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nihilistic
adjective as in insurgent
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“They’re so principled and motivated, even if it’s in a nihilistic way,” she said.
“Anniversary” is a deeply nihilistic film that can’t be described as a cautionary tale — that horse has already left the barn.
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.
He said Earl "led a rather nihilistic existence which involved taking drugs" and "saw the world through the desperate, pathetic and delusional prism of online gaming".
The FBI recently recognised a new category of threat called nihilistic violent extremism or NVE, defined by a general hostility to society and desire for chaos rather than a sharply defined ideology.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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