Sentences with phrase «towards nihilism»
The burdens of the book are to establish that television and movies are nihilistic; they display the inherent tendency of democratic liberalism towards nihilism; they remove any possibility for classical tragedy or comedy; and they hold up «demonic antiheroes» such as Hannibal Lecter for our emulation.
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It's a statement that the world is hurtling towards the sixties, dumb as it is to say, and then the seventies, and then into the aughts, when nihilism and the equation of morality with a coin flip rules the day.
It seems symptomatic of a broader reorientation in the pop - cultural landscape of early»90s Britain, away from the plaid - shirt nihilism of Generation X, towards a confident levity and engagement with a more localized pop sensibility — a loss of interest in the US as locus of artistic innovation.