He is a suit who works for a very rich man and apparently revels in nihilistic destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Fun and Loathing in Las Vegas Washington D.C.] Reference
Bilbo: I miss your point, Zach. angryoldfatman: It's known as a nihilistic fixation. From Wordnik.com. [An Amazing Design Material] Reference
Indiscriminate posting of the cables - which Burns called "nihilistic" - and the more careful vetting evidenced by The New York. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
I guess it's just "nihilistic" to report on these matters!. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Cohen Criticizes WikiLeaks, Lies About Michael Hastings] Reference
But somehow that kind of nihilistic approach doesn't really work. From Wordnik.com. [David Nichtern: Becoming a 'Poet of Uncertainty'] Reference
What kind of nihilistic little minds would conspire to depict the human race in so incompetent a light?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » FBI Agent Who Consulted On Path to 9/11 Quit Halfway Through Because ‘They Were Making Things Up’] Reference
They call it "nihilistic," even though it's a simple expression of longing for universal peace and love. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Jindals talk was trounced even by the conservatives who gave such responses as "nihilistic,". From Wordnik.com. [The World Can't Wait!] Reference
It's known as a nihilistic fixation. From Wordnik.com. [An Amazing Design Material] Reference
These are not in many cases nihilistic terrorists. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2005] Reference
With the gas tank full, I took a stab at nihilistic bravado. From Wordnik.com. [TERRORIST TARGET OR NOT, THE DANGER IS REAL] Reference
The propaganda for freedom of mind is essentially nihilistic. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Conspiracy] Reference
The film tackles these questions without ever turning nihilistic. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Secret] Reference
The characters in these existential, nihilistic tales are doomed. From Wordnik.com. [Otto Penzler: Noir Fiction Is About Losers, Not Private Eyes] Reference
Trapped inside his nihilistic brilliance, he's got nowhere to go but down. From Wordnik.com. ['Tis Not A Jolly Season] Reference
The trend in al Qaeda now is becoming increasingly nihilistic and apocalyptic. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2007] Reference
True, a new generation of more nihilistic Qaeda operatives are also a problem. From Wordnik.com. [The Reeducation of Abu Jandal] Reference
The notion of a China threat is, I think, as nihilistic as it is anachronistic. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: A Waking Dragon] Reference
It's almost hackneyed by now to refer to Generation X as nihilistic and self-indulgent. From Wordnik.com. [Gen X Invades Asia] Reference
His view of the world is tragic — he understands we're up against a nihilistic enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Obama’s War on Terror] Reference
We are nihilistic thoughts, suicidal thoughts that come into God's head, a bad day of his. From Wordnik.com. [what you do best] Reference
She looked about nine or ten, and contorted her face into a nihilistic grimace directed at me. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctuary] Reference
Tourgheniev has grappled with the nihilistic ideas which for a long time have been so current in Russia. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
Now, thanks to the success of her frankly nihilistic raps, she says, "" I have two houses, two automobiles. From Wordnik.com. [The New Gangsta On The Block] Reference
So, I would say Joe Klein's position is closer to the nihilistic position than the conservative position is. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2009] Reference
SWEENEY: What can the Rory Peck Trust Award do in places like Mexico, where the situation seems to be so nihilistic?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 29, 2008] Reference
He wrote hip, nihilistic advertising copy (for a sky-diving outfit: "" We make a lasting impression -- you won't! ''). From Wordnik.com. [Seattle Reigns] Reference
His nihilistic approach to courting is bizarre, but I also found the bonding of two confused children of divorce touching. From Wordnik.com. [Mad Men: season four, episode two] Reference
Earlier this year, she let husband Guy Ritchie direct the song's video, which he turned into a nihilistic violence-filled joke. From Wordnik.com. [Madonna Square Garden] Reference
To ignore therapeutic improvement as the one relevant barometer of the validity of our theories is nihilistic and self-paralyzing. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Bader, D.M.H.: Why We Need a "Practical Psychoanalysis"] Reference
Cobain, the Nirvana frontman who'd go down in history as the angsty, nihilistic voice of the postboomer generation, had cracked a joke. From Wordnik.com. [Cries From The Heart] Reference
The absence of a defined aesthetic order, like a nihilistic public disorder, offers a convenient blank canvas for the socially disengaged. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Brenner: Modernism's Empty Empty Spaces] Reference
But they -- the thousands of profoundly nihilistic teenagers who have turned the nation's ghettos into free-fire zones -- aren't listening. From Wordnik.com. [The New Frontier For Civil Rights] Reference
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