nihilist
虚无主义者,虚无主义,虚拟主义者,无政府主义者
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- : total rejection of established laws and institutions.
- : anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity.
- : total and absolute destructiveness, especially toward the world at large and including oneself: the power-mad nihilism that marked Hitler's last years.
- : Philosophy. an extreme form of skepticism: the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth.nothingness or nonexistence.
- : the principles of a Russian revolutionary group, active in the latter half of the 19th century, holding that existing social and political institutions must be destroyed in order to clear the way for a new state of society and employing extreme measures, including terrorism and assassination.
- : annihilation of the self, or the individual consciousness, especially as an aspect of mystical experience.
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It is also worth remembering that the alternative to using technology such as HireVue’s is not some utopian vision of rationality, empiricism and fairness—it is Gladwell’s hiring nihilism.
And that fact means we should expect even more shenanigans from the nihilist wing of the GOP.
Clearly there flashes out upon my memory my first impression of Nihilist Russia.
There is no more striking example in the annals of the Russian movement than that peerless Nihilist—what was his name?
But it was only in bated breath and within closed doors that the discovery of the Nihilist plot was discussed in St. Petersburg.
He may have got mixed up in some of these Nihilist plots; if so, he has done well to become a vagabond.
Thus in his novel, "Fathers and Sons," he sketches in bold strokes the character of the nihilist Bazarov.