Example sentences for: nihilistic

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

  • The montage of Lester's memories at the end of the film is hardly nihilistic: He remembers the closest relationships in his past life with wonder and gratitude.

  • but nihilistic.

  • The tone of Elizabeth comes nearer to the nihilistic relish of Jacobeans such as John Ford and John Webster than to the more sorrowful horror of the Elizabethan dramatists Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare.

  • It may be fun to say, as Frank put it in the Baffler , that William S. Burroughs' "inspirational writings are boardroom favorites, his dark nihilistic burpings the happy homilies of the new corporate faith."

  • In short, I see no evidence that the filmmakers wanted to endorse Ricky's nihilistic detachment.


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