I was wandering through the Dolce & Gabbana racks, puzzling over the existential meaning of the Barneys bankruptcy.

"Hope lends a sense of existential meaning to what you do," Dr. Elliott said.

He has said that once he achieved this lifetime goal, he was more interested in its existential meaning than in defending it month after grueling month.

Only a more discriminating theory can do justice to the connections among men, angels and existential meaning.

Tanabe's "Demonstratio of Christianity" presents religion as a cultural entity in tension with the existential meaning that religion plays in individual lives.

Just prior to his ordination, Hammersmark had a fundamental change of heart, declared himself an atheist, and began to search for existential meaning in the secular world.

Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York focuses on the protagonist's desire to find existential meaning.

But more, like Krapp's tapes or Lucky's bones they provide her with what Mary Doll describes as "touchstones of existential meaning".

The same theory may take on quite different political, moral and even existential meanings according to particular circumstances of context and conjuncture.