How to Use existentialism in a Sentence

existentialism

noun

• Bimbo existentialism has been in, and this may well be its soundtrack.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 1 June 2026
• In that light, the dizziness and anguish of existentialism were out of fashion.
  — Janet Maslin, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2016
• Happily, that dark existentialism didn’t cloud the mood on set.
  — Caitlin Chatterton, CNN, 2 July 2024
• The result is a set of tracks that are earnest and exploratory, existentialism by way of a grocery list.
  — Linnie Greene, Pitchfork, 21 Jan. 2026
• The types of jobs that live outside of the corporate world seem like a way out of the existentialism for Kpenkaan, too.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2022
• Starting from the same place Both existentialism and absurdism start from the same point.
  — Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
• And the history of ideas leading up to existentialism is full of fine-tuning and tangents.
  — Janet Maslin, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2016
• But absurdism and existentialism are not the same.
  — Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
• Jazz was so much the language of existentialism--the idea of living in a state of improvisation.
  — Esquire, 29 Jan. 2007
• Herzog has always been attuned to the ways in which survivalism functions as a form of existentialism.
  — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 16 June 2022
• Movies do existentialism really well, because a glance, a gesture, a mood can often reveal so much that words can’t.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2024
• Other parts of the speech, though—and even that inspirational line, in context—boast a bleak and bracing existentialism.
  — George Blaustein, The New Republic, 2 July 2020
• Let’s talk about French existentialism.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 June 2026
• Ready for another trip to Barbie Land (with a splash of existentialism)?
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• This masterpiece of barroom existentialism cuts gloom with just enough hope to keep the quarters pumping into the jukebox.
  — Rj Smith, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
• The philosopher, known as the father of existentialism, saw the world as unavoidable suffering.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2023
• Camus may have earned his existentialism in the French Resistance.
  — Jack Miles, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2014
• And that’s exactly the idea The Good Place tackles—via existentialism, of course.
  — Anne T. Donahue, Marie Claire, 31 Jan. 2019
• For me, existentialism was the last great philosophical movement.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 6 July 2024
• The best way to enjoy Sorrentino’s vision is to perhaps ponder the existentialism about all the imagery.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2025
• Start with the word salad of Marxism, anarchism, and existentialism.
  — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 4 June 2020
• Meursault has long been a household name for students of modern literature or French existentialism, or anyone else who had to read the book in high school.
  — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
• This was always a show about a midlife crisis; the concerns of the children and grandparents orbit Dre’s version of existentialism.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2022
• The whole experience felt like an extended course in French existentialism.
  — Ivan Krastev, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
• These extended from themes such as existentialism and Marxism to modernist techniques like streams of consciousness.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, WSJ, 27 May 2022
• Work has not remained unscathed, as the pandemic brought into question the purpose of a 9-to-5 and gave rise to a greater existentialism and feeling of malaise.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 18 June 2023
• There’s timeless beauty mixed with existentialism at the Louvre, which has mounted a vast survey of the still life genre and how objects communicate.
  — Amy Verner, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2022
• There’s a fresh kind of writing present in the novel—a spontaneous, ecstatic side of Beauvoir that was reined in by the more dutiful side of her existentialism.
  — Lara Feigel, The New Republic, 26 Nov. 2021
• Moths can symbolize anything from rot to rebirth, and as the episode dips its toe into Sartre-esque existentialism, both these meanings come crashing into view.
  — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
• This adage comes from Soren Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher, poet, theologian and the founder of existentialism.
  — kansascity, 30 June 2018