Sentences with phrase «existential dread of»

For starters, the winners are all announced in advance, so the talent breeze in with good attitudes, not roiling with the existential dread of perhaps smiling as someone else grabs their prize.

by Walter Chaw Four years separate Satoshi Kon's astonishing Perfect Blue and his astonishing Millennium Actress; it seems that what the intervening period brought to Kon's palette is a strong sense of visual humour and an affecting pathos to cut the existential dread of his identity crises — the year or two distancing Tokyo Godfathers from Millennium Actress further refining Kon as a humorist even as it blunted his razor's edge.

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Blaise Pascal evokes a sense of existential dread in this famous line: «The eternal silence of those infinite spaces terrifies me.»

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.

Bultmann seized what he could use of these ideas: the anxiety produced by the existential question; the dread produced by the answer of death to all; the attempted flight into worldly business, social status and ephemera; the rare courage to begin an existence which would be authentic because open - eyed.

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.

Beneath it all is an air of existential dread.

An evocative exercise in alienation and existential dread, Herzog masterfully tackles one of the greatest gothic stories ever with Nosferatu the Vampyre with the unforgettable (as always) Klaus Kinski as the titular blood - sucker.

Yes, It Comes At Night is bleak to the extreme, but it's also a finely tuned instrument of anxiety — a jarring, unnerving nightmare movie that's highly effective and full of lingering existential dread.

19th Annual Animation Show of Shows by Hope Madden Whimsy, melancholy, existential dread — the absurdity of human existence.

The bleakness (well supported by Bruno Delbonnel's bruised cinematography) feels invigorating for the Coens: While many of their successes, from Barton Fink through A Serious Man, bump up against existential dread, they've never made do with so little comic relief.

Arguably, the aggregate of Nineties cinema deals with the evolution from filmic to digital reality (from 1989's sex, lies, and videotape on through to the end of the following decade's American Beauty, The Truman Show, Dark City, The Matrix, Fight Club, and The Blair Witch Project), but it's here in 2007, six years post-9 / 11, that the phrase «it's just like in the movies» gains the kind of existential dread it deserves.

The existential dread your character is suffering with in Continue is portrayed masterfully, and the difficulty you will have in helping the character find peace before an untimely demise is perhaps a necessary move on behalf of creator Oda in order to successfully convey the game's message.

While this sobering tale of one family's isolated post-apocalyptic survival is most assuredly a «talky» terror tale, and one that often feels a bit like a stage adaptation, it's also knee - deep in tension, discomfort, and nine different flavors of existential dread.

The film's other motif of puppets manipulated by unseen hands (carnivorous machines, funhouse mannequins, children's toys, Trevor's «Howdy Doody» nickname) finds allegorical reduction in the perverse hangman's game that forms The Machinist's central means of symbol - dispensation, provoking a slow - advancing existential dread.

To that end Mike White's new film Brad's Status doesn't exactly give Stiller much new or especially refreshing to work with, but it deserves credit for pushing Stiller to take an uncommon lean into the more unsavory facets of his existential dread - ridden protagonist.

by Walter Chaw There's a shopping mall in Colorado called «Colorado Mills» that bubbles with the kind of nameless existential dread generally reserved for terrariums and introspective box turtles.

Through procedural generation we have allowed our engine to create over 18 quintillion unique life events including jobs, relationships, family emergencies, legal troubles, self - destructive tendencies, and even a million different forms of existential dread.

The crushing existential dread and the contrasting moments of triumph?

Dead Space relied on jump scares and didn't create the necessary level of existential dread.

Indeed, Googling yourself is just another symptom of existential dread.

The astonishing craftsmanship required in producing Matelli's hyper - realistic sculpture is met with an equally potent narrative cocktail of existential dread, a fatalistic sense of human limitations, and a contrarian's dark humor.

The artists exhibiting in this group show consistently use methods of abstraction to create portraits representing facial tensions of inner conflict, emotional confusion, mental anguish, existential dread or even psychosis.

It's official: Japanese art legend Yayoi Kusama has jumped from Gagosian to David Zwirner, as she relates on her rather unique website (try staring into her eyes Marina Abramovic - style and see what feelings of existential dread crop up).

Maybe it's a reflection of real life with its ugly moments, like stubbed toes and existential dread.

It's part of our human existential condition — of course it's going to resonate if you have a heart or are in touch with the things we all dread — that idea of being isolated or misunderstood or alone.