Nihilists

According to this view, our existence (action, suffering, willing, feeling) has no meaning: the pathos of 'in vain' is the nihilists' pathos — at the same time, as pathos, an inconsistency on the part of the nihilists.

Regarding the nihilists, the character Walter Sobchak comments "Nihilists!

They are barbaric nihilists bent on destroying everything that is good about our society.

In this widening vacuum, lots of foreign opportunists, outright enemies, and nihilists are seizing the day—on the assurance that Biden is not a lame duck, but a lame, lame duck, and Harris is a near functionary in search of an identity and an idea.

Such could be the experience of a new niche tourism opportunity targeting existential nihilists from around the world, providing activities that expose the harsh reality of the human condition, cleverly summing up their bleak world view.

The goal of these “edge lords” — another name for a collection of nihilists, right-wing nationalists, conspiracy purveyors, white supremacists and more — was to downgrade the discourse in a way that would soon corrode the entire system.

After hearing what the Dude and Walter know, the nihilists try to mug them anyway.

After the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, the Nihilists gained a reputation throughout Europe as proponents of the use of violence for political change.

Film Three of the antagonists in the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski are explicitly described as "nihilists," but are not shown exhibiting any explicitly nihilistic traits during the film.

Maude says the German nihilists are actually Bunny's friends.

Other nihilists may argue not that there is no morality at all, but that if it does exist, it is a human construction and thus artificial, wherein any and all meaning is relative for different possible outcomes.

Philosophical pessimists are often existential nihilists believing that life has no intrinsic meaning or value.

The kidnapping was also a ruse: when Bunny took an unannounced trip, her friends (the nihilists) faked a kidnapping to be able to extort money from Lebowski.

The Nihilists expressed anger at what they described as the abusive nature of the Eastern Orthodox Church and of the tsarist monarchy, and at the domination of the Russian economy by the aristocracy.

The Nihilists questioned all old values and shocked the Russian establishment.

This double meaning appears to derive from the fact that the term was often employed in the nineteenth century by the religiously oriented as a club against atheists, atheists being regarded as ipso facto nihilists in both senses.

When they leave, they are confronted in the parking lot by the nihilists who have set the Dude's car on fire.