How to Use nihilism in a Sentence

nihilism

noun

• Faced with all the freedom in the world and no one to share it with, Ed chooses nihilism.
  — TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
• So do all of us still here on this side of the line dividing greed and nihilism.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 23 July 2022
• The Glazers are the poster children of the corporate nihilism of the Premier League.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 May 2021
• Their nihilism is embodied by Riff (the rangy Mike Faist), the kind of brawler who would rather fight than win.
  — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
• There are parts of New York where nihilism is a form of currency.
  — Marlowe Granados, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Dec. 2022
• Roman’s nihilism is on full display when Kendall strides in to goad him back to work.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 30 May 2023
• But what might at times seem on the page a sort of tidy nihilism has a richness and texture onstage.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 21 Oct. 2022
• The symbol of Joy’s nihilism is an everything bagel, shaped like a zero, or like the iris of an eye.
  — Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• She’s a practicing Catholic, but with some nihilism thrown in.
  — Brock Colyar, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2021
• Every line of Back curls like that: jaunty and ornate, nihilism served with a smile.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2021
• The boy shooters filled with nihilism and despair, with hate, with little regard for the lives of others.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
• For awhile, the play indulges the catharsis of nihilism in the face of political defeat.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2023
• In the show, Mr. Ed had a puckish sense of humor but abstained from alcohol and no longer had a streak of nihilism.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2020
• But nihilism is a failure of imagination, the bleak, easy way out.
  — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022
• The nihilism of the punk scene and the pressures of fame were too much for the gifted, groundbreaking frontwoman, the first person of color to front a punk band.
  — Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
• Same goes for the mood of post-political nihilism held by some young people.
  — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2021
• Thunberg has seen climate nihilism up close; the problem is too enormous to tackle, the adults tell her.
  — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2019
• The evil that must be fought here is nihilism, represented by the Echthroi, a word for enemy that comes from Greek versions of the Bible.
  — Ruth Franklin, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2020
• Now, his nihilism is wreaking havoc on our economy and around the world.
  — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2019
• One thing was absolutely clear — and a surprise, in a way — that there isn’t a nihilism [with le Carré].
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
• But there is also just an overwhelming sense of nihilism.
  — Elle Reeve, CNN, 20 May 2022
• In my opinion, in this day and age, any attitude other than nihilism counts as a skill (but don’t put that on your resume).
  — Ginny Hogan, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Also, the mere fact of passing an actual law would help the party of government and hurt the party of nihilism.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 20 June 2022
• But that doesn’t mean that nihilism is suddenly an option.
  — Whitney Phillips, Wired, 4 June 2020
• In the disarray of Season 2, the series’s sense of nihilism is magnified.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
• Julia Shapiro sings, making nihilism feel like a warm blanket.
  — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
• But mainly this pontificate has failed to stand up to the forces of moral nihilism with vigor and conviction.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 5 Mar. 2020
• Regardless of motive, nihilism and raw menace lurk at the heart of Melzer’s 09A beliefs.
  — Ali Winston, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2022
• Its talking rocks and nihilism bagels may not personally spark you.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2023
• The other vision is the vision that Hamas has, death, destruction, nihilism, darkness.
  — CBS News, 22 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024