Example sentences for: nihilistic

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

  • 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.

  • But even at his most glibly nihilistic, in A Clockwork Orange , Kubrick foresaw the punk movement in a way that makes the overused term visionary seem an understatement.

  • but nihilistic.


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