the human condition
noun
: part of being a person
The need to be loved is simply part of the human condition.
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Unwritten books also result from the human condition, specifically from its tendency toward inertia: no one ever got around to writing them.
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Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Featuring nine-meter-high tapestries and site-specific objects inspired by her performative interventions, the installation explores themes of belonging, utopia, and the human condition under changing political systems.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 28 Jan. 2025
Not all movies need to serve up profound insights into the human condition, but the ones that don’t should at least be entertaining, and Twohy’s particular strain of absurdism is not just contrived, but deeply unfunny.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
Albert Camus famously saw it as a parable of the human condition: Life is meaningless, and consciousness of this meaninglessness is torture.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025
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Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Featuring nine-meter-high tapestries and site-specific objects inspired by her performative interventions, the installation explores themes of belonging, utopia, and the human condition under changing political systems.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 28 Jan. 2025
Not all movies need to serve up profound insights into the human condition, but the ones that don’t should at least be entertaining, and Twohy’s particular strain of absurdism is not just contrived, but deeply unfunny.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
Albert Camus famously saw it as a parable of the human condition: Life is meaningless, and consciousness of this meaninglessness is torture.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025
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