existential pain

But her emotional and existential pain also found release in her art.

But they also treat what Stanton calls existential pain.

He could only regard her existential pain as a cup of instant coffee to be sweetened with saccharin.

Additionally, Liliane is heavily affected by the existential pain of anti-black racism.

You are not likely ever to feel the existential pain of not belonging or even the simple stress of arriving late.

Instead, they have been seduced by the promises of a narcissistic society which offers them temporary and costly relief for their existential pain.

Through this lyricism and concern for individual experience, Proulx deals with existential pain, but differently from the early post-modernists.

And a stirring sense of Christian existential pain, which wonders at the paradoxes of faith, surfaces in several ardently acted scenes.

- interview with Smith in which he talks about a plumbing goalkeeper and the existential pain of being in the director's box at Maine Road.

Geller gives us Elvis: Victim of Existential Pain.

Like most of Mr. Foreman's characters he is in a state of terminal existential pain and perpetual nervous collapse.

But the existential pain still lingers in the blond, blue-eyed standard of beauty that many girls internalize with varying degrees of psychic trauma, which holds particularly loaded implications for African American women.

Though I sometimes tire of the sufferings of superheroes, I have a permanent soft spot for the Wolverine, the Marvel mutant whose indestructibility causes him endless physical and existential pain.

Especially in his stories, Quiroga describes the tragedy that haunts the miserable rural workers in the region, the dangers and sufferings to which they are exposed, and how this existential pain is perpetuated to succeeding generations.

It is this exhilarating blend of giant mecha robot wars, cutesy anime characters, religious symbolism and existential pain that make Evangelion one of the most imaginative and profoundly affecting series I have ever seen.

Every time "The Sopranos" gets you to empathize with a vicious gangster's existential pain, it pays its respects to "Wiseguy," the late 80's cop show for viewers who liked a little moral complexity with their car chases.

Or so, at least, it seems to Julian Donahue, a successful Manhattan adman, ex-husband, ex-father and baleful hero of Arthur Phillips's incandescent new novel, who numbs his existential pain with transporting shots of song.

She said they each had made her cry, reminding her of a different aspect of the battle, whether it was the existential pain that breast cancer causes the patient or the struggle of being a child who suddenly becomes caretaker for a parent.

The existential pain of exile, the confusions of sexual identity and the complex legacies of the Cuban revolution are predominant concerns, but Mr. Machado's writing in "Kissing Fidel" is overstimulated to the point of hysteria.

But with each book in this new series, Jesse is more his own man - a lonely, unstable guy who is serious about self-redemption but who lacks Spenser's natural defenses (of humor, heroics and a few good friends) for living in existential pain.

The singer Holly Cole's performance at a jampacked Mercury Lounge on Tuesday conjured up an endless list of powerful commercial references for young adults in the post-Bush era: New Orleans, Tom Waits, the film "Clueless," drinking to ease existential pain, and modish dating rituals.

In a presentation that preserved his subjects' anonymity, the doctor described to the American Psychoanalytic Association a veritable witch's brew under the company's buttoned-down exterior of repressed fratricidal fantasies, incestuous homosexual longings, parental abuse, efforts to attract love through outrageous acts and substance abuse aimed at dulling existential pain.

Funnier and sadder than a dancing bear, Paco Ignacio Taibo 2d's NO HAPPY ENDING (Mysterious Press/Warner, $17.95) makes merry reading, in William I. Neuman's snappy translation, until you get its political message and feel the existential pain of its hero.