By existential I mean the way that strict parenting affects kids» basic life attitude, basic life skills and general self image and sense of beingness. (positive-parenting-ally.com)
It used to be that if you as an obsessive car fan were unable to squeeze enough existential meaning out of the monthly car magazines you read, you were reduced to satisfying your insatiable car lust — a shame that should not have been named but probably was, in all its minute and tedious detail, to anyone who would listen — by poring feverishly over classified ads in a local newspaper. (automobilemag.com)
For Kiefer the ocean suggests a primal, amniotic, pre-linguistic space, something without beginning or end, where time and space take on cosmological and existential meanings familiar from quantum physics. (3quarksdaily.com)