How to Use nihilism in a Sentence

nihilism

noun

• This would all be fine if the GOP’s deficit nihilism knew no bounds.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Feb. 2018
• 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
• But even writing out that short summary begins to unveil the pain, even the nihilism, at the heart of the work.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
• 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
• But this just shows the nihilism at the heart of the GOP, the only mainstream party in the Western world that questions the science of climate change.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 2 June 2017
• Yes, but: This thinking can result in a nobody-knows-nothin' kind of nihilism.
  — Neil Irwin, Axios, 3 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Now, this is 1977, and Bob was living in London and had been reading the tabloid press, who had kind of picked up on all the negative, nihilism part.
  — Jeff Slate, Esquire, 6 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Our hero, wilting under the caustic nihilism of the video age, finds that strange things start happening not to his mind, but his body.
  — Sam Kriss, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
• 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
• The holidays can bring up lots of emotions — from joy, to anxiety, to straight-up nihilism!
  — Mallory Schlossberg, Redbook, 5 Dec. 2017
• Or will progressives win the aftermath with charges of Trump nihilism?
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 23 Jan. 2018
• There is an absorption of nationalism critique, in this way of thinking, a strike against nihilism.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
• In charting their unlikely romance, Covell pulled off a surprising feat of humor and nihilism—which Kaos accomplishes at a grander scale.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024