Sentences with phrase «existential crises»

As has been observed here, the externalisation of internal existential crises as climate crisis is a phenomenon we can see in politics, as well as in newspaper circulation figures.

This is a good take on how risk is done for financial gain and self - serving reasons, and how some here have taken a «good enough» approach to rik and policy, failing to understand how risk must be applied in existential crises.

But these barely - there structures hold entire universes, miniature landscapes populated by humans made of light, plagued by existential crises.

Despite its bright colors and kitsch aesthetic, the work is somber, dealing with existential crises where creatures pine and mourn for lost lovers, finding only brutal antagonization in return.

It is more difficult to argue that post-war collections would suffer similar existential crises if they were to hang more work by women in their displays.

A portrait of late 1980s Japan on the verge of intertwined economic and existential crises, Yakuza 0 is as full of cheap gags about early cell phones as it is a bracing look at how to survive — and stay true to yourself — in a moral vacuum.

What ensues is a tragic tale of love, a fight against pollution and the greed of consuming fossil fuels, and the existential crises wrought by massive amounts of drug dosing.

Paranoia, fear, visions of already - scary mercenaries turning into violent desert gods, and full - on existential crises are just a few of its side effects.

A life of cubicles, traffic, and existential crises?

The existential crises of college - educated Renton may be the most arresting, but Welsh treats all of them with care, accomplishing the remarkable feat of giving even his dimmest characters rich interior lives.

Because of this pushback and Kopp's lack of management training and experience, TFA went through a series of existential crises.

SPECIAL JURY MENTION Radio Dreams (Iran / USA 2016), directed by Babak Jalali JURY STATEMENT: Whoever thought Metallica could be responsible for an existential crises?

By refusing to conform to a conventional method of storytelling, Benson and Moorhead have crafted a truly original work that not only succeeds in keeping us guessing until the very end but does so in a way that makes us become completely embedded in Evan and Louise's love story and their existential crises as well.

It affirms the breadth of the Coens» accomplishment here that in presenting a sharp sociological treatise on a «lost» decade in our recent culture, they've also managed a cogent and fascinating analysis of Raymond Chandler and the influence of noir on the way we interpret the existential crises of modern, fully - acculturated Man.

The rumour of it raised eyebrows, but it wasn't until we all saw that leaked Mario + Rabbids artwork that the Nintendo faithful started to wonder if the Big N had collapsed under the weight of its own whimsy, forcing Internet satirists into existential crises.

In his second collaboration with director Paul Thomas Anderson, Lewis portrays an aging fashion designer beset with emotional and existential crises.

Waters has in the past described his personal sensibility as «Bunuel meets Caddyshack,» and that description aptly captures some of the wild tonal shifts that mark Sex and Death 101 — a movie that includes a gross - out bait - and - switch reminiscent of Stifler's clandestine closet hook - up in American Wedding, but also sincere questions and insight about the existential crises to be found in knowing beforehand one's lovers (and, by extension, non-lovers).

Today, in Baltimore, three new films open, all of which tackle existential crises, and none of which are alike.

Obviously the series has both the scope and time to be able to explore the various dramas of Westworld to a much deeper degree, especially the existential crises of the «characters» created to service visitors.

Director Sofia Coppola has frequently explored the ennui and existential crises of the beautiful and well - to - do, including Scarlett Johansson's drifting college graduate in «Lost in Translation,» Kirsten Dunst's stifled princess in «Marie Antoinette»...

As Perkins writes, smart cycle characters externalise their existential crises, while the smart film itself explicitly searches for its place in cultural history (p. 13).

It is a period marked by existential crises, empty nests and lost keys.

We've all have had our existential crises.»

A cancer diagnosis is «one of the most existential crises you can imagine,» says Teresa Woodruff, a reproductive scientist at Northwestern University.

She's prone to existential crises every two weeks — it's fine — and has spent 20 % of her 20s washing, peeling, cooking or eating vegetables.

Much needed is research beyond that already completed which will develop guidelines for improving the church's many roles in community health — from meeting the existential crises of being human and belonging to social groups and facing anxiety and dread, to providing more efficiently the «learning atmosphere» for a religious style - of - life.

The Sunnyvale, Calif. company's lucrative piece of the Chinese e-commerce company (BABA) has done wonders for its coffers and share price but lately has sent it into an existential crisis as investors seek growth from the beleaguered company.

The severity of Ether's drop reflects an existential crisis triggered by the hack.

Yet with global growth declining, oil inventory at record levels, and momentum on the side of increasingly cost - competitive renewable energy technologies, there remains a high possibility the energy sector will face another existential crisis in the near future.

But there's a problem: Coders face the same existential crisis as any other worker whose job is threatened by tech.

Canadian Business: As the industry began to crumble in 2008, when did you realize that Ford faced more than just a downturn, that this was an existential crisis?

Wall Street's unwilling to back any company that seems to be having an existential crisis, despite the fact that, in reality, the whole industry's having an existential crisis,» he said.

The changes afoot are more akin to a continental drift than a seismic convulsion, and Europe, despite its ongoing existential crisis, still very much matters.

«The consumer packaged goods space, like tobacco, may be facing an existential crisis here, and as far as I know, at least with these managements, there's no exit for them.»

An existential crisis in social media stocks, confusion over how to discount a trade war and conflicting interpretations of the Fed's latest move are weighing on the market.

Did the company upend the IPO industry and create an existential crisis for a corner of Wall Street?

The existential crisis facing the legacy food giants becomes even more pronounced when you consider a company like Hain Celestial — which, with its $ 2.2 billion in sales last year, is clearly on the path to Big itself.

The euro has been grabbing the headlines, what with its existential crisis and all.

«If Facebook continues to grow as a trusted news source in its own right,» Salmon argues, «then the result could be an existential crisis for news organizations with old - fashioned things like editors and fact - checkers and clear ethical guidelines.»

As the last witness for the defense in the Justice Department's legal battle against AT&T's $ 85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner, Mr. Stephenson portrayed the 140 - year - old phone giant as being in an existential crisis and in need of the deal with Time Warner to compete against tech companies.

In advanced economies across the globe, expanded trade and globalization face an existential crisis: for large swaths of the European and American electorate, the current trade model is non-representative, undemocratic, and perceived — often justly — as contrary to their economic interests.

As fate would have it, Facebook is kicking off 2018 by going through an existential crisis of sorts.

Ed takes us into his existential crisis after megahit Toy Story, behind the storytelling scenes of The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and Inside Out, and around the risks, triumphs and failures that led to his building a massively successful and creative culture.

Now Facebook's having an overdue existential crisis about being a spy machine.

Single - digit oil prices for oil sands is not just a problem, it is an existential crisis.

To Capstick, his party is «entering the existential crisis phase.»

Is Bitcoin having an existential crisis?

Sure, there have been times when Ned took his religious zeal a little too far — like attempting to baptize the Simpson kids without telling their parents — and is prone to the occasional existential crisis («I think I'm coveting my own wife!»)

My list was long, but I was determined to spend less than $ 50 this trip, so I stood in the pasta sauce aisle comparing prices for at least fifteen minutes before moving to the dreaded cereal aisle where I had an existential crisis over the barrage of choices I face in a day.

This is a cosmic end, and not just an existential crisis, as Altizer would have seen it during his second period of development.