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[missdaredevil]

Would anyone possibly use *existential* in a sentence?

Thanks

[bud]

That's a toughie, MsD!

Heres what I found:

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. Peggy Noonan

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one. Thomas Lynch

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience-there and then gone. Bill Moyers

I have an existential map. It has You are here written all over it. Stephen Wright

all from: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/existential.html