(n.) One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.
(n.) A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(2) That shift might be imperceptible on paper, but where Araki's earlier work affected a certain nihilistic cool, Kaboom is warm and sympathetic towards its characters.
(3) Of course, we’re in this dystopia, not that world, so we’re left with Trump and Ryan’s flock of nihilists.
(4) Isis’s violence is far from being nihilistic – a charge usually levelled by those who are wishfully blind to the attraction of their foes.
(5) This week’s successful targeting of Haji Imam is another step forward in the struggle against Isis and its brand of nihilistic jihad.
(6) We never revel in it in any sort of gleeful or nihilistic sense; but, on the other hand, we want to be clear-eyed and realistic about these choices Walter has made and this world he's forced himself into."
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest However, behind the nihilistic, numb facade of his new character, the Thin White Duke, Bowie was in trouble.
(8) Most patients have been met by a nihilistic approach to therapy, in most cases due to the fact that patients report long after the trauma.
(9) Österling, an article in Svenska Dagbladet reveals , felt Beckett's work was negative and nihilistic, writing that he "would almost consider a Nobel prize for him as an absurdity in his own style".
(10) The new Afghan President offered the Taliban a route to peace talks if they abandoned nihilist destruction of his country.
(11) Rejecting the anarchistic attitude of "anything goes" as professionally nihilistic, we propose that in the present pluralistic era it is necessary to recognize a multiplicity of perspectives for determining the rightness of therapeutic constructs.
(12) The nihilistic slaughter perpetrated in Mumbai cannot meaningfully be seen as an attempt to fight injustice.
(13) Although reason has failed to provide the grounds to conclusively resolve moral controversies such as abortion, there is still a justifiable understanding of ethics which defies the claims of moral nihilists and relativists.
(14) They encourage the suspicion – potentially lethal among the hundreds of millions of young people condemned to being superfluous – that the present order, democratic or authoritarian, is built on force and fraud; they incite a broader and more volatile apocalyptic and nihilistic mood than we have witnessed before.
(15) So, to understand why jihadis have been drawn into a moral universe that allows them to celebrate inhuman acts, we have to understand why political rage against the West takes such nihilistic, barbaric forms, and why radical Islam has become the primary vehicle for such rage.
(16) Might they not be gobbled extinct by nihilistic gastromaniacs?
(17) Consider this extraordinary set of variations on a theme, a passage chosen from these superabundant pages: "I do not know whether Shakespeare the man was Protestant or Catholic, skeptic or occultist, Hermetist or nihilist (though I suspect that last possibility), but the dramatist regularly drew upon the arch-Protestant Geneva Bible throughout the last 17 years of his productivity.
(18) Inevitably, Isis retaliated by exporting its nihilist violence into the heart of Europe.
(19) It is a measure of how obtuse the guardians of public morality continue to be, that Ballard was ever accused of being a nihilistic pervert or a champion of orgasmic car crashes.
(20) Turgenev was critical of tsarism but disliked intensely the nihilists who preached terror.