Word: nihilistic
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...soon not so alone. A redheaded "she-nihilist" with blue spectacles, bobbed hair and romantic ideas threw herself at the feet of the literary master, and tripped him. Apollinaria Suslova was a 22-year-old intellectual spitfire of the New Woman breed. Chasing after her to Western Europe, Dostoevsky was desolated to learn that within less than a month she had taken up with and been thrown over by another man. He begged to travel with her "like a brother." Apollinaria agreed, and vengefully parried all his advances. Years later, she described how the nightly sexual tragicomedy would end: "Fyodor...
...Advertisement in Saturday's CRIMSON taken by the Young Nihilist Club. We feel it our duty to inform you the parent organization must of necessity deplore such vulgar popularization. Such tactics tend toward placing world nihilism in an unfavorable light...
Yours until the looked-for day when we will have truly achieved "nothing, nothing, nothing--nothing at all." Rudolph Schnaubelt, non-president, World Nihilist Organization...
...really immaterial . . . but . . . it was I who brought about the separation between Irene Adler and the late King of Bohemia . . . It was I also who saved from murder, by the Nihilist Klopman, Count von und zu Grafenstein...
...murderers (Farley Granger) is horrified by what they have done and gradually comes apart. The other (John Dall) is almost hard enough to carry them both. He is particularly excited by the presence of the teacher, a sort of armchair nihilist who first infected the boys' minds with the idea that there are superior men, above all moral law. Dall really wants to lay the corpse at his master's feet, the way a cat brings in a slaughtered robin. When he finally does, he finds that the teacher's endorsement of murder was always purely academic...