Example sentences for: nihilism

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

  • You can dismiss someone like DeLay as an extremist, but, in the wake of Littleton, many moderate pundits and politicians who disdain creationism joined him in decrying the nihilism supposedly engendered by our secular culture.

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

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

  • During his slide into Hades, Springer's liberalism has degenerated into a kind of nihilism.

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


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