existential
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Existential inquiry is an artistic staple, but typically it tends toward big gestures and grand declarations — see extravagant and flamboyant Abstract Expressionist paintings of the late-1940s and 1950s for examples.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2025
Perhaps his committee would be better named DOEC, the Department of Existential Crisis.
From Salon • Dec. 4, 2024
"Existential choices now need to be made, because there may not be enough energy to go round," said Michael Every, global strategist at Rabobank.
From Reuters • Sep. 6, 2022
Braden is the Seattle guy who had transitory fame in 2012 with his Henri the Existential Cat video.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2022
Existential: There was a curse on the kingdom.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing existential
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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