Sentences with phrase «as existential»

As an existential counselor, I encourage self - awareness through self - expression while embracing human potential, and remaining realistic through the recognition of human limitation.

A fantasy bond allows us to feel secure and connected to someone else, while numbing us against some of the more painful emotions that love stirs up, such as existential anxieties, fears of loss, memories of hurt, longing, or rejection.

«While my approach to therapy borrows from many different schools of thought, I describe myself as an existential / humanistic therapist.

In the coming years I would like this blog to become a forum for people interested in delving deeper into topics related to life as an existential journey of love and pain, beauty and tragedy, laughter and struggle...

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But Amazon is treating the smart home as an existential turning point for the company, throwing all the resources it can at racing ahead.

A Bismarckian approach would also, obviously, involve ensuring that America remains technologically ahead of China, though this is a much more formidable task than it was with Russia and that was seen for a while (after Sputnik) as an existential challenge (and famous economists like Paul Samuelson continued to predict wrongly that the Soviet economy would overtake America's).

And if there are interesting people like Ninja and the other people that are really dominating Twitch as a platform, combined with the mass frustration that's taking place with the creator community on YouTube, that's what I see as an existential threat.

Somewhere around the dawn of the dot - com era, the music industry faced what it regarded as an existential threat from technology.

Some see automation and «robot lawyers» as an existential threat.

Enter Bombardier, the Québec - based aircraft manufacturer that is seen as an existential threat to Boeing.

I view the hiatus as an opportunity, not as an existential threat.

If you want to know how people will respond to an existential threat, you have to frame it as an existential threat.

State governments that recognize climate pollution as an existential threat would be prevented from using a key tool to act faster to save the planet.

Our emotional self is at play in the polarizing of thoughts regarding issues that may seem trivial to outsiders although perceived by us as existential to our well being.

The DOD's focus on renewable fuel is not over climate as the existential question of being able to conduct its core mission — which requires large quantities of fuel.

Sirmans describes the affair as an existential search beyond the norm: «try - ing to understand ourselves through each other.»

At the same time, this only heightens awareness of the art's vulnerability to destructive forces, what might be described as its existential dimension, which is also a source of its value.

This declaration could be read as an existential realization of self - alienation («I am so depressed I can't trust what I say») or as a Postmodern admission of the failure of originality.

That constant struggle of being exasperated and driven to keep going can only be described as existential, and often it is surpassing this obstacle that makes the victory that much better.

Ms. Hartigan, a friend and disciple of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, subscribed to the Abstract Expressionist notion of the painterly brushstroke as existential act and cri de coeur but, like de Kooning, she never broke entirely with the figurative tradition.

The layers of ideas the artist explored in his early performance art, conceived of as existential explorations and social commentaries, have carried through to the more traditional studio practice he embraced upon returning to China, after having lived and worked in New York City for eight years.

The self - consciousness brought on by these sculptures — in humans, at least — has a political as well as existential significance.

I also see the paintings as existential blackboards; with each mark on the canvas de Kooning is marking his existence, and is stating that, like On Kawara's telegrams, he is still alive.

Following his Sky and Torn Sky / Cloud series from the early 1970s, Goode turned towards what can be seen as an existential inquiry into Minimalist painting, color, and the reification of the painting as an object.

Gilbert & George play it as camp, Jesper Just as existential crisis.

However, «Cowboys» can be seen not only as a cynical representation of reality, but also, in the critical tradition of Conceptual art, as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernacular, and even as the existential gesture of a figurative and realist artist.

The layers of ideas the artist explored in his early performance art, conceived of as existential explorations and social commentaries, have carried through to the more traditional studio practice he embraced upon moving to Shanghai in 2005, after living and working for eight years in New York City.

Integrated into early Pop combines by Dine and Rauschenberg or used alongside other everyday materials by the Arte Povera group, light bulbs became a source of physical as well as existential illumination.

Art, not as pretty decoration, nor as an existential howl from Tortured Artist Genius Dude, nor the smart - ass, sychophantic, postmodern shit from New York and London.

As he puts it, «We're not the only independent bookstore that sees Amazon as an existential threat to our livelihood.»

It may sound like a horror film, but it comes across as existential dread.

Combined with a cabin as quiet as the existential void, the suspension and steering setups help create an impressive sense of refinement and comfort.

Since traditional union contracts make it virtually impossible to replace an ineffective teacher, liberal education reformers and conservatives alike disagree with teachers» unions and their allies, which have generally treated any kind of reform as an existential threat.

Unions have long viewed attacks on payroll deduction as an existential threat.

After a few too many paycheque performances, McGregor is seeking out edgy, interesting projects of late; he double - duties here in both key roles, offering a version of Christ as an existential everyman discovering the strength of his own soulful resilience.

With Dead Man, his first period piece, Jim Jarmusch imagined the nineteenth - century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country's legacy of violence and prejudice, and the natural cycle of life and death.

Camus is a central influence on the Coens» work, appearing in various forms in Barton Fink and, specifically, The Man Who Wasn't There as both existential thematic glue and, in the latter, a literal bridge between the work of hardboiled author James M. Cain and the film itself.

It all feels pretty familiar: the tortured genius; the younger woman; the plot taking a bold, suffocating turn; murder as an existential debate; the world increasingly closing in on our anti-hero.

Dead Man (1995) With «Dead Man,» his first period piece, Jim Jarmusch imagined the 19th - century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country's legacy of violence and prejudice, and the natural cycle of life and death.

As existential epiphanies go, it wasn't bad.

As an existential emblem it's substantial, but the film's static takes steadily decline from this level of suggestive, uncertain terms to more literal gestures of class divide and reunification.

Very good, they would say, at doing very bad things in terms of undercutting public understanding of what many see as an existential threat to modern society and the global economy.

Due to their size, ancient humans may have perceived them as an existential threat and hunted them.

We should think of it instead as an existential annihilation of the left side of the universe.

The debate over how to classify the 20,543 acre parcel dominated headlines in 2016, with groups viewing its future as nothing less than as an existential decision that will shape the future of the Adirondack Park.

We are aware that the NPP perceives these achievements as an existential threat hence their resort to outright falsehood as a means to detract from them.

While obviously the verdict doesn't help and would be used in the election, it's not seen as an existential threat and the negative impact is probably already built into the governor's poll numbers.

The Ashanti faction within the party sees the total dominance of the smaller Akyem block in the Akufo Addo Administration as an existential threat and has vowed to fight back.

Thus an enemy must be created and this is the purpose of CIA and Mossad concocting Al Qaeda, ISIS, WMD,... If there is a possible remote threat it is exaggerated and portrayed as an existential threat.