nihilistic

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  1. Relating to the doctrine of social or political nihilism; characterized by nihilism: as, nihilistic views. Cosmopolitan and nihilistic socialism. Orpen, tr. of Laveleye'as Socialism, p. 244.

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  • A very different and un- nihilistic “cloud of witnesses” was hers, we may believe. —  Queen Victoria, Her Girlhood And Womanhood
  • Still, homosexual activity in a science fiction novel back then was just about unknown, so Stapledon ranks as a pioneer in that area As for the cataclysmic ending—the suicides of John and all the other supermen as the world closes in on them—I once thought it needlessly nihilistic, and implausible besides. —  Asimov'sSF,April-May2008
  • Zero's tone leans toward the bleak and nihilistic, thanks to lyrics obsessed with apocalyptic imagery and bitter vengeance. —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
  • I am certain that the several minutes of nihilistic (albeit magnificent) orchestration of the bombing of Darwin is his subliminal way of saying that we should get rid of this artificial, man-made (white man-made) civilization, and revert the land to its purity and naturalness, with the traces of the white man now destroyed, and return it to the Aborigines. —  ChronWatch - Articles
  • Fight Club proves to be nihilistic, a very different view then I hold as a Christian, it was an amazing movie and has given me much to think about. —  Rhett Smith
 

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