The filmmakers effortlessly lay out the very real existential dangers threatening Joseph, whose fate rests either with Thurgood or the howling white mob outside. Review: In ‘Marshall,’ a Legal Pioneer Gives History a Shove 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Came out of the movie theater in a cold sweat and breathing hard as if we'd just witnessed and barely escaped an existential calamity. Review: ‘Network’ With Bryan Cranston Is Convulsive, Immersive and Still Mad as Hell 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

And simply by asking it, Chicagoans are acknowledging a basic existential struggle. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z

For all his existential despair, Allen isn’t a nihilist. The Existential Genius of Late Woody Allen 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

In the “Fast and Furious” series, driving is an existential truth: “Life’s simple,” one of its poets says in “Tokyo Drift.” One Indelible Scene: When a Woman Takes the Wheel in ‘Licorice Pizza’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

America’s old paranoia about nuclear war with the Soviet Union anticipated our unending War on Terror, an existential threat sufficient to justify any abuse of civil rights, any level of surveillance, any mechanism of exclusion. Review | Joyce Carol Oates has seen hell, and it’s 1950s Wisconsin 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

For one thing, Mom turns out to be less an existential prisoner than Beckett’s Winnie was. Review: Jason Craig’s ‘Longyarn’ Features a Mom Who Won’t Shut Up 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

“Separate understandings of our world and its risks have become so divergent and so entrenched that they pose their own existential threat,” Robert E. Rubin writes in his review. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

For that matter, could Eland be Beckett, so existential he seems to exist even now, an avant-gardist more than 32 years after his death? Review: In ‘Textplay,’ Stoppard and Beckett Get Snarky, FWIW 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

The little ring of storytellers, gathered in a small patch of flickering light on a vast plain, effortlessly coexists as concrete setting and existential symbol. A brief survey of the short story part 50: Ivan Turgenev 2013-06-21T13:42:13Z

Placing safeguards around the user of artificial intelligence to generate scripts or digitize and use performers' likenesses without payment or approval is also an existential issue. Look to the Logan Roys to understand who's causing the Hollywood "double strike" 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

Advertisement Several facets of Mr. Wong’s personality as an artist are on display: the self-dramatist; the mythologist; the existential tourist; and the virtuoso realist. Martin Wong, an Urban Visionary With a Hungry Eye 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

The internet's ubiquitous copying capacity may be an existential threat to intellectual property law. Was Andy Warhol's portrait of Prince copyright infringement? How this case could reshape IP law 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z

The unexpected fog put a serious dent in our itinerary, and posed an existential threat to bucket list fulfillment. In northern Arizona, ups and downs in the land of canyons 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Did Villeneuve kill off the blade runner to underline the replicant’s existential tristesse, the pointlessness of life when faced with the reality that you are just an ersatz version of the real thing? Blade Runner 2049: does it live up to the critical hype? Discuss with spoilers 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

I don’t want to give anything away, but I highly recommend this series to anyone who likes magic, fantasy or the existential search for meaning in our mundane lives! Jason Segel: By the Book 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

At times the apparition seems momentarily to congeal into an eye looking back at the viewer, and the effect can be almost existential. The Confounding Lightness of Helen Pashgian 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

The rates of stress, cancer and alcoholism among funeral directors are high, and she worries that this is in part because many enter the job without confronting its existential realities. America’s next top mortician: “It really improves your life to be around corpses” 2012-10-27T22:00:00Z

A marriage is broken, and there are several characters one drink away from an existential crisis. Theater Review | 'The Cocktail Party': Shaken and Stirred at a T. S. Eliot Comedy 2010-03-19T22:09:00Z

In our review, Lydia Millet called the book "a clear triumph" that "transcended genre with a compelling, elegant and existential story." Sci-fi writing's Nebula Awards announced; Jeff Vandermeer takes top prize 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

The existential, spiritual and emotional questions, and he really tries to answer them. Bernard Rose: Tolstoy, America and me 2012-12-17T23:11:56Z

There are institutions for which the recent Arts Council England funding allocation announcement this month was an existential shock. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

“I actually think I was that age when I started to ask those larger existential questions,” she said. ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’: Beloved, Banned and Finally Adapted 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

“Take the existential leap. Rewrite the sad grim grieving playscript of death in the usual manner.” Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

The lead single “The Lightning I & II” returns to soaring, big-sky rock, and the existential concerns threaded through the band’s career. How Arcade Fire Found a Way Back 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

When they sit by themselves alone, glowering in the dark, these guys wallow in existential misery, as do all of the X-men and the Avengers. Keep your man-child antiheroes: The new crush-worthy guy is the quietly competent, grown-up man 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

And as her tongue keeps flapping, she, too, becomes an existential heroine of sorts, a life force that persists even as it shrinks into nothingness. Review: ‘Social Security,’ the Heroic Poetry of Solitude 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

In some moments he tried to alleviate his existential dread with humor. Matthew McConaughey Wrote the Book on Matthew McConaughey 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

Once again, Peele is exploring existential terrors and the theme of possession, this time through the eerie form of the monstrous doppelgänger. ‘Us’ Review: Jordan Peele’s Creepy Latest Turns a Funhouse Mirror on Us 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

I don’t have the luxury of pondering those existential questions. Motherlode Blog: The Dog Days of I.V.F. Doubt 2013-12-17T20:03:59Z

But the location captured here is less André’s grim little room than his mind, as he tries to ward off existential despair — a battle that lets Delisle transmute tedium into compelling suspense. New Graphic Novels Detail Personal Journeys and Twists of Fate 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

It becomes a stark existential chapel in which thoughts of human folly contrast with the logic of nature. Review: Art for the Planet’s Sake at the Venice Biennale 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The teacher calls her back after class and uses words like expressionistic and vulnerable and existential. Cure - a short story 2011-07-11T16:03:55Z

The children are clear-sighted about the philosophical questions they encounter in the course of this existential romp: exactly how far do ends justify means? The Elephant Keepers' Children by Peter Høeg – review 2012-10-05T21:55:11Z

In the ’80s Mr. Lee loosened up his strokes and began to produce airy, monochrome compositions in a kind of Abstract Expressionist style driven not by emotional angst but by delight in existential flux. Art Review: A Fine Line: Style or Philosophy? 2011-06-23T22:45:46Z

It’s a high-pressure, high-stakes, anxiety-inducing, existentially terrifying profession—one in which each new image, which exalts the actor’s person and creates the actor’s persona, threatens to expose the actor to humiliation or ridicule. Kristen Stewart and the Actor’s Dilemma 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

In any event, they do uphold those Beckett standards of yore, these two physically agile comic actors, engaged in existential standup. Review | If you’re waiting for a new take on ‘Waiting for Godot,’ you’ll wait some more. 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

A projection screen allows for suggestions of the scope the opera is seeking: beyond the domestic to the societal and existential. Your Guide to the Met Opera’s ‘Exterminating Angel’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Published in 1942, Albert Camus’s “The Stranger” remains a landmark of international literature, an example — despite its author’s denials — of the existential absurd. An Algerian novelist takes on Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

We are, I argued, if not exactly "saved" by reading, at least partially "repaired" by it: made the better morally and existentially. Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z

“The fact is, we’re facing an existential threat, and the board chose the interests of this institution over the interests of these national professional organizations.” Berkshire Museum’s Planned Sale of Art Draws Opposition 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

London was disappointed that critics didn’t understand the indictment of individualism he advanced through Martin, whose existential condition incorporates philosophical arguments of the day. ‘Martin Eden’ Review: Reading and Writing His Way Out of the Pit 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

The Fault in Our Stars is a unique novel reflecting on existential questions, teenage love and the tragedy of childhood illness. Reviews roundup: your top reads this month! 2013-07-08T14:00:00Z

Nor is it concerned, like Walker Percy’s novels — which it sometimes seems to be trying to mimic — with the existential predicament of man in a modern, technological world. ‘The Dog,’ the Latest by Joseph O’Neill, of ‘Netherland’ 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

Fern has not experienced her own comfort as an existential burden, and she wants Edgar to go—for the first time—to work. Novels of White Status Anxiety 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

“Do You Know Where You’re Going To,” another No. 1 hit, raised the age bar from fretful teen to disillusioned adult, and the stakes from failed romance to existential chill. Remembering Gerry Goffin, the '60s Poet of Teen Heartbreak 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

“I had existential dilemmas as young as seven, obsessive questions about my place in the world. Where did we come from? Why am I here?” Marion Cotillard: ‘Before my family, everything was dedicated to the character’ 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

More often than not, however, their searches for existential wisdom are likely to end in a glimpse of the abyss or their own mortality. In Robert Stone’s Books, Heroes, Hedonism and Old-Fashioned Moralism 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

Even so, it’s hard enough for whimsy to sustain a five-minute sketch; expecting it to fuel an existential flight of fancy all but ensures a flameout. Review: ‘The Genital Warriors’ Revisits Bygone Romances 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

The crime serial was a sensation in its first season, a bewitching blend of stark, evocative visuals, existential dread and Gothic subtext that announced both Mr. Fukunaga and Mr. Pizzolatto as major talents. Cary Joji Fukunaga on the Perils of Making ‘Beasts of No Nation’ 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

It is a “radical acknowledgment” of how the looming existential threat is already “altering the way we imagine our future”. BirthStrikers: meet the women who refuse to have children until climate change ends 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

He is unleashing a torrent of existential questions, and before I can make up some bogus dad answer he’s on to the next one: “Right now, all over the world, people are dying. Aren’t they?” In Colorado, three generations achieve a peaceful family vacation at high elevation 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

Sunday’s concert at the National Gallery of Art posed an existential question: Is Mahler really Mahler without the cowbell? Reducing Mahler’s Sixth Symphony to a piano recital 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Music was "the only comfort for my existential dread," Zauner writes of her life as a teenager in the Pacific Northwest. Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner is fighting for joy through grief 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

It was a way for me to try to answer some of those more difficult existential questions, or at least try to answer them. Zoe Lister-Jones subverts sex in "Slip": "Through orgasm, she's being transported into a multiverse" 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

It’s an existential drama, beginning with a circular pool of light on the floor. Dance Review: Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca ? Joyce Theater ? Review 2011-09-29T00:11:26Z

So this sympathetically curated exhibition of portraits and existential reflections could be pretty timely. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-08T23:08:45Z

McKellen’s mesmerizingly idiosyncratic recitations from “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and “The Tempest” — which located a brooding acknowledgment of existential nothingness in three very different works — had me shivering. When Home Is a Big Broadway Stage 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

Hence Take Shelter's slow pace and existential musings, tailored for the art-film market. Mud director Jeff Nichols: 'Mark twain bottled what it felt to be a child' 2013-05-02T17:37:37Z

The pears, the constancy of the fruit tree, reassured Lentine after the existential jolt of 9/11. The symbiotic relationship between poets and the garden 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

What remains, of course, is the soullessness of it all, and the tendency for its characters to steer deliberately clear of any deep or existential qualms about capitalism, exploitation or any of that. Review | In HBO’s sordid but watchable ‘Industry,’ the world now belongs to the zuppies 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z

Instead it's a wildly prismatic riff on existential identity, the patriarchy, internecine attraction/repulsion and more. Young Jean Lee's risky, intriguing riff on 'Lear' at City Garage 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

“It helps us deal with our pure existential anxieties that we are small, vulnerable human beings in a great big indifferent world,” Dr. Johnson says. 10 reasons we love love 2014-03-15T22:00:00Z

You are checking in to an hour of existential angst, with only your spiritual baggage for company. | 'Hotel Savoy': The Porter Will Kindly Show You to Your Doom 2010-10-06T21:59:00Z

As Philip Jennings, Rhys has to play every single tone The Americans covers, from goofy 1980s suburban comedy to spy thriller to marital drama to existential, ideological conflict and conspiracy, and moves between them seamlessly. Golden Globes 2017: who will win – and who should win – the TV categories 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

This play is facing the most existential terror imaginable.” ‘The Iceman Cometh’ Stars Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

But it also leaves La'an in an existential limbo since her genetic augmentations are inherited. "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" ventures into the wrath of Khan's legacy through his descendent 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

I wanted to be more layered than that, a bit more existential — that he was trying to unpick who the essence of Jamie was. 'Outlander' Q. and A.: Tobias Menzies on Playing the Brutal Black Jack 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Here in the Rogue Valley, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is seeing an existential threat from ever-more-common wildfires. Too Darn Hot: How Summer Stages Are Threatened by Climate Change 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

Mike, for instance, didn’t open the property as a salve to an existential crisis. Behind the scenes at a B&B: The joys — and challenges — of being an innkeeper 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

But close examination of the lyrics, an activity best performed wearing protective clothing and some kind of breathing apparatus, suggests something more existential is troubling them, a sense that the end might be nigh. LMFAO: Sorry for Party Rocking ? review 2011-07-14T14:30:01Z

For she — not Beckett — devised this system of restraint and sensory deprivation as a means of summoning the character's existential panic. Irish actress Lisa Dwan to perform Beckett's dark, tortured 'Not I' for last time at the Broad Stage 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Despite forever teetering on the verge of an existential crisis, Watney remains quick-witted and optimistic. Matt Damon: 'You're a better actor the less people know about you' 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Along with van Gogh, Picasso and a few others, he persuaded the modern world that to develop a sense of independent selfhood would be one of the biggest existential challenges in a secularized world. Art Review: ?Rembrandt and Degas? at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-02-23T15:55:08Z

“The Good Wife” heightened this existential suspense by spending much of its final season on a narrative fakeout. What Was “The Good Wife” Really About? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

An isolated backbend is used now and then, apparently to indicate existential anguish. Dance Review: Fall for Dance, With Work by Christopher Wheeldon 2012-09-29T01:37:29Z

The cast shifts performance by performance, but at the one I saw, it was Polunin who brought the finest touches of existential angst to the comedy. Review: ‘Slava’s Snowshow’ Delivers Flurries of Joy 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

At the time, Black people were in a very literal and ultimately existential fight for autonomy of their bodies and souls. Nichelle Nichols Helped Show America a Different Future 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

Though Philosophy 101 isn’t a prerequisite for the film, a refresher on the thinkers whose theories connect the plot’s dots will keep audiences in step with Abe’s evolving existential circumstances. A Handy Guide to the Philosophers Referenced in 'Irrational Man' 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

There’s an American ring to that — the Big Easy, easy listening, easy-peasy — while Duras, though her prose is spare and concentrated, is practically an avatar of French existential difficulty. From Marguerite Duras, an Uncovered Tale of Young Womanhood 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

The most interesting artists go right for the “uncool existential bottom line,” Holland Cotter wrote in his review, and Mr. Nauman has “approached this line by many paths: history, humor, shock, politics and formal variety.” New York Art Guide: How to Navigate Museums This Holiday 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

It isn’t an existential predicament that traps these men, but systemic social problems and a culture that sees young black men as disposable. 13 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

But in my mother’s case, the physical distress was less acute than the existential. Should the terminally ill control their death? 2012-09-22T13:00:00Z

Bannon goes on to call the midterm elections “the existential threat” the far-right is fearing. “The Circus” host calls Steve Bannon’s propaganda film “a cinematic reach-around” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

It does, however, show just enough of the thing’s effect—a wind-like whipping-up of swirls of leaves—to deflate the potential existential terror of a completely traceless thing, a seeming neutron bomb of suicidal impulse. “Bird Box,” Reviewed: An Apocalypse Built for Netflix 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

The film is existential – a big word but with a simple ambition, which is to stroll through history as perceived by a child, when the words of adults take on different meanings. 11 Flowers - review 2012-05-22T13:01:46Z

This is the existential plaint, clarified in grief and anger, of every parent who has ever had a kid in trouble: "I will not forgive you / Sun of emptiness / Sky of blank clouds," Hirsch insists. Edward Hirsch's ode to a lost son 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

So when I first discovered Woody Allen it seemed like a lot of that same area was fear, that kind of existential anxiety of "What do I make of my life?" A Minute With: Stephen Merchant on dreaming and despairing in L.A 2013-09-25T11:33:15Z

Months before Dictionary.com made "existential" its Word of the Year for 2019, television was already obsessing over meaning. As the world burns, existential TV reflects viewers' needs to make sense of life 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z

That and the skill with which Rourke uses his narrative to force his narrator out of most of his existential posing – and so render much of the criticism above moot. Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke 2010-10-04T12:08:00Z

For professional critics, though, spoilers raise questions not just about pop culture etiquette but also about ethics, craft and, on a more existential level, our very reason for being. Perspective | What Quentin Tarantino’s no-spoiler letter got right about criticism 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

The question Eugenides set for himself with “The Marriage Plot” was not just academic — can the novel survive the death of the marriage plot? — but existential: Can love survive the death of the novel? He Courted Me Through My Favorite Novel 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

Such anxiety, she thinks, taps into the existential dread that underpins infertility. 'Having a child is a distraction from your own mortality': Kathryn Hahn and Tamara Jenkins on their IVF film 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

He’ll have to get his head on straight for this to work and, snap out of it, dude, this is no time for an existential crisis, Abbie says. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: Weapon of Moloch destruction 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

The film is still steeped in existential angst, but it comically portrays the actor's obsession with fame. Inarritu leaps off the ledge with 'Birdman' 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

Walter White's laugh at the end of season four's eleventh episode "Crawl Space" was bone-chilling -- a horror movie or film noir laugh; the hideous guffaw of a man in existential panic. Walter White has to laugh, otherwise he'd cry 2011-09-26T07:27:00Z

Fortunately, Stezin does do justice to a monologue in which Facebender recounts how air guitar alleviated his loneliness and provided existential perspective and psychic release; it’s a speech that lends depth overall. Review | In ‘Airness,’ the axes are invisible but the play is loud 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Homelessness is the primary existential condition in Mr. Shepard’s universe, even when you’re at home. Theater Review: Sam Shepard’s ‘Heartless’ Opens, With Lois Smith 2012-08-28T02:00:00Z

And while her third book of personal insights, “Look Alive Out There,” is poised to continue this legacy, its one-liners do far heavier existential lifting than their predecessors. The Essays Are Personal. The Truths Are Universal. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

On a sweltering night, they can't sleep for different reasons — existential dilemmas, if you will, regarding how to find meaning in the humdrum of American city life. Review: 'The Trip to Bountiful' is a poignant journey 2010-05-14T20:54:00Z

Ms. Hacker’s video, installed in a closetlike space, brings us uncomfortably close to the existential tension between dissolution and salvation that lay at the heart of the relic cult. Art Review: The Spiritual Network 2011-03-24T22:13:08Z

The 20 watercolors of Linda Thomas’ “Floating Babies” spin variations on a different kind of existential solitude as each infant sleeps, squirms, wails or vacantly stares in its own little world. ‘Sea Change’ and allusions to climate change among artworks at local galleries in January 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Indeed, books and literature played an existential role in Ms. Feldman’s life from early on. An American Jewish Author Now Calls Germany Home 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

One of the novel’s central characters reappears, and Martin returns to familiar themes in this collection: substance abuse, professional ambivalence, low-grade existential dread. 16 Books to Watch For in July 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

At other times, the tidings are almost existentially bleak. John Edgar Wideman’s Stories Vividly Evoke Life in Pittsburgh and Many Other Places 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

My theory as a writer in terms of how you create drama is that you figure out the question you’re obsessed with—what’s the fear that is gnawing at your existential soul? Why Showtime's The Affair Will Be as Intense as Game of Thrones 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

No wonder Laura was mystified; he sold himself to her as a Robert Redford, not a German intellectual contemplating a crippling existential lack. Schroder by Amity Gaige – review 2013-03-29T17:19:01Z

Of course Wallace himself is here but not here too — present in the vivid intoxication produced by his words, but existentially absent. Theater Review: David Foster Wallace Inspires Piece at Chocolate Factory 2012-03-25T21:57:25Z

Well, there’s definitely something existential about my first single, “Better Than I Know Myself,” and especially the music video. Adam Lambert on His New Album, All Those Singing Competitions and Filling in for Freddie Mercury 2012-05-11T15:53:58Z

The doomed youthful protagonists must make their way through Warsaw’s labyrinthine sewer, which is a literal translation of the title and an existential statement. Remembering Andrzej Wajda, Unflinching Observer of Modern Poland 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

“I’ve endured my share of male strip-you-bare eyework,” Phoebe reflects, when she and Heist first size each other up, “but this was more existentially blunt, souls meeting in a sunstruck clearing.” In “The Feral Detective,” Jonathan Lethem Returns to Detective Noir for the Trump Era 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Like his first novel, “What Belongs to You,” Garth Greenwell’s second is also about an American teacher’s sexual and existential journey in Sofia, Bulgaria. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Man 1 does not have much of an existential crisis alone in the desert even when he is faced with critical life-or-death situations. Zac Efron is worth his weight in "Gold," a harrowing thriller about greed and survival 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

In the eyes of Minadakis — whose nickname among friends is “The Crab” — the billboard was an existential challenge. A longtime Baltimore restaurant beefed with PETA over crabs. Who won? 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

But what begins as a game — Einar’s occasional foray into wearing women’s clothing and then the acquisition of a female persona, Lili — triggers an existential transformation. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Danish Girl’ and ‘The Kicks’ 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Alas, the more provocative Michael — and all the existential and ethical issues he represents — lingers in the periphery. ‘Operation Mincemeat’ Review: A Bland Hash 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

Glover also referred to rappers as “the most existential people” – not a common way to describe those in that profession. Empire's state of mind: the new TV shows highlighting African Americans 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

The show returned for its second season on Friday, with last season’s cult leader plot resolved but Kimmy and friends still contending with arranged marriages, jilted fiancées, silverfish, exploding silos and other existential challenges. Submit Questions for Robert Carlock of ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

In her review, Manohla Dargis describes the film as “an existential mystery, a melodramatic thriller, a medical horror film or just a polymorphous extravaganza.” ArtsBeat Blog: Beneath Pedro Almod?var's 'Skin' 2011-10-13T18:31:58Z

Those existential questions weren’t even on her radar when Rachel, 26, who recently took a Senate staff job, applied to Date Lab more than a year ago. Date Lab: Her religion was very important to her. Would this first date be a miracle? 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

The director is Daniel Scheinert, half the writing and directing team behind the 2016 existential buddy comedy “Swiss Army Man,” in which one buddy is a flatulent corpse. ‘The Death of Dick Long’ Review: About Last Night … 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Thanks to Hershel’s heroics, many survived the biggest existential threat to the group yet — but another, larger one is lurking just on the edge of the woods. The Walking Dead Watch: “Internment” 2013-11-11T03:01:06Z

Nuclear holocaust was the big existential threat in the comic, but here it’s white supremacy. Who Will Watch ‘Watchmen’? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

If regular old Hollywood melodrama, rendering bourgeois passions operatic, provokes chuckles even among its devotees, Bergman’s infusion of middle-class anguish with metaphysical heights and existential depths risks unleashing a laugh riot. Ingmar Bergman and the Risk of Ridicule 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

The confusion over this most basic fact stems from West answering a question about production with an existential meditation on the number of people on the planet and what constitutes mass production and the Gap. Perspective | At Paris Fashion Week, designers reworked the tuxedo and explored the meaning of color. And, oh yeah, Kanye showed up. 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Granted, Tatum and his co-stars previously strutted their stuff in 2012's original "Magic Mike," but that film's gyrating was underscored by a fair amount of existential angst and soul-searching. In honor of 'Magic Mike XXL,' a brief history of men's abs in the movies 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

She wrote that they are unified by their “existential state of nakedness where the ordinary sense of control and reason is stripped away.” 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

But the same demographics that propelled Sun City’s rise now pose an existential challenge to this suburb as baby boomers age. Baby boomers may put 'tidal wave' of 21M homes on market -- but who will buy them? 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

“I really began to believe that the struggles of most people are existential, not political,” he said, “and my biggest struggles were existential.” Arts & Leisure Preview: The Comic Who Explores Comedy?s Darkest Side 2011-01-06T19:37:09Z

Moten talks about how the existential problems that Black people have faced “are so deep that we are forced to dance” and how dance is “higher language.” Storyboard P: Where Is the Place for a Genius of Street Dance? 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

Her work asks existential questions, said Alemani, “like ‘What is our relationship with nature?’ and ‘Can we imagine a world where humans are no longer at the apex of the pyramid?’ Pamela Rosenkranz Wins the High Line Plinth’s Third Commission 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

The portrayal of existential teenage angst has also become laughably sentimental. TV Hall of Shame #4: Skins 2011-03-09T14:37:19Z

“Evangelion,” however, takes the theme of dehumanization even deeper, explicitly rolling it into a larger existential psychology. How “Neon Genesis Evangelion” Reimagined Our Relationship to Machines 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

In the best of the mind-bending videos in this show — it plays on a screen mounted inside a doghouse — they also recite fragments of text that ricochet between existential inquiry and self-help-style command. 12 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn and Queens 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Pitched somewhere between carefree youthful adventure and existential adult drama, Stand By Me is a melancholy marvel which reminds us that there’s so much more to King than horror. The 25 greatest summer films 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

Then there are the more existential issues for touring musicians, including commitment and sacrifice. The Slackers are the ska stalwarts who keep on going 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

Eventually, though, a pair of related existential questions emerge. Having Trouble Having It All? Ivanka Alone Can Fix It 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

The film is punctuated by violence and brutality, much of it committed by the film’s protagonist, but Ms Ramsay’s camera lingers most on Mr Phoenix in moments of existential despair and self-loathing. The film world is hard for women directors 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

In No 1, Tampax is facing perhaps its greatest existential threat – the growing number of women choosing not to have periods at all. Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

He sharpened pikes, scowled and muttered, lit in the glow of walker fires that symbolized both his consuming rage and an addled existential hell. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 4: The Price of Inner Peace 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

The album's title, meanwhile, suggested the writer's lovestruck characters had nowhere left to run, and now found themselves mired in an existential void: the Darkness on the Edge of Town. Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished' 2010-09-23T20:30:00Z

That's what I try to get at as a type of existential freedom that is not conditioned upon the white gaze or white racial supremacy or homo-antagonism, any of those things holding us down. “No Ashes in the Fire” author Darnell Moore on what it means to be “Black and Free in Ameri... 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Small details and dramas prompt existential questions about the soul and what is necessary to live “among the relevant,/ the passionate, and the confused.” Review | The best poetry collections to read this month 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Epic, vital, savage, relentless, insane, existentially incandescent, horrifying, excruciating, not funny, very funny, this is the great tragicomic howl of a madman at full Shakespearean tilt. Top 10 deranged characters 2011-04-06T11:21:05Z

He was offering a different kind of existential scream: one that funneled physical lust and spiritual transcendence into one scalding shriek. Perspective | Life is a scream: Remembering Little Richard, the self-described king, queen and architect of rock-and-roll 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

The reductive palette, which many other artists would adopt, was taken as a sign of existential seriousness. Art Review: ?De Kooning: A Retrospective? at MoMA - Review 2011-09-15T11:00:58Z

My questions about what happens next are less technical more existential, as I consider a future of never quite knowing. An MRI scan reveals what I thought was a migraine to be something darker 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

The looks and lines exaggerate the contours of contemporary life and inform the show’s shape as a social satire and an existential gripe. Armando Iannucci Gets Lost in Space in “Avenue 5” 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

As with Beckett’s other work, it’s a existential disquisition on the meaning of life, in which a codependent couple take shelter from a senseless world. Daniel Radcliffe Does Not Have Coronavirus 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

More than ever before, South Park is questioning its own place in society, abandoning its usual approach of ‘offend everyone to offend no one’ to instead become more existential. Post-outrage TV: how South Park is surviving the era of controversy 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

But he’s also an heir of Beckett, an opaque symbolist who spurns psychology in favor of total metaphors that rip the veil off reality to expose the core of existential pain. Ingmar Bergman and the Risk of Ridicule 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

When I turned 30, in the middle of our first pandemic summer, I had a monthlong existential crisis. How Jonathan Larson Taught Me to Become a Better Critic 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

We were among the stoners, booze hounds, skirt chasers and well-read wise-guy layabouts who survived the Vietnam War with college deferments, and the dark tide of existential angst with the help of lysergic acid. My long strange winter trip with John Perry Barlow, a legend in the making 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

Sometimes the nonhuman is a threat, at other times a comfort, but it always presents a profound ethical challenge based in a stark existential mystery: Who are we? | 'War Horse': ?War Horse,? Directed by Steven Spielberg - Review 2011-12-22T13:00:00Z

The balloon is for him "an instrument of contemplation", offering an existential vantage point that lets us look back down on ourselves and our habitat. Falling Upwards by Richard Holmes – review 2013-04-22T07:00:01Z

At 28, she says, she had an existential crisis. Freida Pinto: ‘I wouldn’t work with Woody Allen again’ 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

They have everything they want and are existentially miserable. ‘Togetherness’: What? An unhappy married couple? In Los Angeles? Again? 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Still, at its best Keeping Up with the Joneses riffs on something very real: the existential loneliness of living in a place that’s just too perfect. The Joneses Tries to Shake Up the 'Hood 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Considered side by side, the two books make clear the yawning gap between the ways, then and now, we expect a certain kind of man to express his existential rage. Two Novels About Frustrated White Men, Thirty-five Years Apart 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

And the shadow cast by these narratives—one that valorizes existential curiosity, adventure, individuality, and surliness—does not fall over women. Where are the women Kerouacs? 2013-03-13T22:28:00Z

Everyone, in fact, is stumbling through more of an existential crisis than usual. How "Dear White People" keeps evolving 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z

The horror vacui that possibility calls up dwarfs the slight existential unease created by severely limited shopping opportunities. T Magazine: Bare Market 2011-09-17T15:00:22Z

The play, a New Light Theater Project production having its premiere at 59E59 Theaters, is experiencing a similar existential crisis. Review: Star-Crossed Lovers in Need of a Divine Assist 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

“Good Grief” is shaped by the existential self-consciousness that grips adolescents dealing with the cold fact of mortality. Review: Remembering What Was and Wasn’t in ‘Good Grief’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

The direction is uniformly creamy, lacking the stilled fury and terrifying resonance of the empty eternity that the story depends on, devoid of the frustrated longing and existential horror that Jennie bears. Blake Lively Lives Forever 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

And some of the jobs I did while growing up and working in the Hamptons, where wealth was constantly on parade, I look back on now as the most existentially exhausting non-writing days of all. The working poor in the Hamptons: I cleaned a rich author's swimming pool while writing my own novel 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z

In the foreground a man flees wildly, “clutching his head,” as Morrison observes, “like Edvard Munch’s Screamer, his face a cartoon of gibbering existential terror.” ‘Superman,’ by Larry Tye 2012-07-06T22:10:04Z

But the play is hardly a straightforward docudrama; rather, it’s an intricate dance of role-playing and identity confusion, exploring class hatreds and expressing an outsider’s profound sense of disaffection and existential pain. Cate Blanchett in The Maids: Star Turnoff 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Creativity was an existential affirmation of life, though traditions died along with people. Theresienstadt weekend 2010-06-22T22:20:00Z

Instead they slowly tread water in a sea of existential dread as the show moves towards some unknown outcome. Where did the "Big Little Lies" spark go? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

What I’m trying to express is that you are not the answer to his existential question. Perspective | Ask Amy: Spouse worries about husband’s drinking amid cancer diagnosis 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

On the one hand there is a European existential influence, particularly as manifested in Robert Bresson’s works. Taxi Driver: the awkward teen of US cinema 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

It’s a dirge about inevitable, existential loneliness, set to slow, bare-bones arpeggios and funereal drum thuds, and Mercury’s voice expands it to arena scale as he moves between confidential croon and balcony-rattling rasp. Queen’s Unearthed Lament, and 6 More New Songs 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

“Here I Am” has its own gaggle of oppressively endearing and overachieving children, with their cello and fencing lessons and precocious existential questions. ‘Here I Am,’ Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tale of a Fracturing Family 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

“Once you start looking for anything existential and you start wondering about your own existence, you realize that it’s all pointless,” Mr. Wannamaker said. Night at the Space Museum: 10 Open Bars and Tons of Kubrick References 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

The opening credits sequence has been remixed to make the show into a horror film and episodes have been re-cut to make the show into an existential tragedy. Here’s why a “Full House” reboot is an insane idea 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

Anthony is existentially conflicted, bearing as he does the blood of both clans: his mother was a Gillaroo. This Is the Way by Gavin Corbett – review 2013-02-20T09:01:01Z

“This is the most profound existential crisis in history, but our leaders have to get on board,” he said. Sting, Annie Lenox and Other MTV Stars Sing for the Rainforest 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

The text was hot with threats of violence, and coldly specific about the particular region of Stanko to which the violence would be applied – he clenched nervously, and endured another lingering moment of existential dread. Literary pseudonym quiz: whodunnit? 2013-07-24T15:42:05Z

Interesting research on tylenol's impact on the experience of existential dread: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/whats-tylenol-doing-to... For a Broken Heart, Take Tylenol 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Do you think it’s true that, fundamentally, religions are justificatory props and that it’s more concrete or existential grievances that are really animating behavior? Sam Harris talks Islam, ISIS, atheism, GOP madness: “We are confronting people, in dozens of countries, who despise more or less everything that we value” 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

“It’s the speed of the news cycle writ large, in terms of legacy and existential worth,” he said. The Steve Jobs Backlash 2011-11-02T23:13:20Z

I am existentially sick to death of death, and I absolutely cannot stand that a couple of friends may lose their children. Anne Lamott: My secret little prayer 2012-11-13T00:30:00Z

They are drenched in deep guilt and irrepressible pleasure, and these qualities are in existential conflict, not pleasant diversion.  Intriguing parallels between L.A. Opera's Thais and Blanche DuBois 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The film uses an array of footage, from a Swiss particle accelerator to Hawaiian lava flows, in dealing with existential questions like "what came before time?" ArtsBeat: In Toronto a Number of Films Find Homes 2012-09-13T19:15:44Z

Forget whether or not suits are back; this is the existential question underpinning the fashion season. Is It New York Fashion Week? Or Is It Rihanna Inc.? 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Wryly, Mr. Young immediately follows his warnings about fossil fuel with “I Want to Drive My Car,” a blues shuffle of existential restlessness that concludes, “I gotta find some fuel.” Albums by Neil Young, Bette Midler and Miguel Zenón 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

“So if that money goes away, it’s an existential crisis for those stations.” “Anything can happen”: PBS waits for Congress to approve its funding 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

The film noir genre often explores the existential and psychological factors that drive people to crimes of passion. The anti-work movement in "Clerks," "Modern Times" & other films 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z

As if in reply, Dr. Grand explained that many step-adoptees wrestle with the same existential questions as traditionally defined adoptees, those I had thought were different from me. Hearing His Voice Changed Everything 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

The once terrifying, now domesticated father of three finds himself at the beginning of "Shrek Forever After" grappling with the kind of existential ennui that only a frantic kid's birthday party can inspire. "Shrek" returns to form 2010-05-21T12:01:00Z

"I thought writing meant writing existential parables about the meaning of life," he says. Pulitzer playwright Ayad Akhtar: 'I was in denial' 2013-05-07T17:26:22Z

Now that we are feeling the effects with increasing instances of severe weather, like frequent wildfires and stronger hurricanes, vignerons are facing existential questions about their future and the future of wine. Climate change is reshaping wine as we know it 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

If this sounds unbearably pretentious, rest assured there's much that is down-to-earth about this bittersweet, dialogue-driven piece which follows its protagonists through the domestic, romantic and existential ups and downs of a week. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-12-09T00:05:40Z

Millet’s boldly playful and intellectually charged body of work combines lightning bolts of emotional acuity, moments of precise poetry and subversively dark comedy along with investigations of existential ideas and real-world concerns. In These Stories, Home Is Where the Heartache Is 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

The plot is propelled by the quandaries, both constitutional and existential, of its title character, whose previous life has been, as he puts it, “a ling’ring for the throne.” Review: In ‘King Charles III,’ Glimpsing the Near Future of Monarchy 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

“Meaningless” is a word that packs an existential wallop for Hammett and his fellow modernist writers. The nameless detective who launched Dashiell Hammett’s career 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

When the hosts become self-aware, they fall into a state of existential despair so profound that many of them, like Bernard, glitch and sputter like an appliance on the fritz. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

Yusuke, white powder sprinkled in his hair and a mustache pasted to his lip, is playing the title role, a 47-year-old man driven almost to madness — almost to murder — by unrequited yearning and existential disappointment. One Indelible Scene: When the Show Must Go on in ‘Drive My Car’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Is this convulsive chapter in world history really the time for a drawn-out dialogue by such a pair on the existential and moral implications of childbirth? ‘Lungs’ Review: Claire Foy and Matt Smith Chase Love in the Dark 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z

It follows the deliberations of the hospital ethics committee, during which clinical and lay members, along with Ndiaye, navigate existential questions presented by scientific and medical advances. ‘They are together, they are equal’: the agonising choice facing father of conjoined twins 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z

I wondered if “Mank” was Fincher’s own elegy for an industry that increasingly has no interest in making movies like his and is, perhaps relatedly, facing another existential threat in streaming. David Fincher, the Unhappiest Auteur 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

If a job is wretched and overly stressful, even a few hours of it can be an existential nightmare. Do you work more than 39 hours a week? Your job could be killing you 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

Corruption is institutionalized and remorseless; racism is a given, as is sexism; filthiness is both a practical and existential concern. ‘Outlander’ and ‘The Knick’: Once more, time is of the essence

“Ramy”’s existential journey takes his fictional persona through the world from the perspective of the perpetual outsider, both in his New Jersey community and Egypt, from whence his family originates. This one (only) goes up to 11: the Best TV of 2019 and the many runners-up 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Overwhelming expert consensus on the existential threat of climate change regularly gets denied. Why MacArthur fellowships matter: In modern culture, expertise is under fire 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

There is no other singer I can think of who is better or more practiced at bodying existential duress. Radiohead Thinks the Internet Is Turning Us All Into Creeps 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the idea of mainstream absorption is regarded as a kind of existential threat by many goths, who as a result tend to be Talmudically precise about what they are, and what they aren’t. Goth at 40: The enduring appeal of bleakness and black lipstick 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

It will get you giggling, but it is silly funny, not the deep-thinking existential funny of more intelligent shows. Blunt Talk: Patrick Stewart's new show is duller than it should be 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

His charisma melts into Chishiya's overall inscrutability in an arena where every other survivor obsesses over existential meaning and purpose. Why some see this "Alice in Borderland" breakout as a role model for survival 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z

To its supporters, pondering the museum’s future is nothing short of an existential exercise with ramifications far beyond a mere building. ‘A slow-motion disaster’: Journalism museum in talks about possible building sale 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

The way it whispers, the way it seems to follow the rules of a trance, the way it does not reach, or even seek, finality, make it existential. How “Bitches Brew” blew our minds: Remembering the first time I heard Miles Davis’ masterpiece 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

Like “Rich Kids,” it sees the problem of hyper-consumption as existential, in a way that Gainsborough, from the far side of several economic revolutions, didn’t. Conspicuous Consumption, Getting More Conspicuous Onstage 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

Rather, it was an existential dread rooted in the fear of change. Rachel Bloom: The First Time I Used the Potty for Real (I Was 4) 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Joyce’s beloved short story ends with an elegant description of snowfall that subtly expands into a vast existential statement. Best Theater of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

But the deepest fear may be the most existential: how little we ultimately understand other human beings, even our own children. What Do Novels About Evil Children Say About Us? 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

“Sweat” poses this not as a judgment but as a genuine existential question. Stream These Five International Films Now 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Vivian, Blackness isn’t divorced from the tragedies but carefully picked apart and examined through an existential lens. Black Art and Poetry Elevate a Tribute to Civil Rights Leaders 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

We’ve reached a point where the plague of police violence represents an existential threat to people of color in this country. “Stick to sports” is no longer an option: What it means for NBA stars to take a stand for Black Lives Matter 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

When you were sitting down to compose it, did you think about the existential identity crisis at the heart of it? | Q. & A.: Just a Man, Singing About a Muppet, Who's Singing About a Man 2011-12-12T15:00:39Z

In response to a question about the existential problems of pandas, Jack Black went on a stream-of-consciousness riff — “Those weak moments, while gnawing on a bamboo shoot, do they think: ‘What is life all about? Party Love at Cirque de Cannes 2011-05-16T22:16:49Z

In fact, she’s written a novel of existential dread that explores the nature of humanity, our connection to God and the universe, and the monstrosity of that connection. Read It and Scream 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Does our newfound appreciation for the trash pet signify a sort of existential zeitgeist, a newfound empathy for the misunderstood, a mirror of the millennial condition? The Cutest Animal on Instagram Is Possibly in Your Trash Can 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

The accident plunged him into an existential crisis. Jack Hofsiss, Stage Director of ‘The Elephant Man,’ Dies at 65 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

But Silicon Valley brought a different existential dilemma about what one can and should sustain. Review | ‘Whistleblower’ and ‘Uncanny Valley’ offer a chilling look at life in Silicon Valley 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Never before have our large institutions been subject to such a string of existential questions. Desperately seeking relevance, orchestras grapple with existential questions 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

A scaffold looms at one side of the stage with a large cloth draped across it scrawled with the existential query, ”LOST?” ‘Godspell’ maintains its spirit, energy at Olney Theatre Center 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Parks takes up a classic subject of drama — freedom — exploring it not just as an existential conundrum à la Sophocles but as a traumatic historical condition. Suzan-Lori Parks moves a stage beyond race to get to our 'mythic or epic experience' in her plays 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

Opponents still took to the streets, declaring the construction of any new market-rate housing “an existential threat to our homes and our community.” Everything You Think You Know About Housing Is Probably Wrong 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

The Billys I knew had always done something less existential, like fall on their knives, and I think the purpose of the change was to add some heft to Billy’s role. A Rousing “Carousel” for Singers and Dancers 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

Viktor is a transitional piece, and while still mordant – the set, a vast earthwork rampart, references Rome's excavated past but also the grave – is less existentially bleak than much of her earlier work. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch; The Prince of the Pagodas – review 2012-06-09T23:05:57Z

On a 200-acre island, a rising tide is an existential threat. Too much seawater, too little drinking water: Fiji’s fight to withstand climate change 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

The ninety-minute film is existential in the frankest sense—the confrontation, in real time, with one’s impending death—and is set in Paris, entirely within the two-hour span of the title. Agnes Varda’s Radically Personal Films 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

This is an existential prison-break movie that cuts deep and, at its earned, ecstatic climax, soars high. Danny Boyle's 127 Hours: An Existential Great Escape 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z

If anything, “Oh, the Places You’ll Go” is an affirmation of solitude as an existential fact and an opportunity. Perspective | How Dr. Seuss’s ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go’ became a graduation-gift cliche 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

For this existential crisis, we have . . . a conference. What was COP26? A slog, a spectacle — and, for one youthful delegation, an opportunity. 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

Depending on where you land in on the spectrum of partisanship or the existential depression scale, the "Dark Ages" season of TBS' "Miracle Workers" immediately feels more relevant and livelier than the first season. Sweet but unchallenging, "Miracle Workers: Dark Ages" dresses our modern ignorance in medieval garb 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

That is the defining existential question for art today, the question that, by being diligently pursued if not answered, becomes a catalyst for renewal and vibrancy. Perspective | The real Turner art prize is the aesthetic riddle we pondered along the way 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

“There’s no blood and guts in the words ‘existential crisis.’ Tom Steyer wants to ‘save the world.’ First he’ll have to save his campaign. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

In Hunter’s plays, the resulting sound is often a moan, as he explores a post-boom, existential vastness in which emotional and economic collapse are conjoined. Best Theater of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

As climate change climbs the chart of existential threats, soil is getting a lot of attention. Perspective | Perennial grains could be a key weapon against climate change. But not quite yet. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Along the way, he’s assailed by news of the 2016 election and plunges deeper into his existential funk. Sean Penn, Satirist, Swings at America in a Wild Debut Novel 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

“When I was younger, I felt the formal brilliance of the writing, its total deconstruction of a genre which becomes a philosophical, existential treatise,” he explained. Impossible to Stage? Multimedia Impresarios Take On Paul Auster 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

The Kirk Douglas’ 12th season also includes the West Coast premieres of three other works as well as a revival of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist, existential “Endgame.” Kirk Douglas Theatre's 2015-2016 season: 'Straight White Men,' Courtney Love 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Still processing the existential dread and horror of being a living human being for the past year? From Operation Varsity Blues to Michelle Obama's puppet show, here's what's new on Netflix in March 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

Berg, Judge, and ten writers peppered him with questions, both narrow and existential. How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

The virus poses an existential threat: to our lives and to the experiences that make life worth living. Fall Preview: The Thrill is Back. So Is the Anxiety. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Zed’s illness makes “Mogul Mowgli” a companion of sorts to “Sound of Metal,” in which Ahmed played a drummer facing the existential crisis of hearing loss. ‘Mogul Mowgli’ Review: Rapping for Dear Life 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

I reread Sarah Schulman’s “Conflict Is Not Abuse,” about the very human tendency to conflate discomfort with existential threats, which is a subject that seems to get more and more relevant every year. Times Critics Discuss Their Year in Books, From New Talents to Old Favorites 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Scott sensed an existential threat to his film. Ridley Scott on erasing Kevin Spacey from his new film: 'He's a very good actor. It's a pity' 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

By extension, it’s a history, more depressing than revelatory, of why nothing much has been done about an existential crisis we’ve been aware of for at least four decades. ‘Frontline’ Review: Why the Climate Changed but We Didn’t 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

The yearning is not innocent, teenage yearning, it’s existential chaos. Reclaiming Phil Spector's troubled genius 2010-07-03T14:01:00Z

Three books explain the historical roots of Putin's vision of Russia locked in an existential struggle for survival. Arts & Entertainment - Washington Post Rss Loading...

Q: Both "Room" and "The Little Stranger" use architecture in intriguing ways: as an existential presence, to use your phrase, as metaphor and to enhance a mood of claustrophobia. Is ‘The Little Stranger’ a ghost story or an allegory about Donald Trump? 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Within the Levin household are personalities who absorb the shared experience of an existential crisis bearing down on them with very different responses. "When do we stop being safe here?": How the U.S. resembles this HBO show's scary alternate history 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

The combination of Holmes’s existential speculations with the complex mechanics of two intertwined investigations adds richness and complexity to what might otherwise have been a standard post-Doyle Sherlock Holmes tale. ‘The Fifth Heart,’ by Dan Simmons 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Created in Paris in 1946, the piece is steeped in existential despair, and a very precise note must be struck if it is to play convincingly. Roland Petit 2011-07-25T11:58:32Z

And also, of course, shot through with longing, ennui and existential anguish. | 'Le Amiche': A 1955 Antonioni Movie Gets a Film Forum Run 2010-06-17T21:57:00Z

The act of voting is an existential ritual. Why voter ID is wrong 2012-09-14T00:00:00Z

So I was already in my own sort of lockdown, my own existential health crisis. Basil Twist in Paris: When Puppets Meet Baroque Opera 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

Or maybe it’s an emblem of existential freedom. Review | Spooky Action Theatre’s ‘Small Room’ for patient fans of the offbeat 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Since the "Ted Lasso" appeal is existential it makes sense for the Greyhounds to sit with their feelings and figure themselves out. The "Ted Lasso" way gets tested in the beloved show's third season 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

This latest memoir by Mr. Robison — he’s also written “Raising Cubby” and “Be Different” — is far more bittersweet and existentially challenging than that. Review: In ‘Switched On,’ John Elder Robison’s Asperger’s Brain Is Changed 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

More than a century after his birth, Hitchcock remains our contemporary because the world of menace he conjured embodies our deepest, most existential fears. Review: In ‘Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life,’ Fear Drives a Master of Suspense 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

Viserys was plagued by existential struggles and we learned that Daemon has spent the past couple of years unable to defeat the Crabforces with a dragon. ‘House of the Dragon,’ Season 1, Episode 3: Two Targaryen Hunts 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z

Depending on your tolerance for the existential anguish that defines so many of Woody Allen’s characters, a philosophy professor is either the perfect protagonist for one of his movies, or the worst. A Handy Guide to the Philosophers Referenced in 'Irrational Man' 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Despite details that hint at profundity, the ultra-quirky narrative and dialogue never provide a satisfactory window onto deeper meaning, in terms of either character or existential truth. Review | Actor’s performance only highlight of ‘Things That Are Round’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

He spends his days persuading patients to floss and his evenings watching Red Sox games in the company of a curry, a Groundhog-Day existence that leaves plenty of time for existential angst. Looking for a place called hope 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z

Still, that longing, cloaked in existential darkness with glints of light and stripped of explicit context, has everything to do with our common humanity. Best Known as a Holocaust Poet, Nelly Sachs Deserves Another Look 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

If this profound existential difference doesn’t worry Theodore, it’s because isolation is his default state. Movie Review: ‘Her,’ Directed by Spike Jonze 2013-12-17T22:54:49Z

It also poses an existential dilemma characteristic of many Cronenberg films: What happens when the human body turns against itself? David Cronenberg's 'Scanners,' in a Blu-ray/DVD Edition 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

"Darkness and Doubt" moves from a drunken night at a pub to an existential, naked-and-shivering abyss over a few choice verses. Unsung Mekons are a musical beacon of persistence and creativity 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Her stuff goes from this philosophical existential crisis to this literal crisis of existence. "Keep Breathing" creators talk survival, not Googling solutions and that controversial ending 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

Over and over again, politicians and business leaders have said that we face an existential threat. Three Books Offer New Ways to Think About Environmental Disaster 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

“Stories” features choreography by the company’s founder, Shannon Hummel, who is interested in the spectrum of human emotion and big existential questions. Dance Listings for Jan. 23-29 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The ballad “The Game of Love” drips syrup, and the neo-classical “Within” makes its existential questions sound almost winsome. Album review: Daft Punk, 'Random Access Memories' 2013-05-17T17:59:00Z

His production of Samuel Beckett’s tale of two existentially challenged tramps, at the Arts Theater, may have left some scratching their heads in anger and exasperation. 5 Shows That Sealed Peter Hall’s Stage Legacy 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

From here, the conversation expands into existential territory, as the students describe all the many behaviors and traits which they fear will place their blackness—in the eyes of others—in jeopardy. Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

"South Park" has depicted existential crises several times through its 23 seasons and somehow manages to keep going. The "South ParQ Vaccination Special" fails to be funny – but maybe that's the point 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

When he started the campaign last year, Markey thought a central issue would be the existential threat of climate change. The Markey-Kennedy Senate primary battle is one Democrats wish wasn’t happening 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

It brought on an existential crisis of sorts: Is it humanly possible to keep up with this much television? ‘Serial’ helped spark an explosion of true crime stories. Will its new season be heard above the noise? 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

For Bordeaux, climate change’s effects are more subtle, but just as existential. Climate change is reshaping wine as we know it 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

“Fox & I” will appeal to those who despair about human depredation of the natural world and sense climate change as the looming, existential threat to life. Review | In ‘Fox & I,’ a biologist finds solace in a wild animal’s friendship 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

They covered existential fears about loss of self; sexual ambiguity; deceitful sexual partners; and the self-delusion of humankind's superiority to the natural world. Readers recommend: songs about mistaken identity ? the results 2011-01-27T17:21:22Z

But they always remain personal, even when, on “The Us Below,” Mr. Crosby poses an existential question: “Why must we be/Eternally/Alone?” Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 105 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Environment Minister Gilad Erdan said the accord would help build support for potential action against Iran's atomic program which Israel views as an existential threat. Netanyahu surprise gives Israel grand coalition 2012-05-08T12:15:11Z

Set in the underbelly of Las Vegas and full of dull existential timeouts, “Wild Card” is about second chances. ‘Wild Card,’ Starring Jason Stratham 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Initially, I read “Carnelian” to be about the anxiety stemming from the rapid advances in artificial intelligence, and the scrum of articles about whether the technology might pose an existential threat to humanity. Apocalypse Anxiety, the Musical 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

Penn's existential story of good fighting evil comes from the center of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which to most Americans has become background noise. Sean Penn's "Superpower" renews Zelenskyy's relationship with Hollywood to sell the politics of war 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z

But he always tackled big and existential themes. Tate Britain makes room for William Blake art found in railway timetable 2010-08-12T06:00:00Z

In his latest solo exhibition unveiled Wednesday at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, Cattelan has set out to deal with less irreverent, more existential themes like the fragility of life, memory, and collective loss. Maurizio Cattelan’s New Work Pays Visceral Tribute to the Pain of 9/11 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

Who among our stranded group, I wondered, would have an existential crisis? A Birthday Tribute to the Other Ingmar Bergman 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Mumford sings about soul-searching, pondering troubles that intertwine the romantic, the spiritual and the existential. 2010-02-15T01:32:00Z

They’re also about loneliness, and the endless existential comedy of what the English call simply “carrying on.” Perspective | Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It’s happened before. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

His isolation, he realizes, is more existential than circumstantial and so decides to take his own life. What’s on TV Monday: The ‘Catherine the Great’ Finale and ‘A Single Man’ 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

The existential anxieties along with all that Container Store extravagance — all because of what’s supposed to be a good thing, a successful departure from the nest. Review | ‘Mrs. Fletcher’ is a fine show about an empty-nest mom. The better show is about her jerk son. 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

‘A LIFE’ Another brilliant shocker, though in this case more existential than historical. The Best Theater of 2016 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

His debut feature, Adam & Paul, updated the existential black comedy of Beckett's Waiting for Godot, with two addicts scraping their way through the underbelly of Dublin to grimly comic effect. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-04-06T23:05:13Z

First of all, it proposes the Russian dramatist as a sort of precursor to the Irish Nobel Prize winner in his examination of futility as an existential component of human life. Avant-Garde Theater, or a Musical: Who Says You Need to Choose? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

You grow fond of Hans, but you also remain an outsider, watching as he weathers prison, faces existential threats and finds furtive joys. ‘Great Freedom’ Review: Unbroken 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

The Girlfriend Experience is riddled with ennui and existential dread. The new normal: why television has chosen to humanize sex workers 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

The McCarthy hearings, the Cuban missile crisis and arms race underscored an existential threat. When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

The mood is otherworldly; the subject is journeys, which feel more existential than physical. Kaija Saariaho: 11 Essential Works 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

Cable dramas encouraged voters to root for a chaotic, rule-breaking antihero; melodramas like “Scandal” and “House of Cards” normalized a nihilistic view of all politics as intrinsically corrupt, existentially conspiratorial. The Search for Pizzazz at the Impeachment Reality Show 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

But, for all that, he is brilliant at capturing the existential emotion for which the title of “The Kites” is an obvious metaphor — sky-bound yet tethered by that string. Underneath Romain Gary’s Many Masks 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

“The Symmetry Teacher” immerses itself in the language of science, history, psychology, absurdist existential philosophy, religion, madness and just about any other mode of thinking about thinking. Review: ‘The Symmetry Teacher’ by Andrei Bitov

In this, drama – whose origins are in religious ritual – is existentially conservative. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z

Their main motivation is to resist and weaken Hindu-dominated India in whatever way possible; they see India as an existential threat. Nosebags 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the lighting builds this up into an existential declaration, and his colleagues keep advancing alarmingly on him as if he were pursuing some forbidden activity. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Returns to City Center - Review 2011-11-09T22:54:34Z

Parts of the liberal church get to have their intellectual credulity while existentially experiencing a form of fundamentalism. Christians should abandon Christianity 2013-04-21T16:00:00Z

Chantal Akerman, a Belgian filmmaker known for her experimental films that closely examined women’s lives and meditated on existential despair and alienation, has died in Paris. Chantal Akerman, filmmaker of existential despair, dies at 65 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

He's just world weary from the existential concerns of not dying in some ridiculous fashion — like his friend killed in the middle of playing a video game while standing in line to order a burger. Black nerd culture has its day in 'Dope' 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

These are big-picture, existential questions that Washington may contemplate after “The Piano Lesson” ends. John David Washington Gets an Education in ‘The Piano Lesson’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Jared gets the Date Rose throwing Shawn into an existential shame spiral that winds up in a pit of despair of his own making. 'The Bachelorette' Recap: Oh My God, They Killed Kaitlyn 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Picture Fred Rogers in the midst of an existential crisis, or Mr Tumble quietly weeping while sitting in the bath. The true man show? Why Jim Carrey’s new show Kidding is too close to the bone 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

Has any pop star identified this particular strain of existential crisis better than Mr. Buffett? Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

What it also did, and what Bergman is especially attuned to, is mark the country’s political life from the beginning in terms of existential threats. ‘Rise and Kill First’ Shines Light on Israel’s Hidden Assassinations 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Do we really want our universities to become undemocratic institutions, ruled by a class that thinks of itself as being existentially superior to the rest of us? Two Views of the Tumult on American Campuses 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

To the extent that “Hamlet” is an existential tragedy marked with moments of comedy, “Nutshell” is a philosophical comedy marked by moments of tragedy. Ian McEwan’s ‘Nutshell’: A tale of betrayal and murder as told by a fetus 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

It is also probably the only song here that, upon first listen, doesn’t prompt the existential question of what, exactly, constitutes a Taylor Swift song in 2017. Taylor Swift Is a 2017 Pop Machine on ‘Reputation,’ but at What Cost? 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Everyone’s answer was the same, the only one possible: a sense of existential threat. New York’s Climate Strike and the Things That Make Teen-Agers March 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Journalism is in the midst of an existential crisis: the profession has undergone decades of declines in readership, revenue and public trust, with no obvious end in sight. Journalism needs an audience to survive, but isn’t sure how to earn its loyalty 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

The scenarios involve a wedding that segues into the story of sixth-grade lovers; a class of law students who delve into the supernatural; and a job interview that devolves into an existential crisis. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Empire’ and a Tribute Concert 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

“This sense of existential unrootedness, of transience, followed me into adulthood.” Alex Wagner Digs Into Her Family’s Past in ‘Futureface’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Rhyme after rhyme, he knew how to deliver the double catharsis we feel whenever we laugh at our own existential anger. Perspective | Young Dolph’s heaviest rhymes made this lethal world feel lighter 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

For a young person with a terminal illness, daily life is an existential crisis, compounded by pain and by the discomfort of fitting in among people to whom mortality remains an uncomfortable abstraction. Writers Recount Stories of Grief and Joy in Illustrated Panels 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

The visual gags are wacky, existential and of a type not often seen on network comedies. Phil Lord and Chris Miller on Maintaining Mystery in 'The Last Man on Earth' 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Despite some talk of the West, he and his fellow travelers are restricted by their existential realities as mid-19th-century black Americans. Movie Review: ‘The Retrieval,’ a Civil War Drama 2014-04-01T22:46:50Z

More and more, he photographed his subjects like specimens under the forensic scrutiny of his lens for the strain of existential dread that runs through our species at the thought of annihilation. Richard Avedon’s Wall-Size Ambitions 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

One whole page is filled with an oversize, hunched, anxious Porcupine, little paws seeming to flex and clench with existential dread. Brief Tales for New Readers and Little Listeners From Philip Stead and More 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

And the troubled, flaxen-haired Alice, like the heroine of some existential drama, seems to be undergoing an identity crisis, enquiring: "If I'm not me, then who am I?" Alice in Wonderland ? review 2011-01-04T22:30:01Z

In contrast, the problem for Osborne’s characters is their lack of fixed principle, and that existential void is what drives his narratives. Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

Her unflinching perusal of the existential void is leavened by the dark whorls of poetry, the zigzags of wit and the musicality of Beckett's 1961 text. In 'Happy Days,' character is buried in sand, wrestling with life 2012-03-14T20:22:04Z

Though the Ninth is heady with aesthetic as well as existential nostalgia, it also prefigures the Second Viennese School or Shostakovich. LA Philharmonic/Gustavo Dudamel ? review 2011-01-30T17:46:00Z

Aren't there genuine crises in South Africa, and Africa, more worthy of whipping up an existential frenzy? Fallout over Jacob Zuma penis painting exposes ANC's increasingly thin skin 2012-05-24T05:30:00Z

Though unburdened by financial exigencies, he was saddled with the existential dread familiar to every struggling writer. Up Close: A Profile of Austin Ratner — Up Close 2013-05-15T20:41:19Z

Dory, as is befitting to any hipster protagonist, is going through an existential crisis. TV for hipsters: how two new shows are trying to appeal to the cool kids 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

In “The Weave,” a woman experiences existential regret after she and her boyfriend steal $230,000 worth of wigs and hair extensions. Short Stories That Travel the World From a Deliciously Off-Kilter Perspective 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

On “M for Empathy,” a set of short but sweeping tracks released in March, her musings on the inner workings of intimacy, depression and existential uncertainty are marked by consideration and compassion. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

But Stephens does broaden the idea in a tangy way, relating it to the gaps between notes of music, people and human actions, and eventually parlaying it into a heartwarming argument for existential freedom. Review | ‘Heisenberg’ turns an odd-couple love into faith in humanity 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z

Most of us have gone on some sort of spiritual or existential odyssey in the last 19 months. ‘My Dinner With André’ at 40: Still Serving Hot Takes 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Over a month after most of New York’s most prestigious museums reopened to the public, they are experiencing an existential crisis, fueled by the state-mandated reduced capacity of 25 percent. How Long Can N.Y.C. Museums Survive at 25 Percent Capacity? 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

As Paul Rosenberg’s article discusses at length, invocations of white privilege are not meant, in principle, to silence white people’s voices or to demand some existential apology. What “Neighbors” and “Chef” can teach us about white male privilege 2014-05-10T16:30:00Z

She shows you her characters’ existential isolation, which is often where their humanity lies. ‘Bombshell’ Review: Blind Ambition and Blond Sedition at Fox News 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Though obviously expressing existential angst, Auden’s words eerily resemble a cautionary directive from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Perspective | In a time of crisis, poetry can help focus our fears and transform ‘noise into music’ 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

“Essentially, we saw it as a story with many comedic elements in a serious framework — a kind of black comedy or existential humor of which ‘Dr. Strangelove’ is a prototype,” he said. Noel Black, 77, Dies; Directed Dark Comedy Cult Hit 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Much like “Batman Begins,” the first part of the Dark Knight trilogy, “Man of Steel” narrates the how and why of its character, tracing an existential arc from child to man. Movie Review: ‘Man of Steel’ Depicts a Striving Stranger in a Strange Land 2013-06-13T16:00:30Z

When survival is something you're thinking about every day of your life, apocalypse is not a newly emerging threat but an ongoing existential condition. With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s "bunker fantasy" is inadequate 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

It has been proven by science that gelato is the cure for all ills, including gout, gunshot wounds and existential despair. Pasta Dreams and Flying Machines: Our Tuscan Adventure 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

The stumbles with “Banana Shpeel” and “Zarkana” reinforced existential questions shadowing Cirque: Has the company, once a group of Quebec street performers and now a giant multinational, lost its way creatively? Cirque du Soleil’s Broadway Balancing Act 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

In “The Labyrinth of Solitude,” the Mexican poet Octavio Paz described his country’s revolution as an existential event, liberating and channeling enormous energies of self-discovery. Artists helped make the Mexican revolution an international phenomenon 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

He discusses finding love again and shares existential anecdotes about buying a house and entering his 50s. What’s on TV Tuesday: Patton Oswalt and ‘Stargirl’ 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

Death, parting, existential questions about what it all means — they’re never far from Green’s mind. In John Green’s ‘Turtles All the Way Down,’ a Teenager’s Mind Is at War With Itself 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

He took a particular interest in the psychology of alienated urban people, and his characters’ malaise often borders on the existential. South American Literature’s Master of Malaise 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

She is a teaching fellow in philosophy at Fordham University, and is working on a doctoral dissertation on existential ethics and the social and narrative constructions of identity. Vita Emery, Matthew Beaton 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

It features a soliloquising male, naked torso lit only by a flickering strobe, about to enjoy some action with a scantily clad female but existentially disdainful of it. Down with dark: why screen drama needs to lighten up 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

Thirty-five repetitions of a cup of coffee, placed dead against a woman’s face tinted orange, become a yawning little abyss of existential need, if not the multifaceted eye of an all-consuming new consumerism. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

For years, orchestras in the United States have faced existential questions. San Antonio Symphony to Dissolve Amid Labor Dispute 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

If Atra-hasis paid only lip-service to the tragic, existential questions of the flood hero, the Epic of Gilgamesh shines a light on the flood hero’s excruciating experience. “Noah” wasn’t the first: 5 flood stories you may not know 2014-04-12T14:30:00Z

Naturally then, every day is an existential crisis, trying to navigate a world that doesn’t recognize Emezi’s reality, not just as a “small deity” but also as a nonbinary transgender person of color. Review | Akwaeke Emezi’s memoir is a healing ritual for the displaced 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

Every storyline in the park and every practice inside the park’s corporate headquarters, Delos Incorporated, is coded to explore all the messy roads that lead us from that idea into a moral and existential wilderness. We, Robots: As “Westworld” finale looms, we have about as much of a clue as the hosts 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z

If this sounds like standard existential fare, in performance it is made remarkable through sections of lacerating, traumatised dance. The Old King – review 2013-01-25T17:40:46Z

There is also a polarizing and heated division within the audience, not just in terms of support but in terms of the existential role of stand-up: Should a show be an escape or a journey? The comedy defeceit: Donald Trump pre-presidency is jamming up comedians like Janeane Garofalo who say it’s just not funny 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Loznitsa describes the film as an effort to reckon with an existential crisis he felt on his first visit to Buchenwald. Sergei Loznitsa’s Movie ‘Austerlitz’ Observes Tourists in Concentration Camps 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

So I would find it absolutely extraordinary because it felt like it was a really bleak, existential drama about these people cutting up bodies and trying to laugh in the face of death. Stephen Merchant Is an Unsmooth Criminal 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

Still another collection, “From the Briarpatch File: On Context, Procedure, and American Identity,” which explored in part the “existential implications of the blues,” was published in 2001. Albert Murray, Essayist Who Challenged the Conventional, Dies at 97 2013-08-19T16:57:56Z

Klam agilely balances an existentially tragic story line with morbid humor and self-assured prose. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

In hindsight, its daring choices become even more impressive — that a bit of existential time travel philosophy would rapidly morph into a manhunt thriller, then a forsaken romance and finally telekinetic horror fest. Looper Debrief: Come for the Time Travel, Stay for the Creepy (Brilliant) Devil Boy 2012-10-01T12:00:36Z

It seems to symbolize the existential vertigo the play’s non-divine characters experience as they cope with personal failings, geographical and cultural dislocation, and the effects of war. Review | Hansol Jung’s ‘Among the Dead’ unwinds a strange, time-hopping trip of war 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

Never have five people reacted with such existential dread to missing the Super Bowl. Review | Don DeLillo’s ‘The Silence’ is an absurdist look at our technology dependence 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

The problem, he argued, wasn’t old-fashioned shell shock in many cases; it wasn’t medical at all, but existential — a loss of purpose. What Does ‘Freedom’ Really Mean? 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

But both have existential worries that interlock with and deepen the play’s larger issues. Review: In ‘Skeleton Crew,’ Making Quick Work of Hard Labor 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

For a wife, Levin, the existential seeker, looked not for a thinker like himself but for what is traditionally feminine, what is “wifely.” The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

He used an almost total lack of depth of field to increase both the frontal impact and the underlying existential malaise in his work. Buffet: A Life of Success, Rejection and Now a Celebration 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Although he insists that the door remain open, danger seeps in anyway, through a probing, teasingly erotic and unexpectedly existential tête-à-tête that changes everyone’s life. ‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’ Review: What We Talk About 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

It was about gay empowerment, it was about not getting messed with and it was about the importance of addressing an existential crisis head on. ‘My First Gay Bar’: Rachel Maddow, Andy Cohen and Others Share Their Coming-Out Stories 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

He’s having an existential crisis, a la Ringo, when the Beatles pick him up, burdened by being an autodidact genius, which has its uses, and its problems. The return of “Yellow Submarine”: Why even people who aren’t Beatles mega-fans love it 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

Earth, 2020: humanity faces an existential threat and, perhaps even worse, a slowdown in our TV content pipeline. Battlestar Galactica: all hail a cult classic of 21st-century TV 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

This existential lesson, that life is riddled with insoluble mysteries, certainly doesn’t fail to register. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Boy Detective Fails? and ?The Hollow? at Signature Theater 2011-09-30T23:30:21Z

Though not among the outstanding plays of Williams, "The Rose Tattoo" is a remarkable study in love as an existential necessity. Review: Marisa Tomei, in Extremis, in ‘The Rose Tattoo’ 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

Something fundamental about video games — the way they feel like alternate universes, promising an “extra life” — brings existential questions to the fore. The Talos Principle Prompts Thinking Beyond Virtual World 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

"The sky it burns, the blackbirds cry / in this world where I will die," runs one number, while another quotes Vonnegut on mankind's existential confusion. Reverend Billy ? review 2011-07-19T18:00:04Z

It fills her with existential dread, making her wonder whether anyone would notice if she were to disappear. Review: ‘Search Party’ Turns Up Clueless Sleuths of Brooklyn 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

I am quite sure I failed to get any allegorical, existential meaning from the book, but it successfully terrified me, burning an image of Martin clinging to his lonely rock into my brain. The books that send me back to school 2010-09-06T09:15:00Z

Others have pointed out how space travel for billionaires is also a reflection of how the ultra-wealthy will respond to the existential crisis of climate catastrophe, as it becomes more and more inescapable. You can join Jeff Bezos on his 11-minute space trip for just $2.8 million! 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

In all of the sculptures on view, the expressive lines create an evocative tension with the sense of still isolation, a tension that opens up existential possibilities. Review: Deborah Butterfield's contemplative horses at Greg Kucera 2011-06-09T20:23:04Z

In this context, Blanche’s obsession with looking pretty acquires a sad emotional weight that tips into existential panic. Review: A Darwinian ‘Streetcar’ With a Feminist Streak 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

“I don’t think we’ve seen a moment like this that carries a real existential crisis,” says Brian Cole, chancellor of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, N.C. Empty classrooms, studios and stages: In the covid-19 era, an arts education requires an even greater leap of faith 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

Great Sunday night fare for easing Monday morning existential pains... ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 5: Quinn Is Not Your Ideal Babysitter 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

“I’ve been making jokes about existential dread for a long time, but all of a sudden, everyone’s looking for that kind of humor.” A Pandemic Gives the Funny Pages a Jolt of Reality 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

The better course is to marshal American power to prepare for the often unavoidable existential crises on the horizon, with the full expectation that we do not have to be perfect to be good. When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

A modern master delivers a multi-narrative epic — nearly two decades in the making — that delves into existential themes as weighty as the meticulous physical book itself. The best graphic novels, memoirs and story collections of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

His images of landscapes are among the most ecstatic and rapturous ever filmed, and he patiently observes his characters moving through them with a determination that’s as existentially committed as it is gracefully choreographic. Postscript: Abbas Kiarostami, 1940—2016 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

Even before Karl got injured — by late Sunday afternoon, it was still unclear whether he would return for the opening Monday — technical issues abounded, mirroring the existential struggles of its main character. Can cast injury derail 'Groundhog Day'? How the musical has overcome its obstacles (again and again) 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

Last week, recognizing the early warning signs of a round of existential malaise, I parked myself in front of the TV for another emotionally restorative viewing. The Joys of Netflix’s “Nailed It,” the Baking Competition That Celebrates Kitchen Disaster 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Without wanting to play the devil’s advocate — or Sean Parker’s — I’m not entirely sure that streaming is necessarily an existential threat to moviegoing. In an Era of Streaming, Cinema Is Under Attack 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

These crises coexist with – or perhaps are coterminal with – the existential threats of global climate disaster, food shortages, and extreme wealth and income inequality. "We in America have actual fascists marching in the streets": Ed Brubaker on releasing art right now 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

In his review, Chris Jones says that “on one level, it's an entertaining piece of physical, neo-vaudevillian theater. But it also has emotional, existential echoes. ... Remarkably, though, the show is no downer.” Save the Seats 2014: We've got your ticket for New Year's Eve 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

If possible, try not to miss your appointment because of existential traffic jams. Finding Yourself in Los Angeles 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

It’s a poignant vision of a life in which some of the vexing existential concerns of young adulthood have finally been quieted. Heather Havrilesky’s “Existential” Advice 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

Terms like “deterrence strategy” and “existential concerns” are being thrown around, and the campers are frantically taking notes in their marbled notebooks. Cross-examination and a game of catch: Here’s what happens at debate camp 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

The Let's Acknowledge Legitimately Authentic, Literate Americans Love Apathy resolution, to earnestly affirm that climate change is an existential crisis and we really should do something about it someday. Style Invitational Week 1447: Give it to us straight 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Young and reckless, existential and inarticulate, hopeful and hopeless. ‘Therapy Dogs’ Review: It’s Time to Be Real 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

The Reacher books, like those in many series, had reached an existential shark state: they had to keep moving forward to survive. Books of The Times: ?The Affair,? by Lee Child, Gives Reacher a Back Story 2011-09-19T22:19:36Z

Then Cody begins to suspect that Virginia is not actually in Berlin, as she claims, and Mr. Wigon’s film briefly enters a delicious, almost Continental realm of existential ambiguity and obsession. ‘The Heart Machine’ Explores Human Connection 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Because beneath a veneer of mockery, Thom’s existential pain is taken surprisingly seriously. Review: Showtime’s ‘Happyish’ Is Funnyish 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Lying itself is a mistake, yes, but it’s also a byproduct of an existential fear of making one. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Parent is at wits’ end over conflict between teenage son, stepmom 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Underwire bras, the early patents dating back a century, pose several existential questions. Women are over the underwire bra 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

But beneath his happy showman veneer, Holmes is a spiritual seeker and existential thinker, who in a recent video call quoted Ram Dass as often as he did Ray Romano. In ‘How We Roll,’ Pete Holmes Looks to Bowl Over Mainstream America 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

He pressed me to read Paul Bowles’s gloomy existential novel, “The Sheltering Sky.” The spy who taught me: My sophisticated British diplomat friend harbored a secret double life 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

The first venture of the company’s offshoot, New Group Off Stage, is this version of Beckett’s absurdist masterwork — a play set in the ether of the open-ended, existential unknowable. Ethan Hawke and John Leguizamo take on ‘Godot,’ hoping it’s a powerhouse online 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

At its center, this book poses a familiar, awful existential question. A Unique and Affecting Memoir Combines Grief and Mushrooms 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Answers, Joel Holmberg aims profound, existential inquiries at an audience more accustomed to supplying practical knowledge. Art Review: A Show Is All Cyber, Some of the Time 2010-10-21T22:17:00Z

That’s just a taste of the existential darkness running beneath the noise of this grating musical. Francine Prose’s ‘Mister Monkey’ takes on the bananas world of children’s theater 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

In case you missed the ambitious existential message, Moshe works in a very sci-fi spin on the famous monologue from “Hamlet.” 5 Science-Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

As much an existential drama as a prison-break movie, this is a claustrophobic and nihilistic film lit up by wonderful acting. 'A pas de deux of sex and violence': a poet's guide to film noir 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Quade is searching for truths both existential and sacred in her haunting and beautiful ­debut collection. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

If that means that the album becomes labored in its second half, when an existential fatigue seems to replace the careful pacing, so be it; it remains a wonderful experiment in the power of absence. | Pop: The xx’s Album ‘Coexist’ 2012-09-10T03:00:08Z

In both its film versions, “Aladdin” shows us the consequences of living an inauthentic life, a life of existential bondage. Review | How ‘Aladdin’ came to be: Thank (or blame) an 18th-century French scholar 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

Suddenly, from the back of the house, a boppy, perky, electronic tune rang out in answer to that deeply existential question. At 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' ... Pain, laid bare, and then 'ring, ring' 2010-12-16T23:20:41Z

They are unemotional and stiff in their movements, as if wading through existential malaise. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

Without directly addressing the pandemic, the book powerfully reflects a moment defined by existential interiority and uncertainty. Review | Sally Rooney’s latest novel is a lucid, nuanced story about coming of age in a broken world 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Woody also lays out some of the existential logic of the film’s perception of toys, a philosophical perspective fully comprehended by the toys. How "Toy Story" changed everything – in its first eight minutes 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

The enormity of his plight, the existential dread, will flow from the vast loneliness of the landscape, they agreed. ‘The Martian’ Author Andy Weir Brings His Nerd Thriller Into the Mainstream 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Two and a half years ago, feeling existentially adrift about the future of the planet, I sent a letter to Wendell Berry, hoping he might have answers. Going Home with Wendell Berry 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z

Reboots often run into an existential crisis: why this, why again, why now? Review: Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp Seems Like Old Times 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Tanking presents a novel set of ethical and existential conundrums. The Miami Dolphins and the Art of Losing to “Win” 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

In reality, Ferry is currently squiring a girl 35 years his junior, which doesn't stop Alphaville and Scissor Sisters' collaboration Heartache By Numbers taking convincingly lonely whirls around life's existential dancefloor. Bryan Ferry: Olympia - review 2010-10-21T22:00:00Z

Playing Hamlet would surely put you in an existential mood. | 'Passion Play': Sarah Ruhl?s Play Within a Play at Irondale Center 2010-05-13T03:53:00Z

The film could “be described as an existential mystery, a melodramatic thriller, a medical horror film or just a polymorphous extravaganza,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times in October. DVD: Marlene Dietrich?s ?Dishonored? and ?Shanghai Express? 2012-03-04T04:13:02Z

If she hadn’t done all the naff work, she says, she wouldn’t be where she is now – and it’s great to have got her existential crisis out of the way. Freida Pinto: ‘I wouldn’t work with Woody Allen again’ 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

With shades of horror and existential dread “The Humans” is, as Karam has described it, a “kind of family thriller.” New this week: ‘Becoming Cousteau,’ Gaga and Tony Bennett 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

The next day, Barbie's shower is cold, her breakfast is burnt, and her great day is ruined by her existential crisis featuring inexplicable thoughts of death, evidence of cellulite and — worst of all — flat feet. In "Barbie," of course Ken hijacks the journey of empowerment in a misguided tour of the patriarchy 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z

“Do I want to live in this bubble for 10 to 20 years?” he recalled thinking, likening his “existential” struggle to King Solomon in Ecclesiastes. Sam Hunt Brought Hip-Hop to Country. After ‘Old Town Road,’ He’s Back. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

He doesn’t plan to move anytime soon, but it’s still a bit unclear whether the existential search for home is over. Welcome to suburbia: the millennials done with city life – and city prices 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

However much he may be resigned to it, it existentially pains him nonetheless. Hugh Laurie Directs an Episode of ?House? 2010-04-11T22:24:00Z

In the here and now, whenever that is, Neo re-emerges in the limiting everyman identity of Thomas Anderson, a man caught in his own existential wake-work-eat-sleep loop. No one can say if "The Matrix Resurrections" is good or bad. Either way, it makes you think 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

There are echoes of Beckett in this novel’s abstemious style and existential echoes. In His Final Fiction, Sam Shepard Chases Familiar Themes 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

When we see our partner wrestling with what are quite existential questions like, "What do I really want from life?" it's very easy to interpret that as a problem with our relationship. Forget the fights over housework: How couples who both work make it work 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

“Disagree with him as you will, he inarguably upheld the dignity of the office and represented a center-right sensibility that’s facing an existential crisis right now.” Donald Trump may be the best thing that ever happened to George W. Bush 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Uncertainty is an existential searchlight that Mr. Vo, and many of his peers, hold high on a hunt for new ideas and procedures. Art Review: ?The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial? 2012-02-16T23:45:32Z

It’s not unusual for advice columns to attract a disproportionately female readership, but “Ask Polly” ’s mode of existential advice focusses especially on the behavioral expectations and constraints that modern young women face. Heather Havrilesky’s “Existential” Advice 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

And in a 1910 watercolor self-portrait, the great Schiele presents himself as a shocked-and-awed existential casualty, his head swollen to E. T. size, his mouth agape in a colicky, wailing O. Review: The Darkness and Light of Edvard Munch’s Work 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

The film thereby twists into an entwinement between existential crisis and documentary horror shot through, as Ware says, “a window no one else is looking through”. ‘I witnessed the birth of Isis’: how one film-maker captured the horror of Iraq 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

One might also describe it as a 10-part experimental film that wrestles with existential crises. Skinemax meets "Twin Peaks"? Our wild interview on "Now Apocalypse," a totally bonkers show 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

That’s the turning point at which hapless Casey falls into the trap laid by his peculiarly intense karate instructor, in the moment at which his needs expand from simple bulking-up to a more existential register. From Midsommar to martial arts: how movie cults got real 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

An existential question animates this Oscar race: What, exactly, is a movie? Sorry, best picture front-runners: She’s just not that into you. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Not a Kafkaesque existential deadness, but something else, something that captured “not the endless cycle of meaningless activity but the endless cycle of meaningful activity.” George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z

There is a real sense of existential despair that there's nothing out there, no one cares about them, there are no resources, there are no jobs, there's no direction. Pioneering L.A. chef Roy Choi on improving food in inner cities 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

The black-and-white images, the sunglasses and cigarettes might impart, to modern eyes, a period flavor, but the basic existential conundrum of life in the media spotlight has hardly changed. Critic?s Notebook: His Back Pages, Captured on Film 2011-05-17T19:00:20Z

She also isn’t entirely cynical, or unsympathetic, toward those passionately dedicated to a profession of inescapable existential turmoil. Comic angst, alive and well on Seattle stages 2013-01-31T23:00:10Z

But this quiet, Anne Tyler-esque novel is also a reminder that gentler times were not always gentle, that life is filled with hardship even without existential threats. Review | Connie Schultz’s ‘The Daughters of Erietown’ captures four generations of women in a hardscrabble Ohio town 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z

The opening chapter is layered with bad memories and fear, describing an unscheduled moment of existential crisis. In 'Liar: A Memoir' Rob Roberge wrestles with the consequences of sex, drugs, and punk rock 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

It joins a lineage of New York City art-rock bands that transmute existential questions and primal fears into exultant songs, bands like Talking Heads, TV on the Radio and Dirty Projectors. Landlady Previews Its First Album at Rough Trade NYC 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

Not everyone has the luxury of being able to shake themselves out of this existential lethargy, but those of us who can have a responsibility to wake up as many people as possible. “Comment sections are brilliant and extremely relevant”: Christy Wampole on the awfulness of Facebook, the utility of “think pieces” and why you might be reading the Internet all wrong 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

She feels guilty, she combats depression, and she has an existential crisis. "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

What he had not factored in was the exhaustion of childcare and home schooling, anxiety about the health of their parents – and the small matter of existential dread. Not tonight, darling: how the world lost its libido – and how it can get it back 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Younger artists are faced with a larger existential problem—the collapse of the music business. The Music Itself Is a Form of Protest 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

As we kind of live in this time where, I'd say even before 2016 there were a lot of really existential fights for women and people of color that were raging on. Author Kylie Cheung: As the "perpetrators of sexual violence," men need to join the feminist fight 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

Overtaken by existential alienation and a bad attitude, I was not enthusiastic about performing my first task, reading aloud from a card providing salient information about my character: Lila-Marie, Deceptively Wholesome Student. Starring Me! A Surreal Dive Into Immersive Theater 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

What stumps him here, in Volume 20, is how to let his unnamed 21st-century Man reject existential exhaustion in a way that doesn’t seem pat. ‘In the Southern Breeze’ Review: A Dark Night of the Soul 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Myriad awakenings, reckonings and complex existential conflicts ensue. Is ‘Westworld’ HBO’s Next Big Hit? 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

He suggested that the modern approach to the novel was mostly indebted to German Romanticism, which imposed a serious, existential reading, going against the original comic intention that lay behind the text. Anthony Close obituary 2010-10-03T17:41:00Z

Even the show's supervillains, when not trying to destroy the planet, struggle with marital problems and existential ennui. TV from the outer limits of the EPG 2013-02-23T06:00:00Z

Item No. 61, which Stach titles “Kafka Dreams of an Olympic Victory,” is a must-read for Kafka buffs and fans of existential bewilderment alike. What Color Were Kafka’s Eyes? 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

The silent nothingness of the void forms the background of Steinkamp’s existential meditation on time’s passage and life’s transience. What to see in L.A. galleries: street-art ethos, a mesmerizing digital canvas, wild tapestries 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Published in 1986 and 1987, the graphic novel series “Watchmen” portrays an alternate reality in which superheroes are battling existential demons and the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon’s presidency took different turns. Read It Before You See It 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

To do this might precipitate the radical transformation of my self-concept and public image, but the getting there would be much less existential than practical—it would consist of a lot of running. Maybe the word “rapist” is a problem: The utility of nouns and verbs, or accepting who we are and what we do 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

It is difficult to imagine popular music without his stark, and specular, existential insight. Remembering Charles Aznavour, the Last and Greatest Troubadour 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

“This is an existential threat to the survival of many of these organizations,” he added. The Daily Call That 200 Arts Groups Hope Will Help Them Survive 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

It’s being a fundamentalist and believing that science has all the solutions for human problems, including the existential dilemmas we have about our identity, our fear of old age, infirmity, and death. Deepak Chopra Has Never Been Sick 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

The era that Rusbridger recounts was so momentous for journalism and the stakes so high, it was hard to see the new existential challenges looming. A Revolution for Journalism — or a Death Knell? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

While another director might use the belching crater for its metaphoric resonance, as a symbol, say, of churning emotions, the volcano is of real existential concern for Koichi. Movie Review : ?I Wish,? Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda 2012-05-10T22:21:26Z

I’m not saying that therapists have ignored them altogether; for sure, they haven’t, but those more existential ideas have been overshadowed by trying to feel good. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the wake of these tragedies, the stunt community, a close-knit crew of thrill-seekers and physical virtuosi, grieved collectively, forced to consider the existential brinkmanship of the profession. 'It's a terribly fine line': the stunt performers risking their lives for Hollywood 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Now it’s where you can see works like Miroslaw Balka’s entirely black room and ponder an extreme existential nothingness, which in a museum with a crowd of people becomes transcendent. Damien Hirst at Tate Modern 2012-07-09T14:15:00Z

At other times, he seems to muse on how to survive in a totalitarian system, and he ponders the existential terrors of freedom. ‘The Václav Havel Project’ heads to Prague Fringe Festival

Yet the exhibitions’ focus also reflects the more existential and political developments of the last year: debates over what it means to be American today and efforts to expose and grapple with racism. The Met Plans an American Fashion Extravaganza 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

On the ground level of Mariana Tirantte’s two-tiered set, we observe the everyday lives of this foursome, all suffering from some form of existential crisis that they hope to resolve on film. ‘Cineastas’ and ‘O Jardim’ at Under the Radar 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

These were the existential threats that 45 years of summer blockbusters had pre-programmed us to expect. What was the best summer ever for big-budget film? 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z

The second half of the study will look at the effect of psilocybin on “pain perception, depression, existential/psychospiritual distress, attitudes toward disease progression, quality of life, and spiritual/mystical states of consciousness.” Psychedelic mushrooms could cure anxiety for cancer patients 2014-04-27T16:00:00Z

Klam, the author of the short story collection “Sam the Cat,” brings a mordantly funny touch to existentially tragic circumstances. New in Paperback: ‘Who Is Rich?,’ ‘The Stars in Our Eyes’ 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Rather than express mortality or existential dread, the liquefying flesh in these paintings represents the effects of consumerism. Review | In the galleries: Comic book artists show new dimensions 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

There is only the great existential nothin’ within, and the possibility of assuaging it with shoes. Critical Shopper: At Macy’s, Shoes Reign on the Second Floor 2012-10-02T21:36:00Z

But Mr. Farr’s production, led by a studied but mechanical performance by Greg Hicks in the title role, skims along the dark surfaces of the play without digging into its knotted existential depths. | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z

The great existential mysteries of light and air and sun to consider. Millennials are filling their homes — and the void in their hearts — with houseplants 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

"A celebration of what?" the existential crooner replies, sardonically. How Morrissey fell for the Stephen Colbert effect 2012-10-11T13:21:09Z

These are behaviors, statements and sentiments that potentially pose the largest existential threat ever to the Kanye West empire. The Battle for Kanye West Is Happening in Real Time 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Maclean has referred to his film – possibly tongue-in-cheek – as “an existential European road movie”, but one could just as well label it a western, a buddy movie, a coming-of-age drama, or even a folk tale. Existential cowboys: Slow West isn't the first European journey into US darkness 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

But rather than appearing troubled by an existential dilemma, he looked entirely preoccupied by the extraordinarily fussy, devilishly hard choreography. Dance Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ at the Paris Opera Ballet 2013-12-22T20:39:11Z

Daria’s sister Quinn, who at first glance appears to have it all together as a popular mean girl, is nevertheless riddled with existential ennui. Daria: the 90s cartoon that nailed American feminist teenhood 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

Like their excellent "Friend of Mine," "Begging Please" is a gorgeous dance record unafraid to gaze at the dustier, more existential corners of the dance floor. Essential tracks: These Chris Stapleton, Samo Sound Boy works qualify 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

Through each faction and Traveling Symphony performance, we experience Huang's way of answering existential hypotheticals most wouldn't think to ask. From logos to gender fluidity, what "Station Eleven" costumes reveal in the aftermath of apocalypse 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

I barked at my foetus for no discernible reason, the laptop balanced precariously on my bump, while my internal smugometer wavered somewhere between pride and existential despair. I'm an everythingist – craving new experiences, but unwilling to put the work in 2013-06-11T17:30:01Z

In Hong Kong, there was pride, but there was a clear existential crisis that people were facing because of all the political upheaval. "Taiwanese food is an underdog": In her new cookbook, Clarissa Wei writes a love letter to Taiwan 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z

Jenny McCoy, formerly a pastry chef at the restaurant Craft in New York, was at a recent class, alleviating what she described as an “existential pastry crisis.” A Chocolate Camp for Pastry Chefs 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

“What we said to the board,” recalled artistic director Ethan McSweeny, “was that this is an existential threat at ASC, with no meaningful financial cushion when we turn off the box office.” Perspective | The virus is already pushing small theaters to the brink. One Shakespeare theater hopes it can make it back. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Talking Heads' shimmering funk provides the backdrop for David Byrne's existential crisis, and best-loved rants. Readers recommend: songs about mistaken identity ? the results 2011-01-27T17:21:22Z

But becoming a high-fashion model does not appear to have caused h/er any real existential concern. The Reinventions of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

So Mel, in the craziest, most existential moment any of us has ever lived through, you are going to be the new editor in chief of Interview magazine. Mel Ottenberg Takes Over Interview Magazine as Top Editor 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

But with the Academy Awards postponed and many theaters shuttered or half-empty, this movie year closes with a shiver of existential anxiety in Hollywood and beyond. This Year Was a Disaster. We Hope the Sequel Is Better. 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

But her character is hardly existentially dangerous, because the film, counter to its big-talk advertising, tenders no political information. Octavia Spencer’s Horror Movie, “Ma,” Is a Misfire Fit for the Moment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Once a romantic hero, then an existential one — blond, narrow-hipped, unsmiling behind sunglasses — Mr. Walker no longer has a stage persona. ‘Soused,’ Scott Walker’s Unusual New Album With Sunn O))) 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

And I see that existentially tormented girl who struggled to locate her true self while trying to hang onto her Orthodox Jewish upbringing. I fooled around with the rabbi 2013-02-10T02:00:00Z

The fact that many of these languages are dying infuses this small cinematic renaissance with an existential imperative. Can Film Save Indigenous Languages? 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

The film shies from directly addressing anguished existential questions. ‘Honey’: Friendship challenges free-spirited angel of death 2014-04-24T20:46:08Z

The existential crisis rages on from there: What did we just watch? Review | ‘30 Rock’ reunion special failed to mask the stink of NBCUniversal’s hour-long ad for itself 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

But first I headed to the wilder precincts outside New Orleans, where “True Detective” wove a Gothic mystery of existential angst and unspeakable evil in its first season. As Seen on TV: A Road Trip Tracks the Shows of the South 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Written by David Magee and directed by Rob Marshall, the movie ratchets up more than the family’s existential stakes. ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Review: A Truck Full of Sugar Can’t Make This Uplift Go Down 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

As many Republicans are now aware, the party now faces an existential crisis. Welcome to the new Civil War 2013-01-05T16:30:00Z

“He’s not afraid to be goofy, but it’s all wrapped in these existential questions that he seems to be continuing to ask over his career.” What ‘Severance’ Is Made of: ‘Being John Malkovich’ and a Sizzler Steakhouse 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

Instead, consider the extraordinary moment when an overhead camera pulls back from two men — up and up, farther and farther — until they’re near specks, as if they were being cut down to existential size. Review: In ‘Creepy,’ a Cold Case Turns Red Hot, but Don’t Tell the Neighbors 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

It relies on suggestion, and it is terrifying: both the physical danger and the existential despair. The Pen and the Trigger Finger: Examining Gun Violence Onstage 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

My job doesn’t make me happy Topics: , , workplace I am having a bit of an existential crisis. My job doesn’t make me happy 2012-06-18T00:00:00Z

But WGA slammed the studios’ response to its complaints during the negotiations as “wholly insufficient given the existential crisis writers are facing.” Why TV writers are striking and what it means for your favorite shows 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z

A show that started with poetry, performance and existential politics ends with the politics of design. Review: Vito Acconci Invites You to Watch Him as He Watches Us 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

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. A Plimpton Family Affair 2010-08-04T20:40:00Z

Sohn isn’t just lovesick and scarred in these songs; he has deeper existential conundrums. New Music: Albums From Sohn, Oran Etkin and Pedro Luis Ferrer 2014-04-07T21:31:47Z

From closer to New York — Philadelphia — came Son Little, a singer with a firm soul foundation who laced his bluesy flirtations with little electronic disruptions and hints of existential dread. Eras Mix Among 1,300 Groups at CMJ Music Marathon 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

But the questions, and Cave’s answers, more often plumb existential depths. The transcendence of Nick Cave: After losing his son, the post-punk icon found communion with his fans 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

Bobby operates by impulse, which allows him to chase short-term desires like bedding women and getting toast with his omelet, but leaves him existentially adrift. Five Easy Pieces at 50: a troubling yet thrilling arrival of a new leading man 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

Millions of acres of corn and soybeans, and rising numbers of hogs, are intensively raised in its states, creating "an existential problem between agriculture and water quality," says IFC's Weber. Can more farmers be convinced to conserve and restore wetlands? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

The thing that encourages me is that we are actually approaching an existential crisis as human beings about artificial intelligence and the threat of artificial intelligence. James Cameron on Science Fiction, ‘Avatar’ and the Challenges of a ‘Terminator’ Reboot 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

While the pandemic and tariffs pose short-term challenges, climate change is an existential problem, requiring both long-term planning and immediate action, not just from the wine industry but also from society as a whole. For the Wine World, 2021 Brings Familiar Problems 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

The realization that oneself and all one’s loved ones will someday die is naturally terrifying, and this existential fear perfectly set the stage for anxiety-reducing ideas, like ones that offer a never-ending afterlife. How religious fundamentalism hijacks your brain, as explained by a neuroscientist 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

It's set in the future, but it's more a kind of crushing existential nightmare – but with a light touch! – than sci-fi. "Veep" creator on trading the Oval Office for lawless space in HBO's wacky comedy "Avenue 5" 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

As with other Schrader characters, Tell opens the door to his head through his narration, bringing you into the shadowy room in which he — like the rest of us locked in existential solitary — struggles. ‘The Card Counter’ Review: A Gambler’s Existential Solitaire 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Nolan cares about time and space as mechanical matters that are meant to double as existential. Uncouth, Cranky and Rude: Movies in 1988 Were a Far Cry From Today 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

But she and Mr. Kearns said they wanted the show to be less about personal crisis than about art’s existential power. ‘Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars’ Arriving at Morgan Library 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Slogging through pandemic life, with all its unpredictable setbacks and derailments — not to mention brushes with existential terror — has had a similar feeling to postpartum life, but without the silver lining of an adorable newborn. More Kids? After the Last Two Years? No Thanks. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

He was about to start another book with another “existential black dude narrator,” as he put it, but the Underground Railroad idea kept coming to mind. Colson Whitehead on Slavery, Success and Writing the Novel That Really Scared Him 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

It was odd to see people “doing silly things to such existential lyrics,” Kozlov said, but the band quickly saw the upside, given that the pandemic had stopped them from playing shows. This Band Is Fun on TikTok. In Belarus, It’s Serious. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Since college, almost without meaning to, I had become an English professor, and this year of post-tenure freedom felt like existential parole. The Time Capsule 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

His cityscapes and figures reveal a Saul Steinberg-like existential grasp of the human condition, as well as his training as an architect. | Follow the Grid 2010-11-23T14:38:00Z

I mean the querulous, existentially challenged title characters of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” who live on dreams of making it to the big city. Williamstown Theater Festival: Three Sisters and Lots of Kvetching 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

“Those are the films that I gravitate to, that are semi-escapist while still grounding themselves in the deeper, existential queries of our time.” The friendship at the heart of a last day on Earth comedy 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

The American foreign policy establishment is two years into a prolonged existential crisis. New Directions for American Foreign Policy 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

In the plague years that followed, the theater naturally reframed gay life in a context of existential danger. Will the Old Gay Play Have Something New to Say? 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Drawn from Syms’s own experiences as a visual artist, “The African Desperate” is less an art-school parody as it is a portrait of existential incongruity, where contempt mingles with deep affection. ‘The African Desperate’ Review: Double Speak 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Her later works here, mostly acrylic paintings, might appear utterly abstract but they too seem to be the result of some kind of marking out of existential rhythms. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-22T23:08:10Z

Ever the forward thinker, Dante had already gotten over the yawning existential void of the suburbs, and he was prepared to have a chuckle at the expense of those who hadn’t. The 'Burbs at 30: how the cult comedy horror skewered suburbia 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Their artistic dreams fuse with vanity, their romantic desires are inseparable from egotism, yet their complexities aren’t psychological but, rather, existential. The Hong Sang-soo Retrospective Is a Must-See 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Friedan’s — and, before her, de Beauvoir’s and Komorovsky’s — existential quandaries about what it means to be a woman in a world defined by men have increasingly been answered by capitalism. Does “The Feminine Mystique” still matter? 2013-02-13T14:00:00Z

Its existential themes quote moral philosophy and play out their principles week by week, eventually stumbling upon some of the bigger existential quandaries of our time. Best TV of the Decade, from 2010 to 2019 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

“Stories” features choreography by the company’s founder, Shannon Hummel, who is interested in the spectrum of human emotion and likes to tackle big existential questions. Dance Listings for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

“Which is kind of funny. But it also just kind of fills me with this existential dread.” Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

“The Nutcracker’s” very presence on stages around the country this season represents the triumph of ballet companies over the existential darkness of the past year-plus of shutdowns. Review | At the Kennedy Center (at last), Miami City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ is a perfect Thanksgiving story 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

This month, Chris Jones, the chief theater critic for The Chicago Tribune, called “Burning Bluebeard” “the most distinctive holiday show in the entire city,” praising its “ragtag, outré aesthetic” and “emotional, existential echoes.” ‘Burning Bluebeard' Becomes a Holiday Tradition in Chicago 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

In those countries, the existential problem isn't "to be or not to be …" but to say or not to say. Atiq Rahimi: Should literature be political? 2013-05-22T10:49:51Z

The existential anxiety of the paid assassin is a tricky theme — so tricky as to be potentially invalid, even. ‘The Virtuoso’ Review: A Paid Killer, Hitting Bum Notes 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

That realization has been prompting a kind of existential crisis: If my family had never come to the United States, had TV not served as an escape, who would I be? ’90s Sitcoms Shaped Me as an Immigrant Child. What if They Hadn’t? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

King considers these small things: the psychology of doggie bags, the design of airport bathrooms, the existential value of a free ice cream sundae. Our culture needed an adult. Gayle King rose to the challenge. 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

An interrogation of whether or not this is true – not literally but existentially – underpins the rest of this short but satisfying novel. Julia by Otto de Kat – review 2013-03-15T17:07:01Z

Its terror works as an existential mystery and, in its great final closing-credit sequence, something more conspiratorial and timely: Failure to reckon with the past allows a future generation to do the reckoning for itself. Six French Films That Speak to the Identity of the Nation 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

As Richard Powers did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Overstory,” Millet addresses the existential crisis of climate change with a technical understanding of the science and a humane understanding of the heart. Review | Lydia Millet’s ‘A Children’s Bible’ is a blistering classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

His solution to this existential crisis is to enter a philosophy contest founded by a Silicon Valley mogul. Review | In ‘Kraft,’ German author Jonas Lüscher pokes fun at Silicon Valley’s shiny elitism and rabid faith in technology 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

It can dress itself up in political intrigue all it wants; this existential narrative is really begging to be a character study. ‘The Colony’ Review: Fertile Ground Goes to Waste 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Likewise, if my nephew — fat little question mark that he is at present — finds himself plunged into existential crisis in his mid-20s, I’ll be there. Modern Love: A Role He Was Born to Play 2012-11-15T21:08:15Z

On the 105 ramp heading north, a place rife with existential crisis, Mia and Sebastian land next to one another jammed under the perpetual sunny stagnation. The much-chattered about opening scene of “La La Land” telegraphs a thoroughly stunted message 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

His primary focus is on the cohort born later in the 19th century who grew up to witness the existential threat to Paris in two world wars. Novel traces fates Paris families over centuries 2013-04-30T11:32:14Z

An existential thriller about loss, trauma, statelessness and historical amnesia, “Transit” is the latest from the German director Christian Petzold, an electrifying, original filmmaker. ‘Transit’ Review: An Existential Puzzler With Jackboots and Terror 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

It features three grotesques, monsters from a horror film who have somehow got existentially excluded from the main gory action, like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's play. Film review: Trash Humpers 2010-06-17T22:35:00Z

This is why the butt dial hits us where it hurts, triggering embarrassment that grades into a deeper existential dolor. Rudy Giuliani and the Butt-Dialler Within All of Us 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

When processing all of this general existential dread, it's understandably difficult to find balance. Ina Garten advises us to "drink more large cosmos" after reading Reese Witherspoon's wellness tips 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Research into psychoanalytic theory and occultist beliefs informs this meditation on how mysticism infuses times of global existential crises — and might, ms. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

The monitoring of the lives of others in an age of warrantless wiretapping is an existential theme here, if only lightly touched on. | 'Havana Journal, 2004': Eduardo Machado?s Play at Theater for the New City 2010-04-12T21:12:00Z

It seemed existential at the time, but the 25-year-old D.C. native has since figured out how to soften that sneer. Review | Shy Glizzy is bigger than ever — but he still sounds like D.C. 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

Leichter has managed to blend the oddball and the existential into a tale of millennial woe that’s both dreadful and hilarious at once. Review | ‘Temporary’ puts a whole new spin on millennial woe 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

Anyway, it was just the bang to send spymaster Harry into an existential spin. Rewind TV: Lost Land of the Tiger; Unequal Opportunities; Excluded; Spooks; Seven Days 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

This free-spending fashion-forward apparition is regarded as a savior by the struggling brick-and-mortar retail industry, with its department store and mall closings, sluggish sales and the existential threat of online shopping. ‘Footwear Is a Gateway Drug’: How Saks Lures Men to Its New Store 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

The idea that blue paint could vanish entirely may seem absurd, but even the suggestion — made in headlines this fall — is enough to foment existential doom. Now supply-chain woes have come for the color blue 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

Making the show was, as Mr. Badgley described it, “an existential endurance test.” Penn Badgley Flexes New Dance Moves 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

The theater is littered with male characters of this type — myopic, self-assured big shots who are forced to open their eyes and confront their existential frailty after a crisis ambushes them. Lily Knight sets 'A Small Fire' aglow with her performance 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Depending on whom you talk to, Mr. Russell, whose work includes the Persian Gulf war satire “Three Kings” and the existential corporate comedy “I Heart Huckabees,” is quixotic, combative and occasionally brilliant. The Carpetbagger: Behind Camera, Checking the Ego 2010-12-08T23:38:00Z

The real ectoplasm holding this book together, though, is existential dread. Review | What does the afterlife look like? ‘The Ghost Variations’ offers 100 possibilities. 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

Alan Clay, our hero, is a career salesman who’s at the end of his rope: broke, middle-aged, divorced, asking himself existential questions that a salesman really shouldn’t be asking himself. My Book-Buffer for June and July 2012-07-03T18:40:01Z

Its advice to take up the hyggelig activity of cycling is accompanied by a motivational quote from that byword of existential contentment, Sylvia Plath. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Destiny, reincarnation and alternate realities where two people may have intersected differently are running themes in "Past Lives," which evokes existential questions of "What if?" for the characters and the viewers alike. "Connected through inyeon": Teo Yoo reflects on the fate that guided his career and to "Past Lives" 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z

Every writer in my Zoom room — those personally and sort of existentially affected by what's going on — I think that we start from there. "Dead to Me" creator on the show's secret to success: "I'm interested in genre-nonconforming" 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z

The finely layered setting for nine female voices lent the poem a ritualistic quality and emphasized the existential anxiety of eternal waiting. Review: Pérotin and Lang, 800 Years Apart, at Trinity Church 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Let Me Be Frank With You–the title is a groaner, but it suits the man’s existential dilemmas–is the fourth in a series that began in 1986 with The Sportswriter. Review: Richard Ford’s Frank Talk 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

While the prospect of having them home indefinitely causes me mild existential dread and panic, I’m also curious to see what else they will make of this time. The Unschooled Artists 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

To be away from the hall for multiple years was assumed to pose an existential threat to its audience’s loyalty. A Pandemic Opportunity: Geffen Hall’s Overhaul Accelerates 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

If we were to reduce the narrator’s angst to one existential question, it might be, “Am I unique?” Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Acting and Amateurism 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

Unlike most reality shows, which rely on artificial constructs or manufactured theatrics, the stakes here — marriage or potential deportation — are inherent and existentially huge. ‘90 Day Fiancé’: An Anti-Fantasy for Troubled Times 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Scorsese presents not merely one skein of interlocking scandals but an existential vision of society, the very immoral essence of humankind, looked in the face and wearing suits. Watching “The Irishman” on Netflix Is the Best Way to See It 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

One young Black editor had tears in her eyes, not saying much but clearly aware — rightly so — that Trump’s ascendancy was an existential threat, not just to her but to something much larger. Perspective | Four years ago, I wondered if the media could handle Trump. Now we know. 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

It was an “unprecedented” televised discussion about an “existential” threat, but it often collapsed into quips about lightbulbs and cheeseburgers. We watched all 7 hours of CNN’s climate town hall so you didn’t have to 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Because of Rothko’s suicide, in 1970, there are the additional readings of his classic sectional paintings, with their totemic weight and sometimes-glowering palette, as statements of existential darkness and foreboding. In ‘Mark Rothko: From the Inside Out,’ a Son Writes About His Father 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

As it is, even when flippantly asking weighty existential questions about war and faith, this production calls into question the reasons for its own existence. Theater Review: Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Medieval Play’ at Signature 2012-06-08T02:05:00Z

But “Swan Song,” a science-fiction drama written and directed by Benjamin Cleary, posits a scenario of doubling that’s just as much about acquiring emotional intelligence as it is about reckoning with existential and practical ramifications. ‘Swan Song’ Review: Second Life 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

America this week began to consider the existential threat of a doorknob. Coronavirus anxiety is everywhere, and there is no cure 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Aside from maybe jazz, no other art form has so existentially lamented its decline from both internal and external boogeymen. Low record sales mean hip-hop artists must diversify to attract major music labels

And sometimes the emotional fuel is just laughter and distraction from the quotidian struggles of life in hard times and perhaps even existential peril. "We in America have actual fascists marching in the streets": Ed Brubaker on releasing art right now 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

Community outreach has been a part of the orchestral landscape for some time, but these days it’s moved into a higher gear: less a nice perk and more an existential choice. Perspective | American orchestras: Revamping the model, or embracing the obvious? 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

In tracking the Cho family’s response to this existential catastrophe, the novel explores larger questions of generational trauma, the American dream and the consequences of conquest. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

Taystee, on the other hand — facing a life sentence for a murder she didn’t commit — wrestles with betrayal and an existential crisis that gnaws at her sanity. "Orange Is the New Black" ends justly, asking: Where do we go from here? 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

“Game of Thrones” is broadly about the evolution from a dynastic, tribal world defined by cycles of violence and revenge toward a more humanistic, cooperative one equipped to confront big existential challenges. ‘Game of Thrones’: 9 Questions for the Final Season 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Although, Anomalisa being a very existential story, there comes a moment when its hero, Michael, has a sudden realisation that he’s something other than flesh and blood. Charlie Kaufman on weirdness, failure and his new puppet noir 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

Metazen, a mainstay for Alt Lit enthusiasts, proudly declares on its homepage to "not believe in non-fiction, both in a literary sense and an existential sense". New alternatives for Alt Lit 2013-06-06T12:34:25Z

Each Dreher volume arrives upholstered with a subtitle — “Benedict’s” is “A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation” — but they all boil down to “Rod’s search for existential meaning and harmony.” Rod Dreher is the combative, oversharing blogger who speaks for today’s beleaguered Christians 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

You do get a sense of almost existential desperation. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z

It may be your baseline existential awareness that life is fleeting and mysterious. I’m a lonely country girl 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z

In making such decisions, Paul writes, “We are forced to confront the existential implications of our epistemic limitations.” Seeing and Hearing for the First Time, on YouTube 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

At stake is the existential question of who Democrats want to be, who they need to be to return from the wilderness. ‘He’s not that kind of fighter.’ Can play-by-the-rules Chuck Schumer win on Trump’s turf? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

At the same time, a developer played by Cheyenne Jackson, another addition to the cast, threatens to buy the place and gentrify it, providing an existential threat to the resident psychos and demons. Review: ‘American Horror Story: Hotel,’ as Depraved as Ever 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

But “Despair” might have been a better title for this profoundly pessimistic existential vision of a seemingly doomed personality. Film: At Venice Film Festival, Love, Sex and Bickering 2011-09-06T11:55:32Z

“Barbecue” raucously sends up the sociological pantomime — life as an award-seeking existential burlesque. 'Barbecue' at the Geffen finds a ferociously funny way into the subject of race and identity 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

He was exorcising all his existential problems through music. | H J Lim: H J Lim, Classical Pianist and YouTube Phenomenon 2012-06-29T20:48:45Z

Jessie sees suicide as an existential act of freedom; we experience it as tragedy. A wrenching ' 'night, Mother' at Lost Studio 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

The song’s narrator sees humanity plagued by existential doom, which may be catching up with Rick and the gang. The Walking Dead Watch: Nebraska 2012-02-13T13:45:34Z

Those are only two of the existential options on offer in “Sundance Film Festival Animated Shorts,” a diverse compendium of eight short films culled from past festival lineups. Sundance Film Festival Animated Shorts 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

“I was having an existential crisis. I felt everything was meaningless.” David Lowery on why he made A Ghost Story: 'I was freaking out, having an existential crisis' 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

Will "The Office" be able to sustain that feeling of existential panic? Fear and hugging at Dunder-Mifflin 2011-09-23T14:01:00Z

"I hope in the future Andrei Zvyagintsev, a very gifted man, will make a film with the assistance of the Culture Ministry that will not feature this existential hopelessness," he said. Oscar-nominated 'Leviathan' ruffles feathers in Russia 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

She’s a deadpan comedian, her sentences funny yet plump with existential dread. Review: Nell Zink’s ‘Nicotine’ Is Hard to Put Down, Despite Its Unruly Plot 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

We live in a world overpopulated by privileged white guys who mistake their depression for existential wisdom, their narcissism for superior vision. Perspective | J.D. Salinger at 100: Is ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ still relevant? 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

A season mired in doubt, difficulty and the nearly existential threat of constant cancellation nevertheless proved surprising, vivid, affecting. Against All Odds, Broadway Rose to the Occasion. Mostly. 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

That is, whether this film’s perspective is nihilist, or if “Possessor” is, rather, a morally neutral exploration of the worst extremes of existential anxiety. ‘Possessor’ Review: It’s by a Cronenberg, but Not the One You Think 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

They’re both quite clearly deep into their own existential struggles, facing death in ways maybe beyond their worst fears. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Beliefs and longtime friends collide. Is there a path to acceptance? 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

“These are existential and also moral questions. What to do to protect life, not to be a threat but at the same time continue our existence and activity and maintain our status as artists?” Romania’s Jewish State Theater explores work on Holocaust 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z

What better role to assume than that of the existential cowboy? Review: ‘Fool for Love,’ a Kinship That Breaks Hearts and Knuckles 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

He'll cover topics ranging from finding love again, to how attending his daughter's second-grade art show cost him the chance to board a full-scale Millennium Falcon, to experiencing existential dread at Denny's. What's new on Netflix in May, from a bumbling "Space Force" to a flower reality competition show 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z

In “Pantheon,” an unusual somberness weaves through the mix, hinting at serious existential and topical concerns: loss, futility, environmental devastation. Review | Angst and comedy among the Olympians in ‘Pantheon’ 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

Benjamin and Segel had a few conversations long before "Dispatches" came into being that can only be described as existential, he said. "Dispatches From Elsewhere" stars on connecting to the show's mystery without a murder 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

But it also coincides with an existential threat: the near-elimination of advertising revenue. Axios returns coronavirus bailout loan as news organizations grapple with the ethics of taking government funds 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

Without identifying itself as “black art,” Ms. DeVille’s installation brings hard, pertinent existential politics into the museum. Art Review: ‘Fore’ at Studio Museum in Harlem 2012-11-29T22:40:44Z

His grief at the fallen state of politics is really an expression of existential nausea at the absence of moral certainty in a relativistic, secular society. Back from the Brink by Peter Snowdon; Red Tory by Phillip Blond 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z

“Maria” Ms. Aguilera’s middle name — places her in utter existential misery, almost sobbing in her bluesy lower range: “How did I get so low?/When did I turn so cold?” Christina Aguilera Exults in Her Voice on ‘Liberation’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

Surfing documentaries are where things begin to click into place and use a solid formula: travel to exotic locales, film beautiful scenery, take on personal searches for undiscovered waves and existential meaning. Why can't pop culture get surfing right? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

There was laughter, humour and generosity in the way he spoke about his compositional and existential struggles, and even his religious feelings. Composer Arvo P?rt: Behind the beard 2011-01-06T11:53:42Z

To them, our police forces are existentially steeped in racism and excessive violence. ‘Defund the Police’? Easy for You to Say 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Jack’s final adventures are purposefully darker and steeped in existential rumination about rage, in disillusionment and the overwhelming crush of a quest that does not end and, at long last, in redemption. The warrior’s way out: “Samurai Jack” finds a rare honorable ending 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

But “Morning Sun” highlights neither the existential angst of a meaningless world nor the interpersonal conflicts that make so many fictional homes feel dangerous. Review: Edie Falco Shines as an Everywoman in ‘Morning Sun’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Culturally specific theaters may face an existential crisis if their function gets co-opted by change. After a Long, Starring Run, Will Racism at Last Get the Hook? 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Published under the pseudonym Publius Decius Mus, the essay compared the American republic to a hijacked airliner, with a vote for Donald J. Trump as the risky, but existentially necessary, course. ‘Charge the Cockpit or You Die’: Behind an Incendiary Case for Trump 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

Outsider candidates became the vehicles of an existential protest, “Old America in resentful revolt against both contemporary politics and contemporary economics.” What Do This Season’s Political Books Tell Us About the Election? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

America in the age of Trump is in an existential moral and political crisis. "The Boys" comics artist Darick Robertson on Amazon's adaptation, politics and "The Punisher" 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

How much whimsy do you like with your Southern California existential dread? 26 Summer Shows, No Mask Required 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

And, brooding over her like a tiny Easter Island statue, Madge, her old bridesmaid, as wordless and existential as a Beckett character. Perspective | With devastating quips, Dame Edna foretold a vacuous era of fame 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

Other comics are just as smart, but few live their existential angst so fully. Daniel Kitson – review 2013-05-20T17:05:47Z

Off the wall yet completely intelligible, “Immaculate Conception” mines existential commentary from toilet humor. | 'The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle': Finding Meaning in Cleaning 2010-05-11T22:38:00Z

Come for the jazzy soundtrack but stay for the existential funk. Cowboy Bebop remake: please Netflix, keep the anime classic wild and raw 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The comedy there derived from existential horror at being forced to re-examine ordinary reality in such detail. Edge of Tomorrow review – 'Tom Cruise in a sci-fi Groundhog Day, without the jokes … or the thrills' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Ressa said Tuesday evening, holding her hands to her face and mock-bellowing into the existential void like the famed Edvard Munch work. Filipino journalist reflects on Nobel Prize win at Harvard 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

Though there are moments of existential unease, Mahoney is not interested in the ghostly bumps and chills of a creaky old house. Hell House 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

The wistfulness of “Escalante’s Dream” arises also from Roberts’s physical and existential trials. They’re Not as Famous as Lewis and Clark, but They Should Be 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

“Flipside” is a kind of existential protest song juggling dichotomies and yearning for freedom, a latter-day “Compared to What.” The Playlist: Kim Gordon Vents and the White Stripes Unleash an Outtake 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Small wonder that when one punter claims to be an "existential psychotherapist" Conti replies, "Jesus, I need you!" Nina Conti 2010-08-25T20:30:00Z

David Harbour, cruising on his “Stranger Things” fame, portrays a Santa Claus in the grip of existential malaise: He’s been doing the gig for centuries and for what? ‘Violent Night’ Review: Yucks, Not Yule 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

"Black Mirror" is one of the buzziest Netflix original shows whenever new episodes debut, but does a world plagued by a viral epidemic really need the added existential dread of the science-fiction anthology series? "Black Mirror" creator says the world is too bleak right now for Season 6 to happen 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Those grappling with bursts of existential angst after six hours of brunch can gaze pensively at the spectacular views of Midtown Manhattan. The Brunch Party Takes Over Clubs ? Partying Like It?s 3 A.M. 2011-11-16T22:29:28Z

This complex portrayal, he wrote, traces the poet’s development by paying “scrupulous attention to the milieu that fed it” and the existential dilemmas that both motivated and frustrated it. What’s on TV Monday: ‘America’s Got Talent’ and ‘Ashley Garcia’ 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

Schulman, a staff writer at The New Yorker, gives a spirited, occasionally dishy history of the ceremony, touching on the award’s most notable controversies and existential questions. 13 New Books Coming in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

The show decided to stop being oblique about its intentions and murky about its existential philosophy and offered up a solid hour where themes of motherhood, family, imprisonment and faith reverberated throughout disparate storylines. Fear the Walking Dead: Season 2, Episode 12 — Pillar of Salt 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

It is, according to his label, "a dramatic homage to the Apocalypse, existential ennui and Paul Simon's Sounds of Silence". Sufjan Stevens Delights People with surprise EP 2010-08-23T11:12:00Z

Jones followed that up with the more ambitious techno-thriller Source Code, a genuinely dark take on existential sci-fi themes with a giant beating human heart placed firmly front and centre. World of Warcraft: can Duncan Jones turn the video game into movie magic? 2013-01-31T17:10:22Z

I tried a lot of cures for existential angst, but becoming this person’s mother was definitely the one. I got pregnant by mistake. Was I ready for single motherhood? 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z

Lately, though, two new shows — one going for strict LOLs, the other going for a remarkable depth of existential despair — are cutting reality TV with newly sharpened blades. ‘UnREAL’ and ‘Another Period’: From female creators, sharp jabs at reality 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

He stalked the shadows of metal and emo and punk rock, and fleeced rap of its devotion to materialism, focussing instead, obsessively, on existential crisis. The Violent Life and Shocking Death of XXXTentacion 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

The moral and existential danger of tiredness is a widespread modern malady, but an unusual literary subject. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

His characters make merry, but the punchline is often a jolt of existential dread. Artist of the week 148: Ryan Mosley 2011-07-28T11:11:44Z

However, there's one piece for me that combines the musical, the personal, and the existential in an inescapably tear-jerking combination: the final chorus from Bach's St Matthew Passion. Tracks of our tears: the songs that make G2 writers weep 2011-04-08T07:00:02Z

Meanwhile, the nation is conducting an election that carries existential overtones. ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

They're a manifestation of white supremacist, patriarchal oppression, with existential consequences for women and pregnant folks. Cable news needs to stop treating abortion like political horse race 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

Nor will individual acts of self-discipline parry the biggest existential threat we face — the climate crisis. Humans Are Impetuous and Shortsighted. Can We Change? 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

I hold up this stereotype of college—an addled, existential wrestling with knowledge among arcane intellectuals—not as an ideal, but as a dramatic foil to Millennial expectation. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z

“Down, down into the midst of ordinary things the finger fell making the moment solemn,” Woolf wrote of one of the many existential shivers that Clarissa confronts on the June day chronicled in “Mrs. Dalloway.” | 'Septimus and Clarissa': ?Septimus and Clarissa,? an Adaptation of ?Mrs. Dalloway? - Review 2011-09-16T02:01:01Z

Ms. Wood gives a transfixing, layered performance as Dolores, awakening to the existential suspicion that there is a larger reality outside her own. Review: ‘Westworld’ Is a Provocative but Flawed Sci-Fi Shoot-’Em-Up 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Yet Mr. Quinto pierces the sympathetic core of a character tormented by his own failings and by the existential agonies of living in Ronald Reagan’s America. Career Zigzag, Changing Coasts And Galaxies 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z

Hard times produce hard men, and although Roberts hints at a gentler side to the general the existential threat of war made him ruthless. Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts – review 2013-06-28T16:40:00Z

I guess that leaves single-white-femaleness, the existential condition on which this empire was built. "Sex and the City 2's" incomprehensible badness 2010-05-27T00:20:00Z

She said she was saddened to see it face yet another existential crisis. The Pandemic Struck Orchestras With Underlying Conditions Hard 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

“The Berlin of that time was expressly involved in the aftershocks of traumatic existential upheaval — those fascists, they certainly leave a trail of destruction — and they surely get those witches going … for better, for worse.” ‘Suspiria’ Then and Now: Finding Darkness in an All-Female World 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

In Agra we walked the Taj Mahal, then headed back to the hotel where Andrew meditated some more, and I lay in my metal bed having what seemed like my first existential breakdown. Modern Love: A Pact to Make the Heart Grow Fonder? 2013-08-16T17:21:57Z

This satirical and existential piece spoofed opera and, in doing so, broke the rules and pushed the art form of musical theater forward. In This Show, Mack the Knife Is a Woman 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

Earth disappears from the station’s view, providing a novel existential crisis for the space dwellers. Review: ‘The Cloverfield Paradox,’ Netflix’s Surprise Release, Unleashes Chaos 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Instead, it zeros in on being a mother, its physical and existential weight. Sarah Manguso's 'Ongoingness' preserves life in the pages 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

So, rather than turn your friend’s generosity into an existential crisis, speak up louder. Never Text Your Girlfriend’s Mom in Secret 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

“Louie” is in a class by itself, but beyond Louis C.K.’s ambitious existential sitcom, there’s a lot of room for argument. Emmys 2014: What Is Your Pick for Top Comedy? 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

But for Lennon there was plenty of existential angst, and actual fear. For John Lennon, Isolation Had a Silver Lining 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

The specters of unemployment and poverty stalk the play, inspiring both Darwinian struggle and existential crises. Theater Review: ‘Cornelius’ Is Revived at 59E59 Theaters 2013-06-12T21:15:07Z

“With all those neon colors and mirror glasses and rich people in control of their lives, it was hard to find something existential enough,” he recalled. Tension-inducing Swedish comedy ‘Force Majeure’ lays bare a man’s cowardice

So I’m not worried about this in terms of an existential crisis. As U-Va. prepares to open online amid pandemic, university president says: ‘If things change with the virus, we’re going to have to change’ 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Lib’s journey to Ireland is arduous — she travels by boat, train and horse-drawn cart, her head like a prow, her face a mask of stoicism — and soon proves more existentially difficult than physically challenging. ‘The Wonder’ Review: The Hungry Woman 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

We find him facing his mother's death, emotionless and existential. Mad Men: surprises in store as season six premieres on AMC 2013-04-08T16:57:50Z

If this year has left you in the midst of an existential crisis – you’re not alone. 'Existential,' 'Climate Emergency' chosen as Words of the Year 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

We both fear that Hollywood’s existential tipping point is not far off. Visiting Hollywood, Fla., while it still has its funky charm 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

And in an old waterfront district with few protections against rising seas, climate change presents an existential challenge that dwarfs the rebuilding at ground zero. Rebuilding Ground Zero Was a Mess. Lower Manhattan Bloomed Anyway. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

For one thing, Boratin is a mostly passive character, a listless existential hero who often drifts through his days with an alienation befitting a Camus protagonist. In ‘Labyrinth,’ a Musician With Amnesia Loses Life’s Rhythm 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

It’s a fine, tough little movie, technically assured and brutally efficient, with a simple story that ventures into some profound existential territory without making a big fuss about it. Movie Review: Liam Neeson in Joe Carnahan?s Thriller ?The Grey? 2012-01-26T22:19:02Z

The idea of searching for a home that may never exist, coupled with a fully existential rejection of nationalistic homeland and empire, is readily apparent on “There Is No Year.” Algiers is a political band in a political time. But don’t try to box them in. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Perhaps they are doing this as a form of catharsis from lives of unending existential torment that find their perfect expression in McVeigh's bellowed words, but it doesn't really look like it. White Lies ? review 2011-02-08T18:15:24Z

The kind of fear that Campbell and Klein evoke so effectively is primal in nature, infused with a sense of strangeness and existential threat. Review | Horror novels are having a renaissance. Here’s what to read. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

These sections push the story forward, laying the foundation for the existential divide that defines every superhero, even a putative roguish outlier like Deadpool. Review: ‘Deadpool,’ a Sardonic Supervillain on a Kill Mission 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

But, also, halfway through the movie you realize he's actually dealing with something far more existentially threatening to him than just this project. Jesse Eisenberg opens up: "I think of myself as a basic, unremarkable person" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Embodying this cruel lesson comes naturally to Mr. Langella, even if portraying a naked soul in existential pain does not. Theater Review: Frank Langella, Roaring at Defiance in ‘King Lear’ 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z

But some is a consequence of looming global catastrophes: the existential dread of climate change, the seemingly unending nature of the pandemic. Helado Negro at the End of the World 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

This enraptured fanatic poses an existential challenge for America, a country predicated on a Declaration of Independence, a celebration of individuality, a tradition of radical self-reliance. Joyce Carol Oates’s new novel arrives splattered with our country’s hot blood 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Amid all that excess, there are still poignant, shocking moments that offer insight into the vampire’s existential struggles. Vampire novel ‘The Quick’ has rich Victorian details but too many characters, plots

Each film would be a longshot in nearly any other season — an existential black comedy about Broadway from the "Babel" director and a slice-of-life Zen epic from the man behind the "Before" series. Oscars 2015: Five story lines to watch 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Their lyrics make everyday events the starting point for existential ruminations, often dark ones; the tunes can be hymns or foot-stompers. Songs and Laughs for the New Year’s Eve Countdown 2012-12-27T23:59:25Z

In the Alexandria-based artist’s geometric abstractions, the existential breach between things — whether neurons or people — is represented by boundaries that divide blocks of color. In the galleries: Deeply in the present but beholden to the past 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Instead, “Moon” is an elliptical drama that pieces together banal VHS recordings overlaid with spoken diary entries, tense familial encounters, and displays of solitary, existential angst rousingly performed by Kokkali. ‘Moon, 66 Questions’ Review: Daddy Issues 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

But it's exactly that audacity to explore such questions that made Lost such an absorbing, engaging series, and one that allows the viewer a safe way to discuss weighty, frightening existential issues. 'Lost'-How Will It End? 2010-05-20T19:41:00Z

In addition to its ability to obliterate existential angst, here are three reasons I love the show. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Three’s Company’ 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

But at this show, while those songs hit hard, the ones that stuck out were a shade deeper, grappling with the existential gripes of playerdom. Music Review: A Hands-On Approach to Entertaining His Fans 2010-09-17T22:35:00Z

And while the flag paintings’ inexpressive, deadpan air was, for some viewers, an existential problem, for others it was a solution. Jasper Johns: Divide and Conquer 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

They were tall tales, surreal travelogues, love songs, existential riddles and exercises in wordplay — unmistakably Dylan. Albums by Nick Jonas, Bobby Shmurda and New Basement Tapes 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

These three suspects represent no existential challenge, no larger-than-life threat. Review: ‘Career of Evil,’ J.K. Rowling’s Grisly Crime Novel 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

In a recent conversation she talked about her new dance, “Configure”; the viral video; and the existential appeal of dance. Moriah Evans: Communitarian, Feminist, Dance Maker 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

These poems are less concerned with the social or historical implications of their characters’s stories than with the existential dimensions of their experiences. Review: ‘Bastards of the Reagan Era,’ a Book of Poetry 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

It's a book full of humor, heartbreaking sweetness and absurdities that also successfully triggers an existential crisis and fear for our plugged-in society. Recommended Reading: Gary Shteyngart's 'Super Sad True Love Story' 2011-01-19T20:47:08Z

According to Cox's no-nonsense criteria I'm a kind of existential softy, in sympathy with Alan Bennett, who classified himself as being on the political "soft centre". Just too soft to be Sartre | Lynsey Hanley 2010-03-31T22:30:00Z

Some aspects of the show inspire lots of puzzle-solving, and others are more existential. As ‘Westworld’ Returns, the Creators Discuss Twists, Reddit and Rickrolls 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z

Johnson: He seems to be facing an existential crisis – searching for a Black historical narrative that predates the transatlantic slave trade. "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

With the end of the war, and the full revelation of the Holocaust, the human body became a figure of pathos and existential dread, and only rarely one of possible rebirth and redemption. ‘Soldier, Spectre, Shaman,’ an Alternate History at MoMA 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

But all shred of machismo was excised, replaced by startling melody, stark expressions of vulnerability and lyrics that reached for the existential. Rites of Spring and the summer that changed punk rock 2012-11-27T14:23:35Z

We trusted in those invisible supports completely because we trusted in the inherent decency of other people and in our faith that Americans stand for the greater good in the face of an existential threat. "The Good Fight" maps a way to pull victory out of a string of losses 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

Moving the camera slightly with her — she lurches somewhat out of frame at one point, suggesting a violent, existential wrenching — he shoots the song in a head-and-shoulder close-up, with the background blurred. Movie Review: ‘Les Misérables’ Stars Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman 2012-12-24T22:48:43Z

Mr. Eggers wisely does not strain to try to turn Alan’s story into an existential parable of the human condition like “Godot.” Books of The Times: Dave Eggers’s New Novel, ‘A Hologram for the King’ 2012-06-13T21:40:56Z

The Times has defended Haberman multiple times, as it did in 2019, after she wrote a much-criticized story about Trump aide Hope Hicks’s “existential” decision over whether to comply with a congressional subpoena. Maggie Haberman and the never-ending Trump story 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

In this corrosive, funny and sometimes shocking existential cry, a young ex-soldier flees Israel and tries to shed his country and his identity by turning himself into a Frenchman. Best Movies of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

The Fortnite case raises wider, existential issues about our animal selves. Perspective | ‘Fortnite’ fight: Can a rapper claim a dance? 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

It was just always like a total existential crisis when I would get an audition, and it was torturing me. Gaby Hoffmann, the Eloise of the Chelsea Hotel 2013-07-08T18:56:11Z

“Legion” has left viewers as full of existential doubt as David, and with good reason. ‘Legion’ and the Rise of Surreality TV 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

At one point in the dramatic finale, she produced a kind of existential howl on her violin — bone-chilling, and uncannily human-sounding. Janine Jansen and Itamar Golan Balance Power and Nuance at Zankel Hall 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

There is death and seeking and significant doses of existential angst set to spin in these pages. In 'Loquela,' Carlos Labbé dives into the rabbit hole of fiction, alarm clock in hand 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Annie and Her Sisters Like many protagonists in Woody Allen’s movies, the title character in his new film, “Blue Jasmine,” sometimes speaks with a familiar stammer and exhibits a telltale existential dread. Woody Allen’s Distinctive Female Characters 2013-07-17T12:00:01Z

His next book, about existential despair in a TB ward, was less popular. Step right up for carny classics 2010-10-21T09:25:00Z

“I think the existential dread set in when Mac disappeared,” Bruner said. He’d Always Been Thundercat, Whether He Knew It or Not 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

Humbled, as Lear is, by the stripping away of privilege, Timon is failed by his swagger, and he’s forced to confront the stark, existential isolation that haunts us all. Review | Shakespeare’s ‘Timon of Athens’ takes a rare Washington bow 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

“I believe this gap has its roots in patriarchy, and it’s a shame because pregnancy and parenthood is a huge, existential part of life for many of us,” she says. Baby love: how pop stars embraced pregnancy 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Tomaz smoked thin cigarettes and walked the world in an existential haze of disapproval. ‘The Arrangements’: A Work of Fiction 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

She actually delivers a quiet and delicate performance as a woman forced by a bizarre set of circumstances to confront the existential ruin of her life. “Life of Crime”: Jennifer Aniston stars in a black-comic Labor Day surprise 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

They explore not just the anxieties and preoccupations born of four decades of economic transformation, but more existential questions, about hope, anxiety, pleasure and curiosity. Fountainheads 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

The fate of the silica standard is a neat encapsulation of OSHA’s existential crisis. NH post office cuts hours 2012-06-25T15:30:00Z

I suggested that loyalty programs faced an existential crisis because they weren’t taking care of their customers. Perspective | This is how traveler loyalty has changed during the pandemic 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

“Birthday Candles” nearly suffocates in such grandiloquent pronouncements and existential metaphors. ‘Birthday Candles’ Review: Another Year, Another Cake, Another Profundity 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

It’s a remarkably slender and breezy book, given the sheer quantity and variety of existential dread Calhoun has managed to funnel into its pages. Review | Why are Gen X women struggling? A new book explores the many possible reasons. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

After imparting wisdom about shirts or vegetables or language classes, we grown-ups settle down—into our own existential panic. How to Turn Life’s Challenges Into Play 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

But I suspect it’s more cultural, philosophical and existential than pathological. Are fibs deal breakers? 2013-05-13T00:00:00Z

One of the most effective examples of this approach illuminates how Oppenheimer and other Jewish project scientists, some of whom were refugees from Nazi Germany, saw their work in stark, existential terms. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z

Lucy mediates this existential quandary with a nihilistic abandon that involves Tinder and a series of meticulously detailed examples of terrible sex. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

Even "White Earth," about the lives of oil boom workers in wintry North Dakota, teems with existential environmental concern. Oscar short-film nominees marked by variety in subject and quality 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Raw ambition isn’t merely regarded with distaste, as it is in many cubicles; it warrants existential punishment. Forget the Downturn; Punish the Lazybones 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z

When Young Master Johnson verbalizes his existential crisis, it’s a cringer: “There are no courses in college about how to be a hardworking, productive rich person.” Ivanka Trump is a person, allegedly 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

Burns was at or near the top of Xerox during existentially trying times. In Her New Memoir, Ursula M. Burns Recounts Blazing a Trail to the Top of Xerox 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

This inventive debut novel is an artful reimagining of Albert Camus’s “The Stranger” — told from the perspective of the brother of the nameless Arab murdered by Meursault in that existential classic. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

For expatriates working in tech and creative industries, the concern with returning home is material, as well as existential. 'A spoilt brat country': the Australians overseas who decided not to come home 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

This kind of existential threat was always there, even as Joel and Ellie were just rambling down mostly empty roads, cracking jokes. ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Truck Stop 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

"Not to get all existential about it, but what are we doing in this world? We are all searching. Every single person on the street is the hero of their own movie." Museum of Broken Relationships puts heartbreak on display 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

Now, at 59, he says that “most of the parts I get offered are middle-aged dudes having existential crises.” ‘Hollywood Is Changing,’ Says Its Veteran Activist, Tim Robbins 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

She doubles in the role of an existentially challenged God, and the charmingly flustered Marylouise Burke appears as her lieutenant, Death. Review: In ‘Everybody,’ Mortality Loves Company 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

His malaise looks like more of a temperamental or existential condition than the response to a crisis. ‘Under the Silver Lake’ Review: Andrew Garfield Gets Lost in a Haze of Pop-Culture Allusions 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Because when we are grasping with these existential questions the worst thing we can do is stay in our comfort zone. Forget the fights over housework: How couples who both work make it work 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

To be black in America is ultimately a state of existential terror, threat and violence. Until White America looks at Tamir Rice and sees their own children, there will be no racial justice in the U.S. 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

But Woody slips into another existential crisis of self-worth when Bonnie favors other toys, especially one she quickly crafted herself out of a spork and some kindergarten trash. ‘Toy Story’ lives on, but should it have? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

Adnan’s paintings are remarkable for how much existential intensity they manage to contain in a tight field. Etel Adnan’s Bittersweet Arrival at the Guggenheim 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Some of the best stories are not tied to the dramatic action but the dalliances, the self-contained exploits that often provide opportunities for the characters to goof off or slip into more existential meditations. The Good, the Bad and the Jazzy: What ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Gets Right and Wrong 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

Thus ensues a little comedy in the transfer of stones between cupped hand, pocket and mouth, a little routine about desire and dissatisfaction and existential absurdity that evokes the laughter of self-recognition. Review: Arcane Collective Turns a Beckett Trilogy Into Physical Theater 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

The embrace of folkloric music by Bartok and other Hungarian composers further nudged Mr. Jarrett toward a dark quality — “a kind of existential sadness, let’s say, a deepness” — powerfully present in the concert’s first half. Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

The 14 tracks evoke the mystery of bats’ nocturnal escapades, the languor of their hibernation and the existential calamity of the collapse of their habitat. Vilified for Virus, Bats Are a New Album’s Seductive Stars 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

Whereas in our film, it's an existential experience, where people who do the wrong thing get rewarded. Nicolas Cage - back on top 2010-05-14T23:37:00Z

She seeks to capture Bouvier, Sontag and Ms. Davis at what she calls “that existential threshold where you start to see what you can do with what you’ve been given.” Books of The Times: ?Dreaming in French,? by Alice Kaplan 2012-04-03T21:57:00Z

He gives the existential terror some rage and physical imagination and, most impossibly, these glimmers of wonder. Best Performances of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Slowly, he remembers why he’s on a spacecraft — and the nature of his mission, which is to defeat an existential threat to the human species. 15 New Books to Watch For in May 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

"X" has some subtextual meaning of course regarding existential questions, but it is also escapism too from some of the heavier aspects of life. Ti West on anyone walking out of his slasher film "X": "What did you think you were signing up for?" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z

Our neurotic worries and genuine fears, our mundane and existential anxieties, our daydreams, nightmares, insecurities and guilty regrets. Books of The Times: A Memoir by Roz Chast, in Words and Cartoons 2014-05-05T21:26:43Z

Instead, she waves off a stranger and, posing a question that’s as existential as it is practical, demands, “Where am I, exactly?” Movie Review: Cate Blanchett Stars in Woody Allen’s ‘Blue Jasmine’ 2013-07-25T16:13:31Z

But, most crucially, she envisioned that her column would be “existential” in nature. Heather Havrilesky’s “Existential” Advice 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

The only artist who really transcended this — in a style that began to form before the war — was Alberto Giacometti, whose eaten-away figures remain the quintessential representations of postwar angst and the existential condition. Critic’s Notebook: The Effort to Resurrect the Sculptor Germaine Richier 2014-03-20T21:41:29Z

In the end, those of us who are agnostic find it easiest to accept the existential validity of religious experiences that make those who endure or enjoy them better writers and more likable human beings. The transfiguration of Philip K Dick 2011-08-23T07:00:02Z

It's incredibly nuanced, it's existential, and here at the center is this man that is incredibly hollow. Baz Luhrmann takes on challenging classic with 'The Great Gatsby' 2013-05-06T20:22:20Z

Paradoxically, Polish cinema has been undergoing an existential crisis since 1989, when Communist rule was overthrown and new freedoms — and a dearth of funding — seemed to stymie directors from finding their own voices. Polish Film's Amoral New Wave 2010-06-14T12:30:00Z

In “Ghost of Tsushima,” you get to do that, as well as grapple with existential dilemmas generated by the philosophy you live by. Can gaming satisfy our pandemic thirst for travel and adventure? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Each is the portrait of an artist in a period of existential crisis. The New York Film Festival: Movies for Art’s Sake 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

Kierkegaard was forthright in declaring that his philosophy was designed to ameliorate, or at least manage, existential unease — “fear and trembling” as he operatically phrased it — in a chaotic-feeling modern Europe. The Danish Experience: Art That Marries Real and Ideal 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

The Gulf countries see the Muslim Brotherhood as an existential threat to their monarchies. Top Egyptian TV comic says show pulled off air 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

In the British comedy “Get Duked!,” four misfit adolescents come face to face with a familiar existential threat: other people. ‘Get Duked!’ Review: The Kids Are All Fight (and Jokes) 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

The tale is an existential freakout that ends with the narrator soiling himself. "My Community Pulp Fictional Dinner with Andre" 2011-03-25T16:04:00Z

But what Harmon and co understand is that approach speaks to a kind of depressing, existential truth: most imperfect people can’t change. In the golden age of TV the existential-animation is king 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

Federer is under pressures of fame and the inevitable effects of aging, but you don’t see him suffering from existential problems. Perspective | Why Roger Federer is the most graceful athlete of our time 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

“Making music seemed useless. I felt this existential question about my skills, like they were no help to anybody.” For a Kyiv Techno Collective, ‘Now Everything Is About Politics’ 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

There is something existential in dancing for me and in making dances. Moriah Evans: Communitarian, Feminist, Dance Maker 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

“It’s almost an existential stress; it’s about your identity.” One Nation Under Stress: the documentary lifting the lid on American anxiety 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

The zombie, then, entered a cultural atmosphere already primed to look down on the particular, culturally specific existential fear it generated for Haitians. How did the zombie become so white? 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

The same phrase applies to the many personality clashes, technical problems and existential threats that seemed to pop up constantly during the show’s development. Sunday in the Trenches With George 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

A soulful romance, an existential action flick and something of a miracle movie — the appealing slow-burner “Salvo” hovers at the crossroads of genre. A Mobster’s Tale in ‘Salvo,’ With Saleh Bakri 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Running beneath these dark corridors “filled with rough desire” rages a theological argument that reminds us that existential despair is not an invention of the modern age. Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

It must have been strange – existentially weird – for Barrymore, at the height of her romcom era, to conduct a personal life while her very face had come to advertise romance. Drew Barrymore: Don't mention the c-word 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z

Mary Shelley explored the existential agony of a manufactured being in the early 19th century. Review | The robot revolution is coming: Will there be any room left for us? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

But the only thing as frustrating and predictable as corporate silence is mainstream media and commentators making a political game show out of the existential fight for bodily autonomy. Cable news needs to stop treating abortion like political horse race 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

Most important, he was an emergency task force, an existential 911. Art Review: ‘Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2013-07-25T21:29:11Z

This is not just a more existential thought than is usually expressed on a talk show. Trevor Noah’s Optimism Set His Version of ‘The Daily Show’ Apart 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

The era’s most enduring heroes were obsessed and often obsessive, given to railing at diner waitresses and their own lovers, robbing banks and waving around guns, screaming at one another and alone in existential solitude. Film: The Dude Plumbs His Weary Soul 2010-02-26T23:03:00Z

Part of it is my existential crisis as a person and wanting to know what to do next in life. "Leonor Will Never Die" filmmaker on how she created her dreamy "action star grandma" 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z

What that shape will be is the existential question facing designers right now. This Is Not the End of Fashion 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

So what will we remember about Tuesday night's debate, besides the existential terror, disillusionment and resultant depression produced by watching it? The traumatizing terror of Trump's debate performance: We just witnessed an assault on democracy 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

None of their teammates are expected to experience existential anguish when these guys rejoin the league. Odell Beckham and the NFL’s fear of of gay men: “Football is the most homophobic subculture this side of the Westboro Baptist Church” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

One such trick is just to see the existential absurdity of your torment in the context of the fleeting nature of time. You're not alone: how to survive your horrible boss 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

The kind of soft that causes existential pain. Throwbacks: Reissues from Led Zeppelin, Flesh Eaters and more 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

As this movie progresses, though, it emerges that the directors Laura Citarella and Verónica Llinás are less interested in flexing their cinematic chops and more concerned with solitude, materially and existentially. New Directors/New Films Festival Highlights Bold Narrative Experiments 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

“I’ve lived my whole life in a sort of existential crisis,” she told me matter-of-factly, tucking strands of auburn hair behind her ear. The Riddle of Riley Keough 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

Still, in the verse the reader gets to see, Rostov  poses existential questions about Soviet rule: “Well, where is our purpose now?” Amor Towles: A gentleman in New York 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

I believe we are living in a time of huge existential crisis in our society. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘The Mind of God’ 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

Understandably, Everts nudges the reader away from staring too long into the existential abyss. Scents and Science Mingle in ‘The Joy of Sweat’ 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

The primal terror of Lynch’s films is an existential one, stemming from the ever-present possibility of things falling apart—the daily state of affairs, in other words, of Trump’s America. Donald Trump’s America and the Visions of David Lynch 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

Maybe that is why it makes a particular kind of sense in this moment, when we’re all immobilized by existential dread and only able to travel in our dreams. Phoebe Bridgers Wants to Believe 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

His inquiry about their plans for children prompts Sadie to pop the question to Leila, which spurs her to question her relationship, her sexual orientation, and her whole existential situation. “Sally4Ever” and “The Bisexual,” Reviewed: Women in Crisis, In and Out of the Bedroom 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

He’s using his voice to bend a big existential question-mark overhead: What if death-transcendence-whatever isn’t about being released from the body so much as being released from time? Perspective | Can Iggy Pop hear the future? 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

I will say only that it has to do with selfishness in both its ordinary and also its existential varieties. Review: In ‘The Children,’ the Waters Rise and a Reckoning Comes Due 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

“There are existential threats against a lot of the wildlife we share the planet with,” he says. Updated field guides, other titles lure readers outdoors 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

You have the makings of a philosopher because you are staring into the existential void — and you are feeling it. Perspective | Ask Amy: Adult kids’ fights always involve the folks 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

But as the fifth season gets underway, Gene's existential boredom and anxiety cranks up to a full panic that one suspects is a key element of the series' endgame. "Better Call Saul" star Bob Odenkirk: Season 5 will go "more wrong than it's ever gone" before 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

And yet, for the most part, these books resist the tensions, the degradations, of contemporary air travel in favor of more existential concerns. Air travel, literature and its discontents 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

The constant red flicker of what looks like urgent information conjures a mood of existential emergency: They look like control panels at Norad on a terrible day. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

As Michelle Nijhuis writes in “Beloved Beasts,” news of this existential threat reaches most of us as “a jumble of tragedies and emergencies.” The Long History of Those Who Fought to Save the Animals 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

For working models, it represents an existential threat. Noticed: H&M Puts Real Heads on Digital Bodies 2011-12-16T20:00:57Z

The threat is existential, from their vantage, and the rhetoric is no-nonsense. The Faces of Young Protesters at New York City’s Climate Strike 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

The groaners seem to show up roughly when the threat of bodily harm goes away, if not its phantom limb: existential anxiety. Review | Collection of Jewish jokes shouldn’t shy from the sorrow behind the humor 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

You know, the existential anxiety of the hustling life. Jay-Z is ‘Robert Frost with a Brooklyn accent,’ a Georgetown professor writes in his new book 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Given this, it’s worth remembering that slipped among the jokes is a story about two women who struggle with separate existential and economic realities and thrive in mutual dependency. Review: Melissa McCarthy Takes Charge in ‘The Boss’ 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

My job doesn’t make me happy Topics: relationships, , workplace I am having a bit of an existential crisis. I’m in love with two men 2012-06-19T00:00:00Z

If it’s impossible for Hero to grasp the practical or existential meanings of emancipation, it’s almost as difficult for a modern audience to fathom a consciousness that doesn’t understand them. Suzan-Lori Parks examines notions of freedom in ‘Father Comes Home’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Beckett’s deeply lined visage, surmounted by a sweep of silver hair, is an emblem of late modernism, a quietly charismatic mask of weary resolve in the face of existential absurdity. Review: ‘Notfilm’ Tells How Beckett and Keaton Collaborated 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Set in a past that looks just like the present — everything is contemporary, clothing included — the story turns history into an existential maze from which few seem destined to escape. This New York Film Festival Is Definitely Not Boring 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

They will also pierce your heart, because this production does not shy from the emotional and existential lows that coexist with the play’s highs. Review: ‘For Colored Girls’ Returns, Leading With Joy 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

But then, hasn’t photography always had a predatory streak, an eye for existential dirt, an impulse to lie if that will grab attention? Review: Photography’s Shifting Identity in an Insta-World 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

For the true believers, Latin American immigration isn’t a phenomenon to be managed, but a grave existential threat. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z

But very few chart the course with such exquisite, excruciating attention to the minor indignities and existential terrors along the way. ‘Vortex’ Review: A Split Screen and a Shared Fate 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Many superheroes suffer from existential crises, none more so than lost alien Silver Surfer, surely one of the coolest comic-book characters. Readers recommend: songs about superheroes ? results 2011-07-07T13:32:47Z

The setup also puts Mr. Payne back on the road, a physical and existential space that has served him well in films like “Sideways” and “About Schmidt.” Critic’s Notebook: Many Films Still in Running at Cannes for Palme d’Or 2013-05-23T22:01:08Z

“There’s an existential threat to cinema generally, as we know it,” he said. James Bond Saved the World, but Can He Rescue U.K. Movie Theaters? 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

The performance helps this naturalism-tweaking play land its insights into bittersweet family dynamics and existential yearning. Review | ‘Sooner/Later’ weaves rom-com premise into bittersweet family portrait 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

On existential angst: “Pick an arbitrary, stupid goal, become totally involved in it, and pursue it with vigor, and what happens to you in that pursuit is your life.” Remembering Kenny Shopsin, the Irascible Chef-King of Lower Manhattan 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

Periodic intrusions of authentically terrible Italian pop songs add to the sense of vaguely existential longing. Theater Review: ‘The Hotel Colors,’ Eliza Bent’s Debut at Bushwick Starr 2013-05-14T21:30:57Z

Or you could write something stark, subtle and full of metaphors and existential angst. 'Being Harold Pinter' ★★★★ 2011-01-28T04:46:37Z

Putting it morally and existentially, the list is timid and empty. The Limits of “Grit” 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

I am just really confused about what to do and in a perpetual existential crisis since some of the smoke has cleared from my life. I quit pot and now feel weird 2012-11-19T01:00:00Z

In this temporally anomalous wasteland everything existential emerges through the physical: a bit of soccer, a lot of sex, still more violence. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

I suggest that it’s existential loss and Cenac agrees as we watch a squirrel race over the side of a fence in our direction. Wyatt Cenac takes his ‘Live in Brooklyn,’ and life in Brooklyn, on the road

This isn’t “The Wages of Fear” so much as the dividends of existential anxiety and political despair. 11 Movies You Need to See at New Directors/New Films 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

But there's also a sense of something existential going on here too. Sound of the suburbs 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z

In the six weeks that have passed with nary a hint of doomsday, Abbie and Ichabod have been wringing their hands and going through repeated existential crises. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: Angels and demons 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

And Williams is hardly a celebrity arriviste, but rather a leading American actor with a well-documented range and a profound sense of the existential and the absurd. 'Bengal Tiger': How does Robin Williams do on Broadway? 2011-03-31T22:09:41Z

Despite his character’s severely isolated nature, De Niro stressed that he “never had any existential discussions” with Scorsese before agreeing to take on the role. Robert De Niro: 'Every day for 40 years someone has said: You talkin' to me?' 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

A three-hour Portuguese drama about the existential doubts of an unborn child in the body of its comatose mother. Cannes clapometer 2012-05-22T18:30:01Z

But most viewers experience a Netflix movie at home, on their TV screens, where the existential question persists: is it TV or is it a movie? Review | HBO’s ‘Bad Education’ is a reminder of how great a made-for-TV movie can be 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

The Doctor — he’s always called the Doctor; the “Who” of the title is an existential question — has been played by 11 actors in six decades. BBC Plans Birthday Bash as ‘Doctor Who’ Turns 50 2013-11-21T16:09:00Z

What is odd about Jacobson is the combination of existential blasphemy with a particular strain of broad English comedy. Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson – review 2012-08-30T07:00:42Z

The show seems to be managing, just barely, an existential crisis over ordinary life. Cultural Studies: On ?Mad Men,? The Allure of Messy Lives 2010-07-30T21:05:00Z

In the face of his existential threat, all other differences pale into insignificance. What if superheroes aren’t really the good guys? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

The relentlessly externalized quasi-objectivity with which “The Girlfriend Experience” is filmed sparks a calculated ambiguity that’s the antithesis of true indeterminacy, of existential mystery, of imaginative psychology. “The Girlfriend Experience” Is Not an Experience 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

A fellow connoisseur of existential dread, Bridgers says that “being smart and hopeful are usually — to me, in my nihilist brain — mutually exclusive. And I don’t think that’s true with Matt.” Matt Berninger, king of melancholy music, is doing just fine 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

I was deep into puberty, which came with both aesthetic challenges — I had yet to discover contacts and frizz-taming curl cream — and general existential angst about where I was in life. From the ambitious to the everyday, cookbooks are a magical portal to our culinary futures 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

His early work developed in opposition to the harrowing performances of the Viennese Actionists, which were fraught with physical ordeals and existential intensity. ArtsBeat: Franz West, Celebrated Austrian Artist, Dies at 65 2012-07-26T17:19:43Z

Indeed, it was not lost on anyone attending the Equitable Dinner on Sunday that these conversations were occurring in the midst of two existential threats to people of color. First the Play. Then the Soul Searching. But What Comes Next? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

To spend the better part of a week figuring out what Steve King does all day is to be confronted with a bigger, existential question: What do any of these people do all day? What the heck does Steve King do all day? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

We can all suffer from impostor syndrome, but that one really sent me into an existential nosedive. Perspective | Book readings can be a drag — unless you’re a children’s author 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Getting close to existential wonder here, just like the brochures say. Before the summer rush, a spring road trip through Alaska is just as beautiful 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hoffalt has the elegant physique, clean technique and partnering skills needed for the part, but rather than be beset by an existential dilemma, he looked entirely preoccupied by the extraordinarily fussy, devilishly hard choreography. Ballet Review: Ballet Stands on Ceremony 2013-12-10T16:26:42Z

It’s strange to see Old and Young Arnold go at it, their refrigerator-size bodies slamming against each other in what plays like an intimate existential clash. Review: ‘Terminator Genisys’ Shows That Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Most Assuredly Back 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

Mental illness and its impact on a family, mortality and existential despondency are central themes. 'Every Brilliant Thing' approaches suicide with touching comic sincerity 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

She plays these moments, at the start, for either existential or low comedy. Review: Sarah Hepola’s ‘Blackout,’ on the Darkness That Took Over Her Life 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

Trump represents an existential threat to American democracy. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Her main characters aren’t the embodiment of social problems or political failures, but both women undergo an emotional ordeal that is also a crisis of meaning, an existential conundrum that defies description, or even naming. ‘Saint Omer’ Review: The Trials of Motherhood 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

"Ceiling/Sky" is a richly existential "earthquake/romance" that suggested ways forward for society and for Broadway. John Adams' 'Ceiling/Sky' remains earthbound 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

It’s existentially fatal to a certain kind of talk show. Trevor Noah’s Optimism Set His Version of ‘The Daily Show’ Apart 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

The show’s sense of humor is fast and cutting, whereas on “Forever” it is slow and sure, but both shows capitalize on the existential dread that accompanies the concept of eternity. Perspective | In an age of anger and outrage, the best TV shows take a different path: They’re sad. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Who can watch without finding that many dramatically existential associations grow out of it? Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe in ?Biped? at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T22:49:13Z

A physical rendering of an existential crisis, one that's painfully dreamlike and wistfully surreal. `Anna Karenina' inspires 5 super-stylized films 2012-11-15T22:38:12Z

As slender and sharp as a paring knife in his dark navy clothing, Mr. Hiddleston’s lacerating Robert seems to live in a state of existential mourning. Review: Tom Hiddleston in a Love Triangle Undone by ‘Betrayal’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Normally proud of the fact that their state picks presidents, as they like to say, this is now a group filled with existential dread. Meet the South Carolina Republicans who are horrified by the Trump coronation 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

But the atmosphere in which all this happens has become meditative, even existential. The Season Finale of 'The Good Wife' 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

In “Good Boys” that frailty is existential, a matter of tender age and being. ‘Good Boys’ Review: The Cruel Comedy of Lost Innocence 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

As Present helps guide Clint through his Dickensian journey, each step of the way Clint turns the tables, unpacking Present’s existential crisis and the past he himself has tried to avoid. ‘Spirited’ Review: A Whole Lot of Humbug 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

More existentially, she relates incidents of being stranded in a blizzard and in the Northeast blackout of 2003; and of the grueling 30-hour labor to deliver her son. Liz Phair Still Doesn’t Care What We Think 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

"Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage" considers friendship, forgiveness, aging and the collective "existential exhaustion" that haunts us. Anne Lamott on coping with "existential exhaustion," from the healing power of Target to forgiveness 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

“To be or not to be” becomes a different kind of existential query. ‘Fat Ham’ Review: Dismantling Shakespeare to Liberate a Gay Black ‘Hamlet’ 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

He gives them and their weapons the once over and strolls away, just another visiting Frenchman taking in the existential view. | 'Vengeance': Let a Hail of Bullets Be Your Umbrella 2010-12-09T23:48:00Z

But what the film explores, achingly and eloquently, are the existential implications of dislocation and isolation. My streaming gem: why you should watch Nobody's Watching 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

It is Bill McKay's almost existential despair at disappearing into the world of image sales and image management. What the Robert Redford film The Candidate teaches us about Nick Clegg 2010-04-21T09:53:00Z

"It's going a bit deeper. It's funny, isn't it, because our existential dilemma is that we live in the present but we carry with us the vestiges of the past … and that's who we are." Annie Lennox makes the past her own on 'Nostalgia' 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

The beautiful and brutal story of American development, always in progress and often moving backward, differs from the Shakespearean statement of existential despair. Barack Obama, invisible president: To truly see him requires white Americans to see themselves 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

You would like even the most austere, doctrinaire existential movie to earn its downbeat ending. George Clooney off-target in "The American" 2010-09-01T00:04:00Z

“Groundhog Day,” the genius existential Bill Murray comedy, is code for “mindless repetition.” Respect for Fredo, a Character Who Is So Much More Than a Political Insult 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

That three-song suite that concludes “Ocean Blvd” can certainly feel like an anticlimax, or a retreat from the existential questions posed in its opening movement. Lana Del Rey Plunges Into the Deep, but Never Abandons the Shallow 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

Many of the marchers were veterans of protests against gun violence, the other immediate existential threat to American high-school students, but others said that they had never attended a rally of any kind before. New York’s Climate Strike and the Things That Make Teen-Agers March 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Her novel “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” had recently been turned, by Agnieszka Holland, into the film “Spoor,” a slice of existential and ecology-minded dread. ‘The Books of Jacob,’ a Nobel Prize Winner’s Sophisticated and Overwhelming Novel 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

It’s a sumptuously illustrated existential journey through earthly landscapes and the far reaches of space. ‘Liminality’ Is Theater of the Mind That Explores the In-Between 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

“Put simply,” he added, “it’s an existential threat.” At Edinburgh Festivals, Climate Awareness Comes at a Cost 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Tragedies leave us asking big, existential questions. Diana, the tragically bad retelling of the final years of Britain’sPrincess, now in British cinemas and debuting n the U.S. this November, is no exception. The Princess of Wails: Diana is a Royal Mess 2013-09-27T01:22:14Z

On it, the frontman Luke Temple’s existential angst sounded freshly grandiose. Pop & Rock Music Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T00:54:30Z

Still, the fragmented and existential atmosphere, reminiscent of a Paul Auster novel, is an interesting reward for sticking with the tale. Review: ‘Reset,’ an Elliptical Tale of Breaking With the Past 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Created by Gene Roddenberry, the show was expansive with ideas about man’s existential fate, and subsequent installments only expounded on its philosophical optimism. “Star Trek Beyond”: Humor and adventure abound in this course-correcting sequel 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Thrilling this is not, but it scores molto points for agonising existential crises. Tilda Swinton's performances – ranked! 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

The scenery's very realistic, but you're always acutely aware you're in the presence of people putting on an act: close, but no metaphorical descent into the bowels of Hades fuelled by crushing existential despair. Black Sabbath: 13 – review 2013-06-06T14:29:01Z

Tubman’s actions reveal the existential stakes of Wright’s and Seward’s agitations. An Unlikely Alliance in Upstate N.Y. and the Fight for Black and Women’s Rights 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

Yet some bewilderment aside, Mr. DeMarco insisted that he harbors no existential anxiety about the jester role, mostly because it’s not a character. How Mac DeMarco Became the Lovable Laid-Back Prince of Indie Rock 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

This Spider-Man is still just a kid, after all, and he has no energy for existential angst — just dealing with hormones is enough. Review: The New Spider-Man’s Coolest Superpower? He's Just a Kid 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

If existential boredom is the knowledge that anything can happen, and therefore nothing has meaning, adolescent boredom is the awareness that anything can happen and the conviction that nothing ever does. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z

As for the Who, their hunt is not for food, nor love, but for existential truth – and they'll be seeking low and high until they find it. Readers recommend songs about hunting: The results 2010-08-05T21:45:00Z

But in fact, in shows such as Big Little Lies, we watch these houses, these beaches where no ordinary feet can tread, and note the anxious emptiness to the plenty, the existential “now what?” Filthy rich: our tortured love affair with wealth porn 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, given the expected crowds, visitors will have only 30 seconds alone in each room, so you’ll have to work fast to have a meaningful existential crisis. Perspective | An exhibition of the beloved Kusama with everything but Kusama herself 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

They instead view the "Planet of the Apes" films as a warning of existential threat and inevitable "racial" annihilation if nonwhites are given equal rights with white people. Roseanne and America’s white victim complex: Why canceling her show isn’t enough 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

I think most hope to serve a larger existential purpose, and our culture seems obsessed with finding greater meaning — one might even say happy endings to our stories. The science of “Steggy”: ’Shipping TV characters scratches these two biological itches 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

As an existential experience, the deprivation of liberty has been known to inspire a creative response. Will a spell in prison free Chris Huhne's inner novelist? 2013-03-18T15:00:27Z

Also his 1958 novel “The Eighth Circle” is the best private detective novel I have ever read because it’s about existential dilemmas and moral quandaries — and whether love can, indeed, save people — more than cases. Love “Gone Girl”? Read these crime novels next 2012-07-09T19:35:00Z

Her very survival has made her an existential threat to Panem. ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1’ 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The dancers moonwalk and roll their necks; their motions are smooth and spasmodic by turns, and several of them present bulging eyes and pained expressions that recall the existential intensity of butoh. Review: In ‘Monochromatic Light,’ Artists Saturate and Vacate Space 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

One detects an almost existential dread of contamination, as if stage fright were as transmittable as a virus on a doorknob. “Stage fright”: Mark Twain coined the term and gave Tom Sawyer a bad case of it 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

This isn’t so much a spiritual or even existential concern for Schmuel as much as a scientific one: What, practically speaking, happens to a corpse? ‘To Dust’ Review: Death, Decay and Grief Wrapped in a Buddy Movie 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Both whisky and doom metal also seem fine-tuned for existential pain, something typically best experienced in solitude. My European Ritual 2014-04-18T19:59:27Z

It's oddly effective, fencing off the first part of the sentence to give it existential bite – "When that I was… " It's the kind of enigma Feste loves. Poem of the week: When that I was and a little tiny boy by William Shakespeare 2013-04-01T09:33:58Z

“When they realize that I’m their parents’ age, it basically sends them to an existential place.” “Ghosts”: Raina Telgemeier Returns 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

In “The Sun Still Seems to Move,” she offers theological and existential musings — “I know that life’s not one linear seamless destination” — over fingerpicking and woodwinds, muscles and hands and breath. Red Hot Chili Peppers Honor Eddie Van Halen, and 10 More New Songs 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

Its prizes included a “special mention” for “It Must Be Heaven,” an existential comedy from the Palestinian director Elia Suleiman. Cannes 2019 Winners: South Korean Movie ‘Parasite’ Wins the Palme d’Or 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

Stanhope blasts a hole through to the existential void. Doug Stanhope 2010-09-01T21:00:00Z

The resonance of Mueck’s work lies in his ability to capture a moment, three dimensionally, and in his masterful manipulation of scale to elevate the minutiae of the everyday to the monumental — and the existential. The Uneasy Mirror: Ron Mueck’s Super-Freaky, Hyperrealist Sculptures 2013-05-03T09:45:21Z

Tasmania becomes the backdrop for an existential journey – important to the story only in a symbolic sense. How Tasmania became the gothic muse of Australian film and TV 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The world of “Kudos” is one marred by fissure and the existential negotiations it compels. Elusive leaps of grace and daring: Rachel Cusk's 'Kudos' 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

While appreciating Eno’s attempt to glean philosophical sense and community from existential despair, I felt like I was just passing through. ‘Middletown’ at ACT: A little Thornton Wilder, a little Beckett 2013-09-09T21:26:13Z

Over the course of the movie, Johnny continues to ask these existentially freighted questions, eventually finding his own answers through his evolving relationship with Jesse. ‘C’mon C’mon’ Review: Are You My Mommy? 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Nevertheless, Mr. Erhard helped spawn an industry of authors, motivational speakers, spiritualists and TV hosts who promised answers to existential questions and offered solutions to the ills of modern life. SoulCycle Without the Bike: Here Comes Peoplehood 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z

After all, no one willfully becomes existentially sickened to the point where it looks advantageous to blot out consciousness with constant heroin shots. “I should be among the dead”: Young, white, and economically advantaged, I was hungry for meaning and found heroin instead 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Together Boyle and Franco take us across an existential event horizon. 127 Hours ? review 2011-01-06T22:05:00Z

These two shows are quite different — “Twist” mostly ponders issues of civic definition and our place therein, while “The Big Meal” is more preoccupied by existential matters that aren't glued to place. Theater: The best shows of the season 2011-03-10T20:24:53Z

“It really spoke to me,” she said, “because it just really captured all of the existential dread and anger and despair with the world I felt very acutely.” Missing the Acts You Love? Spare a Thought for These Superfans 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

With these cases, GOS exposed us to the existential questions that doctors face on a daily basis – and which most documentaries avoid. Great Ormond Street and Olympic Dreams 2010-04-14T05:45:00Z

The experience inspired her memoir of insomnia — and its friends anxiety and existential despair. The most 2020 books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

It’s an existential question phrased as an ignorant Google search. Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America?” Reviewed 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

There are existential echoes of Beckett and Albee in this contemplative work that’s part TED talk, part show and tell. 5 Shows to See in New York When You Only Have an Hour 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

With his latest Zoom play, “Incidental Moments of the Day,” he completes over the months of the shutdown an achingly poignant trilogy that maps out the existential black hole we seem to have fallen into. Review | Relief from Zoom sometimes comes in a box. A play in a box. 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

All This Panic’s interest in their existential anxieties provides a rare glimpse into their minds. All This Panic: the most relatable film about teenage girlhood ever? 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

A man learns shocking information about his wife that sends him into an existential crisis. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

Such films run the risk of their own temptations, putting the filmmaker and the viewer into the same existential field of moral exposure. The Cinema’s Fear of Drama 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

He had secured the film rights to Georges Simenon’s novel “Dirty Snow,” an existential noir set in an unnamed country under foreign occupation, and was writing the screenplay when the coronavirus pandemic broke out. Christian Petzold May Be the Best German Filmmaker You’ve Never Heard Of 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

Do you find that grappling with these existential themes as artists helps you process them as people? ‘The Old Man’ Brought Jeff Bridges to TV. John Lithgow Had No Advice. 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

“Aaugh” is the same sort of thing, but with the added, existential realization, say, that your life to date is one big hamburger drowning in the watery ketchup of your personal mediocrity. Do you know the difference between ‘aargh’ and ‘aaugh’? 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

It was at Studio Theatre that, as a child, he saw his first professional production, a bravura staging of “Waiting for Godot” with African American actors playing Samuel Beckett’s famous existential clowns. A playwright who’s at ease with causing discomfort 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

The drugs and the sex made Father blissfully catatonic, but the existential grappling causes an even sweeter haze. Albums That Look Backward: The Range, Father, Parker Millsap 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

They are the strongest film works in the show, although today their existential angst seems more pressing than their political anger. Art Review | 'William Kentridge: Five Themes': Anger and Angst, Explored With Animation 2010-02-25T22:41:00Z

Just as the shoot of a film is the existential imprint of the director’s presence, the completion of a film is the culmination of the passion that animates the entire project. Highlights from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

“The Secret Talker’’ is flawed conceptually, but it succeeds at bringing the mood of an existential novel to a hair-raising thriller. Review | Geling Yan’s twisty thriller ‘The Secret Talker’ begins with a creepy but alluring text 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

“This piece allows you to be present in the moment and experience your own existential place in the world,” Zwirner partner Kristine Bell explained. Doug Wheeler Creates an Ethereal Installation at David Zwirner Gallery 2014-02-13T05:00:00Z

The effect is not so much escapist fantasy as existential reflection. Review | Perumal Murugan said his career as a novelist was dead. Lucky for us, he was wrong. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

Until, that is, they get to a page near the end, on which the author describes an existential crisis that shook him to his best-selling core: ‘Lust & Wonder’: Do we really need another Augusten Burroughs memoir? 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

In another performance that veers from vulnerable to terrifying, Essie Davis plays a woman whose resentment of her boy manifests itself in something existentially menacing. Home Is Where the Horror Is 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Thena, on the other hand, begins to suffer from an existential sort of mental illness that can come with being an immortal being. The dazzling star power of "Eternals" is both its triumph and its undoing 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

He singled out “My Night at Maud’s,” a 1969 classic in which a man and a woman have a lengthy conversation about love, religion and other existential themes without ultimately consummating their romantic tension. Parisian Love Stories for the Age of Talk Less, Message More 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

It is, as I say, an existential ritual. Why voter ID is wrong 2012-09-14T00:00:00Z

The movie has something angrily existential at its core. 1985: When ‘Rambo’ Tightened His Grip on the American Psyche 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

There’s a stream of correspondence from 20-somethings struggling with the pressures of their studies coupled with a sense of isolation and near existential angst. I’ve worked hard at my studies, but only to escape loneliness | Dear Mariella 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

Bond, especially Connery’s Bond, was an existential hired gun with an aristocrat’s tastes — just right for a time when class was a matter of brand names and insouciant gestures. The James Bond Films at 50: A Golden Franchise for the Ages 2012-10-05T12:00:58Z

The interesting existential tidbits about agency, morality and artificial intelligence play second string to the straw-man argument about the baseness of consumerism. ‘Free Guy’ Review: Don’t Hate the Player 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

“Religion and supernatural belief tend to go up in times of what we would call existential crisis or more existential perils,” he said. Many Americans Say They Believe in Ghosts. Do You? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

None of this is positive news for local journalism writ large, which is in an existential crisis. Perspective | When local news goes away, citizens suffer. Gannett’s megamerger will probably just inflict more pain. 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

At a 2012 press conference in London for “Avengers,” Johansson observed that her male “Avengers” co-star Robert Downey Jr. was  getting all the thought-provoking “existential questions,” while she was just left with the scraps. 7 times women shut down sexist reporters 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

This is a story of the biggest story of its day, a crime that set a high-water mark for depravity, an urban atrocity that caused existential hand-wringing for America’s biggest city. The True Story of How a City in Fear Brutalized the Central Park Five 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Standing on a rock in the Mediterranean — as a way of explaining the weirdly existential appeal of Favignana, the wishing bridge isn’t a bad place to start. T Magazine: Stone Soul Picnic 2011-05-20T16:28:24Z

As if all that’s not enough, there’s social media to really make us feel physically and existentially inadequate. Gen X Women: More Opportunities, Less Satisfaction? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

“When creators aimed for more trippy and existential stuff in the 1970s, like Adam Warlock’s nemesis The Magus, who ran an oppressive religious cult,” says Narcisse, “any commentary was more elliptical.” Does God exist in the Marvel Universe? 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Rather, its concerns are existential, metaphysical, even when politics enters the work. George Saunders' novel 'Lincoln in the Bardo' is remarkable 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

As soon as he took office, Mr. Nasheed faced an environmental crisis of existential dimensions. Movie Review: ?The Island President?: Jon Shenk Documentary at Film Forum 2012-03-27T18:12:38Z

It’s a poignantly straightforward lament for the support of a partner; the narrator repeats the title as a mantra against existentially frightening moments. The National Breathes Confidence on Trouble Will Find Me 2013-05-23T11:00:22Z

“We ask existential questions,” said Andrew Manning, the secretary general of ECHO. Europe’s ‘Rising Star’ Musicians Give as Much as They Get 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

The midday office meeting as an existential crisis! The Best Post Office Novel You Will Read Before the Election 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

The challenge that the piece poses nowadays might be less aesthetic than existential: it seems to ask starkly where you are, and where you’re going. Music Review: Yesterday?s Shocks, Sounding Lyrical Today 2011-04-12T23:56:11Z

Not to get existential or anything, but you've got this talent, you work very hard, and now, there's even more of a responsibility. From South Dakota to the Bolshoi, a dancer's leap 2011-11-03T11:26:09Z

Like Dylan, the Beatles seemed to be in the midst of an existential crisis. In the turmoil of 1968, music failed to seize the moment 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

There are hundreds of books about the establishment and maintenance of the military-industrial complex and about imperialist states securing legitimacy by invoking imaginary existential threats. Julian Assange and the History of Celebrities Wielding Books 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

This stream-of-consciousness novel, which swings between first person and third, is an existential howl, a plea for more life in one’s life. A Toast for J. P. Donleavy 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

But if Eilish is the future of pop, as some have predicted, it is because pop is a changed sector, one that is ready to abandon materialist concerns and attend to existential ones. Billie Eilish and the Changing Face of Pop 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

She treated everyone with the loving concern of a scene partner in a thrillingly moving existential comedy. Marian Seldes: Her life and career were a master class 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Boudu’s existential choice to float off is a rejection of the social and economic constraints that curtail the free spirit. Got any change? Why cinema struggles with homelessness 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Originally published in 1980 and subtly translated by Harcourt, the book captures the intimate transformations, physical and existential, of a solitary young mother. New International Fiction, From Ecuador to Zimbabwe 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

Near the end of his interview with Bill Murray, Howard Stern turned an already somber discussion about missed career opportunities into an existential grilling. Confessor. Feminist. Adult. What the Hell Happened to Howard Stern? 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

In short, these are fights over the future of the last bastion of civilization: the school, both as a socially-proscribed place of learning as well as an existential site where emotions intersect with politics. What if the drunk mac-and-cheese douchebag was armed? 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

It gets very existential: If Beth and Mark have no future as a family, then how much closure and peace can the trial really provide? 'Broadchurch' Season 2, Episode 6 Recap: Deep Breaths 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Shriver’s novel tells the story of a woman whose husband talks her into having children; parenthood, he feels, is the only possible answer to the big existential questions. Marriage Is an Abduction 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

And now he is back to watch them reach 50 and hit amplified fiscal, marital and existential crises. Review: Jay McInerney’s ‘Bright, Precious Days’ 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

On existential philosophy: “These are more than just mere sides. They are like ornaments to your main dish . . . the way your iPhone is to your very existence.” Gems come in all sizes at Lapis in Adams Morgan 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

If your sense of awe lacks an existential dimension, Berlioz's great Requiem will restore it. Grande Messe des Morts – review 2012-06-28T17:11:53Z

If so many rum cocktails conjure up visions of the playboy Ernest Hemingway, the sunburned bon vivant, this one evokes the Hemingway behind “A Farewell to Arms”: melancholy, romantic, cratered with existential angst. Shaken & Stirred: The Choices? Rum and Rum 2009-12-12T04:54:37Z

They suffer existential torments not in the dungeons depicted in “El Señor Presidente,” but in desert holding cells on the U.S.-Mexico border. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

But the financial benefit might actually pale compared with a more existential one in a place that for decades was known internationally mostly for sectarian violence. ‘Game of Thrones’ Is Ending. But You Can Still Visit Westeros. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Both plays take a baleful look at love, treating it as a kind of existential malady. Clive Owen and Sam Rockwell hit Broadway in 'Old Times' and 'Fool for Love' with different results 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Here was a commissioning department apparently in the throes of some sort of existential breakdown. 2012: a year in television 2012-12-29T00:06:01Z

The same rule should apply to TV, seeing as how I nearly misjudged Netflix’s extraordinary and thoughtfully existential new series “Russian Doll,” which premiered Friday. Review | There’s a twist in ‘Russian Doll’ that keeps it from becoming ‘Groundhog Day’ for hipsters 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

Appearing Tuesday on CNN, a spokesman for Putin refused to rule out the use of nuclear weapons, particularly if the Kremlin perceives an “existential threat” to Russia. Meet the nuke the U.S. keeps in Europe, waiting to not be used 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

“The Amateurs” ponders existential concerns, but it’s also a valentine to the limits, and compensating alchemy, of theater. Review | Coronavirus looms over this play set during a plague. But ‘The Amateurs’ speaks to timeless concerns. 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Praise, too, is part of any whole artistic and existential vision. The Poet of Light 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Albeit in the mildest possible sense, the stakes of their story and their marriage are existential. Happy never after? The enduring appeal of the messy marriage movie 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

I’m not sure that someone in 1755 would refer to “your ordinary João” or diagnose — almost two centuries before Jean-Paul Sartre first lit his pipe — an “existential dissatisfaction.” Book review: ‘The Day of Atonement’ by David Liss

It encompasses all of these reasons and extends beyond them as an act of existential freedom. To be or not to be: Playwrights on the complex issue of suicide 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

He doesn’t need a gimmicky plot premise; human life is strange and existential enough. In ‘The One-Eyed Man,’ Ron Currie has created a character for our times 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

But if the book occasionally feels like an existential debate, it is not without a healthy dollop of self-awareness. A' life-affirming romp through death in 'All My Puny Sorrows' 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

This sort of existential criminality, in nearly any other country, would lead to madness among horse people and spectators. The Palio di Siena: A Survivor’s Tale 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Released in November 1979, "The Wall" was a semi-autobiographical work revolving around a disaffected musician named Pink facing an existential personal crisis. Roger Waters taking "The Wall" on tour 2010-04-13T03:59:00Z

Yet its story of ruefulness and loss isn’t smothered in gray existential sludge poured down from on high in the style of Christopher Nolan. Wonder Woman Review: Patty Jenkins's Hard-Won Wisdom 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

And the concern for the "prequel" spinoff was not so much narrative as existential. 'Better Call Saul' the real deal, and Odenkirk delivers goods 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

So when most American theaters closed in March, just as Neon was preparing to release its Sundance acquisition “Spaceship Earth,” Quinn faced an existential quandary. Perspective | With theaters shuttered, virtual cinema has saved the day. For now. 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

The crisis Miller faces is more ethical than existential. Movie Review | 'Green Zone': Matt Damon Searches for That Casualty of War, Truth 2010-03-11T23:32:00Z

The new artist activism, emerging not so much from celebrity entertainers as from rank-and-file actors and others, reflects a growing determination by some in the creative community to place their existential concerns before the public. Arts workers are building a labor movement to save a creative economy in peril 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

His allegiance to punk is an intellectual position and existential decision, as is his attraction to the composer. A New Adaptation of “Native Son” Reaches the Limits of What the Text Has to Offer 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

It’s a wildly entertaining, thriller-like set piece — yes, there is a gun — though, as with the show, it is shot through with heady existential queries. Derek DelGaudio and the Great Unburdening of Secrets 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

But in this existential mystery, the blurring of old and new is enriching, a form of personal mythmaking. Petra Costa retraces her troubled sister's path in 'Elena' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

He calls attention to shoppers’ gestures and pace, their bags and their clothing, turning their dull everyday activity into suspenseful Hitchcockian dramas, in which each moment is capable of veering toward existential cataclysm. A Movie that Captures France’s Dystopian Employment Situation 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

In 2014, the Amazon founder was hardly so existentially menacing; he seemed happily married, most decidedly not jacked, and he wasn’t even close to being the richest man in the world. ‘Silicon Valley,’ Darker Than Ever, Captures the Bleak Mood of Tech 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

On that album, the frontman Luke Temple’s existential angst sounded freshly grandiose; now he samples from his more minimalist recent solo album, “Good Mood Fool.” Pop & Rock Listings for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:11:42Z

What results is a kind of detective story in which Klein’s search for the other Klein quickly becomes an existential search for himself. “Mr. Klein,” a Political Mystery of Mistaken Identity in Occupied Paris 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

The films’ tagline — “Nature doesn’t need people. People need nature” — gets right down to the existential heart of the matter. Nature sounds a lot like Kevin Spacey, and it wants us to know it will be just fine without us 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Still, Bastian said Delta’s investors and customers are also increasingly concerned about the environmental impact of air travel and cited airlines’ ability to protect the environment as an existential threat to their growth. Delta predicts 2020 profit growth; CEO says more people turning to air travel 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Think of Donald Barthelme crossed with Don DeLillo: black humor with an existential edge. Donald Antrim's new story collection goes in unexpected directions 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

But at its most profound, the backstage flight of fancy was about aging in the 21st century, with its attendant techno-anxiety and existential angst. When you were at the movies this year, reality wasn’t too far away 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Evans calls her dance style an “existential fidget.” The Dance Laboratory of an Existential Fidgeter 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

Then there are Becky’s more existential issues: She feels trapped in her hometown, facing limited job prospects, being in love with her married best friend, and trying to raise a granddaughter. Review: ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ Brings the Witches but Forgets the Magic 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

This is when he switched from abstraction to a style of figurative art engaged both with brute politics and the existential comedy and influenced by underground comics. Perspective | Museums are still mounting major exhibitions this fall, with no shortage of big-name artists 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

The film’s plot involves a journalist who returns to his native Mexico, where he is, per the official summary, pushed to “an existential limit.” 159 Films, for Every Taste, Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Common to both was a goal of making mood — existential atmosphere — primary content. Chinese Landscapes at the Met: If Those Mountains Could Talk 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

In the backroom, Nicholas Nyland’s strange, colorful platters and paintings look like they were salvaged from some cafe on the Mediterranean that suffered an acute case of existential melt. Gallery Walk: Postcards from a trip through Pioneer Square’s galleries and graffiti 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Add these challenges to the group’s continuing struggle to preserve its underground reputation while pursuing mainstream acceptance, and you have the makings of a full-blown existential crisis. Crisis for Insane Clown Posse: Getting Saner 2013-12-08T22:39:59Z

These stories explore a sea-level rise as an existential threat to human life that's exacerbated by the paralysis and inaction of individuals. Writers imagined drowned worlds for centuries — what they tell us about the future 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

His solution to the existential problems perpetually facing man? Holy Joker: Father John Misty releases “Pure Comedy” 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

His documentary film to be completed in the next few months will be black and white, part history, and like Ingmar Bergman’s work, will deal with existential issues of mortality, loneliness and faith. Poet returns to New Britain to make film 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

At the beginning, the Monster sings from a sort of existential limbo, unsure of who he is or what he wants. An Opera Composer of Intimate Spareness Returns to Myth 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

As you might gather from that existential reflection, Romy is better educated than her cellmates, who are a handy assortment of the poor, desperate and deranged. Review | If you like despair — and ‘Orange Is the New Black’ — you’ll love ‘The Mars Room’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

There’s perhaps no place Don seems to be exercising his existential dread more than in his pursuit of relationships with women. See Don Draper's Complicated Relationships In 1 Chart 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

The story ended with alternative-universe-Jack having an existential chat with his dead dad. Screen burn 2010-05-28T23:41:00Z

This divisive object, in all its plush, polystyrene microbead wonder, epitomizes the existential suffering of economy air travel. We’re in the golden age of travel pillows. Too bad we hate them all. - The Washington Post 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

This was the high moment of Abstract Expressionism, with its image of the heroic artist battling his way alone toward some existential sublime. Art Review: When Art Dallied With Poetry on 53rd Street 2011-01-20T22:51:36Z

For Holmes the balloon provides an 'existential vantage point' that lets us look back down on ourselves and our habitat. Falling Upwards by Richard Holmes – review 2013-04-22T07:00:01Z

Yes, fraternities offer young men camaraderie and support during their first years of independence, but they’re also incubators for the kind of performed masculinity that leads to violence, sexual misconduct and existential anguish. What’s Wrong With Men in America? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

When Wags spots his former mentor on the street and the man doesn’t recognize him because of early-onset Alzheimer’s, it’s an existential crisis that any of the show’s ambitious players might share. ‘Billions,’ Season 2, Episode 5: The Taste of Loneliness 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

With "The Changing of the Guard," the value of education and short shrift given to American teachers is acknowledged through the story of one educator suffering an existential crisis. Jordan Peele's "Twilight Zone" in the Trump era 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

Although it likes to focus on individual achievements, the academy is a trade organization, one that represents an industry facing deep existential issues that have become only more pronounced during the pandemic. Academy Museum’s Show on Black Cinema Raises Questions About Who It’s for 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Whether they’re economic, artistic or existential, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Amid calls for gender equity in Hollywood, the stakes are high. 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

I've Been Set Upon sounds similarly hushed and eerie, but the sublime I Will Pour It Down – Lynch's paean to riding his bike into the sea – has a strange, compelling, existential beauty. The Pictish Trail: Secret Soundz Vol 2 – review 2013-01-17T22:15:01Z

The script, meanwhile, veers wildly from moments of existential contemplation to ones of sheer terror, laced with micro-doses of bleak, surreal humor. Are You Strapped In for ‘The Patient’? The Therapist Is. 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

The resulting artwork evokes existential questions and elicits emotional responses. Art-world star brings a contemporary perspective to the magnificent Versailles palace 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

To hear Mr. Landis tell it, however, the payday pales in importance to a more existential imperative. Max Landis Is a Hollywood Disrupter With an Attitude 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The film’s misguided flatness is perhaps its fatal flaw, not so much deadpan or existential as just monotonous. ‘Wrong’: Where, oh where did comedy go right? 2013-04-04T22:15:44Z

If there were a concordance to Mailer’s correspondence, a word that would turn up high on the list would be “existential,” not owing to any special fealty to Jean-Paul Sartre but to Mailer’s own inclinations. The Great American Novel Buried in Norman Mailer’s Letters 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Ms. Edmonds is uncertain about the future of her act, and with the fashion industry now experiencing an existential crisis of its own, she despairs her efforts may never break through. ‘We Fascinated Them’: Shailah Edmonds on a Golden Era of Black Models 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

The soothing vibe belies the familiar existential dread in the poetic lyrics. This Week in Arts: a Menagerie, Fresh-Picked Plays and Cuban Dance 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

We’re mimicking the never-ending existential crisis that we seem to be living in. ‘There’s Still So Much to Unearth’ in ‘Pass Over’ 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

And his acting is superb, as he all but trembles with the existential despair that courses through Pierre’s veins virtually nonstop. Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,’ on the Heels of ‘Hamilton’ 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

It's as enthralling as everyone says it is, but it's also a prompter of existential terror, forcing viewers to consider what they were up to seven years ago, and might be seven years hence. TV highlights 28/05/2012 2012-05-27T19:00:02Z

When someone dies in a sitcom, on the other hand, it’s not just sad on a personal level; it’s existentially unsettling. All the Things That Make Us Laugh and Cry: Family Guy and When Sitcoms Kill 2013-11-26T15:14:22Z

Sono’s films may be grotesque or ridiculous, and careen wildly from slapstick violence to religious passion and existential crisis. “Why Don’t You Play in Hell?”: A delirious, hilarious work of Japanese pop genius 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

It is also about a particularly American existential conflict — the tension between personal freedom and responsibility to a community. A Novel Imagines the Fate of Twin Sisters, One Passing for White 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

Played with equal measures lightness and unease by "The IT Crowd" and "Bridesmaids" star O'Dowd, Dusty is a down-to-earth everyman tossed into the midst of an existential earthquake. "The Big Door Prize's" Chris O'Dowd: "Being Irish has been nothing but an absolute gift" 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

“It’s a conflict for every white man” — and crucial to an understanding of the existential antihero Zama. Lucrecia Martel: A Director Who Confounds and Thrills 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

As well as being plagued by existential terror, Gondry has an innocent side, too. Michel Gondry: 'I wanted to bring out Jim Carrey's sadness' 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

Surely both Brahms’s “German Requiem” and Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass,” to name just two very different examples, wrestle hard with existential uncertainty. Music Review: Cecilia Chorus of New York in a Program at Carnegie Hall 2014-04-30T22:00:49Z

Over the later years of Stewart's reign and through most of Trevor Noah's, "The Daily Show" was a release valve for liberals' existential anxiety. Tripping up the King's Jester: How is Hasan Minhaj still in the running to host "The Daily Show"? 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z

It was a portrait of someone drowning in solitude while surrounded by the background noise of her sister's family and the existential terror shared by all. Elaine Stritch's originality blazed fiercely on Broadway 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

And, most prominently, a giant red thumbtack on Patton Avenue indicating his home — and existential renovation project — of more than 40 years. A tribute to architect Michael Graves and the small-town life he embraced 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Murray’s melancholy and existential detachment are still here. Is Bill Murray’s brilliance back? “Rock the Kasbah” could break him out of his brooding on-screen funk 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

But it was symptomatic of a greater existential worry. Whither the Indie Band? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

It’s a somber and emotional sci-fi drama, full of existential quandary as Ali’s dying man struggles with his decision and the difficulty of letting go. New this week: Roddy Ricch, ‘Swan Song’ and ‘The Larkins’ 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

For Rothko, with whom she had spent many an evening discussing existential questions, she constructed a philosophical and cultural biography. Dore Ashton, Art Critic Who Embraced and Inhabited Modernism, Dies at 88 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Well, what with all the existential panic, I suspect I hadn’t been brushing as much as I should. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Don’t worry, I have got it covid 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

Swarms of former enemies line up together in the murk of the evening in order to see off this existential threat once and for all. Game of Thrones finale: who will sit on the Iron Throne? Follow the action – live 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z

I wanted the set to evoke the ephemeral, celestial, existential spirit of our time on Earth and our time within different spaces. ‘I Want to Live in That Room’: Designers on Their Broadway Sets 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

The series, based in China, chronicles the existential crisis that grips all of humanity when it encounters an extraterrestrial civilization bent on taking over Earth. Love astronaut-themed science fiction? Seattle Times staffers name their favorite books, movies and TV shows of that genre. 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

Most of the rest of what’s here touches on more general existential and relational matters. Art in Review: ?MIXED MESSAGES?: ?A(I)DS, Art + Words? 2011-06-23T21:19:07Z

But Salonen also takes an existential view of the larger problem of long-range planning that hampers the classical music business. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

Darkly humorous, existential, erotic, trance inducing — these comics wield a rare and innovative power. Psychedelic Comics Like Beautiful Tattoos 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Alas, it continues, and the last hour gets really existential and weird. Charlie Kaufman's exasperating "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" could've been a masterpiece 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

She approaches the great existential subjects — emptiness, loneliness, meaninglessness, death and boyfriends — as if they were a collection of bad habits. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

“So simply asking a travel company to consider that this is an existential threat does not add any value to the process. They’re in the same boat.” Perspective | Try these expert negotiation strategies for refunding or rescheduling your vacation 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

But this past week, Erika Christakis took issue with yet another appeal to common decency, which she again interpreted as an existential threat to freedom of expression on campus. Who’s really demanding to be coddled on campus? Yale students aren’t the spoiled brats for refusing to be racially trolled on Halloween 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

What, you think it was the existential crises that motivated the bus tours? ‘And Just Like That’: The Shoe Must Go On 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

She turned to “The Second Sex” in 2016 when she was reading Sarah Bakewell’s “At the Existentialist Café,” which chronicles the existential movement in Europe. Tapping Into the Feminine Wild (With Help From Simone de Beauvoir) 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

But it’s the depth of the story, which explored existential and moral questions and wasn’t afraid to go into dark territory, that made the show unforgettable. 10 Ways I Fed My Fandom(s) 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

But also, Beattie’s characters live in a state of existential chagrin and exhaustion, even though they aren’t much given to reflecting on it. ‘The State We’re In,’ a splendid new collection of stories by Ann Beattie 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

Here comes the first major novel to tackle the Trump era straight on and place it in the larger chronicle of existential threats. Review | In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Original sin was an existential condition for Miller, who titled his most autobiographical play “After the Fall.” ‘The Crucible,’ by Arthur Miller, Plays at the Old Vic 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

And Styles’s and Harlow’s music often betrays that by its relative weightlessness, its sense of existence in a space free of any great existential cares. The Year Pop’s Men Dismantled Their Masculinity 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

I think that I'm probably in just some massive existential funk that I'm always trying to deal with. Did George Carlin have the best comedy routine on every political subject? Judd Apatow thinks so 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

I tried jumping jacks to see if they’d help with panic, sprinting to see if it helped with the fear, making an altar to see if it would help with the existential angst. Seven things I wish I'd known before my divorce: an optimistic guide to the future 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

“As all these awful things are happening, the donkey is so passive, and you see the existential crises in its eyes,” he says. What’s it like to live as one of the ‘worst’ comics in the world? Gregg Turkington is finally talking about it. 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

The urgency of that belief gives rise to the novel’s most unsettling theme: the tension between complacency and stridency in the face of existential threats. Review | The most exciting novel about trees you’ll ever read 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

It’s the greatest existential threat to a theater. What Do Two Fires Have In Common? It Comes Down to Guts. 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

The scene was not quite “a country road, a tree, evening,” Beckett’s evocation of existential nowhere in “Waiting for Godot.” ?Happy Days in the Art World? at Performa 11 2011-10-31T22:10:32Z

Every year has its clunkers, of course – but the existential nag of “what are we doing here?” feels louder every time you enter the cinema. Bored of blockbusters? Why Hollywood needs another Bonnie and Clyde moment 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Here’s an existential travel question: If you were pressed for time, but one of the natural wonders of the United States was a five-hour round trip drive away, would you be able to resist? Place 13 of 52: On the Water, and Off, the Rogue River in Oregon Charms 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

For small family businesses, it’s potentially an existential crisis. For American Wine Producers, Fear, Uncertainty and Hope 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

Count Dracula — a recluse plagued by yearning, a macabre flair for theatrics and existential loneliness — turned out to be an unlikely patron saint for the uncertain times, Kirkland said. How Bram Stoker’s Dracula Became ‘Dracula Daily,’ and an Internet Sensation 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

Her uncertainty was fetching on an existential level. Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside,’ a South Los Angeles Murder Case 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Young people are just like the rest of us — filled with anxiety and existential dread. The Kids Are Making ‘Marriage Pacts’ to Distract Themselves From Doom 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

Nora's character development also drew her to the "Mayhem," Singh said, citing what she refers to as "a journey of unlearning" that's sure to be relatable in this age of existential reassessment. Lilly Singh is making "Muppets Mayhem": "No matter where you are in life, they mean so much" 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

Here’s the requirement for a quip, here’s the requirement to be interested in something you’re not interested in, and inside you’re feeling incredibly bleak and existential. Nobody Makes Films Like Alex Garland. But He Might Stop Making Them. 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

It’s an existential question as much as a practical one. Does Rodarte actually exist? The vaporous business plan of a fashion industry darling. 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

“Birthday Candles,” the existential dramedy now in previews on Broadway, relies on a simple recipe: an eight-step process for a golden butter cake. Debra Messing Can Age 90 Years Easily. It’s Baking That’s Hard. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

This remains one of the great existential mysteries of the first world in 2017. Sushi burritos and Sour Patch Kids want to be ‘lifestyle brands’ now. Seriously? 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

By the time we stumbled into our campsite, our mood was existential. Explorer : Mud, Leeches and Stunning Beauty in Tasmania 2013-01-25T17:51:24Z

And when he speaks, it’s in a slow, warbling singsong, at once contemplative and idiosyncratic, especially when he pauses in the middle of sentences as though his mind is hiccuping with existential thoughts. Review: In a Powerful ‘Hamlet,’ a Fragile Prince Faces His Foes 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

On the other end, he's the author of plays like "O Lovely, Glowworm, or Scenes of Great Beauty,"about the existential musings of a dead goat. Get past the goat: Playwright Glen Berger talks about 'Glowworm' in Seattle 2011-04-07T19:30:08Z

He puts his face, his body, his voice, his own life into his film as an existential act of self-assertion against his effacement by the regime. Jafar Panahi’s Remarkable “Taxi” 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

There’s a kind of existential calm that settles over you when surrounded by such a sea of cars, when there is no chance of anyone getting anywhere anytime soon. Finding Yourself in Los Angeles 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

That’s the location for Nick Gill’s adaptation of that great, archetypal portrait of existential shame, Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.” London Journal: A Nonstop Carnival of Culpability 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

When the ’60s began, young artists like Rauschenberg were in rebellion against abstract expressionism, with its insistence on art as a vehicle for personal feeling and existential angst. The Big Bang of Art and Tech in New York 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Along with the other mainly Jewish, Central European émigrés who found refuge in Hollywood, Siodmak infused American crime thrillers with a mix of Expressionist brio and existential fatalism. Robert Siodmak Retrospective at Film Forum 2012-07-06T16:10:56Z

And in addition to whatever help it might offer, “Four Thousand Weeks” is also just good company; it addresses large, even existential, issues with a sense of humor and an even-keeled perspective. Life Is Short. What Are You Going to Do About That? 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

A storm wrecks the ship, and Pi finally finds himself all alone on a lifeboat with an adult Bengal tiger; in the existential ordeal that follows, Pi and the tiger face the battle to survive. Life of Pi – review 2012-12-20T21:30:02Z

Other commenters made more existential jokes and comments about the inside-out cups. Starbucks worker reveals inside-out paper cups in viral TikTok video 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

This goes some way to explaining the bleakness and cynical sense of destiny in Sharp's films, which he called "existential melodramas". Alan Sharp 2013-02-14T11:40:41Z

As for the Albom onstage, the character begins buttoned up, burying his own existential anxieties under a pile of print deadlines, radio hits and TV spots. Review | Theater J’s tear-jerking two-hander ‘Tuesdays With Morrie’ imparts enduring life lessons 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

But without Metro Man around to whup his blue butt, he faces an existential dilemma: "What's the point of being Bad when there's no Good to stop you?" DreamWorks' 3-D Megamind: That's Incredibles! 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

“I think it is everything that is right and wrong with the existential journey,” he said. A ‘Native Son’ Reimagined, With James Baldwin in Mind 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

At times, it’s felt like watching the Oscars undergo an existential crisis, which the Times summed up in the headline “Are the Oscars Ashamed to Be the Oscars?” A Fraught Oscars Season Limps to the Finish Line 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

The level of existential and administrative nonsense remains steady. The Odd Nostalgia of a New “Catch-22” 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

When you read about circular trails, they are nearly always described in a tone of existential despair. The Dread and Bewilderment of Walking in Circles 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

In return for an annual subscription, the great Church of Apple takes away the existential angst about data security that plagues less fortunate folks. Apple's cloud rains on its own parade 2012-08-11T23:05:45Z

But nothing in his work is taken for granted or handed to anyone by a higher power; any redemption must be existentially earned. A Memory of Robert Stone 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

At one point, he rhymes inconsequential and existential. New band of the day ? No 1,074: Alphabet Saints 2011-08-01T15:47:00Z

Or that Muslim refugees from the seven countries on the ban list are an existential threat, though none have carried out fatal terror attacks in the United States. ‘24: Legacy,’ Scripted From Trump’s Dire Islamophobia 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

And Adams is existential: the meaning of life, what remains if your whole life is blown up. Where are all the right-wing comedians when you need them? 2013-03-12T15:03:25Z

On its own, the phrase delivers an existential tautology that pretty much sums up the nature and purpose of art. Lawrence Weiner's work at Regen Projects: It's all spelled out 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

It asks you the existential question of which unmarked dirt road you’ll take, and has you answer it — and pay the consequences — all in real time. Place 10 of 52: In Los Cabos, Beaches Abound, but So Does Generosity 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

Laura, do you understand the situation we’re in here?” she asks, her impatience blunted by decades and decades of existential fatigue. 'Homeland' Recap: Who Would You Choose as a BFF? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

The existential cowboys in McCarthy’s Border Trilogy novels, set out on the frontier, consume many of their meals fireside. Cormac McCarthy Loves a Good Diner 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

The solo-saxophone format, often understood as a physical and existential trial, seemed to suit his mindset particularly well at the time. Music Review: Back to an Ensemble After Solo Work, Offering a Mind-Meld With Partners 2010-10-05T21:13:00Z

His interest in Frances is born out of jealousy, of both the existential and misogynistic varieties. A Psychological Thriller Asks, Are We All a Little Stalker-ish? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

Yes, she said, the problems the country faces are existential. ‘Considering it.’ ‘Looking at things’: How 2020 Democrats mastered the coy art of mulling 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

Jesse’s story has, from the beginning, been one of existential crisis, and there’s few better frameworks for exploring existential crises than a road movie. El Camino: what can we expect from Netflix's Breaking Bad movie? 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

The beauty of “Counterpart” is that it sounds like sci-fi, but plays like a thriller blended with existential examination, man’s inner conflict made flesh. 10 best TV shows of 2018: The continuing crippling horror of the year-end TV list 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

These existential questions, best addressed by philosophers, clergy and shrinks, have found a new oracle. What hue looks best on you? Color analysis is back to help us obsess over our personal identities. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z