nihilistic

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Via a wild final act, the nihilistic streak seen in many of Mr. Lanthimos’s previous movies emerges again, this time in an especially mordant way.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

The top-level diplomat who spent years at the transatlantic defence alliance asked not to be named in order to speak freely, but why so nihilistic?

From BBC • May 3, 2025

Unfortunately for the remaining federal workers, who never signed up to take part in an eccentric billionaire’s nihilistic simulation, these days are painfully real.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2025

That can lead us into a nihilistic place of feeling as if nothing matters, or accelerate our grief to the point it becomes a part of our identity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2025

The Threepenny Opera was a kind of Trainspotting for the late 1920s, presenting the middle classes with a grimy, warts-and-all vision of the alienated, nihilistic underclass.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall