How To Use Nihilist In A Sentence
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Enraged by the success of "We's Lives," he writes a violent, nihilistic, dialect-strewn thug novel he bitingly titles "My Pafology.
A Protean Chronicler of Racial Puzzles
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The prime example is the Dada movement, whose nihilistic work is now admired for qualities of imagination.
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Could it be that behind the sophomoric, mischievous, dismissive, even nihilistic style, Vice is the voice of a twenty-something generation clearing the decks for a new aesthetic?
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While there is no question that his verbiage is infuriating at times, I think it's a mistake to see him as nothing but an anarchic, anti-rationalist nihilist.
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The premise is a cynical, even nihilistic one: people are the sum of their biological impulses, slaves to genes, pheromones, and the archipallium.
"Unidentified Objects" by James P. Blaylock
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It is my total albeit, naive-sounding, to nihilists masquerading as realists belief that there is remedy to this incident; the Iranian government can make this happen without appearing to have equivocated, and frankly, without appearing as anomalous in their imprisonment of artists, because again, history is far too rife with such instances, the world over.
Michael Vazquez: On The Imprisonment of Iranian Filmmakers: A Moral Option For Iran and Any Government Presuming to Silence Its Artists
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So the vision such nihilists offered 20 th-century man was of a destiny no more elevated than a dog or cat, emancipated from morality other than subservience to the state.
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But today's Republicans are a nihilistic pack who would turn against everything their predecessors believed in, in the name of selfishness and greed.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The New GOP: Anti-Kids, Anti-Jobs, Anti-Business... And Anti-Republican
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They do not want to become what they fight, namely a nihilist who asserts his will rather than good men who obey a notion of justice outside of their own desires.
South Dakota Politics
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He created the term by combining "cybernetics," the science of replacing human functions with computerized ones, and "punk," the raucous music and nihilistic sensibility that became a youth culture in the 1970s and '80s.
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
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What made it self-wounding, even nihilistic, was that Pakistan, by asserting a new Arabized Islamic identity, rejected its own local and regional culture.
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In 2006 the case was thrown out by California's supreme court, which ruled that this kind of freewheeling babble, albeit offensive and embarrassing when circulated in court documents, was an entirely essential element of the "creative workplace" required to make the show – a show that, in case you needed reminding, was hardly Tramadol Nights in terms of nihilistic edginess.
Charlie Brooker: We shouldn't have to feel paranoid about snoops listening in to everything we say
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Myself, I'd call myself a nihilist.
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Driven by a death wish and using the most revolting tactics, these heartless nihilists demand martyrdom.
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Oddly enough, in contrast to Mr Anonymous's (teeth achingly-patronising) suggestion that rebellion against Empire leads inevitably to children growing up in a meaningless, nihilistic world (the children! think of the children!), I'm quite happy to judge myself by the accumulated affection and/or scorn that I manage to evoke from the people that matter to me.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR
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But at all times, a clear distinction must be held between Muslims and fanatic nihilists, for the former desire the furtherment of society, while the latter do not believe in society at all.
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Just nihilistic violence and a shocking casual misogyny.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alas: these archetypes we revere wouldn't last a day in a modern newspaper - they were profane, drunken, nihilistic fabulists more concerned with the cards in their hands than the truth on the page.
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They dismiss such work as nihilist or antiscience, and hurl epithets like ‘number-phobic’ and ‘jargon-monger’ at its authors.
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He goes on to chronicle the genius of ‘black foremothers and forefathers’ in creating ‘powerful buffers to ward off the nihilistic threat.’
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And since he asserts that atheism = nihilism and deism = atheism lite, then I must really be a nihilist.
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The nihilists had many sympathizers in the literary and journalistic worlds.
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Far from exhibiting the "nihilistic selfishness" of trying to "preserve" things in "aspic" - of which planning minister Greg Clark has accused the reforms' opponents - Oakham has accepted that it should be a focus for future housing growth.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
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Although considering how nihilistic these guys are, the result might simply be violence and chaos on an even grander scale.
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On a deeper level, I do believe that kids can intuit many aspects of the nihilist worldview - the possibility that suffering is meaningless, or that the only thing that happens after death is putrefaction.
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Re: Hence, the benefits of a secular society, where we can incessantly dick with the intersection between the “nihilistic, unnatural, [and] antihuman” and the City of God, the better to make life in the here and now not suck.
Matthew Yglesias » Iceland Bans Strip Clubs
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What he doesn't do is seduce the audience with his nihilistic charm.
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I've got to say I've never agreed with a word he's said, although I concede that he's funny, if you're a certain type of nihilistic cynic.
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Yes, there are still bitter-ender Basque, IRA, and Maoist terrorists at work; the PLO's nihilistic progeny still attack Israel when not attacking each other; Russia is still a destabilizing power.
"We're not winning, we're not losing."
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The perpetrators of these acts are nihilists who place no more value on their own lives than they do on ours.
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Jean conveyed the lives of four nihilistic young people in a New Brunswick logging town with a feral intensity that is exceedingly rare in Canadian independent cinema.
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Welcome to the nihilist void of the violent, misogynistic, and racist lyrics of rap.
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You do know that being identified as a nihilist is a not a compliment, don’t ya, Abb? abb1 Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Why Two Parties?
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Such hollow ideas may serve the narcissistic needs and short term interests of a few, but what begins as simple negation can end in nihilistic disaster as those with hollow ideas and hardened avoid the real work of reviving the heart of culture and tending to the soul of the country.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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His movies have a cold, nihilistic view of humanity in the modern age.
Christianity Today
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He saw enough in Hicks to remind him of the nihilistic swagger of Bruce.
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Just nihilistic violence and a shocking casual misogyny.
Times, Sunday Times
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To his critics, he appeared to be a pernicious nihilist who threatened the very foundation of Western society and culture.
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He spent much of his time swimming in nihilistic little circles and had a lethargy that some saw as foretokening an early death.
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I was a punky, nihilistic kid when I wrote those scenes.
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With the usual eerie vocals and bassy dubstep backing from these nihilistic Michigan electroids, what's new with this track is the energy.
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Anthony Cronin's telling portrait of the time, Dead as Doornails, portrays the boozy pub-centred milieu as a place where the attitude and drinking seemed nihilistic and alcoholism and underachievement were rife.
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The place would certainly have become a playground for every kind of nihilist and fundamentalist.
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This city's history makes it wide open, accepting, perhaps incautious and that makes London a perfect target for the psychopathic criminal nihilists but it also makes it a robust and adaptable entity.
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Clerics from the broader ideological mainstream of Islam, where most Muslims put themselves, are condemning nihilist extremism with greater boldness.
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Ancient parody was free of any nihilistic denial.
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His apocalyptic vision, like that of the Russian nihilists of the nineteenth century, is not going to materialize.
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His post-modernism is pretty unattractive and essentially nihilistic.
The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World « PubliCola
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As ignorant and nihilistic as it may be, this record still gets me turnt up in the gym.
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This view, albeit hostile, highlights the essence of the phenomenon that evolved through the parallel activities of anarchists, populists, and syndicalists, as well as nihilists in Lenin's youth.
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We have no such right, and the very notion that we do is nihilistic, unnatural, antihuman.
Matthew Yglesias » Iceland Bans Strip Clubs
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Yesterday's gobbing nihilists are today's middle-aged middle managers, lecturers and put-upon parents.
Times, Sunday Times
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Moreover, everything is devoid of all four extreme modes of impossible existence: true existence – the eternalist position, total nonexistence – the nihilist position, both – from one point of view eternalist, from another nihilist, neither – from one point of view, a manner of existence that is not eternalist; from another viewpoint, one that is not nihilist either.
6 Gelug Presentation of Tantra in General
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You’ve got to find a way to signal to the reader that this self-loathing, nihilistic downer is nevertheless a human worth caring about.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Donald Maass, Part 2
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It doesn't mean you can walk the street naked—what I would call nihilist nudity.
All for the Sake of Art
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I was vexed by this question in my head, "is running nihilistic or existentialist in nature?"
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A nihilist is a man who does not bow down before any authority, who does not take any principle on faith, whatever reverence that principle may be enshrined in.
Chapter V
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We were self-indulgent moral nihilists - materialistic, selfish, and impulsive.
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And since he asserts that atheism equals nihilism, and deism equals atheism lite, then I must really be a nihilist.
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This book was unabashed nihilist claptrap.
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He's massively articulate and frighteningly nihilistic.
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From this misconception have come all the unfounded charges that Buḍḍhism is an "atheistical," that is to say, a grossly materialistic, a nihilistic, a negative, a vice-breeding religion.
The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons
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Nihilist: Yeah and maybe we stomp on it and squoosh it, Lebowski.
Steve Stifler is a Twittering Nihilist with a Widget
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Perhaps the word is misused, and he his better described as a nihilist, or an annihilist.
The Enemy of all the World
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Hence, the benefits of a secular society, where we can incessantly dick with the intersection between the “nihilistic, unnatural, [and] antihuman” and the City of God, the better to make life in the here and now not suck.
Matthew Yglesias » Iceland Bans Strip Clubs
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He was the classic, self-destructive nihilist.
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His nihilistic view of human existence was the very starting point in his lifelong struggle to confront the universe face-to-face.
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As in Wright's novel, in Chicano urban texts the nihilist renounces institutions and ideologies which are perceived to maintain a repressive social and racial order.
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From the way you're talking about it, sounds like you're a nihilist, or at the very least suffering from clinical depression.
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Work for today is to continue reading greygirlbeast's brilliant, evocative, nihilistic A is for Alien and thinking about what I want to say about her work on acritical level.
My fandom runs like a girl
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All are ordinary working men, except for Kenneth Pyper, an aristocratic artist turned existential nihilist who, unlike the others, seems genuinely prepared for death.
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The two extremes are the nihilist position and the eternalist position.
A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ��� Day Six: Deepest Bodhichitta, Continued
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He was an atheist and a nihilist.
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Milbank claims that their basic thrust is nihilistic, as is that of positivism, Hegelianism, liberalism, relativism, subjectivism and pluralism, and that they are founded on the ultimacy of aggression, violence and war.
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If it's a guilty pleasure, a loud sloppy nihilistic yawp aimed at film-school graduates, fine. Say so and be done with it.
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If you think atheists are all miserable, nihilistic amoralists, this book should put you straight.
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The Real World for the nihilist is the one where life lashes out at all of us, every damned single day -- where hope is a deluded pipedream, and (bleep) happens.
Wounded Trust, Lost Revenues
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The novel is irritating because of the author's endless, fetishistic revisiting of the same nihilist themes he has explored since his first book.
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And then you follow that with the absurd satire of Humanism -- nihilist Nietszche prancing on in goathide leggings with an ithyphallic cock dancing in the air, bringing existential panic, but saying "Whatever doesn't kill me, makes me stronger" -- bara boom.
Archive 2006-02-01
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Or the idea of nihilist terrorists getting a nuke from a failed state like N Korea or Pakistan.
Russ Feingold's proposed constitutional amendment.
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To defeat democracy, he has pursued a relentless, nihilistic bloodbath.
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Her latest play is a nihilistic vision of the world of the future.
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She exhibited none of the narcissistic and nihilistic tendencies of her peers.
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For our own sanity, if nothing else, we cannot really subscribe to such a misanthropic and nihilistic worldview.
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A member of the Nihilist Party, in 1874 she was condemned to prison and sent to Siberia.
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The prison cell thus becomes an appropriate symbol of Jesus's nihilistic perspective, a space which emblematizes Jesus's complete negation of the society that has sought to destroy and negate him.
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In propounding this concept, he does not adopt a nihilistic view of the continuing use of these chemicals.
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Very few people can actually bear to be nihilists; very few people can preach a message of paralysis and despair for long.
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I almost included Andromeda Strain in my nihilistic views ... and Day the Earth Stood Still (modern) ... is more like a stand-off than a real happy.
Is a grim, dark, nihilistic view of the future in SciFi...groundbreaking?
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After eating his usual copious breakfast, he had imprudently asked the waiter for a Russian paper; and, as he read, and sipped his kummel, which he found a little insipid and almost made him regret the vodka of his native land, his eyes fell upon a letter from Odessa, in which there was a detailed description of the execution of three nihilists, two of them gentlemen.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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In my lifetime, it has gone from being a nihilistic examination of the futility of life to being a surreal knockabout.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today, they contend, those qualities have been eclipsed “by the hypertrophied commercial individualism of the age of extremes” — as high-altitude adventure has become high-tech, it has become compromised, disputatious, even nihilistic.
Cover to Cover
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Perhaps the word is misused, and he is better described as a nihilist, or an annihilist.
THE ENEMY OF ALL THE WORLD
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It was history's odd timing: A great historical rupture in the Arab world, bearing within it the promise of remaking a flawed political tradition that knew no middle ground between despotism and nihilistic violence, happened on the watch of an American president proud of his deliberateness and his detachment from history's passions.
Obama's Holbrooke Moment
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The nihilist is also committed to the denial of tables, and will offer paraphrases (˜simples arranged tablewise™) and tacit fictions (the ˜fiction™ of composition). [
Monism
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Strangely though, this doesn't come over as frosty or nihilistic, but harmless and complaisant.
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That is a message that all but the most nihilistic of the armed insurgents will have to accept.
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Clerics from the broader ideological mainstream of Islam, where most Muslims put themselves, are condemning nihilist extremism with greater boldness.
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Was he a nihilist, was he an anarchist?
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Expunging the symbolic evidence of the old order did not satisfy the revolutionary nihilists who wanted to clear the ground for a new cultural order.
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Her vision is nihilistic and absurd, yet, in its commitment to small-scale fantasy, an inarguable delight to behold - like a cheeky, philosophical pop-up book.
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Following the assassination of his father, he rejected all plans of liberal reform, suppressing Russian nihilists and Populists.
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January 24th, 2010 at 3: 18 pm tombaker says: drhunt savegely and baselessly disses an Annapolis-Graduated Nuclear Scientist and born-again Christian President. proving that righties are all amoral, godless nihilists.
Think Progress » Chuck Todd: ‘The Tea Party gets a big benefit’ from Fox News’ promotion.
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Some comedy ensues, but mostly grating, nihilistic meanderings.
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Strauss maintained that all philosophers throughout history had hidden an esoteric message because (1) they feared persecution and (2) they believed an open espousal of nihilistic atheism (which Strauss considered philosophically true) would undermine the moral foundations of social life.
Matthew Yglesias » Accounting Identities and Straussian Economics
