Sentences with phrase «from nihilist»
Demagogues of all stripes will not shy away from nihilist adventurism even at the price of self - destruction in order to rouse the mob to upend the status quo, and establish a new order.
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One expects such views from nihilists, not believing Christians.
The two run into a bizarre cast of characters, ranging from nihilists to porn producers.
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Radicals are the permanently unsatisfied among us — nihilists of the Utopian vision, restless with the imperfections of humanity as we know it — who clamor for a future in which human beings will be different from what they are and the world transformed, for a world in which racism and evils like it will be purged from the species forever, and of course for the time when radicals like themselves will inherit the earth.
He draws only on the violent and revisionist later entries in the genre (Leone, Sergio Corbucci, Clint Eastwood, Sam Peckinpah) to make a nihilist, heel - dragging black comedy that borrows its central conflict from John Wick.
When the Dude attempts to receive compensation for his soiled rug from «the Big Lebowski,» he sets off an outrageous chain of events that involves everything from kidnapping, ransom, double crosses, and pornography to a writer for the vintage TV western Branded, a gang of German nihilists, and their lethal pet marmot.
A quartet of great performances elevate this from torture - porn into nihilist philosophy.
We do not want people to walk away from this article as nihilists.
Although Nothing's protagonist, Pierre, seems to withdraw from the world, he is not necessarily a nihilist (one who believes in nothing).
However, a nihilist does not withdraw from the world and shout his beliefs from the treetops, nor does he care whether or not he can convert others to his philosophy.
Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey there, too, training his telescope not into space but at the apartment windows opposite... From writers such as Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill, through the hippies and on to the nihilist punks of the 1970s and beyond, «the Chelsea» has more than lived up to its understated description of itself as a «rest stop for rare individuals».