So, it's very cheerful, nihilistic — not nihilistic — cheerfully doomed!
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To be clear, I am not claiming that the Republican Party is a nihilistic white supremacist party (it isn't) or that most of its members are nihilistic white supremacists (they're not).
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Maybe that's because she inadvertently made Alan become more nihilistic.
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Why, then, should such a nihilistic message be so appealing?
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It's confused storytelling, yes, but also not a little nihilistic.
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The Dark Zone like Charlton Heston's nihilistic fantasy made real.
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Spectacular levels of cocaine abuse also shaped this nihilistic trajectory.
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Our holiday joy is an affront to their nihilistic sadism.
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Here, anger and defiance become something hopeful instead of nihilistic.
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She struggles to respond to these inquiries without sounding nihilistic.
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Future has set a new standard for nihilistic, drug-addled consistency.
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But that is obscured by Mr. Trump's nihilistic and careless approach.
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It's certainly a nihilistic take on politics, but this is fiction!
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Or, if we're being nihilistic, continuing the reign of Cersei Lannister.
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It's the most nihilistic fanbase I've ever seen in my life.
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Today, the standing dogma is that purposelessness and disorder are nihilistic.
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It's an angry, nihilistic, crazy way of looking at the world.
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We've become nihilistic, immediately, as you realize that there's a problem.
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Improbably, Veep wasn't quite as nihilistic as we thought all along.
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It's a dark movie, but the story is not cynical or nihilistic.
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If the dystopian narrative was pessimistic, the suicide narrative is downright nihilistic.
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If the music is all nihilistic nonsense, then that's what you're pushing.
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"New York hard-core people in general were crazy, nihilistic," he said.
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Or, we could fight against the nihilistic indifference that spawns our destructiveness.
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What's being survived in the depressive and nihilistic effects of that anxiety.
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You can't be more than just a nihilistic zombie floating through life.
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In truth the market has been nihilistic like this for some time.
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Not nihilistic, exactly, but melancholic, resigned, and sometimes susceptible to reactionary politics.
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Like his literary models, Bacon's art, for all its pessimism, isn't nihilistic.
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It gets weird, but what good meme isn't a little nihilistic and surreal?
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Who do you think is the most nihilistic pop star of all time?
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One view holds that in a state without a sultan, society becomes nihilistic.
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But you can expect the next nihilistic trend to be even more outrageous.
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This is the nihilistic vision of America that St. Kara reflects to us.
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For some, who perhaps are a bit nihilistic, everything will get hacked eventually.
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These books also suggest a Republican Party that has reached a nihilistic endpoint.
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They all feature that brand of nihilistic millennial irony that's popular right now.
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First, they can acknowledge that they are being sucked down a nihilistic whirlpool.
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As Shakespeare's darkest, most nihilistic work, "Lear" benefits from such contemporary idiomatic directness.
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As such, it's a powerful, effective political strategy — and a deeply nihilistic one.
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But he's a nihilistic madman, so we're just supposed to accept him without question.
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Now that Dabiq has failed to deliver, might jihadists ditch their more nihilistic ideas?
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It's a nihilistic skepticism that fuels destructive political discourse and accepts nothing as fact.
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It's basically the latest nihilistic iteration of the classic This Is Fine Dog meme.
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Its dark, nihilistic ideology is repugnant and that is why they fight and die.
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But that nihilistic shitshow is exactly the place where Olson — and The Mick — thrives.
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A party needs context to make it more than just a nihilistic night out.
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The effect — a miniature without center, without form, purposely without finesse — is almost nihilistic.
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At best the country is uncertain; at worst it has entered a nihilistic rage.
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In this nihilistic world, everyone is corrupt and every public statement is a lie.
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True bigotry is often excused as nothing more than crude humor or nihilistic trolling.
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Season two revealed that the park didn't just serve as entertainment for nihilistic fantasists.
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And apologies to those in Studio City for the disturbance of our nihilistic noize.
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On "The Greatest," Del Rey put a joyfully nihilistic spin on our current catastrophe.
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As the mood becomes more nihilistic and angry, some may even welcome a crackdown.
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Their movement is leaderless, fluid, and democratic, as well as darker and more nihilistic.
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" Groth described his worldview as "nihilistic with a leavening degree of humor and pathos.
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Blanchett morphs seamlessly between characters, from a nihilistic punk to a downtrodden homeless man.
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It's dark and nihilistic, it's focused on excitement and intensity, it's experimental and boundary-pushing.
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It's about a nihilistic scientist, Rick, who takes his grandson, Morty, on inter-dimensional adventures.
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Thor: Ragnarok is like Deadpool, only charming and light, rather than R-rated and nihilistic.
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What took its place was the despairing, nihilistic fantasy of the plucky teen committing suicide.
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This kind of nihilistic maximalism turns out to be an ineffective legislative strategy, in general.
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It was music from the fringes of American life—nihilistic, yet not completely without humor.
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It's nihilistic and misanthropic, bleak and despairing, slickly shot and bathed in ragged industrial gloom.
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The show's characters repeatedly demonstrate the "human nature" is as nihilistic as we can imagine.
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The second season of this nihilistic workplace comedy ends with two back-to-back episodes.
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At once profoundly nihilistic and horrifically beautiful, it's a two-part film about pushing limits.
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Michelle Goldberg argues that the president bridges racist ideology and the internet's nihilistic troll culture.
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But, and here is the important thing, he did it with a plebeian, nihilistic touch.
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It's easy to look at the current political climate and grow despondent, if not nihilistic.
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And this time it's not just nihilistic Game of Thrones spoilers—there's a ransom note, too.
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On the other hand: whither the cynicism and the nihilistic humor of the David Letterman era?
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But a highly visible subset of incels take their complaints to surreal and uniquely nihilistic extremes.
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He also found a doctor to help remove his act of nihilistic rebellion from his face.
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After all, the film was unapologetically violent, unvarnished in its depiction of sexuality, and borderline nihilistic.
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Shishigami is nihilistic, greedy, emotionally broken — all of the things we fear in violent young men.
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By its very operation, the market inclines us away from principled restraint and toward nihilistic abandon.
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But the accelerant comes from the Republican Party taking its libertarianism to a crude, nihilistic endpoint.
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Black Mirror is most often held up against The Twilight Zone, another pretty nihilistic anthology series.
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Mr. Grimsley's outcry lacked nihilistic conviction, and his unsteady echoing answer felt neither cleansed nor changed.
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That anger and frustration has led to a nihilistic, bitter streak among some, mostly younger protesters.
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But that kind of nihilistic realpolitik is no match for the emotions such agents traffic in.
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Ellie is driven by a twisted sense of justice and love, Joel by a nihilistic narcissism.
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I find myself saying, in my improv classes, 'Hey, don't worry, nothing matters,' which sounds nihilistic.
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It rode the nihilistic anger of the Tea Party and the paranoid rants of Glenn Beck.
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Now we're confronted with a nihilistic project of just saying there's no such thing as facts.
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But that's not to say I enjoy nihilism, or that Manhunt is—or ought to be—nihilistic.
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What's unbearable about Game of Thrones' nihilistic turn isn't the lack of happy or even satisfying conclusions.
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Screenshots from the show are inherently ripe for memes; nihilistic internet culture adores any content about exhaustion.
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Her performances are renowned (or notorious) for the way they capture a certain ultra-hip, nihilistic aesthetic.
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It was teed up exquisitely by the increasingly nihilistic producers of the shows in The Bachelor stable.
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In this nihilistic narrative, bitcoin (or Ethereum or whatever) will be the end-times currency of choice.
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Not that Revelation features any event quite so diabolically nihilistic—and, yes, unbelievable—as a school shooting.
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Here you'll find the same sort of damaged romantics, nihilistic hedonists, and criminal minds known to trapaholics.
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While this song is not explicitly political, some of that general nihilistic discontent seeped into the writing.
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And when teenage Oksana suffers a loss, this distant, nihilistic tone is an effective expression of grief.
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You will see how nightmarish and nihilistic they are and perhaps not read them to your children.
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Let's just get this out of the way: Milo Yiannopoulos is a tedious, nihilistic, mean-spirited opportunist.
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Police and at least one mainland reporter have endured beatings by young radicals gripped by nihilistic rage.
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"Many of those organizations pervert the religion of Islam to justify their murderous, nihilistic agenda," Earnest said.
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This is typical of Kyle: He buries his nihilistic wit with primitive illustrations and naïvely cryptic text.
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At times, he looks like a fallen preacher, or the nihilistic Bible salesman in a Flannery O'Connor story.
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The hatred, trolling, harassment, and conspiracy theorizing of the internet's underbelly cannot be dismissed as empty, nihilistic performance.
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Writer-director Vera Chytilovà's absurdist 1966 hymn to nihilistic youth is hard to explain but impossible to forget.
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Cessna's cynical and borderline nihilistic cards are a perfect inspiration for the Scrooges and holiday-haters among us.
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Dale Baren writes a must-read piece about 4chan, the message board frequented by nihilistic angry young men.
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There were obviously implied areas where we weren't being nihilistic: It was inherently anti-racist and anti-sexist.
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My life didn't feel like it was worth preserving at the time... I used to be very nihilistic.
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But "The Lehman Trilogy" is unlikely to leave anyone who sees it in a nihilistic frame of mind.
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Mr. Lewittes, in particular, wanted to combat what he saw as a nihilistic streak in the Hollywood press.
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This time, his co-conspirator is Elle, a nihilistic friend who pushes him toward new levels of destruction.
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Inevitably, though, that led the frog to some dark places — especially in the hands of nihilistic online trolls.
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If we fail to identify and comprehend its most debased and nihilistic intents, the results can be catastrophic.
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Genet, a playwright and a hustler, could have easily seen through theatrics as cheap and nihilistic as Trump's.
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Its key operators are the psychopaths who fit the standard profile of a religiously motivated zealot: homicidal, suicidal, nihilistic.
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The stakes may be life and death, but in a story so nihilistic, they hardly seem worth the trouble.
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Bird Box doesn't have the same ideology: It's like the creatures are just there for some massive nihilistic prank.
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Do you think that such nihilistic noisy excess is beneficial and may even include the pleasure of social communion?
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Making a Perfect Donut walks a tightrope between a nihilistic strain of the Dada tradition and overt political engagement.
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But the most nihilistic pop song is John Denver's "I'm Sorry," which is the most depressing song ever written.
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I don't mean to sound nihilistic, but social media is good for short term laughs, no matter the cost.
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It sets up what he's about, and the themes of the movie, in an appropriately nihilistic way, very succinctly.
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Along with hijacking our private conversations to petty, nihilistic ends, they're trying to undermine our trust in each other.
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This was a perfect Bannon move: a nihilistic middle finger at the entire political system, both left and right.
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The protagonist is the oneiric version of a film editor, handling the potent, nihilistic dreams of a dying prodigy.
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This scene seems to suggest that the way forward, out of all this nihilistic violence, is through fiery immolation.
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The Amber books aren't as grim and nihilistic as Game Of Thrones, or The Walking Dead, for that matter.
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"I think Assange has become a kind of nihilistic opportunist who does the bidding of a dictator," she said.
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" Brooks warned earlier this month that Republicans who refuse to disavow Trump "are being sucked down a nihilistic whirlpool.
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Bryan Bishop, The Verge: Thor: Ragnarok is like Deadpool, only charming and light, rather than R-rated and nihilistic.
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Not a clear moral message but a nihilistic frustration at its own existence within the blockbuster publisher-studio model.
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William Adolphe Bouguereau's "Avant le bain" (1900) is the perfect companion to Woody Allen's nihilistic monologue from Annie Hall.
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By the time the pair make it home, they look ready to repeat their nihilistic tango the next day.
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There has long been a nontrivial faction of nihilistic white supremacists in American politics, arguably since the nation's beginnings.
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There is a nihilistic strain coursing through the veins of a significant number of people on the American right.
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To Mr. Trump and many of his increasingly nihilistic supporters, this is a threat to their fantasy of masculinity.
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Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson downplayed the coronavirus's dangers by taking a nihilistic approach to how many people would die.
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The merrily nihilistic Frenchman strewed the first half of the twentieth century with the aesthetic equivalent of whoopee cushions.
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"Assange has become a kind of nihilistic opportunist who does the bidding of a dictator," she said in October.
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It is not exactly that "nothing matters," to borrow social media's favorite nihilistic buzz-phrase of the Trump age.
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Chris Weller: Given the title, I think this could be read as a fairly pessimistic, or even nihilistic, book.
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Petyr Baelish got nihilistic and spoke about how easy everyone's problems will become once the world succumbs to the undead.
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But Fassbender's patrician bearing and straight-faced delivery makes him seem more weary than angry, and more lost than nihilistic.
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However, Burton's wholesale dismissal of Kahneman's view as "pessimistic" and, rather hyperbolically, "nihilistic," was in my opinion unwarranted and inaccurate.
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This whole series has been about who will take the Iron Throne, and the answer "No one!" seems appropriately nihilistic.
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Clearly this is the real Barney — the one whose nihilistic plunge into timely existential despair reflects our own social upheaval.
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And in his journal entries, he's paranoid, nihilistic, and sees the worst in people — usually the poor, immigrants, and women.
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My worldview is anything but nihilistic... Truth is sometimes hard to hear... Mortality is the inescapable truth of all life .
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We shouldn't wonder that so many voters have seized on this election to make a statement, even a nihilistic one.
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That makes fights against villains predictable: Except in the most nihilistic stories, good is eventually going to triumph over evil.
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The good news is that with ISIS on the decline, the type of nihilistic violence it sponsored might also diminish.
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It stars Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a lonely-turned-nihilistic outcast who sees the world as cruel and unjust.
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It's an ambitious, if not entirely coherent, sci-fi shoot-'em-up that questions nihilistic entertainment impulses while indulging them.
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Fascism is a kind of fantasy politics, a nihilistic leap into pure willfulness, beyond the claims of facts and logic.
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It also stays relatively faithful to the events and tone of Ms. Christie's book, right through to the nihilistic ending.
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To cap it all, Texture delivers relentlessly nihilistic verses set in a bleak dystopian future over heavy, synth-laden production.
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It took a few moments for everyone to realize that this study of nihilistic defeat was indeed an unconditional victory.
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I always thought she just had a nihilistic streak, especially when we talked politics and Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands.
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For a show as frighteningly nihilistic as Euphoria, this is the kind of messy-but-fun content it actually needs.
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It very specifically refers to people—people who will suffer and die if Trump's nihilistic vision of crisis management prevails.
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I enjoy it as much as I enjoy my other daily pleasures: reading books, applying eyeshadow, having nihilistic existential crises.
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"The DC universe so far has consisted of four films… that are dark, turgid, nihilistic, and often confusing," Donovan said.
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In the Trump era, the critique has deepened — not just nihilistic, critics say, but the source of our era's woes.
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Last week, Black Mirror Season 4 infiltrated our screens with its usual mix of techno-terror and sweet, nihilistic misery.
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I see "CHILD" not as nihilistic and dated, but as Conner's attempt to imagine the material changes brought about by death.
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Rexha has done a masterful job of painting a nihilistic scene in which she's an observer, and sometimes an unreliable narrator.
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He is like something designed in a lab to appeal to every nostalgic or nihilistic impulse of cry babies our age.
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If you're gonna have art or comedy or music that is chaotic, then it will have a tendency to be nihilistic.
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Ligaya's image robs him of his peace, and nihilistic repulsion towards exploiters creeps into his soul until he takes savage revenge.
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The problem with much of weed-friendly metal culture is that it's either old-fashioned and corny or nihilistic and goofy.
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It's the kind of nihilistic free-for-all that I might have found daring at 16, but mostly find tiresome now.
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News outlets will most likely focus on what has replaced him, the fragmented, nihilistic terrorism of groups like the Islamic State.
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We see this embodied in Nikolai Stavrogin, the most malicious character in this work, who directs its plot of nihilistic destruction.
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He got into punk rock, particularly the D.C. hardcore scene—straight-edge, earnest punk, not the nihilistic New York seventies stuff.
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They are explaining to the audience, and to themselves, how they have become so despairing and nihilistic that they commit murder.
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He's selling a band and a flamboyant brand that grow more nihilistic and death-oriented as their notoriety and followers increase.
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His father, John, a former social worker, died in 2015, aged 95 — which prompted a series of introspective, somewhat nihilistic collections.
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Over the course of the 21st century, the conservative movement, and with it the Republican Party, has fallen ever more deeply under the sway of an illiberal and nihilistic populism — illiberal in its crude exploitation of religious, racial, and cultural divisions; nihilistic in its blithe indifference to governance and the established norms and institutions of representative self-government.
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"It carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic and nihilistic," he says around halfway through the clip above.
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The "nihilistic nature" of the so-called Islamic State and its goal to cause mass casualties does set it apart, Pantucci explained.
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It turns out that our contemptuous nihilistic infosec teenager has a superpower on which the interconnected aspects of our entire society rely.
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I think that critics see the Joker as this villain who frames violence within this context of nihilistic anarchy where nothing matters.
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At one point, she offhandedly pulls a nihilistic sound bite from the British documentarian Adam Curtis, adding to the album's collagist feel.
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Frasqueri is massively talented, and there's no reason that she shouldn't bring morose, nihilistic pop-punk into her already self-aware rhymes.
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" It's a particularly nihilistic quip from Rowling's world, especially once it's followed a moment later with "Magical beasts are terrorizing No-Majs.
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"'Kids' is a love song from one nihilistic depressive to another," singer-guitarist Stefan Babcock said of the song in a statement.
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He said he's always looking for "fun, weird ways" to communicate with readers, and he's noticed that nihilistic messages tend to resonate.
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No matter how twisted, his bleak narratives and landscapes provide glimpses that are always very profound and impacting, portraying peak nihilistic angst.
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Mitch McConnell, the nihilistic Republican senator from Kentucky, pushed this narrative in January while condemning H.R. 1, the Democrats' election-reform package.
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These are devastating truths, but they're also ones that I very much expect to embolden our heroes in this otherwise nihilistic world.
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Still, the hero in this version, played by two performers, Franz Pätzold and Aurel Manthei, is more nihilistic than a standard womanizer.
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Lucy mediates this existential quandary with a nihilistic abandon that involves Tinder and a series of meticulously detailed examples of terrible sex.
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Mr. Bezmozgis creates a disturbing portrait of a girl turned calculating and nihilistic by her upbringing, and there is no coyness here.
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If this were science fiction, you could say the machines had already risen, which would be almost reassuring in its nihilistic finality.
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As a TV show, The Witcher is particularly refreshing in an era full of nihilistic fantasy stories inspired by Game of Thrones.
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Why would anyone work to advance the nihilistic international designs of a president who walks away from international calls for American leadership?
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Where Peep and XXXTentacion's trademark sounds were more nihilistic and morose, Juice Wrld's music was tuneful and more melodic, if also melancholic.
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The conventional critique of postmodernism is that it's nihilistic, a knock that you hear from critics on the left and the right.
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This wasn't the nihilistic punk of the 70s or the hyper-politicized and aggressive hardcore of the 80s; this was something new.
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"It's this slightly nihilistic, slightly heartfelt look at two troubled people circling each other's troubles in a whirlpool of teenage angst," Peter explains.
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But Nazi symbolism, semi-ironic misogyny, and nihilistic misanthropy are no longer meaningfully transgressive; in fact, they've been in perennial rotation for decades.
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With little conversation she jumped in, and over the course of two weeks, we got out whatever nihilistic flailing we had left; preparation.
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The nihilistic beat disguised despair in cheerful tones, and the audience laughed uncertainly at the clowns' misery, identifying those problems as their own.
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Today, terrorists bypass traditional media entirely and they now act simultaneously as the protagonists, producers and propagators of their acts of nihilistic violence.
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Today Clinton said that Assange became "a kind of nihilistic opportunist who does the bidding of a dictator," referencing Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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But there's a furious, nihilistic glee in the way that Sam Levinson directs this film that you almost have to see to believe.
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Instead, both Arthur and John act as practically interchangeable anti-heroes built for the same nihilistic cynicism that defines the revisionist Western genre.
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Just check his peculiar tweets, farfetched Instagram posts, or his open love for the nihilistic pop culture phenomenon Rick and Morty for evidence.
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Overall it was a pretty nihilistic episode of SNL, which seems about right given the way things are going so far in 2018.
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This is still very much a place where people seem to want to come and forget about the nihilistic backdrop of contemporary politics.
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But George R.R. Martin has always been insistent that this is not a nihilistic story, that change is possible even if it's difficult.
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It chases after the nihilistic swagger of "Deadpool" and the anarchic whimsy of "Guardians of the Galaxy" but trips over its own feet.
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It has also established a nihilistic, reality TV standard of conduct that will pull down the country if it is allowed to survive.
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Tadek becomes convinced that the victim was killed by Kozlov (Marton Csokas), a nihilistic writer whose novel features passages that mimic the crime.
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There is the consistent sense that this nihilistic writer is drawing from a deep well; his voice is uniquely present on the page.
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Whereas previous efforts could seem insular or nihilistic, the new show sees Mr. Powhida earnestly broadening his scope and digging deeper than before.
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Indeed, if nihilistic forms of violence are the work of a reactionary mind, part of what's required is overcoming passivity in thought. 10.
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But as they grew more extreme — "nihilistic" was Mr. Glazer's word — he turned away from them and his own leftist past as well.
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This may sound cynical or nihilistic, but I would argue that this book is among the most humane works of art ever created.
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He could justify this nihilistic tactic by reflexively claiming that other media did it first, leaving him no choice but to push back.
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Will the rest of the world accept the nihilistic embrace of Spicy King and begin a global revolution of submerged chile-eating competitions?
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His nihilistic, Holden Caulfield-esque angry high school riffs seem exactly like the type of thing Deadly Class should be making fun of.
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But his jaunt into that surreal emptiness isn't forgotten by us — it showed us the nihilistic depths SpongeBob was willing to go to.
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"It's easy to slip into that nihilistic space when you start to acknowledge that everything I thought was secure is an illusion," Winston says.
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However, industrial music's nihilistic outlook and martial overtones—including its use of fascist symbolism and regalia for shock value—also attracted neo-Nazi fans.
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None of this really matters except that Mande, a nihilistic comedian, picked a photo of his good friend to feature on the show — heavily.
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Divorced of all the concerns about possible theater violence, or an anarchic incel uprising, this film feels a lot more like empty, nihilistic provocation.
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Before we became numb to nihilistic terror, we used to looked up at space and see a reflection of our own trivial, fleeting lives.
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He is the reason many are giving up or giving in, why they're succumbing to despair or taking wild nihilistic stabs into the void.
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Those who are familiar with Claire Denis, who I would call one of our greatest living filmmakers, would be aware of her nihilistic streak.
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To understand this, consider that killing often takes place so that certain ways of life can thrive, not just out of some nihilistic urge.
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The nihilistic filmmaker plumbs the digital revolution's impact on humans, from the birth of the Internet to its inevitable (or, possibly already existing) sentience.
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Hooded Justice's fellow hero, Rorschach, is a nihilistic, unapologetic, objectivist moralist who is willing to risk armageddon based on what he believes is good.
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"Populism" has become a convenient shorthand for the nihilistic backlash, and the term has come to invoke a collection of largely irrational cultural tropes.
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In a similar way, it seems that Republicans received short-term electoral rewards for poisoning our political system with increasingly hateful and nihilistic rhetoric.
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His last album, Because The Internet, wasn't amazing, but it was intriguing—dark and nihilistic about the internet age, battling between hopeless and hopeful.
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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.
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On the right, it thrives in nihilistic, irony-drenched message boards, where the Trump phenomenon has always been seen as something of a game.
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California and Australia are paying a high price for this irrational, nihilistic schemata in the form of lives lost, property burned and ecosystems damaged.
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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.
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Watch: Natasha Lyonne's new Netflix show, "Russian Doll," is a gritty take on "Groundhog Day," with a nihilistic New Yorker repeating her birthday party.
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Mr Iampolski argues that in this nihilistic climate, "inscription"—the act of committing things to paper or the screen—becomes the main form of legitimacy.
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But now, with the XS, XS Max, and XR, we're back to the alphabetically nihilistic approach where none of these letters actually stand for anything.
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To a certain extent, that lack of context effectively contributes to the feeling of nihilistic chaos that's so in line with politics post-2016 election.
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To go the full Trump would be nihilistic, but Democrats need to stop worrying about the fine print and start forging their own unrealistic utopia.
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A godfather to emo rap if not directly its genetic patriarch, Future embodies the path that these pill-popping nihilistic youngins have ahead of them.
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This fluid national corporate identity permitted by NAFTA is actually somewhat nihilistic in that it is directly contrary to the "free trade" Adam Smith observed.
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My life had pretty much reached its lowest point, and weeks of intrusive, pessimistic, nihilistic thoughts were beginning to pile up on top of me.
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Now more than ever, most journalists work for giant, nihilistic corporations whose editorial decisions are skewed by a toxic mix of political and financial considerations.
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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.
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Some consider Gnosticism flawed, an individualistic, nihilistic, escapist religion incapable of forming any kind of true moral community, but naturally we disagree with that assessment.
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Aaron Sorkin's near-perfect West Wing (the first three seasons at least) is more realistic than Scandal and certainly less nihilistic than House of Cards.
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The only solo Cudi track performed was "Pursuit of Happiness," and that, too, felt of a piece with the bleakly nihilistic bent of the show.
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"I do know that they are dangerous, nihilistic individuals who look at these takedowns as political performance art," he said in a statement to the station.
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Given what passengers know about the nihilistic motivations of Islamist terrorists, it is best to give America's intelligence agencies the benefit of the doubt, for now.
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They're miserable, nihilistic, and morally bankrupt because they were raised by this garbage on the computer, and they were easily turned out by the alt-right.
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They had yet to hone their nihilistic ideology, expand their territory, stockpile vast amounts of weaponry, or attract an international army of ideologues to their cause.
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While that might sound nihilistic, the flip side is that Cassini helps us understand that we're members of something bigger than ourselves, bigger than Earth, even.
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And while some people argue that such strong-arming, big-footing, and steamrolling tactics are necessary, time has shown this line of attack to be nihilistic.
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Certainly, that is the view of the man whose mission would have been corralling Kim's nihilistic capabilities to conventional weapons, had he been given the chance.
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And it expanded the nihilistic "take-it-or-leave-it" approach in which environmental reviews cannot consider ways to modify a project to reduce potential harms.
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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.
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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.
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As the show progressed over three seasons, however, the show's view of Rick's nihilistic genius dimmed in favor of recognizing the toxic brokenness his character exudes.
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Brits are as nihilistic with the drug as they are with alcohol, while—arguably—Americans generally put more brainpower into how they use their illicit substances.
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But there is a direct line to be drawn from his nihilistic rhetoric through President Trump's toxic tweets to the far-right sentiments expressed in Charlottesville.
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This Joseph Longo piece is honestly more nihilistic than funny, but if you like your comedy pitch-dark you might enjoy these incredibly charming queer youth.
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Appearance: Western Wear Personality: Nihilistic Earth sign Virgo is known for being an analytical over-thinker, which can easily spiral into a constant, low-grade pessimism.
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This 1960s film starring Lee Marvin as a ghostly gangster seeking revenge against a crime buddy who nearly kills him features a fairly simple, nihilistic story.
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Newly nihilistic after witnessing a massacre of many good people last week, he went on a rampage against the perpetrators, rogue members of the Brotherhood Without Banners.
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This feels like the right approach for this type of character: a nihilistic robot that doesn't want to get attached to the people it's contracted to protect.
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We could still have our nihilistic game that, nonetheless, shows the way things are grinding to a halt instead of continuing, unimpeded, forever into the hellish future.
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This nihilistic form of partisanship impairs Congresses' capacity to serve as the great deliberative, problem-solving body that the Framers of our Constitution meant it to be.
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As Moore sees it, the answer is a panoply of neuroses, from a sense of sexual inadequacy to a fanatically rigid moral code to pure nihilistic viciousness.
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Rod Gilfry was a gruffly nihilistic Alfonso, alternately resigned and snarling, and Sandrine Piau was sharply suspicious as Despina, the ladies' guardian and Alfonso's partner in crime.
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"Fuck the police"'s nihilistic, yet wry, desire to wipe the whole cultural slate clean is just one of Bonney's many-shaded varieties of anti-capitalist invective.
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But because his speech is so poisoned by cynicism and nihilistic self-involvement that the only person, and only cause, it could possibly benefit is Milo Yiannopoulos.
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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.
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When Lucas Ossendrijver of Lanvin debuted a scarf woven with the word ''Nothing,'' it felt less like a nihilistic slogan than a comforting and even liberating statement.
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The reactionary approach to climate change — build higher walls, cut off refugee flows, get the fossil fuels while the getting is good — is selfish, myopic, even nihilistic.
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Read: The latest novel by the nihilistic French writer Michel Houellebecq follows an exhausted man in late middle age on a series of visits to old lovers.
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In the early 1990s, Norwegian bands like Mayhem, Darkthrone and Immortal formed black metal's second wave, distinctly influencing the nihilistic and misanthropic tone the genre took on.
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Kate is determined to rescue Christopher from his fate, but he is growing ever more nihilistic in the underworld, so to save him, she keeps him talking.
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Flower-like, nihilistic death and sex imagery is also bound together in "Skeleton Seated on Skull" (19th century), a very delicately carved Okimono ivory sculpture from Japan.
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There is something nihilistic, in House of Cards as in life, about relentless ambition and plotting that only feeds on itself and engenders more ambition and plotting.
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I settled on offering my friend the following stories: the process of making Fitzcarraldo; the nihilistic monologue he delivers in Burden of Dreams, the documentary about making Fitzcarraldo; the other nihilistic monologue he delivers over footage of a wandering penguin in the documentary Encounters at the End of the World; and the time he got shot by a sniper and commented dryly that it was not a "significant" bullet.
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ISIS severed territory it held from the outside world, but word got out about the militant group's brutality and its nihilistic campaign to destroy historic sites and monuments.
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In 2016, Pepe became the patron saint of the fascist troll, an emblem on the small-minded neo-Nazi moral straitjacket that's been masquerading as nihilistic anarchy lately.
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Voiced by Tony Hale of Arrested Development and Veep fame, Forky is the closest Pixar has come to creating a punk character: nihilistic, joyously loud, possibly brain damaged.
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And for good reason: Bauman can be utterly selfish and nihilistic, unconcerned with the fact that the people around him have dropped everything to help him get better.
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I suspect that this trade isn't really meant to benefit either team, but is just a nihilistic play at throwing their most frustrating player at their dearest enemy.
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As our great experiment continues its rapid descent towards darkness, "The Mooch" might be the kind of nihilistic, democracy-eroding distraction we can all, as Americans, get behind.
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To demonstrate that the singularity is coming soon to our level of the Matrix, he just hang out IRL with the nihilistic, genius authors of Rick and Morty.
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One nihilistic thing: Though the majority of the most popular Wikipedia pages had to do with more light-hearted content, last year's top page was "Deaths in 2017."
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President Obama has a new analogy for the Islamic State and Iraq and Syria (ISIS): the Joker, the nihilistic villain from "The Dark Knight," a 2008 Batman movie.
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In Chicago, some neighborhoods are overseen by gangs that ought to be viewed as operators of terror cells, nihilistic institutional organizations that invade the sphere of civilized life.
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Bannonism isn't grounded in intellectualism; it is merely a more nihilistic variant of the right-wing rebellion that burst into the open in 2010 with the Tea Party.
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British animator, artist, and musician David Firth is an unsung hero of grisly, nihilistic art-comedy in a world where David Lynch is all enlightened now or something.
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Most of the Surrealists came to the movement via Romanian-born French poet and essayist Tristan Tzara's participation in the nihilistic-revolutionary 1916 Dada Café Voltaire in Zurich.
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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.
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Perhaps we don't have to give in to the hopeless, nihilistic impulse to burn books, burn down all that will catch afire, and begin again from the ashes.
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But that same year, with the nihilistic "Black Book" (19773) and "Pile of Coal" (1963), Venet started finding his capacity as a sculptor of the black material world.
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This could be a nihilistic shrug on Corbet's part, a surrender to the spectacle, except that Celeste — with her robot moves and blandness — brings her fans pleasure, meaning.
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Above all, overidentification and the tropes used by the Athens Biennale merely exonerates the aesthetics of the kind of "fuck-you-free-thinking" apolitical, nihilistic millennials of privilege.
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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.
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Don't Breathe, meanwhile, took pains to illustrate that the effects of capitalism have turned our metaphorical house into a nihilistic, greed-driven wasteland where hope only barely survives.
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The sesh, looked at from afar, is a kind of post-ironic reselling of Binge Britain, a nihilistic renunciation of life itself, a self-indulgence of epic proportions.
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According to his artist statement, Pariseau finds inspiration in, "happy coincidences" and "anecdotal events," those serendipitous moments in life that challenge your nihilistic understanding of reality and fate.
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From that angle it's a singularly terrifying document, fundamentally nihilistic, that assumes a violent present instead of attempting to build a future of peace, security, and absence of want.
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In addition to summing up our collective nihilistic view of 2016, dumpster fire rose to prominence during the 2016 presidential election and was frequently shared in pure gif form.
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According to Roberta Smith, writing in The New York Times: […] the assemblages tend to look dated, like exuberantly nihilistic juvenilia, although I suppose they are credible antecedents of goth.
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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.
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"It's been really hard to have the album done for the last six months and not be able to touch it," Ms. Zutrau said in a cheerfully nihilistic interview.
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He sees how conspiracy groups mix varying levels of serious belief, irony, and playing along, creating a kind of nihilistic matrix in which unbalanced people can lose their grip.
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As big proponents of the utter agony, fallibility, and meaninglessness of human existence, both Rick and Morty and Tesla mogul Musk share a lot of the same nihilistic philosophies.
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My assumption, based on how I played, is that there are a few ways of getting to an ending, and mine was the bleakest, most nihilistic one of all.
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Rowland was responding to the idea of "grimdark" — a literary descriptor for genre texts and media which evoke a pervasively gritty, bleak, pessimistic, or nihilistic view of the world.
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A stark contrast from the Latina lovefest of Bad Bunny's "I Like It" verse, "Amorfoda" is doleful, embittered, and, at times, nihilistic in its grim assessment of modern romance.
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Lead vocalist Andrew Falkous has that stand-up's streak, weather-beaten and ambivalently nihilistic, and he's been honing it, stretching it out, for the better part of two decades.
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Napoleon's oversized bicorne hat shows a different side of Huang's work, one inspired by the nihilistic humor of Dada that influenced him as a young art student in China.
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On the left, Guilloux's contemporaries understood Blood Dark as an important political response to Louis-Ferdinand Céline's nihilistic Journey to the End of the Night, published three years earlier.
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All that each generation can do is to preserve what they have inherited, and protect it from those who want to erase it for racial, ideological, or nihilistic reasons.
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On a nearly bare stage, Mr. Selge, 70, becomes Mr. Houellebecq's antihero, François, a nihilistic academic who slowly learns to reconcile himself to a new regime of Shariah law.
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Sutton doubts young people have the same nihilistic streak as they did in the post-punk 80s and 90s, but adds that heroin will always loom in the background.
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We know the game centers on Ellie who, now grown up and seemingly still immune to the Cordyceps brain infection, appears to be a much more hardened, almost nihilistic survivor.
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It then tops off its own philosophy lecture with a shameless plug for Netflix itself — because Black Mirror is nothing if not gleefully smug about enjoying its own nihilistic pleasures.
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The first pivots on the nihilistic megalomania of a character who thinks he can and should be the one to finally assume unilateral control over the tools of world creation.
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It's probably inevitable that a show so committed to indulging a single character's nihilistic fantasies about his own self-importance would eventually start to get lost in its own hollowness.
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Growing up, Swedish photographer Julia SH was fascinated by the films of David Cronenberg, not just for their hallucinatory visuals and nihilistic perspectives, but for their depictions of the body.
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As she spoke at length about her rage and anguish, Finch conspicuously failed to mention the nihilistic Angeleno who has been widely vilified for his role in her son's death.
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As with many life stories the hopeful aspect of the work can be seen mostly in hindsight, while the films' content on their own often feel more nihilistic than inspiring.
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One where developers don't need latch storefronts onto games in the most nihilistic ways, where major publishers re-calibrate expectations and budgets so that they aren't banking on microtransaction income.
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ISIS, who had been responsible for most of the attacks in Kabul recently, have a transnational agenda to form a worldwide global Islamic caliphate, built on their nihilistic, ultraconservative beliefs.
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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.
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For years, Tehran apologists and lobbyists have staged the discussion under the cloak of realpolitik — options are limited to kissing the Ayatollah's hand or engaging in all-out, nihilistic warfare.
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And if grunge's lineage is full of giants, its legacy is notoriously dubious, part of a sad denouement whose nihilistic endpoint was the corporate arena rock of Nickelback and Creed.
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The emerging wisdom is that newly galvanized white supremacists have collided with our nihilistic gun culture to produce a spate of racist slaughters, from Charleston to Poway to El Paso.
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The reported details of the deal only confirm what was obvious all along about this standoff: that it was a nihilistic political gambit by the president and his Republican allies.
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Her new video for Joanne rager "John Wayne" is a psychedelic bit of nihilistic Americana, featuring Gaga as an outlaw riding stallions and automobiles through a sickeningly discoloured rural area.
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Plagued by death, failure, self-contempt and his memories of being sexually abused in his early teens by hard-bitten burlesque dancers, he depicted an increasingly nihilistic view of humanity.
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With the addition, in 220, of fiction editor Gordon Lish, Esquire began championing authors like Raymond Carver and Barry Hannah, who were recasting the short story in Lish's nihilistic vision.
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And he does it with a tone of nihilistic irony, as if to say, nothing matters, except that we can still laugh and cry over how insane this war is.
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"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.
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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.
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Nyles (Andy Samberg) is a nihilistic dirtbag stuck in Palm Springs for a wedding he really, really doesn't want to go to, with a girlfriend he really, really doesn't like.
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A couple months ago, at the end of a particularly nihilistic summer, I decided to try to curb my shopping for the sake of both the planet and my wallet.
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"We are functioning in a time of populist extremism, which is inherently nihilistic," says Judd Gregg, the former New Hampshire senator who was close to Alexander while they served together.
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I think it's more ... It's loving, but then you also get the sense that these characters are nihilistic and a little ... They don't really care about each other as much.
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And for a show so clearly infatuated with irreverence and intrigued by hipness, it's surprising that it isn't more self-aware of its nihilistic protagonist's self-importance and self-seriousness.
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I scroll casually one last time through my Twitter feed in search of nihilistic memes and bitchy rants that I can use to puzzle together the day's events in the news.
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If anything, the Overheard reaction to being hacked exemplifies the Millennial and Gen Z love for nihilistic humor — the world may be falling apart, but at least we can make jokes!
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The King of Comedy is not a tale of one man's humiliation, but a bigger story about the nihilistic dead ends of fans' celebrity worship and the culture that cultivates it.
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In essence, by calling attention to its own attempts to manipulate us, Black Mirror has designed a storytelling snare that simultaneously highlights, exploits, and condemns the nihilistic pleasures of modern entertainment.
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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.
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Trap, at times, can be just as nihilistic as darkest timeline My Chemical Romance, and bringing the two together is something I'm surprised hasn't happened on a scale this large sooner.
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It was still the crass, nihilistic, intelligent, savage show it'd always been, but its honesty about the nature of family, mental health, and trauma introduced a whole new level of brutality.
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Red Dead Redemption was a picture of Rockstar in a less cynical (though, still perhaps a bit nihilistic) mode, and I'm curious to see how RDR2 can extend that in 2017.
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Another aphorism with a similarly nihilistic vibe—"Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse"—morphed from the lyrics of a 1955 hit by Faron Young, nicknamed the Hillbilly Heartthrob.
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I probably did feel like I was giving away too much of my pessimistic and nihilistic beliefs on this record, and it's something I do sincerely try to keep at bay.
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It's as if heavy metal music fans have suddenly realized that fantasy and science fiction are close relatives, and that nothing is more inhospitable, nihilistic, and misanthropic than the cosmic void.
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When Veep premiered in 2012, critics hailed it as a mordant satire that was, if anything, just a bit too broad and nihilistic to adequately reflect the complexity of American politics.
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This emotional fact in turn bears upon the adapted plot of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, because it gives the narrator a reason to act in nihilistic and violent ways.
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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.
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Blobby is a classic hedonist: nihilistic, vain, destroying everything in his path, and bellowing his own name like the product of a botched attempt to breed DJ Khaled with a Flump.
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Far Cry New Dawn (set in America, developed in Canada), in contrast, is a neon-blasted, deceptively nihilistic saga about becoming a god in an endless churn of violence and suffering.
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But pro tip: if you're hungry for more brutally nihilistic TV with an expansive universe and plethora of fan theories now that Game of Thrones is over, then look no further.
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Ever since his 20163 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.
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As the second day of questions drew to a close on Thursday night, key lawmakers moved to fully adopt the nihilistic worldview that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has long espoused.
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It is dark, even to the point of being nihilistic; it is absurdist; and it operates less like a novel or serial drama and more like a meme or internet video.
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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.
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If you made it past Ricky Gervais's cringey, nihilistic final opening monologue as host, you saw the usual parade of celebrities toasting their colleagues and thanking the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
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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.
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Nearly a decade on from the start of "Girls," which Dunham helmed, a new generation of millennial showrunners are telling their own stories, but those stories have only gotten more nihilistic.
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However, another part of me hoped to witness it mutilate my online relationships one by one with an onslaught of clunky, unsolicited and off-brand activity, purely for my nihilistic amusement.
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But he risks falling into the same kind of limbo that neutered his predecessor as House speaker, John Boehner, whose agenda was constantly impaired by the nihilistic tendencies of his own caucus.
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In modern pop culture, I see this ice-cold edge everywhere—from the nihilistic glee of 21 Savage's lyrics to the capitalistic cool of the TV series Power's James "Ghost" St. Patrick.
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In Moore's view, readers who don't see Rorschach's worldview as nihilistic and reprehensible are often like Rorschach himself: unable to see the problem with believing in such rigid, self-interested moral codes.
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The youth of Assassination Nation is optimistically nihilistic, a mess of contradictions, like a group of boys using the proper pronouns for Bex as they attempt to lynch her for being trans.
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Will it eventually emerge that viewers who choose Frosted Flakes in the show are more likely to take a nihilistic path or make a morally questionable choice in the show as well?
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Local governments and the Obama administration had been relatively successful in making the case that that is grotesquely simplistic, that IS and its methods are simply a brutal, nihilistic path to nowhere.
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"My nervous system was tied in knots, completely losing touch with self and reality and very caught in this nihilistic void where things were happening and I couldn't discern boundaries," he says.
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But by the early 90s, Los Angeles found the apotheosis of its culture in the emergence of G-funk, or "gangsta-funk"––funky, radical, a little apocalyptic, and, at times, brutally nihilistic.
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That is, in fact, the whole point of his political career and the nihilistic movement that he belongs to: to destroy any semblance of dignity that this country's democratic institutions once possessed.
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The trip, however, turns out to be filled with dangers, beginning with the nihilistic Comanches who have slain the family of Rosalee (Rosamund Pike), who Blocker finds and brings along with them.
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The hole represents everything about the nothingness that defines modern life: capitalist greed and waste, gentrification, the social disease of nihilistic irony, the seeming erasure of responsibility to one another as people.
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Instead of his usual grand poetic narratives, the songs on side one feel like short, nihilistic vignettes, full of sharp repetitive guitar riffs, robotic bleeps, abrasive cymbal bangs, and simple keyboard playing.
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All that remains now is a nihilistic impulse, the endless will to bring down what their enemy Obama has built — that, and an atavistic attachment to the nation's 50,000 remaining coal miners.
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She's drawn to James because he's even more nihilistic than she is; he lets her tag along because he's decided it's time to start killing humans, and she'll make an easy victim.
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The nihilistic cabaret singer character marked a period where Bowie publicly flirted with fascism — saying, "Britain could benefit from a Fascist leader," and being detained by Soviet customs for owning Nazi memorabilia.
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Today democracy is imperiled not by civil war but by a citizenry torn apart by warring ideologies, in part because of the compelling, if nihilistic, story that authoritarians have told about nationality.
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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.
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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.
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It's more a reflection, regardless of the trust equation, of the tough spot Democrats found themselves in during the shutdown, McConnell's strategic acumen, and the nihilistic and absurd state of congressional politics.
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My cynical mind wanders toward a more nihilistic realm: When people self-select, they have a tendency to socialize into increasingly radical points of view, creating a toxic circle of isolation and extremism.
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But it was a still a strong example of how The Walking Dead may be on its way to course-correcting after an abysmal ratings slump and a nihilistic and depressing first half.
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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.
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The Islamic State has damaged or destroyed scores of historic sites and monuments as part of a nihilistic campaign to eradicate remnants of cultures it considers anathema to its extremist vision of Islam.
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But it also existed in a kind of nihilistic, dark space that didn't allow for revealing the ultimate humanity of its crass stereotypes in the way the best multi-camera sitcoms always had.
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If you're asking that with a straight face, then you too have been bitten by the nihilistic bug—or else have confined your understanding of martyrdom to those who strap on suicide vests.
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It's been a little over a year since Long Island's Brand New dropped the now-typically nihilistic "Mene," the first piece of new studio material to surface since the Daisy LP in 2009.
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As the wait for the next season of Rick and Morty drags on, fans are scraping the bottom of the barrel to get their fix of the nihilistic super scientist and his grandson.
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Because so much of this season focuses so much on Trump, and because it's so blazingly political, The Good Fight feels even more chaotically nihilistic as it watches institutions crumble to political motives.
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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.
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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.
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A lot of these images can't be taken too seriously, in the sense that their creators often work from a nihilistic sense of trolling irony to confuse interlocutors and spread alt-right ideas.
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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.
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That show, "Dare Me," ended up at USA, and the 10-episode season that begins Sunday — sexier and more mysterious than the sometimes glibly nihilistic "Euphoria" — shows that first choice isn't always best.
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Uncut Gems Uncut Gems, the Safdie brothers' two-hour thrill-ride-by-way-of-panic-attack, offers an even more nihilistic vision of what unfettered free-market capitalism might be leading us toward.
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In those days, neo-pagans began celebrating the customs of Yule, and by the 1970s, you began seeing an even more nihilistic response with Christmas slasher films like Black Christmas or Christmas Evil.
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Although considered an outlier position within philosophy circles, it received an unexpected promotional boost when True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto cited it as an influence for the nihilistic character of Detective Rust Cohle.
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From bowling alley gun fights to nihilistic bathtub ferrets, The Dude faces some harrowing obstacles on his heroic pursuit of a replacement rug—a number of which you really have to see to believe.
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I think we have this sloppy, nihilistic vibe in Quebec and Montreal, especially on the Francophone side, because it's this "us against the world" kind of punk attitude, whether it's skateboarding or going clubbing.
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Bruz's story sounds like it collapses that binary: It unfolds a singular, nihilistic narrative through a blend of hand-made content (writing, voice acting, quest design) and the dynamic storytelling of the Nemesis System.
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Some of that is just story or plot or character, and I think Nosh, [who proposes the bait idea], is so completely insane and nihilistic that what he's offering may tactically actually makes sense.
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But the political work that Dungeons & Dragons does in Stranger Things isn't the dog-eat-dog individualism of The Hunger Games, and it doesn't require that we commit to a nihilistic mode of disengagement.
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When it's done well (see: Cross Examination, everything Municipal Waste has ever put out, Hungary's Drünken Bastards), there's a sublime sort of quality in its nihilistic pursuit of booze, brutality, and wanton bodily harm.
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It looks like Kodak Black is gonna be a superman when he walks out of a federal prison -- that is, if he sticks to his higher education plan, which includes a little nihilistic philosophy!!!
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You know, by its very nature of the apocalypse, often, you know, whether in the "Walking Dead Universe" or the apocalypse that's been explored in other TV scapes, it's a very bleak, nihilistic place.
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Climate change deniers have settled upon one rebuttal to the established science of human-caused climate change that has them feeling particularly brash, and almost giddy with nihilistic joy: carbon is good for us.
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In Dawn of the Dead we see an American shopping mall filled with hungry zombies, mindlessly consuming; while Night of the Living Dead features the nihilistic killing of it's black hero by police officers.
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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.
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This latest entry in their sprawling discography is anchored by the band's customary slabs of slow-moving, magisterial doom, tempered with Bryan Funck's eternally rabid snarls, poetically nihilistic lyrics, and overarching, ego-killing melancholia.
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That's because the fan base Rick and Morty has bred has a dark underbelly — a nihilistic, toxic subset of fans who have made the show a linchpin for a particular type of noxious behavior.
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Not just because it's summer and the aesthetic lends itself to long, all black ensembles, but in music too; lately, we've been getting more nihilistic and pessimistic (for fairly obvious reasons, take a look outside).
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But when you look at the programs of so many of those cyber-libertarians, they're actually just nihilistic; they don't believe in any sort of society beyond the slightly autistic, involuted society of the web.
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"With horror and creature features, you tend to get the most nihilistic stories during progressive periods, but in conservative times, you see more movies in which a violent 'force of nature' is repressed," Scahill said.
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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.
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In it, a leader from the Spanish Inquisition, who views human nature through a kind of nihilistic realism, confronts Jesus and accuses him of burdening humankind with a freedom of belief that they can't handle.
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One Russia watcher told me the country has a strategic outlook bordering on "nihilistic": It benefits more from disorder than from order and more from exploiting weakness than from strengthening its own role in Europe.
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If they had a cinematic counterpart, it might be Michael and Bruno, the nihilistic brothers who rebel against their hippy mother in "The Elementary Particles", a darkly humorous German film based on a French novel.
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He's as excited as a Cromulan when he exclaims, "Show Me What You Got," and delivers, "You Pass Butter," with the same nihilistic apathy as Rick Sanchez explaining a sentient robot its purpose in life.
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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.
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Sam Zimmer: It was an artistic decision, we're all actually highly educated sophistos, Just slumming it as illiterate rockers You are from Portland but you seem to have a strong Clevo nihilistic vibe going down.
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A disproportionate number of these aristocratic boys, including the prime minister's son, died in the fighting for the nihilistic, vaguely classical ethos that death in battle would be the most noble end to their lives.
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Recall the pair of unapologetic, nihilistic teens who famously stole cookie money right from the helpless hands of a nine-year-old girl because they wanted money for "just for anything" a few years ago.
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Working on a slew of side-projects that owed more to Throbbing Gristle than Bold, Dwid's Integrity released thrillingly nihilistic, gothic hardcore records as the people he influenced rode the Warped Tour Merry-Go-Round.
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Opinion Columnist One of the unofficial slogans of the Trump era — besides "grab 'em by the you-know-what" and Rudy Giuliani's recent "truth isn't truth"— is "nothing matters" (sometimes preceded by a nihilistic "lol").
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But it does mean that the same cultural pressures — and sense of this isn't working — that propel incels into nihilistic darkness may motivate others to seek more meaningful, mutual modes of conceiving of sexual interaction.
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Nowhere is this more evident than in the way he is packing the courts — including the Supreme Court — with far-right justices, taking advantage of the vacancies created by nihilistic Republican filibusters of Obama appointees.
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"V for Vendetta" [the graphic novel and the 2006 film adaptation, tracking a revolutionary anarchist], which I love, brought round the Occupy Wall Street kind of nihilistic mask that we know about as Guy Fawkes.
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But in Waller-Bridge's hands, it's clear that Fleabag is vulnerable beneath her immediate snark, and that vulnerability only emerges when her defenses finally come tumbling down, despite her very best and most nihilistic efforts.
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Young people today are typically described in one of two ways: woke, intelligent, and here to save all of us, or completely and utterly overloaded with terrible information that's rendered them indifferent, nihilistic, and helpless.
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This strategy has led to a few solid series, like space saga The Expanse (now an Amazon original), and a few that are less so, like the network's recent, vaguely nihilistic graphic novel adaptation Deadly Class.
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A country unable to distinguish itself in contrast to an enemy was, he believed, destined to devolve into a vapid and nihilistic culture where the individual would have no higher purpose beyond that of material wealth.
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The sculpture's cold satire — the breakdown of an individual, in this case, the artist, into his habits of consumption — struck an expressly nihilistic chord at the time, the last gasp of the crass, materialistic Reagan years.
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So it's no surprise that Gibson's next project—following 2006's Apocalypto, which was essentially a more violent and nihilistic Werner Herzog movie—is a sequel to The Passion of the Christ, focusing on Jesus's resurrection.
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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.
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The Spaghetti Western briefly reinvigorated the genre with cheap, nihilistic and stylistically ambitious films, but even Sergio Leone, the maestro of the subgenre, had released the elegiac "Once Upon a Time in the West" in 1968.
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In the funniest scene, she is persuaded to screech the French national anthem in a nihilistic tableau vivant conceived by Lucien's mischievous sidekick Kyril (Aubert Fenoy), an anarchist; the audience is scandalized, and Marguerite is ostracized.
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As a semi-closeted gay man, Fry finds a nihilistic kind of freedom during his time in Marseille, but his task — based on the notion that some lives are worth more than others — resists heroic gloss.
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One word about my five years at the Natural Resources Defense Council, or my work in the climate justice movement broadly, and I'm bombarded with pious admissions of environmental transgressions or nihilistic throwing up of hands.
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Interspersed with such narratives, Soufan offers lucid explanations of a worldview that to casual Western eyes may seem mindlessly nihilistic, but is coherent within its own terms of seeking to establish a caliphate — a theocratic state.
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Calling the Islamic State's actions in the Middle East "savage" and "nihilistic," he said that the celebration was "in solidarity with the people of Syria" and in "defiance of the barbarians" who destroyed the original arch.
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For a long while, I saw the alt-right as this weird quasi-nihilistic subculture that latched onto politics purely as a tool of disruption and not necessarily as a means to some actual political outcome.
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I don't think we'll go that nihilistic, but for him it's a personal loss, but it's also a cosmic loss of what's the point of being here, when you scream at the wilderness and get nothing back?
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Spongebob memes generally arose from the internet's edgier, more niche meme-making corners, but many of the most popular SpongeBob memes, especially in recent years, are definitively soft-edged and fun rather than nihilistic or heavily absurdist.
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For much of their career, they were concerned only with entertaining themselves, and with that came a careening sense of exploration that was informed almost entirely by their own ill-advised and nihilistic outlook on the world.
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The Death of Stalin is Iannucci's most complex and almost nihilistic rendering of what politics is: A team of bumbling and weak-minded people who lack any real conviction other than a desire for power and position.
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There's a generous amount of genre-bending going on here, and an overarching theme of desperation and desolation that will feel familiar to those who've been following the band (or their endearingly nihilistic Twitter feed) for awhile.
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But where Tolkien, Lewis, Jordan, and Rowling—and even George R.R. Martin, with his nihilistic ice zombies symbolizing Death—all set their heroes the task of defeating a supernatural enemy who embodies evil, Pullman's villains are human.
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In the wake of the devastating HIV/AIDS crisis, and long after the nihilistic days of Studio 54 or the high society hob-bobbing at the Factory, Holly moved to Los Angeles, and Alexis followed soon after.
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"What once was a deadline that drove debates on the budget has transformed into a nihilistic platform for some in Congress to promote the very real risk of a default to advance narrow partisan agendas," he wrote.
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Some users described their postings on the site as an addiction, while others said they simply enjoyed being part of a nihilistic board because, ironic though it may sound, they saw it as a judgment-free zone.
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But many on the left either disdained electoral politics altogether — preferring demonstrations like Occupy Wall Street that quickly turned into ends in themselves — or gravitated toward nihilistic spoiler campaigns like those of Ralph Nader and Jill Stein.
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Moved by the spirit of punk, Zownir embraced the utopian vision of anarchy and nihilistic self-destruction that flourished openly on the streets and in the sex clubs, drug dens, and nightlife of West Berlin and London.
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His new favorite pastimes include mucking it up with his rah-rah pals, violating Prohibition laws, and being that guy at the party who pretends he's going to jump off the ledge because he's so deep and nihilistic.
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The important part of Arthur's story — and the cause for so much of the concern around Joker — is that when he embraces his most nihilistic and destructive impulses, he suddenly earns the praise and attention he's been lacking.
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Her nihilistic hedonism made sense in 2012, two months before the proposed end of the world, and though her femininity was certainly crucial to the events of the film, it wasn't portrayed as her first and biggest crime.
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That is in large part because Islamic State's spectacular—though brief—seizure of territory and the creation of a "caliphate" in 2014 gave it worldwide cachet among extremists, who absorbed its nihilistic message and unshackled choice of targets.
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For Mulder, it comes in the form of a lizard-man that hibernates for 10,000 years and has recently begun transforming into a Hamlet-quoting New Zealander with terrific taste in hats and a nihilistic view on humanity.
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That sense of resignation gives both Castle Rock and Sharp Objects a particularly nihilistic, melancholy bent, and it's likely something the two series are going to have to work through to reach any sort of closure or conclusion.
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But unlike the cold, nihilistic weirdness of H.P. Lovecraft's amoral alien gods, VanderMeer's fiction is pulled from our own strange, complex, and bizarre planet, as well as the organizations and systems that we humans have enclosed ourselves in.
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Said list makes perfect sense when you listen to Grave Lines; the band's sound is an amalgam of Sea Bastard's salty sludge, Landskap's soaring doom, Dysteria's nihilistic hardcore punk, The Death Letter's candlelit dark folk, and more besides.
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The mood is dystopian, nihilistic, uncanny, pointing the listener backwards to that earlier era—which produced, among others, the "Berlin trilogy" of 1977-9 ("Low", "Heroes" and "Lodger")—as much as it captures the anxieties of the present.
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The debate about the future of moviegoing shouldn't be a binary one between a studio system increasingly beholden to franchises and intellectual property, and a nihilistic streaming service set on eliminating all competitors and monopolizing its users' attention.
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The aesthetics are the politics, but people have managed to augment them and bend them toward goals that aren't nihilistic and defeatist, but abandon the "original" cyberpunk and what it "meant" to do something different and new entirely.
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It reveals the libidinal, nihilistic pleasure that undergirds fascism, everyone mad at Virgil's tweet about Salo reveals the exact same thing lol The dirtbag left cannot be as easily separated from the Sanders campaign as anonymous online harassers.
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Emerging amid the wholesale slaughter of World War I, Dada was the heading for a series of incendiary acts at various clubs and cabarets — noise as music, nonsense as poetry — that managed to be both utopian and nihilistic.
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What viewers and readers are left with is a narrative that has nothing to do with the reality of a nihilistic GOP that has no economic principles and would happily crash an economy if it meant sabotaging Democrats.
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No matter where MS-13 first adopted its current nihilistic ethos — which marries semi-Satanic imagery (the original Stoners were Judas Priest fans) with extravagant brutality and violence — mass incarceration and deportation were what took the gang international.
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Image: USDA (Read more here)Perhaps even more unsettling than the smorgasbord of insanely vicious, stomach-turning deaths that pepper this book like so many spores is Simon's more nihilistic foray into the idea that free will isn't real.
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In an article in The Times with the headline "Dramatists Deny Nihilistic Trend," Mr. Albee espoused the view that would become his credo: that theatergoers should be challenged to confront situations and ideas that lie outside their comfort zones.
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Hey Austin, I think we both have similar opinions of the original Watch Dogs: It has a lack of personable characters, and it has one of the most nihilistic and bleak views of the world that games have produced.
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Srdjan Spasojevic's A Serbian Film or "New French Extreme" films such as Gaspar Noe's Irreversible and Pascal Laugier's Martyrs were not just stomach-churningly violent, they shared a deeply nihilistic worldview, which made viewing them a truly bleak experience.
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The band's previous output was underpinned by a certain nihilistic darkness, and while that's present on this song, there's also an airiness and lightness to the music and the melody that lulls you into a false sense of security.
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Those into 1950s atomic paranoia are especially in luck: the death wish of the A-bomb era pervades many of the feature-length films, particularly Kiss Me Deadly, a nihilistic whats-it revolving around a what's-in-the-box mystery.
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As the Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate loses its hold on its heartlands of eastern Syria and northern Iraq, disaffected young European Muslims drawn to its nihilistic vision are increasingly conducting the group's murderous revenge on the streets of European cities.
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The comic book character's nihilistic behavior — while amusing in past iterations — has taken on a new, sinister meaning with the rise of incels (involuntary celebate), men who believe they are denied sex and attention because of social and political movements.
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One is an impulsive, utterly transactional narcissist who, so far in office, The Washington Post calculated, has made an average of six false or misleading claims a day; a winner-take-all bully with a nihilistic view of the world.
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While Paanch never made it to the big screen, its central characters' nihilistic tendencies, and its young director's irreverent approach toward reveling in everything considered taboo by the mainstream film industry were stylistic elements that would define Kashyap's later career.
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And just because the idea might not work perfectly in practice does not mean it is a worse solution than the nihilistic approach favoured by economists which, after all, is now contributing to a broad backlash against liberalism and globalisation.
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That's not counting 12 seasons of The Bachelorette, three seasons of the nihilistic shipwreck show that is Bachelor in Paradise, or three seasons of the ill-advised Bachelor Pad, the only spinoff that involved both emotional trauma and cash prizes.
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Kids are eating their poisonous laundry detergent as a kind of nihilistic joke (drinking bleach was all the rage this past summer) and while the old saying is that there's no such thing as bad publicity, this is pretty bad.
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We're streaming "Kiss With Spit" from it below, and you'll be pleased to know that DANGERS have knocked themselves off first place when it comes to crafting furious, muscular hardcore that delivers nihilistic musings on our filthy culture-at-large.
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They're also about to hit the road with Fister, one of my favorite ultra-nihilistic sludge troupes, so check them out if they're scheduled to desecrate your village—they play NYC with Usnea and Monolord on Monday night, don't sleep!
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Jaime Lannister has a bit of a sparring with The High Sparrow and continues to just destroy with the nihilistic one-liners ("The gods spill more blood than the rest of us combined," +10) but holds back from any real avenging.
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I'd argue more or less the contrary: It's everything in "Gulliver's Travels" that is in excess of (and often at odds with) Swift's nihilistic "point" — its inventiveness, its originality and wit, its sheer weirdness — that accounts for its lasting appeal.
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When a crystal ball reveals the world-conquering ambitions of the nihilistic madman Roxor (Bela Lugosi), based in Egypt, Chandu trades his turban for a pith helmet and then a burnoose, traveling from India to North Africa to confront the fiend.
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Instead, they take a more nihilistic approach to their curse, subscribing to the "Black Pill" theory that the universe will always be rigged against certain individuals, so why even bother trying to manipulate women into sex with "Red Pill" tactics?
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And a chorus of law enforcement officials, legislators and violence experts are laying part of the blame on drill, a bleak, nihilistic style of rap music that is thriving in British cities, especially among young people in London's public housing projects.
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In a cry of rage against the Republicans' nihilistic refusal in 2016 to grant even a hearing to Barack Obama's last nominee to the court, Democrats filibustered to block Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's nominee to that stolen Supreme Court seat.
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Most chilling of all is the fact that someone with such a nihilistic vision, who views himself as almost separate from his own species, is given access to precisely those ingredients (synthetic viruses, nuclear technologies) that could hasten humanity's demise.
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PARK CITY, Utah — Wiener-Dog, the story of a sweet, calm, adorably devoted Dachshund on a star-crossed quest to find her permanent home, is one of the most morbidly dark, nihilistic and messed up things Sundance has ever shown us.
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One of the more popular Herzog memes Some of the most compelling aspects of Lo and Behold aren't Herzog providing tweetable, nihilistic soundbites, however; they're moments that showcase the deep generosity and compassion that the filmmaker affords many of his subjects.
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It is a pleasure to accept the un-privileging of human choice and glide with it into a nihilistic landscape of potential points of interest bereft of privileging human desire — the very thing that brought about the general climate of the Anthropocene.
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Set mostly in a Prohibition-era New York City, 2007's Baccano follows an eclectic group of characters featuring gangsters, journalists, alchemists, a nihilistic acrobat, an immortal cult leader, young revolutionaries, artificial humans, demons, and a comedically inept but successful thieving couple.
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There are also several songs where he graphically details his attempts to survive while broke and homeless, relaying the information with a mix of nihilistic zeal, regret, and hope ("Stealing shit inside of open cars / Like credit cards, weed jars and Xanax bars").
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Importantly, the astronomers found no sign of a nearby object near Gault, which rules out a collision with another asteroid or comet as the cause of the streamers, and further evidence that YORP is the reason for its sudden burst of nihilistic activity.
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While much of the opprobrium focuses, quite fairly, on Sansa's unnecessary rape at the hands of Ramsay Bolton, the season was shot through with darkness, ending on two episodes of unrelenting grimness—a nihilistic death march of child murder and promise betrayed.
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Dylan Baldi has rediscovered the fury that gave Attack on Memory and Here and Nowhere Else their nihilistic power; Jayson Gerycz is once again the most propulsive and energetic drummer in modern rock music; their verses kick and scream; their choruses are immediate.
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In those nihilistic pre-Giuliani times, Dope-Guns-'N-Fucking In The Streets was more than just a compilation series his seminal noise rock band Unsane appeared on—it was a way of life on and around the Bowery in downtown Manhattan.
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When Crazy Ex-Girlfriend premiered in 2015, it looked to all the world like an antihero show — albeit an antihero show about a woman, rather than a man, and one with a peppy candy-colored shell over top of its bleak, nihilistic heart.
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On the one hand, the subversive joy of making that recalls childhood in its imagination and raw fun; on the other, an almost nihilistic thumb in the eye of the expense-obsessed out of control art market and its insatiable appetite for junk.
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A taut psychological thriller about the conflict between a nihilistic but heroic bomber pilot and his anxious co-pilot, the novel presents a fuller and more finely grained picture of flying a bomber over Europe than any other novel, even Catch-22.
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With a few outstanding exceptions, like "Tick-Tock Jelly Clock Cosmotron," which features a colorful game board and its own scratching, wheezing audio accompaniment, the assemblages tend to look dated, like exuberantly nihilistic juvenilia, although I suppose they are credible antecedents of goth.
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And for the all talk of late about Trump's dalliance with the Democrats, in many ways he's the most quintessentially Republican leader for this nihilistic moment—for no one has less regard for policy, and more concern about political outcomes, than he does.
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But I think it's more interesting for the reader if, instead of just going, "I'm so grateful, I'm so grateful," you're transparent about what it's actually like to live in such a nihilistic story every night for six months in a row.
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The big picture: The group, New Democracy, has a new paper today that says President Trump and Republicans have overplayed their hands with "nihilistic" stances on climate and coal, creating a political opening that Democrats can exploit — if they learn from the past.
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It has showcased the civil war raging in the Republican Party, between the outsider, populist and almost nihilistic forces represented by Trump and his former political guru Steve Bannon -- who has campaigned for Moore -- and the more pragmatic, futuristic wings of the party.
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In a research paper published in the current issue of the Journal of Democracy, "Eroding Norms and Democratic Deconsolidation," Paul Howe, a political scientist at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, describes the increasing size of the nihilistic segment of the American electorate.
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The showrunner, Noah Hawley, created the Coen-brothers pastiche "Fargo" for FX. 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.
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With the presidency of Donald Trump, the Debordian analysis of modern life resonates more deeply and darkly than perhaps even its creator thought possible, anticipating, in so many ways, the frantic and fantastical, nihilistic and numbing nature of our newly installed government.
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It might be fun and lighthearted, but that doesn't make it nihilistic; you can still signify morals and values and politics all that adolescent punk trash through nuanced symbols that you buy and affix to your clothes, like this pin of Biggie's Coogi sweater.
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It wants to be — and the industry, critics, and fans, in ways alternately breathless and begrudging, have taken it seriously as — a reckoning with the extremes of abjection, with the psychic trauma and social rejection that could lead someone to a nihilistic howl of laughter.
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"To Know and To Hide" is their contribution to the ongoing Adult Swim Singles Program (a series of free downloads to which their similarly nihilistic pals Thou have also contributed), and is just as horrifying as one might expect from The Body in 2016.
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First, an escalation of just how fast the norms of passage become, and second, if we throw out things like CBO, we begin making policy in a very nihilistic space — no one is empowered to say, here's where we think might happen, let's consider that.
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Still, insofar as anyone can guess the motives behind such nihilistic acts of desecration, they seem to be aimed not so much at the person of Mary as against the very idea of artistically reproducing a holy person, or indeed artistically reproducing any human being.
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In the memo, the ambassador further criticized the institute's artistic choices as "blind imitators of nihilistic and hedonistic trends," which added nothing to contemporary Polish identity — even though this year's program featured globally accomplished artists such as Monika Sosnowska, Paweł Althamer, and Agnieszka Polska.
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Grotesque, crass, nihilistic, confrontational, distressing, and almost insufferably up-its-own-ass intelligent — it's actually the show's undeniable heart (and tendency to rip it out of your chest) that grounds the sci-fi juggernaut in issues that can hit a little too close to home.
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His masterpiece was the song "Nobody," a nihilistic ditty one of his characters sang to himself when the penny-tossers walked away, a sort of song-monologue, as weird and dark, you might sense, when Williams introduced it in 1906 as it sounds today.
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This is the really terrifying nihilistic turn: to find yourself in a violent and cruel fantasy world that casts you as the rightful subhuman, to see the full terrible truth of the universe laid out before you that tells you you're born only to lose.
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Wending his way west from Russia — where he captures a sense of its nihilistic excess and colossal disparities, if somewhat in caricature — he describes the desolation of former Communist states on its periphery and disappointed expectations fueling historical amnesia from Eastern Europe to Britain.
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Ms. Wurtzel, who died of metastatic breast cancer at 290, was well cast to serve as a face for a generation that the news media perpetually cast as nihilistic and irony-suffused — latchkey kids whose prospects were dimmed by recession and an America in decline.
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So with a nihilistic tip of the hat to the political spectacle that impeachment has turned into, but given the damning state of the record to date, on the question of witnesses, here is to hoping McConnell is successful in orchestrating a Senate whitewash.
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The third season wasn't just beautiful and devastating, but it drove central misanthrope BoJack (Will Arnett) as far to the brink as it ever had — which, considering how many nihilistic drug binges we've seen BoJack get lost in over the years, truly is saying something.
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Like the fellow R-rated comic book movie "Logan" before it, "Joker" further proves that audiences are willing to pay record-breaking box office dollars for the genre to color outside the lines, even with brushstrokes as violent and nihilistic as Joaquin Phoenix's gritty Joker.
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Ten years ago this week, one of the coldest and most nihilistic teen soap operas ever made premiered on The CW. But you wouldn't have known that's what Gossip Girl was going to be from the first episode, or even from the first 13 episodes.
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Mulligan is phenomenal in this movie, but in this scene in particular, she infuses a woman who could flatly be deemed unsympathetic (and in fact was called "reprehensible" by an audience member during a post-screening Q&A) with pathos, emotion, and an aura of nihilistic despair.
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While it's (fortunately) no longer popular to prey upon strangers with mental illnesses or developmental disabilities, the original troll instinct—that nihilistic, shit-stirring, 'drama'-inciting urge to go looking for attention in all the wrong places—occupies pride of place in today's 24-hour news cycle.
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"The track represents to us a kind of nihilistic strut; you'll take what's yours, and hang the consequences (until, as they always do, they find their way back to you...)" 'Big Cat' the video was shot in beautiful Catalonia, Spain, directed by the extraordinary Pablo Maestres.
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New on Blu-ray, Samuel Fuller's second Korean War film, released in 1951 while the war was still being fought, is as tough, nihilistic and filled with dark humor as his first treatment of Korea, "The Steel Helmet," in dramatizing the impossible pressures on infantrymen in combat.
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Whether it was Rorschach's noise-soaked passages that fell somewhere between bands on Amphetamine Reptile and Ebullition, Earth Crisis' extension of Judge's mid-tempo militarism, or the Charles Manson-worshipping of Integrity that gifted the genre with nihilistic occultism, bands were rarely aligned musically, much less ideologically.
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Over drinks recently, a friend talked in distress about what felt to him like the Trumpish undercurrent to the series: as much as he enjoyed more complex characters (mostly Lannisters) and those brilliant battles, he felt repelled by the show's nihilistic insistence that only dominance mattered.
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This year's historical anchor is inspired by Pierre Restany's 1961 exhibition, 40° au-dessus de Dada (40 Degrees above Dada), which sought to re-examine Dada not as a purely nihilistic movement, but one that was deeply poetic and — true to its form — adaptable to shifting times.
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I can still get lost in a game for a few hours and it's not like I'm leaning over to strangers at bars and whispering, "amateurism is a scam" after every made basket, but this is the first time I've felt this nihilistic about college basketball and it sucks.
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These subreddits include: /r/whitenationalism, which has thousands of subscribers; /r/darkenlightenment, which promotes a nihilistic worldview opposed to democracy and egalitarianism; /r/gentilesunited, an anti-Semitic community that blames Jews for the world's ills; and /r/whitebeauty, which promotes "fascist beauty standards," according to the page's description.
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While human-rights groups have denounced that country as a terrible violator of basic human freedoms, including the freedom of Christian non-conformists and some Muslims, the Pope accentuated the positive: he praised the fact that in an era of nihilistic intolerance, Azerbaijan allows some Christian churches to function.
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Even as he grieved at the Hilltop graves of Glenn, Abraham, and the rest of the post-Season 5 fallen, he also enjoyed visions of himself living peacefully with Michonne, Carl, and Judith in old age, which is a huge improvement from the nihilistic Rick Grimes of yesteryear.
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I'm sure I could have gotten a better hang on things had I stuck with it a bit longer (all of the TCL reps I've spoken with claim to have mastered it quickly), but at the risk of sounded nihilistic about the whole endeavor, what's the point really?
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Apart from the imaginative science fiction-inspired characters that Rick and Morty come across while traipsing through time and space (including evil variations of themselves), the show has become a popular mainstay with younger audiences thanks in part to its existential humor, nihilistic themes and pop-culture references.
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Phil Connors (Bill Murray) was a one-man guy, to quote the Loudon Wainwright III song, a nihilistic prick who had to evolve into a decent man in order to earn his soul mate (and, also, to become an impressive, accomplished person—a strikingly masculine path to love).
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Canada's most nihilistic export has finally birthed his third full length album into the world, to make things a little darker, a little more chrome-sheened, a little more 'getting smashed at a party and telling everyone how meaningless everything is but looking incredibly glamorous whilst doing so'.
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Eagles 41, Patriots 33 | Eagles win Super Bowl LII MINNEAPOLIS — Philadelphia is a grand old city with a grand old football tradition defined not by trophies hoisted but the cocktail of emotions — nihilistic despair tinged with unfounded confidence — produced by its beloved Eagles coming so close, so many times.
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He confesses to having been a nihilistic teenager who was bored by Yugoslavia's socialist, pan-ethnic project, with its oppressive imposition of order and predictability; only later did Hemon realize that the 1980 death of Josip Broz Tito, the country's longtime leader, was the beginning of a cataclysmic end.
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For the first time in my life, I began to understand the angry, almost nihilistic despair in some rap music that hasn't been my favorite in the past—the sense that if it's futile to fight, then fuck y'all, I'm going to make my own power so you can't touch me.
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What's thrilling about The Good Place is that it takes it as a given that this struggle to become a better person is just as interesting and compelling, just as worthy of aesthetic attention, as the nihilistic downward spiral of a white man at the center of an antihero show.
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The climax of the Senate Republican health care fight bill is coming into focus and points for consistency: It's just as stupid and nihilistic as the process leading up to it has been, and will give way to yet more stupidity if it works as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hopes.
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Early on, as if to break the enveloping clouds of nihilistic cynicism, Tarantino gives us a jaw-droppingly dumb shot of a black horse and a white horse drawing next to other to pull the cart forward in unison—it makes " Ebony and Ivory " look like a masterpiece of understatement.
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There are a few things you can more or less count on to be true in a Jonathan Lethem book: Part of the pleasure of reading Lethem lies in seeing how he's combined his particular preoccupations this time around, and whether the resulting universe is just dark or downright nihilistic.
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This being Rick and Morty, of course, there's little time for an in-depth exploration of their feelings; Summer goes full-on nihilistic cannibal, while Morty finds solace in smashing post-apocalyptic humans to a bloody pulp in the Thunder and/or Blood Dome (save your arguments for the Semantics Dome, E.B. White).
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The Death of Stalin, from Veep creator Armando Iannucci, tamps down the unrelenting joke delivery of Iannucci's earlier work in favor of a more complex, almost nihilistic rendering of what politics is: a team of bumbling and weak-minded people who lack any real conviction other than a desire for power and position.
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With the help of co-producer Paul Barker, a cast of collaborators, and enough narcotics to kill a small country, Ministry's sound became a nihilistic blend of punk fury, clubbing adrenaline, and industrial experimentation, largely influenced by the boundary-pushing of his other projects: Revolting Cocks, Pailhead, 1000 Homo DJs, and Lard.
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Deborah M. Lehr, the founder of the Antiquities Coalition and one of the leaders of the task force, said that for all the genuine statements of concern about the looting — and the specter of its proceeds supporting the Islamic State's nihilistic rule — the United States had not done enough to fight the trafficking.
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The incel community is notorious for rampant misogyny, violent rhetoric, and fatalistic attitudes toward modern relationships — attitudes that frequently serve as a gateway to the alt-right — but it's also rife with depression, a nihilistic communal celebration of low self-esteem, and a widespread resistance to seeking therapy and getting treatment for mental illness.
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Its adoption by the nation's gruesome and grey sesh gremlins—the nihilistic lounge-dwellers who prop up the UK's GDP through Holsten Pils and Snyders pretzel sales alone—has seen it transmute from a dubstep fan's delight to a drug that gets pounded before, during, and after a Kink set at the Warehouse Project.
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Young Trump enthusiasts turned Internet trolling into a potent political tool, deploying the "folk stuff" of the Web—memes, slang, the nihilistic humor of a certain subculture of Web-native gamer—to give a subversive, cyberpunk sheen to a movement that might otherwise look like a stale reactionary blend of white nationalism and anti-feminism.
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The wine will flow, and the Japanese guest will mention komorebi , the sunlight filtering through the leaves of trees, and the Frenchman will offer l'appel du vide , the urge to jump off a cliff, and there will be collective acknowledgment of the aesthetic qualities of the Japanese and the nihilistic ones of the French.
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But then I do feel that there are people who are in a bad place who are really struggling, and there's sometimes something about seeing a downbeat nihilistic movie when you're not at your best, and when life is just not being fair, which life has a way of doing every now and then.
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The Death of Stalin, from Veep creator Armando Iannucci, tamps down the unrelenting joke delivery of Iannucci's earlier work (like 2009's In The Loop) in favor of a more complex, almost nihilistic rendering of politics as the work of bumbling and weak-minded people who lack any real conviction other than a desire for power and position.
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Indeed, to my mind this is the key difference between those trumpeting the idea of a post-fact culture: that group is essentially nihilistic and poisonously cynical, while academics and researchers (and I am a scholar and researcher of museums as well) want to keep the conversation going, but within what we think are useful and productive boundaries.
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Both as prime minister and as founder of a think-tank called the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, he has been very much open to the idea that the causes of global terrorism lie not in geopolitical grievance or nihilistic personalities but in bad Islamic theology, whose antidote is to be found in good Islamic theology and scholarship.
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Obama entered 2008 with the promise to end the wars; the state we currently find ourselves in is emblematic of a broader trend that the global order is experiencing a shift towards a multi-polar world coupled with a chaotic mix of nihilistic and extremist non-state groups currently destabilizing large swaths of the Middle East and North Africa.
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Kristallo was one of many British teens uploading commemorative posts: Before his death, Lil Peep had managed to capture in his music the anxiety and nihilistic worldview common among many young people these days—a burden that Peep, like other rappers, numbed with painkillers and tranquilizers, like Xanax, often posting photos and videos of himself doing so online.
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There's Dr. Arthur Jennings, the dead politician whose narration jump-starts the story; Nina, a nihilistic receptionist; Dr. Love, a Medellín operative trained by the C.I.A.; Bam-Bam, a baby gangbanger; John-John, a gay hit man; Josey Wales, the tricky, perceptive enforcer who flubs the Marley assassination but then ascends to the top of a transnational drug syndicate.
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Highlighting directors who are less known internationally, Japan Society will present works from several of Oshima's contemporaries at the Shochiku studio and elsewhere in the Japanese film industry of the era, beginning with the director Kiju Yoshida, whose "Good-for-Nothing" (on Friday) centers on a nihilistic young man and the secretary who shows sympathy for him.
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Even as instances of explicit mobilizing remain rare, the groups offer their most useful benefit as public forums, Rachy says, with students trading nihilistic musings on the myriad ways in which, for the current generation of undergrads, larger political issues are constantly touching student life, notably when linked to especially pervasive issues in American life, like income equality.
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At certain points she also winds up in the care of sweet married couple with Down Syndrome (Bridget Brown and Connor Long, both wonderful) a washed-up screenwriter-turned-film-school-professor (Danny DeVito) and later, a nihilistic, feeble old woman (in an incredible turn by Ellen Burstyn) who enables her wayward granddaugther (Zosia Mamet) with a blank check.
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He never actually said that the infosec community has collectively spent long enough as a sullen, nihilistic teenager full of misguided angry contempt for the rest of the world, and it is past time for it to grow up, move out of its basement and finally begin to play well with others and develop at least a hint of compassion, empathy and humility.
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It's a run of projects that show the same type of experimentation in producing that he brings to his acting career, and recently we got the opportunity to sit down with Wood and discuss his approach to both disciplines: The Creators Project: Your character in The Trust hits brash, sometimes nihilistic notes that we don't often see from your performances in other films.
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There's Becky's twin Elliott (played by a very Skarsgard-looking Nicholas Galitzine), described as a "nihilistic rich kid" (perhaps he can study abroad in Spain with the crew from Elite); queen bee Marnie (Sarah Mezzanotte) who has risen in the popularity ranks after Becky's death, and Penelope (Lilli Kay), whose obsession with her former (now dead) best friend has transferred to Sasha.
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The real stars are the environment—The Division's frozen Manhattan is stunning, and wandering through its desolate streets is one of the game's great pleasures—and the nihilistic yet completely engrossing gameplay, which has you teaming up with other players to assault enemy strongholds, ultimately in the service of gathering better loot, more lethal equipment, and various clothing that changes your character's appearance.
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Over the past two decades, Democrats steadily lost disaffected former supporters, while failing to consistently mobilize young or economically precarious people alienated from the entire political process, as the Republican Party increasingly became a nihilistic, anti-democratic machine designed to bamboozle a white elderly base and thwart the desires of the larger public for the sake of an entrenched oligarchy.
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Stunning in its level of intensity and its abundance of gore, and unparalleled in its utter commitment to unhinged nihilistic frenzy, I Saw the Devil pits an ingenious serial killer (Oldboy's brilliant Choi Min-sik) against the grieving fiancé (Lee Byung-hun) of one of his victims — a secret agent who devotes every resource he has to exacting the perfect, terrifying vengeance.
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Moshfegh's superbly nihilistic protagonist manages with the aid of Infermiterol — "small and pellet-shaped, with the letter I etched into each one, very white, very hard and strangely heavy" — to indulge, completely unknowingly, in random sexting, online shopping and even an elaborate night life, to such extent that she's reduced to examining lurid Polaroids for clues as to her own whereabouts and behavior.
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I spent considerable energy in the weeks and months after defending the absolute right of satirists to keep doing what I saw as their sacred work, and criticizing many of my former friends, who found it more important at that moment to speak out against offending the sensitivities of religious communities, for their moral cowardice in the face of nihilistic violence.
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Letterism took as inspiration the phonetic sound poems of Tzara, Raoul Hausmann, and Kurt Schwitters, whose nihilistic goal was to trigger the collapse of national communication, as it was precisely what led to World War I. Unlike the Dadaists, however, Letterists focused on blocks of rhythmically organized letters, abstract symbols, and sounds; for Isou, Letterist poems were akin to atonal, rhythmic musical compositions.
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Deprived of meaning and identity in a mindlessly nihilistic world of consumerism, our antihero resorts to bloodshed as a way to assert his individualism in a sea of identical collectible building blocks: That we are drawn to root for him despite the carnage and mayhem he leaves behind says far more about our own quest for mindless entertainment than his thirst for destruction.
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Release date: March 9 What makes it great: The Death of Stalin, from Veep creator Armando Iannucci, tamps down the unrelenting joke delivery of Iannucci's earlier work (like 2009's In The Loop) in favor of a more complex, almost nihilistic rendering of what politics is: a team of bumbling and weak-minded people who lack any real conviction other than a desire for power and position.
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When the White Walkers were a distant threat and it seemed like all that mattered in Westeros was ruling the realm, there wasn't room for a nihilistic character like Sandor "Fuck the Kingsguard, fuck the city, fuck the king" Clegane to serve a larger role; the show's political landscape gave him an excuse to kill while keeping a clear conscience, but no greater purpose.
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The song takes war for its subject matter, with Rønnenfelt's lyrics wringing with his usual wryness ("Heading for last roundup / Hardware at hand / I was told to protect and serve / But I'm here to supply a demand"), and their resigned, nihilistic approach brings up some of the same feelings as Owen's sonnet "Anthem for Doomed Youth," wherein dead boys are compared to cattle, undignified and disposable.
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My main issue was that Mr. Lepage seemed to have scant interpretive insight into a work that, since its 1876 premiere, has been seized upon by generation after generation as an allegory about roiling issues of the time: a Marxist narrative of class struggle; a cautionary tale about the corrupting influence of power; a warning about environmental destruction; an absurdist reflection of nihilistic leadership.
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Mishra brings this Walpurgisnacht of romanticized violence to a nihilistic climax with the happy meeting in a Supermax prison of Timothy McVeigh, perpetrator of the Oklahoma City bombing, and Ramzi Yousef, perpetrator of the World Trade Center bombing: the fanatic, child-murdering right-wing atheist finds "lots in common" with the equally murderous Islamic militant—one of those healing conversations we're always being urged to pursue.
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Maybe this is all part of the big "Black Mirror" plan to make everyone as nihilistic as possible; to remind us that being British is very sad but it's better than the alternatives; to illuminate the fact that we are just cogs in a machine that produces more machine; that my futile role such that it is will soon be obviated by that exact machine.
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Talking to me for an interview with Unwinnable, Walt Williams explained how they didn't originally set out to make The Line in this cynical, nihilistic manner, but it came from a point of frustration at the genre they were tasked to work with—how military shooters have long depicted warfare as 'fun:' There was this point where the pain of the product began to show itself within the project.
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Medora's husband, Vernon (Alexander Skarsgård), meanwhile, is busy shooting a gun in Fallujah, and, in the only scene not in the winter-clad wilderness, we see his nihilistic tendencies without any misunderstanding: We know he's going to return home from the war, and we know he's not the type of man who'll let the kidnapper of his kin off the hook, whoever that may turn out to be.
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Under the sure hand of the director Christopher Nolan, Ledger creates one of the scariest villains in all of cinema — and one that's frighteningly real, an honest-to-goodness sociopath whose nihilistic philosophy (as Michael Caine's Alfred memorably puts it, "some men just want to watch the world burn") invests the character, and the film, with a terrifying feeling that all bets are off, and that good may not prevail.
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As with the early (and totally unnecessary) scene in which terrorists blow up the department store (one muttering an "Allahu akbar" right before blowing up himself, a mother, and a little girl), these characterizations aren't wholly fabricated, and the movie can reasonably cover itself by saying that the problem isn't in the story, but in the violent, nihilistic machismo of the real people and situations on which it's based.
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The 44-page episode, titled "The Twin Towers," perfectly channels what Domineau sees as the "nihilistic, no-hugging-no-learning nature of the show" by focusing on how the core characters each react selfishly to the national catastrophe: Jerry develops a paranoia about dust, Elaine tries to break up with a survivor she's seeing, George masquerades as a first responder, and Kramer discovers his friend was one of the terrorists behind the attacks.
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"I think people all over the world are looking to us and waiting for us to find a faster and more tangible way for them feeling that everything that is possible has been done to end this terrorist scourge and to unite the world in the most comprehensive efforts possible to fight back against their nihilistic and depraved approach to life and death," Kerry said as he began talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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According to a recent report by influential "insights-led communications agency" Protein, 89% of the millennials they surveyed feel that "faith no longer plays a role in their lives," yet take a glance across the racks of even the most mildly-discerning of record shops you frequent and you'll see a whole host of intrinsically "spiritual" music flying off the shelves just as fast as whatever nihilistic ode to cold, hard machinery L.I.E.S. have just put out.
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A better way to describe Houellebecq's fictional worlds—in Whatever (his nihilistic office comedy), The Elementary Particles (the international blockbuster about sexual liberalization and its despairing effects that made Houellebecq famous), Platform (his novel about sex tourism and terrorism), and The Map and the Territory (in which the murder of Michel Houellebecq is juxtaposed with the portrait of the celebrity conceptual artist Jed Martin)—is as zones alternately drained of enchantment and stuffed with phony enchantment.
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Pretty similar, actually: They share the same nihilistic political views: They're both weary of what Big Government is doing with our tax dollars: Neither will hesitate to block and/or unfollow your clown ass if you support criminals: Neither has much use for Instagram: They both love to quote the late George Carlin: Both men bust huge, debilitating nuts: But while both Ice-T and Dril have similar views on sex, politics, and gaming, it's their views on Twitter that really coincide.
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Assuming Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGraham predicts Senate will take up impeachment trial next week Pressure building on Pelosi over articles of impeachment Brent Budowsky: Bloomberg should give billion to Democrats MORE (R-Ky.) refrains from his nihilistic tendency to destroy any legislation, no matter how bipartisan, that emerges from the U.S. House, and assuming that USMCA 2.0 is enacted, the question then arises whether the "Pelosi Model" for Fair Trade could be used in future trade negotiations.
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Harmon: I went to Tulum with my girlfriend and the weather was so beautiful, and I was so in love with her, and because I'm kind of nihilistic and sci-fi oriented, the way that I coped with that love was to imagine that when I was looking into her eyes, that I was winning the game, and that the party full of friends who were watching me play this piñata game—the Roy game from Rick and Morty—that they were cheering when I looked into her eyes.
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"Although some self-identified 'incels' assert that the nihilistic views of 'the black pill' are what connect them, and not overt misogyny or alt-right beliefs," he told Vox in an email, "notice the misogynistic basis of the worldview": "Success" with women is defined as sexual conquest; men are presented as being entitled to sex with women, but being thwarted by the next point; women are presented as fundamentally materialistic and shallow, only attracted to physicality and beauty and nothing else; feminism is presented as the source of the problem; men are understood to be the "real" victims.
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However, it wouldn't be a Weeknd album without the tequila-drinkin', one-night-stand-havin' persona we've come to love so well, and we get that on the second of the new tracks, "Party Monster" (because what else do you expect from a song called "Party Monster"?) The song is classic Tesfaye at his nihilistic best, and paired with the newer territory of "I Feel It Coming", it teases an interesting blend of old and new that has our ears pricked for next week's release, which will also feature Lana Del Rey, Future and Kendrick Lamar.
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