How To Use Nihilistic In A Sentence
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Her latest play is a nihilistic vision of the world of the future.
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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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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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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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I was vexed by this question in my head, "is running nihilistic or existentialist in nature?"
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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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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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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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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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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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To defeat democracy, he has pursued a relentless, nihilistic bloodbath.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ancient parody was free of any nihilistic denial.