One possibility is that the upbeat feel of rock & roll music was at odds with the detached, low-key, nihilistic attitude of the beat society.

The punkers and their nihilistic attitude revolted Kluge.

While Tyler desires "real experiences" of actual fights like the narrator at first, he manifests a nihilistic attitude of rejecting and destroying institutions and value systems.

BZ constantly accuses her of "playing," and forces Helene to "play-or-pay," though it is in the end his nihilistic attitude to life that brings him to suicide.

This Mai has a bitter, nihilistic attitude.

Pahkeinen, an old man with a nihilistic attitude to life, and his alcoholic dog who sometimes acts as a guide dog.

He said new discoveries were helping to eliminate doctors' "nihilistic" attitudes about chemotherapy for lung cancer.

In the absence of scientifically established nutritional goals for older people, some take a nihilistic attitude, contending one can never really know what is best.

The obstacles include nihilistic attitudes among physicians, many of whom still think old people do not benefit from treatment.

Indeed, the Replacements served as an icon to countless young bands in the 1980's that appropriated their amplifier-crunching sound and nihilistic teen-age attitude.