No Exit

American  

noun

1. a play (1945) by Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Example Sentences

These films, along with theatre such as Arthur Miller’s McCarthy era allegory “The Crucible,” and surreal, avant garde works like Jean Paul Sartre’s “No Exit” and Samuel Becket’s “Waiting for Godot,” tested the assumptions of bourgeois 1950s America and led the way to the creative explosion of the following decades.

From Salon

“There is no exit,” Morton has written, comparing our plight to waking up and realizing that one has been buried alive.

From Salon

“This estate offers a lifestyle that requires no exit. A rare opportunity to acquire a pedigreed property defined by absolute privacy and timeless design,” the listing adds.

From MarketWatch

The problem with enshittification is that there is no exit as the systems on which we rely really begin to break down.

From Slate

Created by Joe Port and Joe Wiseman and based on the British series of the same name, the CBS comedy falls somewhere between “The Good Place” and Jean-Paul Sartre’s dark existentialist play “No Exit.”

From Los Angeles Times