How to Use existentialist in a Sentence

existentialist

noun

• To an existentialist, this should not come as a grand scoop or groundbreaking news.
  — Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, 13 Jan. 2022
• Yes, it's named for the French existentialist philosopher.
  — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• Of getting lost in who people think you are!’ A prizefighter’s journey is an existentialist ideogram for life, and the real fight, the real fifteen rounds, occurs in the heart, at home.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• Crewe deftly sets the stage for a climactic, existentialist choice.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• This is the film in which the existentialist romance is most explicitly linked to the historical moment.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2020
• Clibanoff seems the romantic, hopeful one here; Emmons the existentialist.
  — Edith Newhall, Philly.com, 4 May 2017
• In either worldview, existentialist or Christian, the instructions are the same.
  — Matt Winesett, National Review, 4 Apr. 2020
• That makes Luster an existentialist novel, like The Stranger, and a relative to literary modernism.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2020
• Barbara Stanwyck, a slinking powerhouse in the role), before instructing her in the work of existentialist Fredrich Nietzsche.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
• Most surprising of all is that an existentialist show that doles out philosophy weekly managed to succeed in primetime.
  — Paula Bernstein, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2019
• The spirituality and egotistical heroism of it all is a staple of the genre, and very Wagner—yet the abstraction and performance lean so much more into the realm of modernist, existentialist art.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Mar. 2023
• Thåström is written as a harsh existentialist, political and speaks succinctly, while Cave is the opposite, a struggling Dionysian agnostic, and a romantic dreamer who swims in words.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2022
• Steeped in absurdist ideas, the existentialist comedy presents the actress as Caterine Vauban, a sort of antagonist whose nihilistic views on life go against widespread optimism.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2021
• Beauvoir modeled Pascal on the young Merleau-Ponty, the future existentialist philosopher.
  — Benita Eisler, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021
• But Bacon, a thoroughgoing existentialist, didn’t have a spiritual bone in his body.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 31 July 2019
• The works avoid direct protest and instead offer symbolic narratives that tell wide-ranging existentialist stories.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 4 Mar. 2017
• Once known for his distanced, adversarial, bleak and bloody narratives and existentialist murder balladeer persona, a kinder, more optimistic Cave has emerged after 2015’s tragedy.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 29 Mar. 2022
• These difficult thoughts, most dramatically of death, have for Mr. Marino and his existentialists a galvanizing force.
  — John Kaag, WSJ, 10 May 2018
• Although an extremely difficult commercial path lies ahead, this epic-length existentialist road movie should enjoy a strong festival run following its world premiere at Rotterdam.
  — Richard Kuipers, Variety, 31 Jan. 2022
• The existentialist philosopher argued that the commandment offers a far more radical proposition, one that requires us to surrender our commitment to justice, fairness, and private property.
  — Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 7 Feb. 2022
• Without spoiling too much, Lain’s existentialist character arc and isolation echo much of Neo’s, a vibe accentuated by the show’s ’90s alt-rock soundtrack and trippy, almost psychedelic take on cyberpunk imagery.
  — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
• The English existentialist was, naturally enough, Irish.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
• An exhibition in Boston features delightfully unsettling works with a sci-fi existentialist downer vibe.
  — Peter Plagens, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2019
• Paris was producing existentialist literature, but London had Bacon, the artist of existentialist life, a reckless gambler and homosexual masochist.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 15 June 2018
• An existentialist’s driving concern is human freedom and the responsibilities and anxieties that are inseparable from it.
  — Edward Mendelson, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2016
• To an existentialist, this should not come as a grand scoop or groundbreaking news.
  — Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, 13 Jan. 2022
• Yes, it's named for the French existentialist philosopher.
  — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• Of getting lost in who people think you are!’ A prizefighter’s journey is an existentialist ideogram for life, and the real fight, the real fifteen rounds, occurs in the heart, at home.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• Crewe deftly sets the stage for a climactic, existentialist choice.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• This is the film in which the existentialist romance is most explicitly linked to the historical moment.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2020

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