Example sentences for: nihilism

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • In the end, American Beauty is New Age Nihilism.

  • 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.


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