Sentences with phrase «not nihilist»

But Mr. McKinney is a Connecticut conservative, not a nihilist.

(They certainly were not nihilist nor even amoral, and not relativist nor morally indifferent.)

People who don't believe in Santa are not nihilists, same for any deity.

It would be useful for our politicians and pundits to realize that these people are not crazy, they're not nihilists or brainwashed or losers.

Not exact matches

The poet is seen as confused, scared, overcomplicated, hidden behind his «wit,» and, finally, a nihilist altogether — a man who knows his religious faith «doesn't stand up to scrutiny,» and so writes «these screwed - up sonnets.»

Just because he's not portrayed as a bitter nihilist does not automatically make him a good example of atheists....

Yet while this uxorious little man consents to unsheathe himself with the rest of the audience, there is one act when he can not bring himself to commit: he will not abandon the valuables — his wallet and keys and watch — which Bertha and the other sexual nihilists are taunting him to surrender.

If I happened to be fortunate to have all of my needs provided for and if it made no difference at all to me whether I did something to help someone with whom I am not associated, I might very well as a nihilist choose to do something good for others simply because why not?

Neither they nor their Republican nihilist counterparts with whom they share a disdain for even the most rational of compromises didn't succeed in creating a TOTAL train wreck.

Not all atheists believe in evolution, nor are they all naturalists, humanists, materialists, nihilists, communists etc..

One expects such views from nihilists, not believing Christians.

It is good to be reminded that secular men and women are not always cheerful nihilists who do unspeakably horrid things, but sometimes, and most appropriately, angst - ridden and troubled.

This does not mean we have to become nihilists.

The limitation of this argument, however, is that it can never transcend its constructivist and utilitarian (not to say nihilist) premises.

Now, not many atheists are nihilists, of course, but that simply shows that they are inconsistent in following their beliefs to their logical end.

The really difficult task when faced with an emergent «sacred» such as began to appear in the wake of 9/11 is to refuse to be fascinated and instead to tend to the wounded, to search for and apprehend nihilist criminals, yet not to aggrandize them and their purely negative accomplishments in a way that gives succour to others who might imitate them.

For me, who started out my life as an evolutionary, nihilist, atheist... It is very good news that there is a God, He is good, He loves me, I am not alone, He will never leave me or forsake me, He loves being with me, I'm can be more myself with Him than without Him, He isn't afraid of my doubts, I'm free to question anything, I'm safe, death is not the end, the earth will be restored, we will see righteous government, there will be an end to war, I will get to be a part of that restoration, I am a part of it now, all I do now that is of the kingdom shall remain, I will see the full fruit of that labor in the world to come... Wow.

(Of course, one can not consistently be a subjectivist, a relativist, an emotivist, and a nihilist; but it is also fashionable today to be unconcerned about logical consistency in matters of religion and morality.)

Unlike the «debonair nihilist» (Allan Bloom's phrase), those who aspire to be opinion leaders are nothing if not moralizing.

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.

Nihilist: I was basing it not on Blears but on your claim that Guy Fawkes was «the only man ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions».

Those organizational «nihilists» don't want anyone to win, Baldoni said, adding Congress appears trapped by such outliers these days.

I'm not only an agnostic, I'm also a moral nihilist, a heavy believer of Murphy's Laws (whatever is the worst thing that could happen, will), and those who know me, consider me a geeky punk nerd.

If a franchise feels compelled to destroy a cherished character it should at least be for a believable reason, not because the writer's a creatively - bankrupt nihilist.

Too bad that the narrative is such a conventional melodrama in depicting the fight of the little man, the humanist Hoffman, against the military machine, represented by the cynical and nihilist man (Donald Sutherland, also not associated with this genre).

I am not remotely in the camp that views the Coens as technically adept nihilists who feel little or no compassion for their characters.

If that weren't enough, Peter Stormare, playing one of the nihilists, finally gets the pancakes he'd been pining for.

I don't want to be too mean, but, I feel some real Arby's Nihilist vibes coming on here.

A romantic comedy between a hedonist and a nihilist, «Greenberg» is hardly saccharine, but thankfully it's not the abrasive chemical treatment Baumbach usually applies.

HC takes place in the same uniquely Coen universe, not long after the Hollywood of Barton Fink and many, many years before the same L.A. streets are to be one day inhabited by Dudes, Donnys, Jackie Treehorns, and fucking nihilists.

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.

Unlike a traditional nihilist, he is not bent on self - destruction, or outward violence toward those who disagree with him.

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».

A greenhouse tax is already being discussed in Brussels and don't fool yourself folks, it * will * be applied to American products destined to the European market if the US decides to remain egocentric and nihilist.

Of course, the atrocities committed on animals in Congo by these near - nihilist soldiers do not compare to those being done on humans — atrocities funded in part by poaching.