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The book contrasts her idealism with his nihilism.nihilism = belief that there are no universal moral values and that ultimately life is meaningless
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The film is pessimistic and nihilistic.nihilistic = portraying life as meaningless and without high values
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...the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering. (source)nihilism = the belief that there is no universal truth or underlying reality that supports moral values, and that ultimately existence is meaningless
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He made a great show of his education, droning on about nihilism and giving pompous lectures on French literature at NCO meetings. (source)nihilism = belief that there are no universal moral values and that ultimately life is meaningless
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"You're beautiful when you're nihilistic," says the smirker. (source)nihilistic = portraying life as meaningless and without high values
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For me—and I'll keep repeating it doggedly till I die, till I fall over on my ungrateful nihilistic face and am too weak to say it: better never born, than born into this cesspool. (source)nihilistic = with the belief that there are no universal moral values and that ultimately life is meaningless
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Existential or nihilist ones. (source)nihilist = with the belief that there are no universal moral values and that ultimately life is meaningless
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I. I have not committed the ultimate act of nihilism: I have not killed the queen.† (source)
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You all pretend to be cynics and nihilists, but it's your own morality that steers the magazine, and several times I've noticed that it's quite a special sort of morality.† (source)
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The already frantic crowd went rabid; the ranks of uniformed "American" soldiers broke, and if chaos had ruled previously, nihilistic mobocracy now reigned supreme.† (source)
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With so much at stake, was he afraid of failure, of being just one more incompetent nihilist?† (source)
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The truce with pessimism-bordering-on-nihilism was a very tenuous one.† (source)
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Similar radical views were advanced by the nihilists of the last century, and a little later by some of Dostoievsky's heroes, and still more recently by their direct descendants, the provincial educated classes, who were often ahead of the capitals because they still were in the habit of going to the root of things while in the capitals such an approach was regarded as obsolete and unfashionable.† (source)
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The law is completely nihilistic.† (source)
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He was not what we call a nihilist.† (source)
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They had a moment of cohesion, a moment of tragic affection and union, which drew them together like small jets of flame against all the senseless nihilism of life.† (source)
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