Example sentences for: nihilism

How can you use “nihilism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Finally, the Sex Pistols unite all the nihilism and flimflam that's been accumulating like sediment in the rock industry and the rock mind-set, and an era ends--roughly around the time Elvis dies.

  • The New York Times ' Janet Maslin, for one, dismisses other reviewers for misunderstanding the film: "If watched sufficiently mindlessly, it might be mistaken for a dangerous endorsement of totalitarian tactics and super-violent nihilism in an all-out assault on society," but she sees it instead as an investigation of "the lure of violence in an even more dangerously regimented, dehumanized culture."

  • The kind of detachment the movie is peddling isn't artistic, it isn't life--it's nihilism at its most fatuous.

  • Kudos for the film's Gogolesque characters and Dostoyevskian nihilism; laments about the general paucity of foreign films in America.

  • Naipaul warns that the country may succumb to "nihilism."


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