Sample Sentences for
nihilism
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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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    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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    "You're beautiful when you're nihilistic," says the smirker.  (source)
    nihilistic = portraying life as meaningless and without high values
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    He was not what we call a nihilist.†  (source)
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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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    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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    One of my teachers told me I was a 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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    And if some keenly sick man could have committed the act in a flash, for reason of mere possibility or nihilistic whim or curiosity, a man like me would have done so for the avoidance of a future day, whose complications—whether happy or not—might simply overwhelm.†  (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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    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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