nihilism

Preposition: of

punk: He became fundamental in shaping the virulent nihilism of punk into sonic and melodic extremes that evoked everything from dub reggae to Stockhausen.

Converse of object

• call: It leads, ultimately, to what he called European nihilism.
• reject: But Leo rejects that director's nihilism in favor of some idea of redemption through words.
• embrace: The new ego can embrace nihilism in two ways.
• express: Perhaps some of the French dandies of the ancien regime could be said to express a certain nihilism in the way they lived.
• see: Keith: doesn't see any nihilism around him, but lots of passion.
• avoid: For it is the recuperation of the conventional that allows one to reject absolutism and yet avoid nihilism.

Preposition: in

way: The new ego can embrace nihilism in two ways.

Adjective modifier

• moral: Given such a powerful presumption against it, moral nihilism should be rejected.
• passive: Active Nihilism ( opposing religion ) has changed into passive Nihilism.
• intellectual: Pulling these trials together is not an exercise in intellectual nihilism.
• normal: What is the role of philosophy in an age of normal nihilism?
• modern: Nietzsche dared to look into the abyss of modern nihilism.
• such: Marxists have nothing in common with such cheap political nihilism.

Noun used with modifier

• post-modern: With the collapse of Stalinism, many intellectuals have adopted a stance of post-modern nihilism which offers no alternative to neo-liberalism.
• punk: Gigs were plenty and underground punk rock nihilism was at its frenzied height.