How to use "existential" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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The novel is divided chronologically into three sections: 1790, 1794, and 1799, which focus on, respectively, Zama's sexual, financial, and existential conflicts. - Zama (novel)
Edgar is a man in an extreme existential crisis. - Aegri Somnia (film)
It focuses on existential aspects of life through two close octogenarian friends Pappen and Varkey. - Pa Va
The film opens with Samantha (Zoey Deutch) narrating about life in general in an existential way. - Before I Fall (film)
Siddharth steps out of the car with Anjali's existential approval and charges towards Chakkara. - Kali (2016 film)
Sailaja runs her family with a catering business and struggling for her 4 sisters and grandmother (Shavukar Janaki) on one side and on another side she is facing an existential threat from Mallesh Yadav (Sampath Raj) a big goon who is a henchman of MLA Puchappa (Posani Krishna Murali) who are after Sastry. - Babu Bangaram
In the wake of existential questions that propel Wayne in to deep thought, his divorced friend Leo offers no answers, but instead raises a complex emotional question of adulthood. - Everything Strange and New
Mann apparently became a shape-shifter after being bitten by a human some days before and laments the existential hopelessness of human life, full sentience, and modern society. - Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster
She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. - Adult Life Skills
Đura's grandchildren so i have to contend with the village and the everyday existential adversities - the Đura's house has no electricity or running water, so they stay in the village, in a way, the battle for survival in conditions which, as city kids are not used to. - Kud puklo da puklo (TV series)
An existential crisis ensues. - Wild Field
The monotony of the work, the existential loneliness of a marriage badly combined, pushes Ovidio, with two other friends, to let off steam in vandalism and cruel cynicism, which manifests itself in a series of crimes, real raw sadism explosions. - Savage Three
After the battle, Finn frees the Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant from servitude; this causes him to have an existential crisis as he wanders all of Ooo. - Something Big (Adventure Time)
Abed goes into an existential breakdown as Leonard (Richard Erdman) passes by to say, “Unsubscribe. - Basic Story
Ian ultimately decides not to take advantage of Britta while she is going through an existential crisis, and instead chooses to go out drinking with Jeff, which ends up strengthening their friendship. - Bondage and Beta Male Sexuality
The characters within the novel encounter obstacles in terms of cultural, economic and moral cruelties as unavoidable factors of their experiences – as existential and social living beings. - Crisis (novel by Jorge Majfud)
Lauro (João Gabriel Vasconcellos) is a young painter taken by an existential malaise. - The Vulgar Hours
Two self-aware characters in a Call of Duty-inspired video game battle endless supplies of Vietcong, absurdly powerful level bosses and their own existential crises. - Virtually Heroes
At the small-town fictional New England college campus of Braylin, philosophy professor Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix) is experiencing an existential crisis. - Irrational Man (film)
Suddenly overcome with existential despair and an awareness of the hollowness of his existence, Patrick leaves the club and angrily vows to never go clubbing again ("In The Air Tonight"). - American Psycho (musical)
is an existential day-in-the-life portrait that immerses the viewer in the downtown mindsets of John Wall (Keanu Reeves), a lost soul who's been circling the New York City drain for too long, and the two party girls he spends his birthday with- Violet (Bojana Novakovic) and Mia (Adelaide Clemens)- as they look for light in the darker aspects of their "family of circumstance" and the paths their self-destructive lives have taken. - Generation Um...
Finding himself suffering existential angst, Qohen constantly waits for a phone call, hoping that it might bring him happiness or the answers he seeks. - The Zero Theorem
Action and introspection alternate in this 14th novel, which sees Montalbano wrestling with doubts and existential thoughts whilst trying to resolve a complicated case of diamond trafficking. - The Age of Doubt
The novel focuses on an unnamed female narrator, who explores her existential situation as a woman and writer, both through personal reflection and in dialogue form. - Malina (novel)
Nigel is all-knowing and is looking forward to retiring from mentoring a long succession of hapless humans on their existential quest. - Mindville
As Don falls deeper into existential despair, his alcoholism worsens and he begins regularly meeting with prostitutes. - Mad Men (season 4)
The novel, set in modern-day Vienna, is a post-apocalyptic exploration around themes of solitude and existential philosophy. - Night Work (Glavinic novel)
In the face of this existential crisis, Trisolaran society evolved to become highly totalitarian and fully dedicated to the exploration of habitable planets in outer space to colonize and resettle upon. - The Three-Body Problem
In fact, her multiple existential questions and a strange emptyness she feels in her life make her suddenly decide entering in a convent as a novice, breaking Ernesto's heart. - Sor Ye Ye
Recently released from doing a five-year sentence in prison he falls into a sort of existential crisis, quit his job and then tried to commit suicide. - Happy Face
Falling into an existential malaise, Firmin finds his own form ugly and avoids his own reflection. - Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
Hurley reassures him that he's not insane at all, and attributes Walt's existential duress to his separation from the Island. - The New Man in Charge
As the turmoil of the final days of the war in Europe envelop Kostelec, events cause Danny to confront existential questions of his life, its purpose, and his future if he survives the dangerous final phase of the war. - The Cowards
After four years of marriage the couple are having problems of a somewhat existential nature—the wife loves her husband, but is thinking of leaving him (he had an affair some time back, but her problem is not jealousy so much as questioning the very nature of love itself). - La Pointe Courte
A self-aware, post-human, cyborg spacecraft struggles with existential perils as it finds itself forever stranded among the rings of Saturn. - In the Valley of the Kings
BLACK ISSUES BOOK REVIEW “The first lines… promise a mélange of literary forms and edgy melancholy characters…part postmodern parable, part contemporary urban portrait…it is fully formed, like an existential poem. - Asphalt (novel)
When his mother informs Joseph that she's divorcing his father Joseph enters into a protracted existential crisis. - The Cult of Sincerity
The film follows a man going through an acute existential crisis. - Japón
That night, Megumi, Ryūhei, and Kenji all have experiences away from home in which they confront the full extent of their existential disquiet. - Tokyo Sonata
Gradually the narrator goes back in time and recollects his first meetings with the Persian woman, uncovering a universe of loneliness where the only existential act left is confession. - Yes (novel)
The film follows the existential crisis of an unnamed urban sophisticate (Vanessa Redgrave) who becomes aware of the nature of world politics, economic exploitation and the vapid consumerism around her. - The Fever (2004 film)
From the darkness the universe is born, the Milky Way and then the solar system form while voice-overs ask existential questions. - The Tree of Life (film)
There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one. - Nights and Days
Surfer, Dude is the story of Steve Addington, a soul-searching surfer who experiences an existential crisis when no waves come for over a month. - Surfer, Dude
” The last canto of Clarel, the epilogue, offers Melville’s commentary on the existential crisis of faith suffered by Clarel in the wake of Ruth’s death. - Clarel
After some counseling from Phong and Mouse, Dot decides to marry the new Bob, whereupon Glitch Bob—the nominal original—earnestly attempts to return himself to his original form in order to resolve his existential situation. - ReBoot: My Two Bobs
After killing Percy X, Rivers is able to switch off the device before humanity is destroyed, but the Ganymedians instinctively form a group mind in times of danger, and so become trapped in a permanent existential and experiential 'hell' within a dark void, unable to contact their creeches for help. - The Ganymede Takeover
It follows Batavia police chief Fred Clumly in his pursuit of a magician known as the Sunlight Man, a champion of existential freedom and pre-biblical Babylonian philosophy. - The Sunlight Dialogues
Patsy's eccentric family is surprised when she announces their intention to wed, then amazed when their marriage ceremony conducted by the existential Rev. - Little Murders
Maria gets pregnant and Nigel starts to snap, and the only sane one seems to be Jimmy, Nigel's existential pot dealer. - Last Exit (2003 film)
At a book function for existential drug guru Doctor Robert, Jude, Lucy, Jojo, Sadie and Max drink punch laced with LSD. - Across the Universe (film)
He seems to say to us: "Even reason, dear sirs, if it is alleviated of its role as a faculty of good sense which councels adaptation to historical, social and existential "reality", can become a precious instrument of liberation". - One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
Törless makes a strange existential speech to the school authorities about the gap between the rational and irrational (". - The Confusions of Young Törless
It is implied that his experiences have led to an existential crisis and loss of identity. - Who? (novel)
He is distracted from his own existential worries by the acts of his drug-addicted son, Nelson, to whom Janice (the actual owner of the Angstroms' wealth) has given control of the family's thriving business, a Pennsylvania Toyota dealership. - Rabbit at Rest
Todd's psychic powers end up destroying the store in a bout of existential dread. - Scott Pilgrim
Increasing her already great existential confusion is the bizarre emergence of a series of cats, seeming to follow Raleigh through her journey. - Lost at Sea (comics)
This film is an existential look at the lives of Jefferson (Jake) played by Kevin Bacon and Kristy Briggs, played by Elizabeth McGovern , from their wedding day until the birth of their first child. - She's Having a Baby
Arthur Miller’s second major play (after No Villain) The Man Who Had All the Luck follows protagonist David Beeves’ existential exploration into the enigmatic question of how fate and the human will interact with each other. - The Man Who Had All the Luck
Ahead of the mob, Kleinman arrives at the whorehouse, where he meets and has an existential conversation with Jack. - Shadows and Fog
Kettlewell attests that he had disassembled K1 after finding its thought processes were growing too quickly, and further asserts that Winters, Jellicoe, nor anyone at the Think Tank have the capacity to program it correctly, and that if they have tampered with its programming, the robot is likely suffering an existential crisis. - Robot (Doctor Who)
After seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times, Albert contacts two existential detectives, Bernard (Dustin Hoffman) and Vivian Jaffe (Lily Tomlin). - I Heart Huckabees
As his day progresses, he undergoes a mild existential crisis, pondering what his seemingly pointless job of scaring surface people is really for. - Fungus the Bogeyman
Through his discovery that "All is One" he is able to resolve the major existential conflict in his lifeOne day, while socializing with his friends they tell him the story of the Golden Carp. - Bless Me, Ultima
Jerry Renault is a freshman attending an all-boys Catholic high school called Trinity, while coping with depressive feelings and existential questions that stem largely from his mother's recent death and his father's enduring grief. - The Chocolate War
The protagonist of the story is Kinnall Darival, a prince of the province of Salla, tormented by existential doubts and by his forbidden passion for his bondsister, Halum. - A Time of Changes
Notes from Underground marks the starting point of Dostoevsky's move from psychological and sociological themed novels to novels based on existential and general human experience in crisis. - Notes from Underground
The plot of Pincher Martin surrounds the survival and psychophysical, spiritual and existential plight of one Christopher Hadley "Pincher" Martin, a temporary naval lieutenant who believes himself to be the sole survivor of a military torpedo destroyer which sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean. - Pincher Martin
Monitoring the battle from their own lifeboat, Martin and Rachel are unsurprised by the outcome, and explain to an angry Vassily how, despite its lack of intentions, the Festival's visit indeed represented an existential threat to the Republic since information wants to be free. - Singularity Sky
Waking Life is about an unnamed young man living an ethereal existence that lacks transitions between everyday events and that eventually progresses toward an existential crisis. - Waking Life
His existential crisis leads to unsatisfying experiments with religious conversion to Catholicism and an interest in Krishna Consciousness. - Hannah and Her Sisters
Angel is skeptical about the efficacy of astrology, and believes that the unfolding existential situation of Tim and Kirsten is akin to Friedrich Schiller's German Romanticism era masterpiece, the Wallenstein trilogy (insofar as their credulity reflects the loss of rational belief in contemporary consensual reality). - The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
The psychological trauma of the experience transforms his personality and he enters an altered state of consciousness, rethinking his life and becoming preoccupied with the eternal meanings and the existential questions of life and death itself. - Fearless (1993 film)
Roger implores Angel to "let go of the past" regardless of its existential reality, and focus only on the present and the future. - The Big O
Precocious, bohemian teenager Placid Lake finishes high school, but after having an existential crisis devises a plan to totally reinvent himself as a functioning member of society. - The Rage in Placid Lake

Example sentences for "existential" in interesting articles

Was that an existential threat? permalinkembedsaveparentgive gold[–]worldcoinninja -1 points0 points1 point 10 months ago (2 children)FORK!!! stop pussy footing around people! permalinkembedsavegive gold[–]dcrninja 8 points9 points10 points 10 months ago* (1 child)Yes, sacrifice Ethereum to save this stillbirth of TheDAO. - Another successful DAO attack recursive split
In Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), two post-apocalyptic kingdoms, Tolumekia and Pejite, are locked in an existential struggle over control of an ancient weapon of mass destruction called a “Giant Warrior.” The struggle becomes so desperate that one side is even willing to almost completely destroy itself for the sake of completely destroying the other side. - Miyazaki's Beautiful Anti-War Dreams
Some governments have banned the use of Bitcoin, suggesting it poses an existential threat to their ability to regulate financial transactions. - The second crypto war and the future of the Internet
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has described his company’s pursuit of autonomous technology as an existential threat. - Uber dismissed warnings about its illegal self-driving test for months
Zuck took it as an existential threat comparable to the Soviets’ placing nukes in Cuba in 1962. - How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook’s War on Google Plus
My greatest concern is the lack of public awareness about this existential threat, the absence of a vigorous public debate about the nuclear-war plans of Russia and the United States, the silent consent to the roughly fifteen thousand nuclear weapons in the world. - World War Three, by Mistake
In times of peace, the company can focus on expanding the market and reinforcing the company’s strengths. In wartime, a company is fending off an imminent existential threat. - Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO
Brown, now 78, met Perry a year ago, after deciding that he wanted to devote his remaining time in public service mainly to what he sees as civilization’s two existential issues, climate change and nuclear weapons. - How an 89-year-old cold warrior became America’s nuclear conscience
They are interested in promoting work that decreases existential threats to the human race, which they see as possibly including things like nuclear war and nuclear winter, but also unhampered artificial intelligence, climate change, and the possible negative futures of biotechnology. - Mapping the US nuclear war plan for 1956
The company's long blog post denounces Verlander and her partners in unusually stark language, while the bounty program could pose an existential threat to Blackbird.Under the terms of the bounty program, Cloudflare will award a total of $20,000 to those who can provide so-called "prior art" to show the patent Blackbird is using to sue Cloudflare—which dates from 1998 and is titled "Providing an internet third party data channel"—is invalid. - Cloudflare Declares War on a Patent Troll with $50,000 Bounty
Kinetic [anti-satellite weaponry] is horrible for the world,” because of the existential risks debris poses for all satellites. - War in Space May Be Closer Than Ever
Now they are acting from their heart for a host of reasons not the least of which is that Obama (as role-model) is a left-wing authoritarian who eschews bi-partisanship (notice? how he constantly makes Republicans the bad guys and saves his enmity for those who do not agree with him rather than those entities [ISIS and Islam] that could pose an existential threat to the fundamental values of Western Civilization). - The Yale Problem Begins in High School
I have no qualms with death, the smell or the sight or the existential crisis of it (as a student of forensic anthropology, I’m required to have the expectation of dealing with death, anyway). Furthermore, while I do not exactly feel that medicine is my one and only possible path to life, or that I am destined to practice it, or even that I need to practice it to realize self-actualization, I think I would find it entertaining, and satisfying, at least in part. - Why you should not go to medical school
Whitmire writes that Rhee's proposal to weaken tenure protections and pay great teachers more "represented an existential challenge" to the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). - Teachers unions are not the reason many schools suck
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Elon Musk, chief executive of rocket-maker Space X, also fears artificial intelligence In the longer term, the technology entrepreneur Elon Musk has warned that AI is "our biggest existential threat". - Hawking: AI could end human race
In fact, the institute in Oxford is in university offices above a gym, where self-preservation is about a treadmill and Lycra.Dr Bostrom says there is a real gap between the speed of technological advance and our understanding of its implications."We're at the level of infants in moral responsibility, but with the technological capability of adults," he says.As such, the significance of existential risk is "not on people's radars".But he argues that change is coming whether or not we're ready for it."There is a bottleneck in human history. - How are humans going to become extinct?

Meaning of "existential" in English

derived from experience or the experience of existence
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- formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters
relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence)
of or as conceived by existentialism

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