Crossword-Solution: NIHILISTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nihilistic | a. | Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, nihilism. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “NIHILISTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| *Believing in nothing | 1 answer |
| ACCORDING WITH CONSCIENCE OR MORALITY | 10 answers |
| CONTRARY TO ACCEPTED MORALITY OR CONVENTION | 10 answers |
| DISGRACEFULNESS THAT OFFENDS PUBLIC MORALITY | 10 answers |
| CONTRARY TO CONSCIENCE OR MORALITY | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NIHILISTIC (5)
The fact that he should be without a ticket would be consistent with the idea of concealment, and it was well known that women played a prominent part in the Nihilistic propaganda.
For instance, it was reported that the poor girl had so loved her future husband that she had followed him to the house of the other woman, the day after she had been thrown over; others said that he had insisted on her coming, himself, in order to shame and insult her by his taunts and Nihilistic confessions when she reached the house.
Nothing exists from the first What can be dimmed by dust and dirt?" [FN#44] These verses have often been misunderstood as expressive of a nihilistic view, but the real meaning is anything but nihilistic.
Zen makes use of the nihilistic idea of Hinayana Buddhism, and calls its students' attention to the change and evanescence of life and of the world, first to destroy the error of immutation, next to dispel the attachment to the sensual objects.
Thus Zen is not materialistic, nor idealistic, nor nihilistic, but realistic and monistic in its view of the world.
Quotes with NIHILISTIC (3)
Because I don’t care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. Because, here’s the truth: life is a catastrophe. The basic fact of existence — of walking around trying to feed ourselves and find friends and whatever else we do — is a catastrophe. Forget all this ridiculous ‘Our Town’ nonsense everyone talks: the miracle of a newborn babe, the joy of one simple blossom, Life…
... nature did not make us to feel too good for too long (which would be no good for the survival of the species) but only to feel good enough to imagine, erroneously, that someday we might feel good all the time. To believe that humanity will ever live in a feel-good world is a common mistake. And if we do not feel good, we should act as if we do. If you act happy, then you will become happy — everybody in the workaday world knows that. If you do not improve, then someone mu…
Terror is an artery. Running unfailing channels of bloodied thoroughfares by dint of the wilds beyond our knowing. Fluctuations and murmurs are audible within the splintered leeway of our preserve as a consequence of interstices modeled in such brutality. This appended artery offers no direction; idle and at times desultory. Bloodstained tracks and avenues guide casualties. Terror, like death, is not complicated, nor is it simple. It is but routine — natural. To call it other…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2013).