| 单词 | nihilistic |
| 例句 | 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. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Being stuck in a situation you don’t want to be in and having the outlook of everything is pointless — it’s kind of nihilistic.” Silver Torches to play from beautiful downer ‘Let It be a Dream’ at Tractor Tavern 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z As Emily Nussbaum wrote in the magazine last week, Trump, along with a sizable contingent of his supporters, has made use of a certain nihilistic humor as a cover for his lies. The Much-Needed Humor of the Women’s March 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z I was wholly drawn to the nihilistic, hyper-intelligent nature of Lowry's story. 'If you tolerate this ...': Nicky Wire on library closures 2011-02-07T22:00:01Z The real-life parallel issues are anything but comic fodder, which puts form and content at odds, the nihilistic ending less grimly ironic than grimacing. Loads of dark satire in 'Occupation,' but little dramatic coherence 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Sacrifices come in different hues — purgative, nihilistic — but some of the most memorable involve a greater love in which characters selflessly lay down their lives for others. In ‘A Star Is Born,’ Equality Is Deadly 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z And now Congo Natty, one of jungle's originators, is back with an album that reanimates the nihilistic, fiercely urban and socially conscious roots of the sound. Congo Natty and the jungle revolution 2013-07-04T16:00:01Z I’m certain whoever came up with that felt it would reinforce my decision to tap out, but the longer I looked at it, the more it began to feel nihilistic. The Man Who Loathed Pajamas 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Still, the film isn’t daring enough to pass as truly nihilistic. Joker strives to capture our cultural moment – but it’s smug and banal at heart 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z So if they are people with morals, and heart, and families and causes to fight for, other than a nihilistic destruction of everything that’s been in the world, then that’s a different prospect. Actor John Bradley From ‘Game of Thrones’ on Whether White Walkers Have Feelings, Too 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, while that concept promises a fun, agile thriller, “The Trip” all too quickly descends into a juvenile, nihilistic mess. ‘The Trip’ Review: With This Gun, I Thee Shoot 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z But the conversation around the film isn’t about on-screen violence, nihilistic machismo or the cartels – but immigration at the US and Mexico border. 'People talk about Sicario as if it's a documentary:' Benicio Del Toro on his new thriller 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z As much an existential drama as a prison-break movie, this is a claustrophobic and nihilistic film lit up by wonderful acting. 'A pas de deux of sex and violence': a poet's guide to film noir 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Wahlberg, a high school dropout who lost a significant amount of weight and spent days on campuses to portray the nihilistic academic, said the character also had its relatable aspects. Remake of 'The Gambler' turns to theme of redemption 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The second season of this nihilistic workplace comedy ends with two back-to-back episodes. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Colette’ and ‘Terrace House’ 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Charlotte Simmonds, New Statesman "After the formal rigour and all-embracing humanity of Klein's work, Moriyama's nihilistic expressionism is not so much disturbing as numbingly repetitive." Klein and Moriyama at London's Tate Modern – reviews roundup 2012-11-19T11:37:06Z But, despite this nihilistic anonymity, it is Gruber who remains the movie’s unforgettable character. The Unforgettable Villainy of Alan Rickman in “Die Hard” 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z As Gittes’s various leads tighten to become a noose, it sets up the extraordinarily downbeat ending, one that still carries a nihilistic charge even as we drown in nominally gritty TV box sets. I’ve never seen … Chinatown 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Now, having been spurned by voters for perhaps a final time, she has fully internalized a kind of nihilistic misogyny. The New Season of “Veep” Was Not Supposed to Be About Donald Trump 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z These volatile adolescents are the French answer to the nihilistic kids in a Larry Clark film. Critic’s Notebook: Rendez-Vous With French Cinema Looks at Real Life 2014-03-05T23:11:14Z You never do see him commit any grand violence, but we see that he’s absolutely nihilistic in terms of what he’s prepared to do. Actor David Thewlis on the ‘Fargo’ Season Finale, V.M. Varga and Greed 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z It would be one thing if the movie openly embraced a deterministic or nihilistic philosophy; that, at least, would have been logical and required some level of bravery. Why the "Terminator" series matters 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Indeed, no matter how cynical and nihilistic the times, we have always had artists who make work that invokes meaning, hope and mystery. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z The film wasn't really done in this dark nihilistic way. Ti West on anyone walking out of his slasher film "X": "What did you think you were signing up for?" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z "At what point do we admit that the NFL's true economic function is to channel our desire for athletic heroism into an engine of nihilistic greed?" 'Why Football Matters' versus 'Against Football' 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Both are outsiders, at times morally righteous and at others nihilistically resigned. The Walking Dead 'Consumed' Recap: Sexual Tension 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z In the real world, hope feels more and more distant as the supposed American virtues of tolerance are either weaponized to justify bigotry and oppression or disposed of altogether in nihilistic glee. "Good, honest folks": 20 years later, controversial "Dogville" has become frightening prophecy 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z But in spite of his good fortune, or more likely because of it, Bennett has a nihilistic, self-destructive streak that manifests in a double life as a high-stakes gambler. 'The Gambler' trailer: Mark Wahlberg pushes his luck 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z It’s a great joke, if a nihilistic one. Review: In ‘Kate,’ Tracing the Tears of a Clown 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z But suspend our morality and things start to take on a deliriously entertaining and madcap sparkle, with films like "The Master" and "Phantom Thread" playing like nihilistic screwball, cracked comedies. Comedies in serious clothing: an introduction to the films of Paul Thomas Anderson 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z “Shame Shame” harks back to glam-rock, as Grohl sings about nihilistic despair — “I found a reason and buried it/beneath a mountain of emptiness” — even as the melodies lift the song toward hope. Billie Eilish’s Kiss-Off, and 14 More New Songs 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z At his most nihilistic, Burton would quote Lear at himself, contemptuously: "Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art." Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter: being Burton and Taylor 2013-07-13T08:00:00Z If we fail to identify and comprehend its most debased and nihilistic intents, the results can be catastrophic. In Defense of Jane Austen. Also Zebras. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z He’s also filled with a sort of nihilistic resentment, which he voices in a scene in which he mocks straight-arrow types who plan for the future and seek stable, orderly, prosperous lives. “Minding the Gap,” Reviewed: A Self-Questioning Documentary About What Happened to a Group of Young Skaters 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z It’s a doorstop, full of sound and fury, more nihilistic than Shakespeare’s original, with all the blunt and dismal machinations of a soap opera. A King Lear Set in India, Wild and Tragic as Ever 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Often, the caption simply reads “Nailed it”—a self-appraisal that’s sarcastic and a bit nihilistic but also oddly joyous, a failure turned inside out to reveal something that’s like a less stuffy cousin of success. The Joys of Netflix’s “Nailed It,” the Baking Competition That Celebrates Kitchen Disaster 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The South Side was – still is, as is all of Chicago – depicted as a violent, nihilistic and dangerous place. Master of None's Lena Waithe: 'If you come from a poor background, TV becomes what you dream about' 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z All in all, this is one of the series’ more deeply nihilistic episodes I can recall. The Walking Dead 'Self Help' Recap: The Big Lie 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Obviously it would be the perfect soundtrack to a scene of total nihilistic devastation. Music to murder to: crime writers on their killer soundtracks 2013-05-08T06:30:00Z This is a hard book to get through, even discounting its length; it’s painful and demanding and sometimes nihilistic, not exactly chicken soup for the ailing American soul. Joyce Carol Oates tackles abortion in her powerful novel, 'A Book of American Martyrs' 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman — amusingly portrayed as paranoid, nihilistic and “often slightly ill” — has penned a heady Mao Zedong biopic that could be the actor’s Oscar vehicle. Review | Jim Carrey the actor-writer deconstructs Jim Carrey the character in ‘Memoirs and Misinformation’ 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z For that matter, using irony and discomfort to tell a story doesn’t mean being nihilistic; “The Sopranos” was intensely moral even if Tony Soprano was not. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z A disappointment at the box office, the film nevertheless won praise from fans of the 2000AD comic strip, who admired its gritty edge and fittingly nihilistic tone. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-01-13T00:05:29Z In six lectures given from his perch at the University of Chicago, Strauss laid out his argument about what he saw as modernity’s nihilistic rejection of classical philosophy. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z In this second episode, we learn a little more about who she was in life, and how that life led her to become the nihilistic party girl who slunk into Naz’s cab. “The Night Of” recap: Naz goes into the belly of the beast 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Irony fosters an affected nihilistic attitude that is no more edgy than a syndicated episode of “Seinfeld.” David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z His films have been called “absolutely moronic” and “sneeringly superior and nihilistic.” He Lives to Provoke. What Happens When His Film Isn’t Hated? 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Given the show's nihilistic outlook on life, casualties in the remaining episodes are inevitable. 12 Questions 'Game of Thrones' Needs to Answer in the Second Half of Season 7 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z She denounces Islam for its absolutism and intolerance, and then vilifies the religion of more than one billion people as a “nihilistic cult of death.” Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Muslim Men and Western Women 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Even after the band enjoyed widespread commercial success with its decidedly nihilistic and radio-unfriendly songs, it remained based in remote Des Moines. Bassist with metal band Slipknot dies in Iowa 2010-05-25T02:13:00Z In its first season Phoebe Waller-Bridge introduces us to her heroine whose true name is never mentioned, and sells us on the image she projects as a cool, nihilistic sex machine. Best TV of the Decade, from 2010 to 2019 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z Whereas comics have in the past told shocking jokes because they delighted in saying the unsayable or just wanted to lighten grief with humor, Shaffir seems to be aiming for something different, more nihilistic, crueler. A Kobe Bryant Joke Goes Wrong, Revealing Comedy’s Troll Side 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Cable dramas encouraged voters to root for a chaotic, rule-breaking antihero; melodramas like “Scandal” and “House of Cards” normalized a nihilistic view of all politics as intrinsically corrupt, existentially conspiratorial. The Search for Pizzazz at the Impeachment Reality Show 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z He’s selling a band and a flamboyant brand that grow more nihilistic and death-oriented as their notoriety and followers increase. ‘Lords of Chaos’ Review: Where Anomie and Speed Metal Meet Doom 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z David Goodhart in Prospect referred to the "nihilistic grievance culture of the black inner city, fanned by parts of the hip-hop/rap scene and copied by many white people", centred on "mainly unjustified" disaffection. Rap responds to the riots: 'They have to take us seriously' 2011-08-12T17:15:46Z Her design initially caused intense controversy — typical of the opposition was the Vietnam veteran and future Virginia senator James Webb, calling it “a nihilistic slab of stone.” Where to See — Really See — the Art of Maya Lin 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z As music movements go, punk rock, which, at its extremes, can be nihilistic or politically didactic, isn’t necessarily associated with sex. The Art of Rock: Four Museums Explore How We Connect to Music 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Rather, it prevents science from falling into a materialistic and nihilistic abyss. Accommodation’s big flaw: The dangers of excusing religion 2014-02-11T20:35:00Z 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. Charlie Brooker: 'Happy? I have my moments' 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Much of the alt-right’s language and imagery is borrowed from 4chan, an anonymous, ephemeral message board that revels in politically incorrect jokes and nihilistic posturing. For the Alt-Right, the Message Is in the Punctuation 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Like much successful hip-hop today, “Don’t Forget About Me” is a blunted, nihilistic version of its influences. The Twenty-Three-Year-Old Who Embodies the Hazy Future of Pop Music 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Hamlet’s musings on the finality of death anticipate Iago’s fiercer, more nihilistic “Credo.” Forgotten ‘Hamlet’ at BCO shows missing link in 19th-century Italian opera That’s exactly why, in this extraordinary nihilistic moment in American history, he’s getting their vote. How the reality of Trump's America outpaced House of Cards 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Released 10 years later, within weeks of the handover of Hong Kong to China, “Full Alert” tells a similar story in a radically different key — deeply melancholic, bordering on nihilistic. New York Asian Film Festival Features Ringo Lam, Hong Kong Crime Master 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The protagonist is an outwardly ordinary-looking hit man who’s as physically unassuming as he is inevitably nihilistic: Other people are awful, the world is hopeless, “we’re living on a pile of corpses,” etc. ‘The Killer’ Review: He’s a Deadly Bore 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z But these acts of escapism tend to backfire, leading to a nihilistic, boozy downward spiral. “Mad Men” finale recap: “The moon belongs to everyone” 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z I adore Morse, and I like that his character has been positioned as the well-intentioned but hamstrung voice of the establishment and a counterweight to civilians' reflexive griping and nihilistic doomsaying. How "Treme" untangles the lessons of trauma 2011-04-25T13:26:00Z It is nihilistic, based on an awareness that there are 7 billion people in the world, ergo that no one is special, so why bother putting on airs? Gene is shaken to the normcore In the real world, hope feels more and more distant as the supposed American virtues of tolerance are either weaponized to justify bigotry and oppression or disposed of altogether in nihilistic glee. "Good, honest folks": 20 years later, controversial "Dogville" has become frightening prophecy 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z I love “Burn After Reading,” but it’s like a farcical, nihilistic, stupid joke about bureaucracy. Where Did Those Hot Dog Fingers Come From? Daniels Explain 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z True, keeping the soloist from monopolizing the spotlight is an unusual, almost nihilistic approach to concerto writing. Music Review: When Soloists Don?t Necessarily Star 2011-04-15T23:01:47Z Hip-hop is moving in a “rebellious, nihilistic” direction, said Rob Stevenson, Republic’s executive vice president for A&R, who signed Aminé to the label. Meet Aminé, a Joyful Rapper With an Eye on Politics 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z A nihilistic ending in which everybody dies just seems very Game of Thrones. Mother of Dragons or the Night King: who will win the Game of Thrones? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Alternately confused and clearsighted, utopian and nihilistic, Jan and Remo live the archetypical bohemian life in Mexico City, occupying squalid digs and barely getting by. Review | Roberto Bolaño’s popularity surged after his death. What does a ‘new’ book do for his legacy? 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z The record will contain several well-known recent tracks that highlight Tesfaye's shift from nihilistic after-hours gloom into more danceable, almost Michael Jackson-inspired terrain. The Weeknd announces new album, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z In addition to the prevalence of what she called “in-jokes” about the art world, Mr. Waters’s taste in art tends, unsurprisingly, toward the perverse, the ironic and the cheerfully nihilistic. John Waters, Droll Bard of Baltimore, Promises Art to Hometown Museum 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z It feels like the most nihilistic American movie ever made, and like a magnificent insane, almost orgasmic release of purgative violence. 'Bloody' Sam Peckinpah: wasted, insane and indestructibly pure 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Since this is a largely nihilistic show whose first 10 minutes of music tends to scald the ears with the volume of guitars and percussion, I was surprised to find myself enjoying it. A Tour of Tony-Nominated Choreography 2010-06-03T22:41:00Z It’s an ambitious, if not entirely coherent, sci-fi shoot-’em-up that questions nihilistic entertainment impulses while indulging them. Review: ‘Westworld’ Is a Provocative but Flawed Sci-Fi Shoot-’Em-Up 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Ever since his 1985 debut, “Less Than Zero,” made him a literary sensation, his violently nihilistic fiction and his politically incorrect public persona have earned him as much fury as acclaim. Bret Easton Ellis Has Calmed Down. He Thinks You Should, Too. 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z In a white tuxedo jacket and bondage trousers, Vicious embodies McLaren's vision of nihilistic punk glamour. Malcolm McLaren: a career in clips 2010-04-09T07:34:00Z But in its unhinged camerawork, its relentless focus, and its fearless, nihilistic attention to the question that is at the heart of our interest in Walt – how did you get here? – it is unforgettable. What was the best hour of television ever? 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z While other films in this genre attribute evil acts to demons or the environment, this film takes a purely nihilistic route, suggesting the tire has agency and kills simply because it wants to. A Horror Genre Where Dresses (and Fridges) Can Kill 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Here, Lethem captures the florid horror and the weird, nihilistic sense of possibility that arrived in the immediate wake of Trump’s election. In “The Feral Detective,” Jonathan Lethem Returns to Detective Noir for the Trump Era 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Lucy mediates this existential quandary with a nihilistic abandon that involves Tinder and a series of meticulously detailed examples of terrible sex. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Yet a novel comprising a relentless onslaught of zingers can get dangerously close to a less sappy “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” or a nihilistic rendition of Mao’s Little Red Book. ‘Quicksand’ review: A zany, and trying, tale of a man who can’t catch a break 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Due to the current nihilistic state of mind I’ve fallen victim to, I feel like I’m stagnating. How to become a writer? 2013-03-15T00:00:00Z Perhaps I am more nihilistic than most, but in the end, it’s a job and it pays well. Experience: I write fake news 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z It’s splashy and colorful, but “Rick and Morty” is also known for its dark and nihilistic turns. The long-awaited "Rick and Morty" Season 4 trailer is filled with chaos and questions 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Just a few years ago, American culture was embracing its surface delights with a nihilistic zeal. The New Spiritual Consumerism 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Bands who push a nihilistic sensibility and a black aesthetic. New band of the day (Baby Strange No 1,507) 2013-05-07T16:15:25Z People in authority benefit from our distrust of images because that distrust feeds a seeping, nihilistic detachment, which leads to civic disengagement. Images coming from Ferguson, Mo., reveal unfiltered, uncomfortable truths If you were blindsided by Roman's nihilistic sellout in "America Decides," you derived the wrong warnings about Roman from his figurative kennel clubbing. "Succession" fans should be shocked by Roman Roy. He was always a terrible person with a quick wit 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Then, at that book's end, there comes his lament for vanished innocence, his bewildered hurt at the non-heroes of 50s and 60s cinema, the nihilistic sex and violence, the crudity of a new world. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z And what do you think of Batman’s nihilistic world? Today's Movie Trailer: The Dark Knight Rises 2012-05-01T14:21:35Z Some may consider their show a nihilistic update to the Generation X resentment of Office Space, but the series’ struggle to reconcile the demands of labor with self-actualization dates back a while earlier. Office lol-itics: the evolution of the workplace sitcom 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Loud, outspoken and as passionate about the radical possibilities of romance as it is about radical politics, this Brooklyn-based group is well suited to cut through the nihilistic noise of 2018. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z It's preaching an almost nihilistic lesson about the absurdity of all human lust and endeavor, with perhaps a side reference to Jesus' famous maxim about the root of all evil. "A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop": "Blood Simple," Hunan-style 2010-09-03T19:31:00Z I would like to believe that Mr. Dumont is not a nihilistic know-it-all thumbing his nose and crowing, “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” ‘Li’l Quinquin,’ a New Mystery by Bruno Dumont 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z The New York Times, meanwhile, called it “a so-so, off-peak superhero movie” that “chases after the nihilistic swagger of ‘Deadpool’ and the anarchic whimsy of ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ but trips over its own feet.” Will 'Suicide Squad' break August box office record? 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Are their motives racist, homophobic or the nihilistic ennui of a hopeless generation? Avignon festival week one roundup: Complicite is masterful, Camille captivating 2012-07-19T13:16:45Z It's relentlessly nihilistic, in a way that grime, with its roots in UK garage clubs, and lyrical contrasts between aggression and more witty, playful tracks about partying and relationships, never has been. Rap responds to the riots: 'They have to take us seriously' 2011-08-12T17:15:46Z That’s the way it is with all but the most nihilistic movies contemplating the horrors of war. Movie Review: ‘The Railway Man,’ a True Tale of Wartime Torment and Reconciliation 2014-04-10T22:30:18Z There’s always been a bleak, nihilistic thread running through Top Boy, as young people without much hope struggle to simply get by. 'The show needed to come back': how Drake rescued the druglords of Top Boy 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Poorna Jagannathan invokes her seduction as a child by “a man we called uncle” in language that evokes the nihilistic cadences of the apocalyptic playwright Sarah Kane: “I am being fingered. Probed. Eaten. Devoured. Disappeared.” Review: ‘Nirbhaya,’ a Lamentation and a Rallying Cry for Indian Women 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, to act violently on the basis of such fictions – and to transgress against the humanity of others for nothing at all – is perhaps the most nihilistic act of them all. Dostoevsky warned of the strain of nihilism that infects Donald Trump and his movement 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z Joaquin Phoenix’s performance as Arthur Fleck is one of startling, nihilistic majesty – a jewel found shining among dead things. Why Joaquin Phoenix's Joker must be kept isolated from the rest of the Batman films 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z In the 1970s and ’80s, exploitation thrillers like “I Spit on Your Grave” and “Ms. 45” featured female victims who killed their own rapists, though they were largely maligned as cult vehicles for nihilistic gore. How Movies and TV Address Rape and Revenge 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z There’s an excellent tension between his supposed profession as a nerve-calming concierge and his nihilistic view of the human condition. Armando Iannucci Gets Lost in Space in “Avenue 5” 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z The concerto was prefaced with a reflective account of Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony that was often rather beautiful rather than bleakly nihilistic. Britten Sinfonia/MacMillan ? review 2010-10-25T21:00:00Z It’s pretty nihilistic stuff, all barely held together by laconic host TJ Lavin, whose major pet peeve is quitters, which he will mention whenever he can. American Idol: a final farewell to the 'Death Star' of reality TV 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z By contrast, as we jump back in time, her sons come off as a pair of nihilistic slackers. Why Did Some Cubans Inject Themselves With H.I.V.? 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z The publisher announced Thursday that the first of the two new novels, "Rumble," will tell of a nihilistic teenager who undergoes a life-changing accident. Ellen Hopkins signs up for 2 more novels 2012-11-08T12:43:12Z True bigotry is often excused as nothing more than crude humor or nihilistic trolling. For the Alt-Right, the Message Is in the Punctuation 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z But within this gore-spattered, superficially nihilistic carapace is an old-fashioned platoon picture, a sensitive and superbly acted tale of male bonding under duress. Movie Review: ‘Fury' Has Brad Pitt Killing Nazis Again 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z But somehow, despite several nihilistic seasons before it, the fourth season of "Dexter" felt more like a cross between a murder mystery and a very, very dark comedy. "Dexter" finally goes too far 2009-12-14T20:15:00Z Are you ready for another bleak European police drama with a strong female lead, set in a nihilistic world where cynicism prevails, good men perish and evil triumphs? Spiral III: The Butcher of La Villette - episodes one and two 2011-04-02T21:50:00Z Over the first of the festival’s two weekends his work began to seem less picturesquely melancholy and more nihilistic, with structures that build just to be broken. Hearing the Mystery in Sibelius 2011-08-15T21:18:14Z There is the consistent sense that this nihilistic writer is drawing from a deep well; his voice is uniquely present on the page. In Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Serotonin,’ the Provocative Beat Goes On (and On) 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Kuz uses Woody Allen’s films as an example of the typical Western interpretation of Dostoyevsky’s work: existence is hopeless and nihilistic. ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: Understanding Dostoyevsky Courtesy of Woody Allen 2011-09-13T17:21:46Z You will see how nightmarish and nihilistic they are and perhaps not read them to your children. Attention, Working Writers: Lorrie Moore Admires What You Do 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z “I was suddenly afraid of death—I was nihilistic—and I had to find something else that could fill that gap.” Love, Death, and Begging for Celebrities to Kill You 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z The performances sync perfectly with a movie that, in common with its titular amenity, is without visible limits; but there’s more going on here than a nihilistic tableau of unrestrained privilege. ‘Infinity Pool’ Review: Body Trouble 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z If you strip away the book’s Roman Catholicism, which the movie mostly does, its story fits right into the nihilistic mood of today. | 'Brighton Rock': ?Brighton Rock,? Film of Graham Greene Novel - Review 2011-08-25T23:02:20Z Artistic directors began to look to a dour and nihilistic political theatre to reflect a more despairing zeitgeist, or to more commercial projects to keep their doors open. Snoo Wilson obituary 2013-07-05T17:57:52Z It’s dark, nihilistic, pessimistic, and impolite, and it makes a mockery of the dream that things will get better—that a new era of racial harmony is right around the corner. No Compromises 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z But he’s still haunted by the nihilistic character he played on the small screen for HBO’s True Detective. Matthew McConaughey Is Up for True Detective Season 3 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z In the final scene, all the characters come together in a somewhat nihilistic “happy” ending that bodes well — or ill — for all. Cast helps John Patrick Shanley's 'Dreamer' from being a complete snooze 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z It chases after the nihilistic swagger of “Deadpool” and the anarchic whimsy of “Guardians of the Galaxy” but trips over its own feet. Review: ‘Suicide Squad’ Chases Nihilistic Swagger but Trips Over Its Own Feet 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z In my late teens, I explored Buddhism, but found the idea that the self might not exist too nihilistic to accept. Donor siblings: do the ties of blood matter? 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z “It’s the problems that are nihilistic, not me,” said Lunch, 62. Lydia Lunch’s Infinite Rebellion 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z The participants are generally honest about their own culpability and insensitivity in some of these skirmishes and not so much nihilistic as outnumbered. 'A Wailing of a Town' paints a vivid picture of San Pedro's punk scene 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Yet Chayefsky appeared concerned that a thesis, any thesis, was eluding him, and his story was becoming increasingly nihilistic. Arts & Leisure: Notes of a Screenwriter, Mad as Hell 2011-05-19T15:34:47Z But none of the later films had an impact comparable with Breathless, and as the decade progressed, his characters turned from nihilistic outsiders to slogan-mouthing revolutionaries. 50 years of Breathless 2010-06-05T23:04:00Z "It is nihilistic because life is nihilistic," said Satrapi of the movie's more somber moments. Death in Venice as films set in Iran, Greece impress 2011-09-03T15:46:26Z In less than two hours, a film that started off criticizing art as a commodity lands on a profoundly more nihilistic view: Art is a corruption, a taint, a kind of virus in society. Perspective | Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is a revenge fantasy against elites — making it perfect for the age of Trump 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z "The decorum of mass art is thoroughly irresponsible, fragmentary and nihilistic," the critic continued, almost as if she were gazing into a crystal ball at Charlie Hebdo's future Muhammad cartoons. At satire's forefront, cartoons press against hard lines 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z It's one of the most nihilistic endings in the history of human creativity. Keith Warner on his Royal Opera House Ring Cycle 2012-09-26T19:00:02Z And as for the rise of the romance—with its larger-than-life passions, revolutionary aristocrats, and “nihilistic and untamable” occurrences—maybe we’re living in a romantic age. A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Johnson’s cheerfully nihilistic novel about two scammers and rogue spies in Africa derives much of its situation from several of his early journalistic pieces. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z The lyrics and nihilistic vision of Britain’s future offended many people and the BBC refused to play it: “God save the Queen/ She ain’t no human being / There is no future / In England’s dreaming.” ArtsBeat: Sex Pistols to Reissue 'God Save the Queen' 2012-04-16T17:43:17Z On this subject, the game takes a particularly nihilistic position. A Smartphone Game That Captures the Futility of “Work-Life Balance” 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Yes, it is certainly very violent and gory, and it is a horror movie in many ways, but it wasn't a nihilistic movie. Ti West on anyone walking out of his slasher film "X": "What did you think you were signing up for?" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z What faces Gotham is a nihilistic movement spearheaded by Bane and assisted by capitalist interests and bankers. The Dark Knight Rises – review 2012-07-21T23:05:32Z She admits to admiring the show for its writing and acting but shying away from its nihilistic worldview. The Diane Lane Thing is deep and it’s real. Especially with women. 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Martin Esslin admired “The Maids” in his 1961 book “The Theatre of the Absurd,” but many considered it too nihilistic to be more than a downtown or campus attraction. Interpreting ‘The Maids’ Through a Shifting Societal Lens 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z It’s neither nihilistic nor utopian, neither revolutionary nor visionary; it wishes and shrugs. How “Parasite” Falls Short of Greatness 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z By the time the pair make it home, they look ready to repeat their nihilistic tango the next day. Review: In ‘Marie and Bruce,’ It Takes Two to Do This Nihilistic Tango 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z The pain of that story — not to mention the nihilistic self-righteousness — remains palpable with every rereading. Review | Decades after a volatile life and a brutal death, a Japanese writer is back in the spotlight 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z In the final scene, Norton’s character “kills” Tyler, implicitly recognizing—and picking—a path between mindless middle-class consumerism and the nihilistic will to power of the terrorist. The Men Who Still Love “Fight Club” 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z In both films, the nihilistic foods threaten to leave the plot at a dead end. At the Movies, Bagels, Onions and a Side Dish of Nothing 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z It seemed like fate's cruellest and most nihilistic reminder of a man's mortality. WG Sebald's quietly potent legacy 2013-05-13T16:17:59Z Perhaps it's a moment of wild, nihilistic iconoclasm. LMFAO: Sorry for Party Rocking ? review 2011-07-14T14:30:01Z And maybe Spawn will finally get the nasty, nihilistic adaptation it deserves. Will Deadpool lead to a deluge of hard-R comic book movies? 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The same dark nihilistic spirit that expresses itself in his most offensive material also allows him to offer some unpalatable but fascinating insights about the bleaker side of our everyday existence. This week's new comedy 2011-03-19T00:06:49Z Her only other novel translated into English, “Gold Rush,” depicts a nihilistic society in which a 14-year-old heir to a pachinko parlor resorts to violence. Her Antenna Is Tuned to the Quietest Voices 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Sauntering through events, scattering nihilistic musings as if they were breadcrumbs made of poison, the actor finds the wit in negation, the common sense in the curmudgeon. Review: In Shakespeare, When to Underact? 2010-06-29T14:30:00Z This may sound cynical or nihilistic, but I would argue that this book is among the most humane works of art ever created. The Moral Clarity of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ at 50 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z There are golden retrievers on board, parrots on board, ninjas on board and burritos on board; for nihilistic wisecracks, there’s “No baby on board, it’s okay to crash into me!” ‘Baby on Board’: How a cutesy decal embodies the enduring terror of parenthood 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The filmmakers present the ordinary strivings and daily inconveniences, the incremental joys and the petty humiliations of solid middle-class citizens, with a nihilistic revulsion and an emetic contempt. Movies 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z McCarthy’s fiction is often accused of offering a bleak, blood-drenched, nihilistic vision of human life. Cormac McCarthy Explains the Unconscious 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z “Life is suffering!” a schoolteacher enamored with the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche instructs young Hugo, and so, a nihilistic path is set. Pointless Theatre Company’s ‘Hugo Ball’ is eye-catching mayhem 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z The Visiting Privilege,” by Joy Williams, is hard and bleak and somehow still bitingly funny, a kind of nihilistic long-form standup-comedy routine. The Books We Loved in 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z There is no revolt going on among Europe’s Muslims; rather, there is a small, circumscribed class of youngsters who have latched onto an insane corruption of Islam as the most nihilistic game in town. Marcel Broodthaers’s Brussels, and Mine 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Bezmozgis creates a disturbing portrait of a girl turned calculating and nihilistic by her upbringing, and there is no coyness here. Review: In the Disturbing ‘Natasha,’ Sex and Manipulation 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z This excess of sensibility is what made Hamlet such an icon for the Romantics, but it's also the reason he has become a literary emblem for humanists despite his frequent lapses into nihilistic sentiment. To be or not to be: Playwrights on the complex issue of suicide 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z His oral history — a genre practiced with more transparency by Studs Terkel and Jean Stein — favors lurid detail and despair, like a nihilistic sequel to the Rona Jaffe novel ‘The Best of Everything.’ New & Noteworthy 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Bee’s quick run through of her opposition to assault weapons was suffused with the sense that this was an issue she’d been grimly prepared for; there was a nihilistic virtuosity to her delivery. Late Night TV's Response to Orlando Shooting Shows New Sophistication 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z It may appear that TV writers and creators are being nihilistic, but maybe it’s the opposite. Dead and loving it: why has TV become so obsessed with the afterlife? 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The film has a very dark, nihilistic feel to it in an age when people are soft and easy. Psycho thrillers: five movies that teach us how the mind works 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Yet his films are more aptly described as cheerfully nihilistic. The dark comedy of Werner Herzog 2011-03-05T00:07:49Z Related: The Walking Dead season six, episode one: First Time Again – recap This is a nihilistic world in which no matter how you treat people, some awful end will befall you. The Walking Dead: season six, episode four – Here’s Not Here 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z It was important for us not to have the film be completely nihilistic or devoid of hope. "You have a religious devotion to this sport": Director on bodybuilding movie "Magazine Dreams" 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Revolutionary fervor has here turned into a nihilistic death wish, modeled on the American example of assassinations and race riots. DVDs: ?Oshima?s Outlaw Sixties,? Films by Nagisa Oshima 2010-05-15T02:28:00Z It took a few moments for everyone to realize that this study of nihilistic defeat was indeed an unconditional victory. Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Gödel refused the nihilistic conclusion drawn by some from his work: that because there were truths that weren’t provable, nothing mathematical was truly knowable. A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z While technology tends to be a nihilistic force in the series, it comes to the aid of love in “San Junipero.” What to Stream on Valentine’s Day 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z The soul battle between Johnny and his nihilistic doppelgänger St. Jimmy is hardly the whole of “American Idiot.” Critic?s Notebook: ?Idiot? Welcomes Back a Bad Influence 2011-01-09T23:47:39Z Mr. Grimsley’s outcry lacked nihilistic conviction, and his unsteady echoing answer felt neither cleansed nor changed. Review: The Met’s ‘Walküre’ Has a Cast Worth Bragging About 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z It's an effective way of reasserting Crystal Castles' nihilistic aesthetic as they shift into playing the academies. Crystal Castles – review 2012-11-25T18:45:11Z The buzz: "Hooky, driving guitar music with a dark, nihilistic streak." New band of the day (Baby Strange No 1,507) 2013-05-07T16:15:25Z What mattered to him was capturing the language and attitude of a specific kind of bored, nihilistic boy. The ’90s Cartoon That Mattered? ‘Beavis and Butt-Head.’ (Fight Me.) 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z In a world of empty slogans, he seems to be saying, screaming is more authentic, more articulate, a nihilistic subversion of prevailing values. Home of Metal turns the Midlands up to 11 2011-07-10T20:30:02Z But beyond its nihilistic point, it made little sense: Professional sports leagues are not often in the business of licensing their footage to TV commercials for unrelated projects. Review: HBO’s 'Any Given Wednesday' Brings Out the Worst in Host Bill Simmons 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The scholar Harold Bloom has described “Measure for Measure” as a nihilistic “comedy that destroys comedy.” Review: Shakespeare Meets Elevator Repair Service. Mayhem Ensues. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z It also stays relatively faithful to the events and tone of Ms. Christie’s book, right through to the nihilistic ending. Review: ‘And Then There Were None,’ a Classic Murder Case Revived 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z The latest entry in the terrible workplace genre, “Corporate” is as nihilistic as they come, so bleak it often becomes absurd and even supernatural. The Best TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Beckett’s ruthlessly nihilistic “geriatric farce,” “Happy Days,” is unconsolingly arid but, perhaps, necessarily corrective. What Matters in Old Age: Rereading, Reconsidering and Reassessing 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z “The Visiting Privilege,” by Joy Williams, is hard and bleak and somehow still bitingly funny, a kind of nihilistic long-form standup-comedy routine. The Books We Loved in 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Momose, though, is nihilistic, telling the narrator, “The weak can’t handle reality. They can’t deal with the pain or sadness, let alone the obvious fact that nothing in life actually has any meaning.” Review | Mieko Kawakami’s ‘Heaven’ follows a bullied boy searching for meaning 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z It’s when Mr. Gunday pulls back a bit and shows how a bright child could evolve into such a nihilistic beast that the novel becomes a more complex, Dostoyevsky-like inquiry into man’s capacity for evil. Review: In ‘More,’ Dispatches From Hell by a Human Trafficker 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z What Iñárritu comes up with instead is a rejection of acting as such, a nihilistic blow that he himself failed to depict—because he held it up to his sleeve, cagily, for dramatic effect. “Birdman” Never Achieves Flight 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Unlike most of my high school peers, I was a Springsteen obsessive when nihilistic, God-crazed terrorists transformed airliners full of passengers into weapons and flew them into buildings. Springsteen’s “Rising”: How Bruce reclaimed his role as a vital voice for America 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z It is too dark to be cheerful, and too gleefully nihilistic to be glum. Drop Dead Gorgeous at 20: how dark pageant comedy works better in 2019 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z “S.N.L.” isn’t nearly as bold and cheerfully nihilistic as it was in 1975, nor is it as fueled by reckless behavior behind the scenes. The ‘S.N.L.’ 40th-Anniversary Show: Very Funny, Except When It Wasn’t 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Where Peckinpah was borderline nihilistic, Lurie is unabashedly humanist, simultaneously celebrating and mourning the primal savagery we all harbor within us — a savagery that has been lulled into dormancy by civilization. 'Straw Dogs': Remake crackles with tension 2011-09-15T19:20:10Z Was it your goal to make the most nihilistic superhero movie of the modern era? James Gunn Nearly Blew Up His Career. Now He’s Back With ‘The Suicide Squad’ 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Rather, they fall into the category of nihilistic hoaxes or the tired efforts of would-be artists to amuse themselves. Review: Milan Kundera’s ‘The Festival of Insignificance’ Is Full of Pranks, Lies and Vanity 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z But we live in harsher times, and the shadow of The Thick of It, a much coarser, more nihilistic TV satire, invites cruel comparison. TV review: Yes, Prime Minister 2012-11-27T00:46:12Z Mr. Lewittes, in particular, wanted to combat what he saw as a nihilistic streak in the Hollywood press. Johnny Depp Is NOT Best Friends With This Lizard, Despite Report 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Dark doesn’t equal melancholy, she said, “or if it’s melancholy, it’s closer to the melancholia of Albrecht Durer, which is a contemplative state rather than a nihilistic one.” Mark Rothko’s Dark Palette Illuminated 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z It’s the same kind of nihilistic view that Beckett had, with similar linguistic play, but it’s so much more meaningful because it’s used to reveal how race is its own trap, a purgatory, in America. Welcoming Back Live Theater Doesn’t Mean Agreeing About All of It 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z It’s this recurring nihilistic streak within American life that haunts McKay. Adam McKay went from Ron Burgundy to Dick Cheney, and it actually makes perfect sense 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The form is characterized by heavily auto-tuned lyrics that explore nihilistic and dark topics, which then are layered over warbled sub-bass layers and synthesizers. Seattle-area music and nightlife events Sept. 21-27: Chief Keef, Larry Carlton Quartet, and more 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z And why wouldn’t Mr. Bolton, given his intelligent and intellectual foreword to the accompanying book, have linked that nihilistic spirit of London’s political and social crisis in the 1970s to other 20th-century movements like Dada? At the Met, Punk Without the Down and Dirty 2013-05-06T11:58:12Z Instead of trying to understand himself, though, he’s reversing his Season 6 role as the good version of Don Draper and is, instead, conjuring Don’s nihilistic, boozy nose-dives of yore. “Mad Men” finale recap: “The moon belongs to everyone” 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z “Dog Eat Dog” is a movie that wants everyone off its lawn, but only after they’ve had time to appreciate that said lawn is way more nihilistic than their own. Review: ‘Dog Eat Dog’ Is a Pulpy Tale With Nasty, Bumbling Crooks 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z In his films of the ’90s — nihilistic spectacles like “The Living End,” “Doom Generation” and “Nowhere” — this attitude was exciting, even shocking. ‘White Bird in a Blizzard,’ a Mystery From Gregg Araki 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Committed to changing the nihilistic narrative surrounding climate change, Gameau takes his audience on a search for solutions and offers up a message of hope. The Greta Thunberg effect: are climate crisis documentaries feeling it? 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z This was not a nihilistic story about how authority is your enemy. iLL Manors – reviews 2012-05-26T23:03:05Z But all of that untamed id doesn’t really go anywhere other than exploring a bizarre and nihilistic family dynamic. Animal Kingdom: nihilistic feast of bros, bare butts and bad behavior 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Bright lights, big city — they’re still bright, still big and there’s still something bitterly nihilistic in the mix. Review | In HBO’s sordid but watchable ‘Industry,’ the world now belongs to the zuppies 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z He finds himself feeling protective of a system that he knows is flawed but is better than the cruelly nihilistic alternative. In ‘Antisocial,’ How the Alt-Right Went Viral 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Would there be a Fall without Smith’s nihilistic, disciplinarian force? Perspective | Burrowing deep into many rabbit holes of Mark E. Smith and the Fall 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z This nihilistic approach to humor has played an enormous role this election cycle; in fact, the desire to entertain one another online seems to constitute an entire subset of our political discourse. The Dank Memes That Are “Disrupting” Politics 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z “Ancient Tillage,” a version of the prodigal-son parable, is both a celebration of André’s ties to the land and his family and an almost nihilistic condemnation of these ties. Why Brazil’s Greatest Writer Stopped Writing 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z It has been a nihilistic journey global capitalism has taken from Ground Zero to the present day. Photography's bodies of evidence | John Perivolaris 2010-04-04T14:00:00Z 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. ‘American Horror Story: Hotel’ Recap: Strange Appetites 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Top debuts included addictive thrillers and nihilistic satires. The Best TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z In a year in which some of the more nihilistic aspects of Chicago’s hip-hop scene rose to national prominence, BBU championed soul and smarts. Top Chicago indie albums: BBU, Willis Earl Beal, Hood Internet 2012-12-13T18:59:00Z Does she want to be maybe the nihilistic blinkered person that she is at the start of season 1? For the "Killing Eve" final season, Eve is "embracing a more Villanelle side of herself" 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z The director Adam McKay is not in the mood for nihilistic flights of fancy. ‘Don’t Look Up’ Review: Tick, Tick, Kablooey 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z But aside from Gero’s aptly debauched Falstaff — whose delivery of the nihilistic “What is Honor?” speech is the production’s most effective moment — only Fauntleroy’s Hotspur feels like a character who leaps from the page. Review | The Folger turns one of Shakespeare’s histories into a problem play 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z But in the opera this figure feels like the odd one out, rather than the singular nihilistic force opposing everyone else onstage. Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z It was not, they say, a nihilistic flight from truth and history, but a painstaking confrontation with the instability of the rhetoric underlying our larger claims for meaning. Revisiting a Scholar Unmasked by Scandal 2014-03-09T21:47:03Z This lack of a political horizon is “what’s pushing Palestinians to armed resistance: the feeling that there’s no hope beyond this nihilistic, suicidal form of resistance,” she said. U.S. has strongly backed Israel’s war against Hamas. The allies don’t seem to know what comes next 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Whether Jordan wins or loses, the takeaway is that the GOP is a nihilistic party, hellbent on chaos. Jim Jordan faces the abyss — but GOP "moderates" can't escape the MAGA vortex 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z I feel like there's a cynicism — you use the word venal — because there's a sort of very detached, almost nihilistic perspective that I feel has entered our culture. If we can't fix this "frightening" problem, then we have "no hope" of addressing the climate crisis 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z I went through a period of feeling really cynical and nihilistic about the world, especially the news and climate change. Sustainability is the standard, not a niche thing for Leeann Huang 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z It's a nihilistic and dangerous symbiosis that in all likelihood will only be neutralized by an increasing number of voters under 35 making their voices heard. The GOP's suicide pact with Big Oil — and how climate victims are fighting back 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z I hadn’t heard that sort of nihilistic view he had; there’s audio of him talking about how he thinks the world is a great mistake. He's been a king, chemist and ad exec. But Jared Harris wouldn't mind more physical roles, too 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z This Lydia resonates with younger audiences not because she drops hollow buzz words but rather because she is wholly realized as a Gen Z protagonist: clever, socially aware, reasonably nihilistic and emotionally honest. Commentary: How the 'Beetlejuice' musical beat bad reviews and became a Gen Z hit 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Trump appeals to the increasingly nihilistic bent of the GOP voting base for one reason only: They view him as a punishment to inflict on the rest of the country. Chris Christie's MAGA wake-up call 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Listen to Yeat for the first time and you may end up bewildered, with a splitting headache and the nihilistic view that modern hit music as we know it is ruined. Ultimate 2022-23 Southern California high school sports playlist 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z In today’s nihilistic political climate, what a candidate accomplishes is increasingly less important to partisans than whom they antagonize along the way. Column: For Adam Schiff, censure is a gift from House Republicans 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The series-long tussles between the three key siblings turned into an actual tussle, as a screaming match descended into a wrestling match, with the nihilistic Roman declaring the trio “nothing” in the end. ‘Succession’ finale: Fans react to end of Emmy-winning hit drama 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z You can either take the nihilistic approach and just focus on the loss or you can learn to live with the loss and confront the reality of what has happened. Author Jeff Sharlet explains why "neofascists are not going to stop" 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z But “Always Running” is hardly nihilistic or dour. 'Always Running' is more than cholo lit — it's a manual for L.A.'s salvation 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z His nihilistic depiction of Chicano youth has been celebrated and denounced, but it remains the work with which every historian must grapple. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Essays 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z This religious pablum is just a fig leaf, of course, for what is essentially a nihilistic message. Trump wants Americans to think society is an apocalyptic wasteland: Mass shootings help him 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z “But it’s ridiculous and pathetic and nihilistic to say that a conservative can’t peacefully protest.” For the G.O.P., a Looming Trump Indictment Takes Center Stage 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z “I get that there are some fears and concerns based on what happened on Jan. 6. But it’s ridiculous and pathetic and nihilistic to say that a conservative can’t peacefully protest.” Trump’s Call for Protests of Pending Arrest Splits G.O.P. 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z In her opinion, it would be the height of cruelty to bring a child into a world that faces such an apocalyptic and nihilistic future. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Would-be grandpa scoffs at couple’s reason not to have kids 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z A wildly inventive, universe-jumping story about getting your taxes filed, it features characters with hot dogs for hands, a nihilistic bagel, and a fight scene centred around a sex toy. Everything Everywhere All At Once: A viewing guide 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z If Ukraine wins this, though, it undermines this nihilistic view and gives democracy proponents worldwide a shot of morale. Worse than partisanship: GOP hurt Ukraine to hit Biden 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z In short, these platforms have become dangerous to young people, pushing them toward nihilistic disengagement or despair. Opinion | Congress must act to keep kids off social media 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Maybe that helps explain why theaters are thumbing back the pages to this nihilistic work. Perspective | In a world on the brink, there’s always room for Beckett’s ‘Endgame’ 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z What makes the gamesmanship today more worrisome is that the players are different: Republicans in the House are more radical than party lawmakers before them, more anti-government, even nihilistic. Column: On the debt-ceiling crisis, take it from moderate Republicans: Be afraid, be very afraid 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z An intense, nihilistic thriller as well as a model of implacable storytelling, this is a film you can’t stop watching even though you very much wish you could. How to watch every best picture winner from 2000 through 2009 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Greene is the nihilistic soul of the modern Republican Party, the living symbol of how the party would rather destroy this country than accept social progress. Hopelessly devoted: Kevin McCarthy's dedication to Marjorie Taylor Greene is a dangerous sign 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z He may now be starting to see the downside to this nihilistic approach to politics, which threatens to consume his entire party. McCarthy debacle comes with a lesson: There's a downside to being a party of fascist trolls 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z They're a nihilistic carnival act run by folks who are desperate for attention. House sh**show has a message for America: GOP can't govern and doesn't want to 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z “Ortega kills as the gifted, nihilistic teen who’d rather hang out in a crypt than a club,” Ali writes. Netflix wanted to remove this violent line from 'Wednesday.' The creators pushed back 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Ortega kills as the gifted, nihilistic teen who’d rather hang out in a crypt than a club. Netflix's 'Wednesday' is the 'Addams Family' spinoff we deserve 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z In the nihilistic GOP, there is no greater sin than trying to save American lives. Hopelessly devoted: Kevin McCarthy's dedication to Marjorie Taylor Greene is a dangerous sign 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Bush’s uncompromising performance makes a virtue of Emma’s nihilistic abandonment of responsibility, her pushing others past the limits of their forbearance. Review | A new play shows drug addiction is tough to dramatize in novel ways 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z The conventional bronze sculpture was meant to redeem what Hart called a nihilistic memorial from being too elitist. Perspective | Maya Lin’s Vietnam memorial blazed a path in 1982, but no one followed 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z That committee forced America to look into the abyss, to see the nihilistic violence that lay at the heart of Trumpian populism. The fever is breaking 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z When people feel like democracy is a rigged game and the bad guys win no matter what, it's hard not to turn nihilistic. Trumpists want you to be cynical — it's how they'll destroy democracy 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Greene is the nihilistic soul of the modern Republican Party, the living symbol of how the party would rather destroy this country than accept social progress. Hopelessly devoted: Kevin McCarthy's dedication to Marjorie Taylor Greene is a dangerous sign 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z She calls EU bureaucrats agents of "nihilistic global elites driven by international finance." The return of fascism: Fueled by widening inequality and the bankruptcy of liberalism 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z The nihilistic, antisocial culture of these websites also made them the perfect incubators for disaffected and radicalised young men to graduate from posting violent fantasies online to enacting terror in real life. Parkland shooting trial: Can warning signs stop a mass shooting? 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z “Should we maybe have more of a positive agenda?” he asked, complaining, “We’re leaning way too far into pure nihilistic negation.” Opinion | Take it from the ad buys: The GOP ‘nihilistic negation’ agenda is nigh 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z When people feel like democracy is a rigged game and the bad guys win no matter what, it's hard not to turn nihilistic. Trumpists want you to be cynical — it's how they'll destroy democracy 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The novel, though about nothing, is actually about finding something in the nihilistic existence. L.A. novelist Percival Everett, in advance of his latest, 'Dr. No,' talks about nothing 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z “I’ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world,” he said, and “I have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans. Nothing close.” All Republicans are now terrorists 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z An additional hazard for the hipper, nihilistic early adopters of this trend, assuming everything ironic on the internet does really become genuine: If they’re not careful, maybe they’ll start liking Biden, too. Opinion | The Dark Brandon meme can’t escape death 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Accused of “nihilistic negation,” the House GOP leader is liable to respond: “But I haven’t said anything bad about Egypt!” Opinion | Take it from the ad buys: The GOP ‘nihilistic negation’ agenda is nigh 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z The GOP's mass shooting playbook is built on a true, if nihilistic premise: People will grow accustomed to all manner of evil, so long as they're sufficiently demoralized. GOP uses mass murder script on abortion 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z There’s the battle boiled down to its nihilistic essence, nothing positive, only contempt for The Other. Opinion | A Trump aide perhaps unwittingly diagnoses America’s political cancer 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Are you one of those “nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible” people “holding a dagger to America’s throat” if you believe in school choice and the self-evident reality of parental rights? All Republicans are now terrorists 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Others shared nihilistic memes on the company’s Slack or openly criticized Twitter’s board and executives for entertaining Mr. Musk’s offer in the first place, according to internal messages viewed by The New York Times. How Elon Musk Damaged Twitter and Left It Worse Off 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Come to think of it, maybe that’s why most Republicans favor pure nihilistic negation. Opinion | Take it from the ad buys: The GOP ‘nihilistic negation’ agenda is nigh 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z There is clearly a connection between the easy availability of high-powered weaponry, the internet mythologizing of nihilistic violence, the immense gaps in our mental health system, and the normalization of racial prejudice and political violence. Opinion | The answer to Trumpism: A centrist bloc. The question: How to build it? 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z “I studied philosophy and was drawn to nihilistic thinkers such as Sartre and Nietzsche.” Vladimir Zelenko, 48, Dies; Promoted an Unfounded Covid Treatment 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Finally, let’s consider their post-modern aversion to any robust debate concerning everything above; is their intellectual foreclosure not nihilistic and extreme? All Republicans are now terrorists 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z These assertions, whether Platonism, the simulation hypothesis or my insane-god theology, can easily become escapist and nihilistic. When Things Feel Unreal, Is That a Delusion or an Insight? 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z But not once in those 17½ minutes of nihilistic negation did I hear anything that might approximate an alternative. Opinion | Take it from the ad buys: The GOP ‘nihilistic negation’ agenda is nigh 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z They posed as conservatives but in truth were authoritarians with a nihilistic urge to watch the world burn. A 1955 book on right-wing extremists predicted the Jan. 6 attack 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z And not “Ozark,” though its brutal emptiness was very much in line with what has made this nihilistic show so off-putting the past few seasons. Emmys 2022: A close look at the races for comedy and drama series 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z No rational gun control or curbing of the epidemic of nihilistic violence and mass shootings. A return to permanent war is here: First it will bankrupt America, then destroy it 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z The Buffalo killings represent old-fashioned racism in all its nihilistic horror. Perspective | Words that matter: ‘White supremacy is a poison’ 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, these "co-belligerents" surged back into the public square — a space they decreed to be "secular," "godless," "communist," "nihilistic," "leftist" and even "demonic." How Democrats dumped secularism, found God — and doomed Roe v. Wade 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z “Recall that particularly nihilistic protesters toppled the Grant monument in Golden Gate Park, operating from a badly skewed sense of history and frankly reflexive anti-Americanism,” Mr. Scaturro said. Historians see Grant eclipsing Lee in 200th birthday celebrations 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z To meet Mr. Putin’s challenge, we needn’t sacrifice our historic principles or confirm his nihilistic vision of governance. Opinion | $100 Billion. Russia’s Treasure in the U.S. Should Be Turned Against Putin. 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z I grew up in Orange County and consider most of it to be literary in a melancholy, almost nihilistic sense. 30 L.A. writers choose L.A.’s best literary places 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Only later did she reassure him she didn’t share the cult author’s nihilistic take on true love. The problematic white, male Southern writer who inspired a diverse generation 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z While Hsu gets less screen time as her original-universe character, she balances being viciously nihilistic and hopelessly lost as one of Joy’s alter egos. Everything Everywhere All At Once is charming, sprawling, and completely ridiculous 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z Today, we’re witnessing the same nihilistic violence unfold in real time, in a campaign of bullets and bombs dropped over Ukraine. Opinion | The Ukraine of My Childhood Is Being Erased 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Now, Sunday nights are for “Succession,” the beloved pitch-black workplace drama of the post-Trump nihilistic years. The Age of Anti-Ambition 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z The party’s hardcore elements buy the lie as a sort of nihilistic Occam’s razor: The simplest explanation is the best, and Democrats are simply hellbent on destroying the country. Opinion | The GOP hounding of Liz Cheney recalls the McCarthy-era smearing of another woman who took a stand 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Like many of his works of fiction, it focuses on a group of disillusioned and nihilistic postwar young people. Shintaro Ishihara, fiery Japanese nationalist politician, dies at 89 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z The team acted as a magnet for all the bookish, mildly nihilistic kids in our town. Opinion | The Gift of a Good Argument 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z It is, after all, a natural fit: a nihilistic, self-regarding world where value has been completely detached from inherent worth and, well, cryptocurrency. Transfer Rumors From Another World 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Bannon accomplished this through what many viewed as a "shocking" and "brilliant," if nihilistic, political strategy that leveraged right-wing populism, racism and the subterranean longing for an authoritarian leader. Steve Bannon's second act: He's back, and he wants to bring down the curtain on democracy 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The nihilistic libertarian roots of such an antisocial creed long predate Trump, but he supercharged it in spectacular and deadly fashion. A prescription for saving democracy: Is public health key to beating back fascism? 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z The GOP has come close to blowing up the global financial system through a debt default before, and the party has only grown more nihilistic in the years since. Opinion | Once again, Democrats must be the grown-ups and keep Republicans from causing a global catastrophe 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z But those views were eclipsed by a cohort of young adults willing to consider possibilities beyond a nihilistic viewpoint, Mr. Tooley said. John Shelby Spong, liberal Episcopal bishop, dies at age 90 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z Under the influence of sociologist E. Franklin Frazier, many scholars once considered it “a nihilistic enterprise that encouraged African Americans to remake themselves as white,” Staples wrote. Ebony returns to chronicle a new moment 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Zara, whom Hoby grants an almost unimpeachable moral authority, champions a nihilistic opposition between art and justice that largely goes unquestioned. Hermione Hoby’s millennial bildungsroman ‘Virtue’ explores the consequences of living an unanswering life 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z In the white imagination, participants were stereotyped as criminals and the “uneducated underclass” and their actions as nihilistic and antiwhite. A new look at a Watts uprising report shows what we haven't learned about racism in America 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z He rejected any criticism that he was being nihilistic. Steven Weinberg, Nobel-winning physicist who united principal forces of nature, dies at 88 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Some of the TikToks are infused with a nihilistic sense of humor that runs through the veins of most young millennials. The 26-year-olds are not OK 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z And his final years were defined by characteristic exuberance and a nihilistic contempt for authority. The final years of John McAfee's controversial life 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z It was probably inevitable that traders would bring cryptocurrency’s nihilistic insights to the broader market. AMC is giving free popcorn away to meme stonk investors 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Franco pursues this nihilistic thesis with a single-mindedness that one might call rigorous if it didn’t also feel so lazy. Review: The political chiller 'New Order' is an expression of contempt — and deserves the same 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z One early practitioner worried that on psychedelics, “the fondest theories of the therapist are confirmed by his patient,” and that even though the healing was real, the pathway was “nihilistic,” bordering on something like hypnosis. Opinion | Can Magic Mushrooms Heal Us? 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z This poisoned solidarity unites the disenfranchised around hate crimes, racism, inchoate acts of vengeance against scapegoats, religious and ethnic chauvinism and nihilistic violence. Welcome to the age of social murder: The elites will try to mollify us, but do nothing to stop it 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z That vacuum can be read as nihilistic, but in a certain sense it can be read as more reassuring than that. Talking to the boogaloo, part 2: Exclusive conversations with a would-be revolutionary 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z This woman’s reckoning with the bizarre question of her own possible death and dismemberment feels as nihilistic as it does brave, perhaps even spiritual. Review: Strong, tormented women broadcast nightmare visions from Spain 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z The only threats were just these nihilistic threats of disaster — natural disasters, chaos, failed states, terrorism — these purely negative threats that were constantly menacing the world scene. "A moment of moral and political nihilism": Theologian Adam Kotsko on our current crisis 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z That can’t continue if the party has any hope of reclaiming conservatism from nihilistic rot - something every American should be rooting for to maintain a healthy two-party system. Editorial Roundup: US 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z His pernicious and nihilistic influence must be washed away by the sunshine of optimism that we as a people can bring to our politics. Our psychopath president has finally imploded: And all this was totally predictable 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z They may only have survived for two years, but their angry, nihilistic singles and violent performances changed the idea of what rock and roll could be. Danny Boyle to direct Sex Pistols TV series 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Sexed-up billboards, nihilistic graffiti, and a literally gilded service class V witnesses a cold-blooded crime by one of Night City’s biggest power players. Cyberpunk 2077 is huge, ambitious, and safe 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Instead, his administration apparently abandoned “test everyone” in favor of “nihilistic shrug.” Opinion | Yes, coronavirus testing works. But not in the way you might expect. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z This book is the blackest of comedies, nihilistically hilarious in its documentation of Trump’s incompetence. Eight of the best books about Donald Trump 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Sometimes, however, US elections are very close, and in an era of nihilistic partisanship, court fights during elections are becoming increasingly common. Could the 2020 US election really be decided by the supreme court? 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z It's an interesting choice: Lee's nihilistic ballad essentially says life is a series of meaningless disappointments, so you might as well drink away your sorrows and forget about the rest of the world. US election 2020: What we can learn from Trump and Biden's musical choices 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z This administration is the nihilistic one, tearing up wildlife protection plans, sending asylum seekers away, beating up citizens on city streets. Opinion | Life in ‘Anarchist’ New York City 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z “Considering how nihilistic I feel about the future and how I will be immediately affected, do I wanna rain that burden upon someone else?” he asks. Meet the doomers: why some young US voters have given up hope on climate 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z “The security threat posed by Russia is difficult for the West to manage as, in our view and that of many others, it appears fundamentally nihilistic,” the authors said. ‘No One’ Protected British Democracy From Russia, U.K. Report Concludes 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Through his eyes, we see a nihilistic theme-park vision of the future, where little is done to solve the still-looming climate apocalypse but neon cities and their pleasures boom. A.I. Artificial Intelligence shows us a future where we neglect to dream 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z The problem may be one of selection effects; perhaps people who turn to social media are more nihilistic. Good News and Bad News about COVID-19 Misinformation 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Scott is angry at the world for taking his father away, although he tries to hide that behind a nihilistic stoner front. Review: Davidson steps up in ‘The King of Staten Island’ 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z “A cumulative effect of all these tactics is nihilistic debasement of the very concept of truth,” said Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia. Analysis | The central feature of Trump’s presidency: False claims and disinformation 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Then maybe just the nihilistic nature of Rick and Morty and the darkness of it sort of brings something extra out of some of the fans. Rick and Morty’s Chris Parnell thinks Jerry would do very well in quarantine 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Carlisle reminds us that in “Either/Or,” Kierkegaard’s first published work, he presents Hegel’s thought as “nihilistic” and used the book, in part, to “depose Hegelian philosophy.” Review | The philosopher who rebelled on matters of the soul 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z But that is not what we are hearing in their nihilistic fury. Opinion | The tea party is back — and endangering lives 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z "The music doesn't mean anything. The music reflects the spiritual nature of the society. We have a kind of a nihilistic society now," McLean told the host. 'American Pie' singer Don McLean says music no longer exists because of 'nihilistic society' 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Naturally, I also became familiar with Kenny’s cinematic pet peeves and inevitably adopted a few of them myself: phoniness, archness, empty formalism, nihilistic violence, willfully irritating characters. Kenny and me: A colleague and former student salutes Kenneth Turan as he leaves The Times 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Generation Z is nihilistic: Teenagers feel that their predecessors have let them down, and they believe that the world is so beyond fixing that what happens happens, and they might as well have fun. Opinion | How the Young Deal With the Coronavirus 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z A reality TV show character became president by peddling lies, racism, bigotry, misogyny, ignorance, cruelty and fake populism to angry, resentful and nihilistic white voters. Pissed about Super Tuesday? Suck it up: Beating Trump means supporting the Democratic nominee 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z It’s chaotic, nihilistic, and hard to look away. Facebook once built a phone that could only be used by right-handed people 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z He does his best to encourage friends and peers to look past the nihilistic images on social media and in lyrics. Across L.A., hip-hop fans mourn the loss of Pop Smoke and other young stars: 'It's part of the culture now' 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Hicks’s final release before his death showcases the power of his nihilistic truth-telling. Streaming with laughter: the 50 best standup comedy shows 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z A crime-ridden society isn’t necessarily decadent; a peaceable, aging, childless society beset by flares of nihilistic violence looks closer to our definition. Opinion | The Age of Decadence 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Since taking office, he has nihilistically tried to roll back everything Barack Obama accomplished, no matter how bipartisan, popular and effective, out of what appears to be sheer jealousy. Perspective | Trump is the ultimate sore winner. Now he’ll seek revenge. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Inevitably, though, that led the frog to some dark places — especially in the hands of nihilistic online trolls. 4chan users celebrated mass shootings with his image. Pepe the Frog died, and part of the internet died with him 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Limbaugh was instrumental in turning nearly 45% of this country into the nihilistic, racist bullies necessary to vote Trump into office. State of the Union: Trump trolls the libs and defiles his office; Pelosi upstages him 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z So why did the nihilistic pose become a self-fulfilling prophecy, ending the lives of young people barely out of their teens? 'It's a war zone': why is a generation of rappers dying young? 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z A 15-minute piece of nihilistic narcissistic indulgence that serves no discernible democratic function. Boris thought being PM would be a triumph – but it's all downhill from here 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z The broadcaster Chris Hayes commented on Twitter: “This is the core of Trumpism: this nihilistic cynicism and projection that everyone is equally corrupt, everyone acts like Trump.” Kenneth Starr, driver of Clinton impeachment, does about-face for Trump 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z As such, it’s a powerful, effective political strategy — and a deeply nihilistic one. Opinion | Scandalize! Minimize! Repeat as Necessary 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z The prospect of Putin prolonging and strengthening his nihilistic reign is a terrible one. Putin, a criminal and incompetent president, is an enemy of his own people | Simon Tisdall 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Unfortunately for America and the world, Trump commands a core group of ignorant, nihilistic voters in key states who will vote for him no matter what. Royal flush: Understanding the power of Donald Trump's toilet politics 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The nihilistic and dark “Joker” led the pack with 11 nominations, while only one nomination went for the movie about a cynical journalist’s friendship with the beloved children’s TV host. Analysis | This year’s biggest Oscar snubs, from Adam Sandler and Jennifer Lopez to women directing movies 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z The uplifting “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” got no love, but the nihilistic “Joker” did, which, honestly, sign of our times, right? Oscar nominations 2020: ‘Joker’ leads with 11; Greta Gerwig snubbed for best director; complete list of nominees 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z It’s possible Mister Rogers elbows his way past the nihilistic clown. Oscar nominations 2020: Complete predictions in all 24 categories 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z It’s hilarious, but Marie offers it up as an example of how much the concept of wellness and the need to sample the latest powders and practices have entered even her nihilistic psyche. Jane Marie and Dann Gallucci's 'The Dream' podcast investigates the promises of a booming wellness industry 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z The earliest statements are all from Europeans, impatient with the status quo and often outright nihilistic. With a little help from Cate Blanchett, this Hirshhorn show looks at art manifestos 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Image: Netflix As a TV show, The Witcher is particularly refreshing in an era full of nihilistic fantasy stories inspired by Game of Thrones. Netflix’s The Witcher is a dark, funny, and faithful adaptation of the fantasy series 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z It’s lovely and sincere, joyful and sensual—and, in its way, richer and more honest about teen-agers than nihilistic contrivances like “Euphoria” or “Riverdale” are. Mixed Débuts on Apple TV+ in “The Morning Show” and “Dickinson” 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z There's little reason to believe that that this nihilistic circus act being put on by Republicans will attract the newer, younger voters the party needs for its long-term health. Trump has a Mike Pence insurance policy: The sanctimonious veep is implicated too 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z In the morally nihilistic world of Eastern Bloc communism, everyone from traffic cops to Communist Party secretaries felt free to exploit the system for private profit. Opinion | The politics of the 1930s are still playing out in Eastern Europe 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Divorced of all the concerns about possible theater violence, or an anarchic incel uprising, this film feels a lot more like empty, nihilistic provocation. Question Club: the best and worst Joker debate topics 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z It is the perfect app for the current moment: spare and stylish, more than occasionally nihilistic in tone, and made to be shared on social media. Inside Co—Star, the smartest (and meanest) astrology app out there 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Thanks to a “radical change in our politics . . . many partisan actors today seek advantage by rejecting bedrock institutions and norms while a significant portion of the electorate responds with nihilistic glee,” wrote Morell and Kris. Impeachment frenzy in Washington sets Trump off against the CIA 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z The videos that I’d been seeing, chaotic and sincere and nihilistic and very short, were the natural expressions of kids who’d had smartphones since they were in middle school, or elementary school. How TikTok Holds Our Attention 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z “There’s something so interesting about someone who is so nihilistic but also really open to life.” The Goldfinch: would it have worked better as a TV show? 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z However, the nihilistic “Killerman” contains none of their substance or their emotional weight. Review: Liam Hemsworth's crime thriller ‘Killerman’ is even dumber than it sounds 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Similar to his jihadi counterparts, he denounced the “nihilistic, hedonistic, individualistic insanity” in contemporary western society. How do we beat 8chan and other far-right sites? The same way we beat Isis | Julia Ebner 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z And in the end, it is nihilistic because it's serving a very limited ends and ignoring big problems like climate change or marginalizing all these people. How the internet spawned 21st-century fascism 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Disinformation often specifically uses the rhetoric and techniques of critical thinking to foster nihilistic scepticism. Disinformation’s spread: bots, trolls and all of us 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z The nihilistic gewgaw, vacuous and vulgar, instead embodies the mythos that can be manufactured in a crude market-culture that primarily values art as a luxury asset. Review: Unicorns are just one of the wild rides in the Getty's marvelous 'Book of Beasts' 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z The four exiles all describe a cocktail of threats from paramilitary gangs, rightwing extremists, and a nihilistic dark-web forum whose users spew hate for leftists, women and black people. New generation of political exiles leave Bolsonaro's Brazil 'to stay alive' 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z The recent suicides of three young protesters who left behind notes supporting the demonstrations against the extradition bill have cast a nihilistic pall over the city. The Disillusion and Frustration of a New Generation is Fuelling Hong Kong’s Protests 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z That felt like a lifeline to them, where they can bootstrap themselves out of their nihilism, because you can't really be nihilistic forever. How the internet spawned 21st-century fascism 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The net effect was a kind of nihilistic equivalency between Clinton and Trump in the eyes of some voters. Democratic Debate 2019: Kamala Harris Exposed the Biden Weaknesses That Trump Will Exploit 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z He got into punk rock, particularly the D.C. hardcore scene—straight-edge, earnest punk, not the nihilistic New York seventies stuff. Can Beto Bounce Back? 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z This whole series has been about who will take the Iron Throne, and the answer “No one!” seems appropriately nihilistic. The high and low points of Game of Thrones’ final episode 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z If you want absurdist dreams, book the Dr. Seuss room; for nihilistic nightmares, spend the night in the H.P. You’re going where? Providence 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Fox News is, in a sense, nihilistic, where they really are interested in just tearing apart liberal ideas or leftist ideas. How the internet spawned 21st-century fascism 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z “In some ways, that meme was nihilistic, and expressed a disbelief that there could ever be a successful revolution,” Gittlitz said. Left-wing writers, revolutionaries — and Marxist alien hunters? — converge on Seattle for Red May festival 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Being close to death makes you a little nihilistic. Webcomics: an oral history 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z As a Judeo-Christian culture, forced inclusion of post-modern notions of tolerance is designed to induce nihilistic contradictions that reduce all thought, all faith, all loyalties to meaninglessness. After Mueller, Donald Trump's "political warfare" enters a dangerous new phase 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The main messages of today’s GOP are demographic panic, ethnonationalist pride and a nihilistic destruction of norms, institutions and elites. Opinion | Why should a Republican stay in a party that has gone off the moral rails? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Stratton convincingly argues that the film, far from being nihilistic, is in fact a tragedy. Sam Peckinpah’s ‘The Wild Bunch’ killed the western dream, echoing the violence of 1969 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Will it morph into nihilistic acceptance and even a failure to recognize what is happening at all? Review | Destruction from climate change will be ‘worse, much worse, than you think’ 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z But as they grew more extreme — “nihilistic” was Mr. Glazer’s word — he turned away from them and his own leftist past as well. Nathan Glazer, Urban Sociologist and Outspoken Intellectual, Dies at 95 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z In the wake of President Trump’s nihilistic vandalism, the next president will have much to do — not just healing the nation, but moving it forward. Opinion | Who isn’t running for the Democratic presidential nomination? 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z One can see why Mademoiselle magazine would have declined to publish such a nihilistic allegory, while also appreciating its rediscovery today. Exclusive Sylvia Plath extract: Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z They worship at the altar of nihilistic capitalism. Clean water: the latest casualty in Trump's attack on the environment | Ross Barkan 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z England winger Chris Waddle also shared his views, posting a message almost nihilistic in its content. Hand of clod? Brexit and Theresa May divide England's 1986 World Cup squad 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z And then suddenly he’s talking about death again, relentlessly, describing feelings of such nihilistic desolation you can almost see them slithering around above his head just out of sight, shadows crawling up the walls. Tyson Fury casts some unexpected light from the darkest of places | Barney Ronay 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z Now, our nihilistic president has pulled the pin, apparently mistaking that structure of human survival for a grenade, sure to blow. Trump ending nuclear treaty paves way for “usable” weapons 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The job of disinformation is not to promote one set of facts over another, but to disorient and inculcate a nihilistic suspicion of all news, undermining confidence that the truth is available at all. Russian trolls prey on the toxic way we do our politics | Rafael Behr 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The agenda of power at any price gave conservatism a cynical, even nihilistic strain—Goldwater and Reagan were honest zealots by comparison—but the essential ingredients had been there all along. The Demise of the Moderate Republican 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Thus the notion of 4GW actually contains at its very core the exact same nihilistic relativism that Lind blames on the Frankfurt School. How far-right conspiracy theories about “cultural Marxism” fueled the Pittsburgh massacre 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z "I don't think it's a nihilistic film," he continues. How two film-makers tackled the same tragedy 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z It sets up what he’s about, and the themes of the movie, in an appropriately nihilistic way, very succinctly. On Netflix’s arduous Hold the Dark shoot, gratitude was the hardest part 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z It is sardonic and a little bit nihilistic, emulating a comedy style that has come to be known as “Weird Twitter.” Steak-Umm is having a bad week like the rest of us, and now we think we’re kind of hungry, too 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Yet Ecclesiastes is far from nihilistic, and a deeper understanding of what Solomon means by “vanity” is the key to making sense of Sukkot. Opinion | The Sunshine of the Vanities 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z It wasn’t surprising that Joy Division appealed to me: bookish, nihilistic, caught somewhere between timidity and self-destruction. Joy Division inspired me to write – but could I write about their music? | Sophie Mackintosh 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Its unadorned industrial motif was utilitarian, if not nihilistic. Opinion | God Said, ‘Be Fruitful and Multiply’ 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z You might expect that I’m about to advocate fiddling while our planet burns, urging you to enjoy a kind of nihilistic amusement at what we’ve done to ourselves. In these dark times, embracing laughter is an ethical choice | Charlotte Wood 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Buddhism’s ethical precepts—right speech, right action and so on—are intended to keep liberated practitioners from becoming fearless, nihilistic jerks. Buddhism, the Good and the Bad 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z At times, the action is almost slapstick, if it weren’t so nihilistic. Review: Philippine action film ‘BuyBust’ takes on country's brutal drug wars 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z If young socialists were supposed to be nihilistic, then they would try hard to win. How the Democratic Socialists of America Learned to Love Cynthia Nixon and Electoral Politics 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z We said: “Puts forward an irresistible case for your attention ... As video games are once again weathering ignorance-fuelled attacks that paint them as universally gun-centric, violent and nihilistic, Ni no Kuni is a timely counterpoint.” The best video games of 2018 so far 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z The problem with his approach is that it is entirely nihilistic. Trump: most disruptive global start-up entrepreneur ever 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z In the late 1980s, as the arts became fixated on the news, Mr Dodin immersed himself for three and a half years in “The Devils”, Dostoyevsky’s prophetic novel of nihilistic revolutionaries. A great Russian director brings history to life on stage 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z That so many fans keep tuning in is a testament to how wonderfully inventive the series is, even at its most nihilistic. New video: 'Black Panther' may be the most memorable Marvel movie ever 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z They're particularly drawn to the nihilistic "black pill" theory - the idea that they are the only ones who realise that the game of sex and attraction is rigged from birth. Inside the dark world of 'incels' 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z In its review, The Times called Oates' novel "painful and demanding and sometimes nihilistic." Los Angeles Times book prizes awarded to literary veterans, emerging authors 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z He sees a way to turn nihilistic rage into purpose with the right combination of support and guidance. Review | How masculinity, not ideology, drives violent extremism 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z But we’ve learned that an operation at the heart of Trump’s campaign was ethically nihilistic and quite possibly criminal in ways that even its harshest critics hadn’t suspected. Cambridge Analytica’s dirty tricks lead to the top 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z This attack by the Left using our children to forward their nihilistic agenda is just the tip of the iceberg. Counter Culture Mom gives truth on ‘student’ gun protests 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z And doesn’t this play into the nihilistic feeling that there is nothing we can do to save this planet? There's Only One Way For Humanity to Survive. Go To Mars. 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z With every mass shooting and every utter failure of public policy to respond, the American notion of liberty looks more and more suicidal, a Faustian bargain exchanging sensible restrictions for a nihilistic, diabolical freedom. Opinion | The latest schoolhouse slaughter shows we have been defeated 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z At the core of this nihilistic and largely empty style of politics is a rejection of the unwritten rules of political propriety. Netanyahu’s shamelessness is corrupting Israel | Peter Beaumont 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Its serpentine poisoning of the brain urges otherwise ordinary people to become semi-aware fragments of themselves, utterly hellbent on arousing and satisfying the darker, more nihilistic impulses that have always accompanied humankind. Meth, the Forgotten Killer, Is Back. And It’s Everywhere. 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Obstructionism for the sake of obstruction – the Republican way under much of Barack Obama’s presidency – is nihilistic. Democrats caved too soon on the government shutdown 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Mildred Hayes is a furious, intelligent, grieving, middle-aged mother with the nihilistic courage of someone for whom consequences are inconsequential. Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ★★★★★ 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z And his outward lack of any emotion about his messy public breach with the president and the Mercer family struck some not as the calloused indifference of a political operative but as nihilistic. Steve Bannon Steps Down From Breitbart Post 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z "The postmodern project was to get a better understanding of facts by questioning whether we can have them. Now we’re confronted with a nihilistic project of just saying there’s no such thing as facts." Masha Gessen Is Worried About Outrage Fatigue 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z It is not exactly that “nothing matters,” to borrow social media’s favorite nihilistic buzz-phrase of the Trump age. The Year the News Accelerated to Trump Speed 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z But whether that will be enough to keep someone watching will prove to be in the eye of the beholder, and the show’s often nihilistic world view isn’t the biggest issue. 'Black Mirror' returns with more grim looks at the future, but its brightest moments stand out 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z It is ironic that journalists, those nihilistic libertine haters of real America, are the ones most shocked and appalled by this. Opinion | The Sterile Society 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z But critics say that he was empty of ideas, a kind of nihilistic rodeo clown who was not even conservative. Ben Shapiro, a Provocative ‘Gladiator,’ Battles to Win Young Conservatives 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Now we’re confronted with a nihilistic project of just saying there’s no such thing as facts. Masha Gessen Is Worried About Outrage Fatigue 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The trick to persevering in this world isn’t to run away, afraid of accepting responsibility, and it isn’t to submit to nihilistic violence and give up on humanity altogether. The Walking Dead’s big villain can’t be scary if he never shows up 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z There is a nihilistic strain coursing through the veins of a significant number of people on the American right. Opinion | Going Against the Republican Herd 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z With its dreary, droning loops, and dark lyrics about drugs and women, Rockstar is part of a menacing, nihilistic sound that is taking over the top 40. 'Numb the pain with the money': how hip-hop turned nihilistic 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Trump and Bannon are successful not because they offer the most reasonable alternatives but because they offer the most nihilistic disorder in place of the status quo. Opinion | Education in the Age of Outrage 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z “Populism” has become a convenient shorthand for the nihilistic backlash, and the term has come to invoke a collection of largely irrational cultural tropes. Opinion | Want to Know What Divides This Country? Come to Alabama 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z Instead the movie nurtures a quiet sense of mystery, content in the knowledge that neither an upbeat mind-set nor a cruel, nihilistic one can really capture the full experience of life as it’s lived. 'Lucky's' Harry Dean Stanton gives a beautiful final star turn 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Some critics accused him of recycling his picaresque plots and ideas, which at times seemed to verge on the nihilistic. J.P. Donleavy, best-selling author of ‘The Ginger Man,’ dies at 91 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z In Trump, the hopelessness and institutional gridlock of our system find their efflorescence; his nihilistic malleability lays bare the fact that all our politicians’ supposedly canny pivots are, at root, pivots to nowhere. In Our Cynical Age, No One Fails Anymore — Everybody ‘Pivots’ 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z But there is a method to this nihilistic madness. Democrats decry the KKK while forgetting legacy of one of their own 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z He is like something designed in a lab to appeal to every nostalgic or nihilistic impulse of cry babies our age. Lil Peep’s new music video is a lil gift to all the cry babies out there 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z "I think simply destroying them or removing them and turning them into junk metal, there's a nihilistic element to that. It's wiping out history," Blatt said. Charlottesville's Protests Accelerates Efforts to Remove Confederate Statues 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Trump’s “let Obamacare implode” is a cruel, nihilistic policy that does nothing to solve the real problems in health care. Glimmers of hope amid president’s health-care callousness 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z The wave of calls for law-and-order politics that followed the summer of 1967 was predicated on the notion that the people who took the streets had done so because of amorality or nihilistic lawlessness. What We Still Get Wrong About What Happened in Detroit in 1967 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Twitter, in its full nihilistic embrace, has welcomed this news as good. Making babies is beginning to look as difficult for men as it always has been for women 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Always a fan favorite at San Diego Comic-Con, AMC's durably nihilistic zombie hit "The Walking Dead" offered a few teasers in advance of its panel and autograph session Friday afternoon. Comic-Con 2017 live updates: 'Walking Dead' cancels press, plus a 'Justice League' reveal 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Entering the three-story store, shoppers are greeted by a grand, nihilistic display. Cult brand Ader Error expands its eccentric message beyond South Korea 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Instead of helping May, the nihilistic “we don’t believe in anything, we don’t trust anybody” mood that helped the “leave” campaign win the Brexit vote is now working in the Labour Party’s favor. Opinion | Theresa May won’t get a landslide. Beyond that, the British election is hard to predict. 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Cracks form in the facade and petty resentments, long suppressed, bubble to the surface with bitter fights, biting family drama and nihilistic humor. SIFF 2017: Highlights of the film festival’s third week 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z In other words, they were rationalizing Trump’s nihilistic, zero-sum view of the world. Donald Trump Can’t Turn Back History 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Cracks form in the facade and petty resentments, long suppressed, bubble to the surface with bitter fights, biting family drama, and nihilistic humor. SIFF 2017: Highlights of the film festival’s second week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z What strikes me is that your approach is a bit nihilistic. 'How can you risk handing victory to Le Pen?' The debate splitting French families | Jessica Reed and Flavie Péglion 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Now Taylor finds herself squaring up against an opposing, larger cohort of foreign fighters, schooled in a strain of nihilistic jihadism. 'Hundreds of us will die in Raqqa’: the women fighting Isis 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Racism, bigotry and nativism compelled Donald Trump’s voters to act out in a nihilistic temper tantrum. Philosopher Henry Giroux on the culture of cruelty and Donald Trump: America is “a democracy on life support — it can’t breathe” 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Each one is specific, but there is a striking common thread that runs through the mass murders perpetrated by disaffected, nihilistic and suicidal youths. Who are the new jihadis? 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Unable to find a place, they adopted a nihilistic rejection of society, expressing it not in the Marxist language of the 1960s and ’70s but in its current equivalent: Islam. The Prophet of France’s Fracture 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z While the first offered some campy chills from Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson and a heavy dollop of literary pretense and metaphysical gobbledygook, the grim follow-up couldn’t hide the hollowness of the show’s nihilistic machismo. Overrated/Underrated: Get to know Michael Kiwanuka, and we're not yet nostalgic for 'True Detective' 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Trumpism is elastic – its lodestar remains some cocktail of punishing undocumented immigrants and pursuing protectionism – but it’s not nihilistic. Give Donald Trump credit: the Freedom caucus really is terrible | Ross Barkan 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z First came the nihilistic trolls, some even hoping to compel Quinn to “an hero” herself — tittering 4chan code for committing suicide. How the Trolls Stole Washington 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z The mood at the time was anarchistic, nihilistic, political, very serious. Angst, anthems and teen heartbreak: a super-producer on how to write a pop-punk hit 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z “Societies organized for the interplay of individual self-interest can collapse into manic tribalism, if not nihilistic violence.” Review | Inside the anger that gave us Trump — and that will long outlast him 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The first season of that series was visually dazzling but ultimately nihilistic, an exercise in hollow machismo; the second season was original and ambitious, a darkly funny exploration of domestic evil. The Absorbing Nightmare of “Legion” 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Trump’s nihilistic slipperiness on every matter of principle may have gained him supporters during the campaign. Burst your bubble: five conservative articles to read as protests stymie Trump 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z To my mind, that does not make comparisons with the past fruitless, particularly in the case of the nihilistic and voraciously aggressive Trump. Trump’s lies are not the problem. It’s the millions who swallow them who really matter | Nick Cohen 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Wherever Trumpism craves a nihilistic emptiness, the left is going to fill it with rage, questions, receipts, marching, love, screams and anger – again and again again. The big, broad, beautiful American left: how marching in DC gave me hope | Steven W Thrasher 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Or perhaps, like Mussolini, Trump doesn’t believe in anything at all, except the nihilistic pursuit of power and self-glorification, and he views Putin as a role model. Donald Trump’s Cheap Talk About NATO and Europe 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Today, the society of entrepreneurial individuals competing in the rational market reveals unplumbed depths of misery and despair; it spawns a nihilistic rebellion against order itself. Welcome to the age of anger | Pankaj Mishra 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z “We are living in a nihilistic age, a vacuous blank space that opens up when hope is replaced by fear,” she wrote, with an alarming clairvoyance. Why Kara Walker's incendiary slavery art is as relevant as ever 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z This tactic was used on the language of social justice, which was appropriated by opponents and redeployed nihilistically, in an open effort to sap its power while simultaneously taking advantage of what power it retained. Trap of Exposing Fake News: Eroding Trust in Real Reporting 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Gingrich pioneered the nihilistic politics of government shutdown and obstruction that are now the modus operandi of Republicans in Congress. Editorials from around New England 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z In any case, avoid falling for the exhausting delusion of endless urban protest or the nihilistic fantasy of winning an insurrectionary war. Protests won't stop Trump. We need a movement that transforms into a party | Micah White 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Democratic senators can slow, though not stop, pieces of the Republican agenda if they find the nerve to behave like their nihilistic opponents, further damaging the institution for short-term gain. Aftermath: Sixteen New Yorker Writers on Trump’s America 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z In other words, he harassed Jones as some sort of nihilistic joke — a metaphor for online culture, if I’ve ever heard one. The only true winners of this election are trolls 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Breaking stereotypes of women in the Middle East, these female fighters are armed with the same artillery as their male counterparts and facing their nihilistic enemies on the front lines of the urban battlefield. Look Again: The day’s most compelling images from around the globe 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z With detours for heroin, David Bowie and random advice from Andy Warhol, it’s the story of a band that eschewed fashionable messages and causes and promptly got labeled nihilistic. Jarmusch lets Iggy be Iggy in the doc "Gimme Danger" 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The song is structured as an anthem that could easily pull an audience to it in the chorus, a nihilistic agreement that “enough is never enough”. Kenny Chesney: 'Entertainers hate audiences watching through cellphones' 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z “He was nihilistic — he didn’t see the point to anything.” British Banker Had 'Breakdown' Before Murders, Court Told 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Especially now that finally — finally! — some fans are losing faith in the nihilistic futility of the ratings monster “The Walking Dead” after its latest feel-bad fatality. Overrated/Underrated: The NFL must evolve or die, and it's time to move beyond our zombie fascination 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Now that Dabiq has failed to deliver, might jihadists ditch their more nihilistic ideas? Islamic State’s messianic apocalypse is postponed 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z The approach moves away from directly messaging the Islamic State group and its supporters in favor of a focus "on empowering and enabling partners" who can provide a potent counterweight to the group's "nihilistic vision." Getting Serious on the Information Battlefield 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z It rode the nihilistic anger of the Tea Party and the paranoid rants of Glenn Beck. Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z The capricious, nihilistic, non-ideological Trump might seem like a kindred spirit by comparison. From liberal beacon to a prop for Trump: what has happened to WikiLeaks? 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z “Who am I?” is a question that unites us all, whatever oblivious, nihilistic misanthropy we affect in order to appear interesting. Tottenham v Manchester City: Premier League – live! 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z But even Erickson did not seem convinced that this alone explained what he saw as a nihilistic turn among Republican voters. How Donald Trump Set Off a Civil War Within the Right-Wing Media 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z This particular form of nihilistic cynicism haunts both ends of the political spectrum. It’s Not Too Late to Fix Fox News 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z “New York hard-core people in general were crazy, nihilistic,” he said. Harley Flanagan, Original New York Punker, Finds His Mellower Side 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z These are loners, misfits and socially maladjusted youths who are vulnerable to the puritanical promises of the Islamic State, and able to embrace its nihilistic agenda. It turns out many ISIS recruits don’t know much about Islam 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z The real issue is that Trump and Putin share the same nihilistic approach to international relations. Putin would eat Trump’s lunch 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z Those things represent a yearning toward the imaginary and the impossible, and a nihilistic rejection of all reality. Trump’s suicide mission: He’s not trying to destroy his own campaign — the destructive urge he represents is much bigger than that 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z It was teed up exquisitely by the increasingly nihilistic producers of the shows in The Bachelor stable. Bachelor in Purgatory: a Bachelor in Paradise recap horror show 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Catholic University professor Jay Richards argues that the Republican message was not quite as nihilistic as it was reported. A Tale of Two Countries 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The Amber books aren't as grim and nihilistic as Game Of Thrones, or The Walking Dead, for that matter. Robert Kirkman wants the Chronicles Of Amber to be the next Game Of Thrones 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z With Nice, mainly famous for its sunshine and its salad, the same nihilistic logic would now seem to carry beyond Paris, to just about anywhere in the country. On Bastille Day, a Grieving and Afflicted Nation 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z But what if the real issue is that nihilistic misfits and violent malcontents in the West turn to Islamic State simply because it is the most obvious foe of the system? Radicalization of Islam or Islamization of Radicalism? 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z As a fan of often nihilistic zombie fiction, I was really drawn to State of Decay. E3 2016 Gaming extravaganza boots up in LA - BBC News 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z He is a nihilistic pragmatist who craves power at any cost—and will say and do anything to achieve said goal. Entitled, racist, bigoted, thugs: It is time to call Donald Trump supporters by their real names 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Some of Kay's interviewees were "massive fans" of The Smiths and "actually knew members personally", but others "didn't like the band and found the music depressing and nihilistic". What difference does it make being a Smith? - BBC News 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z If the nihilistic irony of 1992 youth culture made “Boxers or briefs?” feel like a breath of fresh air, the earnestness of 2016 youth culture makes it seem like a dispatch from a far-off planet. MTV's Move Into Hard News is a Promising Throwback 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z While their agenda was nihilistic and obstructionist, the Tea Party was a massive success by any measure. This is what the revolution looks like: Former Sanders staffers are launching a new PAC aimed at midterm Congressional elections 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z And Poor Boy ends with an act of nihilistic destruction that’s so pointless and hyperbolic, it shatters the film’s attempt at building a sort of cracked camaraderie around its protagonists. Three types of onscreen losers at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Its nihilistic hyper-violence draws from virtual reality and other video games, as well as films, and it unfolds entirely from the point of view of the title character, through his eyes. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘April and the Extraordinary World’ and more 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z This results in a nasty and nihilistic perspective that feels misplaced. 'Girl in the Photographs' fails to develop beyond a minor horror film 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Quentin Tarantino indulges in some of his worst impulses in this widescreen western, loading it up with violence and vulgarity to an almost nihilistic degree. New on DVD: 'The Hateful Eight' is Quentin Tarantino at his worst (but the acting, music and vistas are swell) 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z “We will come back with greater resolve - with greater strength - and we will not rest until we have eliminated your nihilistic beliefs and cowardice from the face of the Earth.” 2 Americans confirmed dead in Brussels attacks; Kerry visits 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z One of the looser ends is Lex Luthor, whom Eisenberg plays as a manic, lighter version of Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight, all nervy babble, alarming tittering, and nihilistic challenges to the world. Batman v Superman is a very expensive reaction video for Man of Steel 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Will he organize and lead a worldwide effort to undermine the corrupt and nihilistic philosophy of terrorism and its meaningless killings? Does Obama Have This Right? 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Huckaby: I did see people saying that was "nihilistically honest" which was amusing because the whole point of this was, public transportation is necessary, investment in public transportation always pays off. An interview with the realest social media managers in public transportation 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z “Once he added the words, it was no longer an abstract ink splatter,” Ms. Josenhans said, noting that this work exemplified the nihilistic aspects of Dada. Dada Turns 100, and Still Astonishes, at Yale 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z They have converted healthy political competition into a form of nihilistic obstruction that justifies even a shutdown of the government. The Merrick Garland Nomination: A New Bork Battle? 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z “Triple 9” imagines itself a sprawling, nihilistic epic, and it floats along for a while on the shoulders of its prestige filmmaking and cast, but ultimately the storytelling just isn’t up to the task. REVIEW: ‘Triple 9’: crooked cops gone worse 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Those who think human history is nihilistic chaos will be pretty snooty about utopians. Free love or genocide? The trouble with Utopias 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z However, behind the nihilistic, numb facade of his new character, the Thin White Duke, Bowie was in trouble. Bowie in America: how the US got under the singer's skin, and vice versa 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z He was very kind to us, despite his reputation of being a severe, nihilistic, godless man. Beckett's prison protege: the inmate who became a top interpreter of writer's work 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z The greater concern is the ready availability, via the internet, of extremist ideologies that speak directly to the perpetrators’ nihilistic desire to empower themselves through a cause larger than themselves. Latest mass shootings prompt experts to overhaul theories explaining them 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z |
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