Example sentences for: nihilism

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

  • 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.

  • This path has been smoothed by the nihilism of those Arab intellectuals--including Said--who prefer utopian dreams to a view of politics as the art of compromise.

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

  • The mood here is a good deal softer: The scabrous nihilism of Taxi Driver is no longer as palatable--or, perhaps, as accurate in its response to the flavor of the times or the mood of its creators--as it was in 1976.


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