Example Sentences

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If they’d all ended as bleakly and nihilistically as the seven Channel 4 episodes had, it could have got boring and predictable as well as unrelentingly despairing.

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2019

Still, Hugh Laurie has a wonderful time grimacing nihilistically as Richard Roper, “the worst man in the world,” a philanthropist who is also a secret arms dealer.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016

It was an outrageous plot point that was saved from being nihilistically gratuitous by showing actual emotional consequences for nearly all the characters of “Murder House”; it wasn’t titillating, it was upsetting.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2015

Both are outsiders, at times morally righteous and at others nihilistically resigned.

From Time • Nov. 16, 2014

It was industrial music, so the lessons tended to be along the lines of “sit in a parking lot nihilistically at midnight,” which I assiduously did.

From Slate • Jul. 10, 2014